I never packed stuff up ’til the day before leaving. But, I used to throw things I was planning to take on the trip into a box on the spare bed starting a week or so before the trip. That kept me from forgetting stuff which would happen if I waited ’til the last minute to pack.
Not only a pun –and at that a bad one (plus that’s a good thing) but then Stephen ‘blew’ off Rat’s pun in the last panel!