Bed bugs are the last thing you want to bring home from your travels. Minimise the risk of bed bugs riding home in your luggage by baking your luggage in a hot car before taking it inside.
While you have a few choices as far as efficient packing methods, YouTube user eviltommy demonstrates one of our favourite space-saving packing methods: the bundled wrapping method.
We’ll be honest: we couldn’t imagine there’s a huge market for clothing with a built-in iPad carrying pouch. Nonetheless, Australian manufacturer iClothing is selling a dress and T-shirt with iPad pockets, which raises a broader interesting question: do you need a separate carrying strategy for the iPad?
The New York Times asked flight attendants how they manage to pack over 40 garments in one suitcase, and it all boils down to one trick: roll your clothes to save space and avoid wrinkles.
Travelling by air without checked luggage is often a sensible goal, but sometimes you have no choice but to stow your bags in the hold. What happens to them once you’ve handed them over to a hassled check-in clerk?
Feel nervous every time you queue up at a baggage carousel to wait for your luggage? You might have some ground for that worry. According to the Air Transport Users Council, more than 42 million bags were “mishandled” (that is, sent to the wrong place) in 2008, and one million of those were never found. A bigger worry is that many airlines then contest the value of the lost luggage or offer minimal compensation for essential items needed while the luggage is being located, BBC News reports. All of which sounds like a good case for travelling only with hand luggage if you can manage it (though you’ll still need room for the business travel essentials if it’s a work trip).
Airlines attacked over lost bags [BBC News]Kids are already back to school, and university will be resuming shortly — which means there’ll be a lot of people seeking out the ideal backpack for lugging laptops, textbooks and all the rest around. Anthony Caruana’s review of five contenders at The Age is a good place to start if you (or one of your offspring) is in the market for a new backpack, though of course there are other options — every second person I see on a plane these days seems to be favouring a notebook bag on wheels. If you’ve got a piece of notebook luggage that’s proven itself in practice, let’s hear about it in the comments.
Compare: Back-to-school backpacks [The Age]At Lifehacker, the adage “you get what you pay for” isn’t one that gets endorsed too often, since in the software world there are so many counter-examples, from Firefox to Gmail to Openoffice.org. However, when it comes to luggage there’s rather more truth to the statement.
