It’s a simple, frustrating fact of your hurried, modern life. Despite your best efforts to design and execute a packing list, you’ll still leave items at home—even things that were actually on your list.
Typical scenario: Take suit to dry cleaner. Check. Pick suit up Friday. Check. Pack suit. Check.
Put suit in car? Nope.
The problem: “pack suit” really means “get suit out of closet, and hang by front door.” It’s merely the first step of a critical two-step process. The second step, of course, is putting the suit in the car.
So I’ve tweaked my OmniFocus packing project by adding a final sub-project called ‘Car’, which requires me check off key items a second time—once I actually see them placed in my car.
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Ha! I literally came across this the day after having the same experience (with my boarding pass). The duplication seems necessary just as you describe, but something in the back of my mind is raising a red flag about how complicated this can get… Just a feeling.