Are you the type of person that needs to bring every outfit you own when you travel? I mean, what if the weather changes? What if you change your mind? You want to have all of your options, right? Well, a heavy suitcase can mean some expensive baggage charges, but with the right tips, you can pack like a pro!
Flight attendants have shared some of the best space-saving packing hacks that will make traveling so much easier.
Here are 12 of the best tips shared by the pros!
1. Fold All Your Clothes Into A One Big Neat Bundle
If your clothes are always bursting out of the suitcase, that’s because you’re packing them wrong. The most efficient way is to fold them all together into a cube.
2. Put Foundation and Makeup Remover Into Contact Cases
The liquid size restrictions on planes are a real headache. Some stuff is hard to find in travel-friendly bottles! One easy way of getting around this is squirting a bit of your vital liquid beauty products into contact cases. They’ll keep it secure and plane friendly!
3. Put Thin Plastic Sheets Between a Bottle and Its Cap
Some supposedly travel-friendly bottles still manage to leak like crazy. But a thin sheet of plastic placed over the opening of the bottle and underneath the screw on top stops this from happening!
4. Put Jewelry in a Pill Case
You won’t need to worry about your jewelry getting damaged when it’s in this.
5. “Seal” Your Underwear
Using the same method as the shirts and jeans folding, seal up underwear. Only this time you have to fold it from the waist opening over the leg holes without making that little first fold. Then fold the two ends in on the underwear and roll the crotch flap over the folds. You’ll see an opening from the waist hole. Hold that over the entire underwear, and it’ll be sealed up good!
6. Pack Stuff Into a Hat
Hats are other items that, depending on the design, take up too much space. But if you fill the hat with soft items, such as underwear or socks, then it will use more space, and the socks will protect its shape.
7. Put the Heavy Stuff Next to the Wheels
It’s a lesson in gravity that most packers forget, but your bag’s wheels will be on the ground when you’re walking. That means all your items will press down on that area. You don’t want delicate things there! Put them at the top of the bag.
8. Match Clothes to Your Itinerary
To save on bringing clothes that you won’t even wear, look at what you’ve got planned to do. Then you should only pack clothes that match those activities.
9. Place Clothes Inside Dry Cleaning Bags Before Folding
You can fold clothes after they’re in a dry-cleaning bag. This allows you to keep the item from wrinkling.
10. Put a Cotton Pad in Compacts
It stops the product from breaking and crumbling away.
11. Put Glass Bottles in a Sock/Panty Hose
It gives the item extra protection. And should the glass break, then it won’t get everywhere.
12. If You’re Carrying-On, Wear Your Heavier Items
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