Many of us commit a mistake in packing for a travel. Some pack a two week’s worth of clothes for a long weekend. Others pack too lightly and forget some important things like medicine and passport. However, knowledgeable traveler packs the perfect amount of everything they need in their Titan luggage without forgetting important stuff.
Of course, there is a right packing method to avoid crease. It is too hassle to bring ironing machine in every travel for the sake of wearing crease free clothes. Well, wiffy sometimes do that because she doesn’t know the right packing method, which is very essential.
Here are some useful tips for the right packing method:
- Rolling Clothes
This method works perfectly well with pants, skirts and sports shirts to avoid crease. Lay the item face down, fold back the sleeves and then roll from the bottom up.
- Folding Clothes Together
Take two or more garments then fold the one on the bottom over the pair on the top. Then, take the other and fold it on the top. This method gives each pair some cushion where you’ve folded it so it’s less likely to crease or wrinkle in the folds.
- Bundle Approach
You need luggage that opens up and lays flat to do this. You will also need a flat, soft, pouch-like rectangular “core” with dimensions that are at least 1/2 to 3/4 the size of your luggage compartment. This can be a pouch filled with underwear or something similar.
In the suitcase bed, start packing with your sport’s jacket or the longest, most wrinkle-prone item you have. With the collar or waistband flat, place it against the bottom edge of the bag and drape the rest of the garment over the opposite side of the bag. Take another garment and place it in the opposite direction, flattening and smoothing out both garments in the bag and draping the remainder over the side. If you have trousers or other narrow items, do the same with them in the narrow direction of the bag. Keep alternating your items, ending up with the most wrinkle-resistant clothes you have.
When you finish, place your “core” in the middle. Now you’re going to start folding the garments over the core and each other in the reverse order you put them in. If you fold something over and there’s excess draping over the sides of the bag, tuck it underneath the bundle you are creating.
What you will end up with is a bundle of all of your clothes that looks like a pillow. You can pick it up in one piece. It’s compactly packed and doesn’t waste an available space in your luggage. Plus, because of the way things are folded, your clothes will wrinkle less.
To find something in the bundle, lay it flat and unwrap until you reach the layer you want. Take the item out and refold the remainder. If done properly each layer should result in a self-contained bundle at each layer.
- Tissue Paper
This method is used for delicate items. Lay the item face down and place tissue paper on top. Fold it up with the tissue paper inside. Use additional layers of paper as you fold the garment so it is completely wrapped in and around paper. We only use this approach for evening clothes that we don’t want to crush.
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