# I'm a luggage nerd **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740 "2013-01-19T19:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/21 "2013-01-20T23:31:09Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Then Amazon helpfully introduced me to [these beauties](http://www.amazon.com/eBags-Packing-Cubes-3pc-Camo/dp/B008SBMYUC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358625048&sr=8-1&keywords=packing+cubes). Isn’t that BRILLIANT? :eek: I have _got_ to get some of those. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/22 "2013-01-20T23:45:27Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I skip all the poetry too. I have friends who plan out their packing, and do it the night before their trip. What? Please. I throw a bunch of clothes and toiletries in a rolling bag then off to the airport. Let’s you and me get married and see who can pack the fastest for the honeymoon. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/23 "2013-01-21T00:05:51Z")
Married? Oh no. I’m not falling for that trap again. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/24 "2013-01-21T00:29:51Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Married? Oh no. I’m not falling for that trap again. You don’t mean you’re ready to pack in sin?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/25 "2013-01-21T01:55:36Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :eek: I have _got_ to get some of those. Me to! I love packing…it is an art form that I perfected when i was a recruiter for my company and travelled every week for 48 weeks out of 52. I know right now I am getting the Camo ones for **mr ems** for his upcoming birthday 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/26 "2013-01-21T02:39:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I haven’t tried it yet, but a couple of years ago read an article that advocated rolling clothes instead of folding them when attempting to pack a suitcase. I travel a lot interstate for work and always roll my clothes, packs smaller and stops majority of wrinkles. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/27 "2013-01-21T17:51:15Z")
> [@Hanna](#): > > I have the eBags packing cubes and use them a lot (I travel for work), but for longer trips using only carry on luggage, I love [these compression bags](http://www.target.com/p/embark-compression-bag-family-pk-clear/-/A-14011402). Put your clothes inside, zip the top, and squeeze the air out. No vacuum needed. I can fit so much more stuff in my carry on using those bags. I can’t comment on the wrinkles - I tend to bring items that don’t wrinkle badly when packed. i use them as well. put the day’s clothing into a bag, take it out, wear, put back in. if i’m traveling for vacation, i will buy shirts as i go and wear them. that way i only pack underwear, jeans, and socks. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/29 "2013-02-05T13:23:03Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/30 "2013-02-05T17:00:48Z")
I’m going to the UK for 2 weeks in May and have already started a list of what to pack. I have a 15 year old big@ss suitcase which will be perfect for checked luggage. I’m eyeballing a Lipault satchel on ebags and now I MUST have the packing cubes. There is a washer and dryer where we are staying so I only need to bring a week’s worth of clothes. I swear my toiletries etc. take up half the suitcase, and I’m not even that pretty! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/31 "2013-02-05T17:06:12Z")
If not for the objections from my wife I would stick to using the luggage I buy at the grocery store. Each box comes with between 12 and 30 pieces of luggage, and there are two distinct sizes, the larger ones in black and the smaller ones in white. When I’m done traveling I just dispose of the empty luggage (often filling it with trash first so that is effectively recycled). It costs much less, there are no jammed or broken zippers, I can actually pack extra luggage inside the luggage in case I return with more than I started with, and I don’t have to find a place to store it. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/32 "2013-02-05T17:07:45Z")
Can I request the assistance of you wise, wise luggage nerds? I’d like to get a nice sized suitcase (not one of the huge ones, but medium to medium large for sure) and carry on that somehow stack/clip together. Hear me out: what I’d like is to be able to stack the back sor clip them together so they roll nicely. Presently, I just stack and hold with a hand while everything wobbles, but surely what I’m looking for exists, right? I know companies sell clips and bungee courts I can smoosh my stuff together with, but aren’t there luggage makers creating things that just work, damnit? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/33 "2013-02-05T17:12:29Z")
Wasn’t there someone here that worked in a luggage store once upon a time? when mrAru and I pack for Europe, my [pill bag](http://pacsafe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id=101), our electronics [one HP7, wall warts for all our electronics, our cell phones[turned off] trackball and some odds and ends go in my computer hard case. Both kindles[soon to be changed for tablets] and the usual suspects go in my[purse](http://pacsafe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_room=3&_action=detail&id=207). Passports, normal wallet contents and assorted travel paperwork go in the [neck pouches](http://pacsafe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id=56). Our clothing and everything else is split between a [backpack](http://www.eberlestock.com/J79%20Skycrane%20II.htm) with a pacsafe [mesh thingy](http://pacsafe.com/pacsafe-140l-backpack-protector) and a large rolling suitcase. We use the mesh thingy and one of the cable locks to secure the backpack on my wheelchair, and mrAru sherpas everything else except my purse and neck pouch. He also has a neck pouch, and a wallet that chains onto his belt [he keeps nominal money in it, and a green dot visa with nominal money on it, mainly for thieves just in case.] We could probably pack in 15 minutes by now, and if we needed even more clothing we would probably drag out one of his old [seabags](http://schooluniforms.com/3339.html?utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&id=18283950120&utm_content=pla), those things could pack a body if you were careful about breaking limbs and folding 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/34 "2013-02-05T18:35:20Z")
DiosaBellisima–my Samsonite duffle bag has a horizontal cloth strap across one of its long ends that is meant to be slid over the handle of a rolling suitcase so they stack. So Samsonite makes what you’re after. Since I bought my packing cubes, we’ve gone on a weekend trip. They were GREAT for packing. The one caveat is that you’ve gotta use them in order for them to be useful… namely, keep your used clothes organized and stuffed into a designated one. Which is a user error, not a product error. Actually is was 50% user error and 50% curious toddler error. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/35 "2013-02-05T18:49:30Z")
I just saw this on [/r/thebestofamazon](http://www.reddit.com/r/TheBestOfAmazon/) and thought folks here would like to see it too: [Cyclus Pangolin Backpack made of reused tyre inner tubes](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006563RRQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006563RRQ&linkCode=as2&tag=tboa-20) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740/36 "2013-02-05T18:55:42Z")
Freeeeeeee-akyyyyyyyy. The crowding in my high school’s hallways often made me wish for a carapace, this would have done the trick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-luggage-nerd/647740.md?page=1)