I bought a couple of sets of packing cubes before the trip to New York, and I have to say I’m a convert. In the context of that trip – staying at five different places across eight nights – they made life much easier. Instead of constantly having to sort through piles of clothes and get them in and out of the suitcase, I just pulled out a single packing cube and then got what I needed out of that. As the trip continued I did some swaps between cubes as I needed to separate worn clothes from clean, but that was easy.
There are some trips when they wouldn’t make much sense, perhaps. They might be less use on a cruise, for example, where you’d be in the same cabin for up to fourteen nights and you might well be hanging up all the clothes you need on the first day. But even here, they might well help the initial job of packing.
I bought these and these from Lakeland. In the first set, the largest bag is big enough to take a number of folded-over shirts, up to half-a-dozen. (In fact, the more items you can get into them, the better – they’re held more firmly that way.) The smaller bags in that set were used for pj’s and underwear. In the second set, the shoe bags in the second set (the ones with the drawstrings) were especially useful.
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