Techniques for a Wrinkle-free Travel Packing

Many people enjoy going places. Along with this desire to travel to different places comes the necessity to pack your luggage. With heightened travel security and airline baggage restrictions learning to pack wisely is important. Choose your travel wardrobe carefully.

Overall, you will find your trip much more pleasant if you have less baggage to carry. Here now comes the question: Won’t I ruin my clothes if I pack them along with all my other stuffs in one bag? It is a common concern among people, especially to those who are traveling for business. Wrinkled clothing doesn’t make much of a good impression, and you wouldn’t want to be in a business meeting wearing a wrinkled dress. Here are three very simple wrinkle-free travel packing tips:

Roll your clothes. Rolled clothes are less likely to get wrinkled. You can roll your jeans by folding it lengthwise, and starting from the cuff, roll your way up.

Fold buttoned blouses or shirts. The best way to pack buttoned clothes without getting wrinkled after a long trip is to fold it square-fold style. Before placing clothes in the suitcase, make sure that all buttons, and zippers are fastened. Lay shirts face down on a bed or flat surface. Smooth away wrinkles. Then, fold material in at the shoulders laying arms flat along the body so that there is a roughly two-inch overlap of material on both sides. Next, fold up a third of the material from the bottom and overlap a third from the top.

Use plastic zipped bags. To save your clothes from being ruined, make sure you have put your toiletries in a plastic bag, this way in case your toothpaste leaks, your clothes are still safe. Place socks inside of shoes and then place the shoes in a plastic bag to protect your clothes from becoming soiled. If you are going to only take a carry-on bag, you need to carefully plan what goes in your bag. Be aware of TSA regulations and follow the 3-1-1 rule, liquids and gels have to be less than 3.4 ounces (100 ml) and be placed in a one quart clear plastic zip lock bag and one bag is allowed per passenger.

Arrange all items in the bag. Once you are done rolling, folding, and putting inside the plastic all your travel things, layer them carefully inside your bag. Your toiletries occupy the bottom part of your bag, and then your folded clothes are stacked in the middle. The rolled ones occupy the spaces at the side of the bag around the folded clothes.

Pack your bag fairly tight, but not overly packed. And last to these travel packing tips is make everything inside fit, allowing no space. As much as possible, occupy every possible space in the bag to keep your things from moving or mixing up.

These are just the simplest, conventional ways of a wrinkle-free packing. Nowadays, however, there are already improvised products such as wrinkle-free sprays, or pack-a-shirt folders. They offer travel packing tips that come along with the product. If you are a frequent traveler, you may want the comfort of packing your things with those products in the market, or you can choose to master the skill of rolling and folding your clothes whenever you travel.

Frequent travelers will find many online stores which specialize in clothes and other accessories the can be packed wrinkle free and also clothes that can be mixed and match and serve more than one purpose. One suggestion might be long pants that have zippers so the lower portion can be removed if the temperature goes up and you would be more comfortable in shorts.

Pack light, pack wise, and enjoy your trip.