Tips to take advantage of the space in your suitcase when traveling

Traveling is one of the most enjoyable things in the world, it makes no difference whether the trip is for tourism or business, since the mere fact of getting on a plane, a car or a bus and enjoying the journey is a feeling that only transmits peace, for those who are not afraid of heights or the route, of course.

However, and especially at what time of year you travel, there is something that not everyone enjoys doing and that is packing your suitcase. Although sometimes it is usually simple, most of the time we carry more things than we use because when in doubt we add a lot of clothes “just in case”.

This endless wheel of placing everything that comes our way inside the suitcase for fear of needing it later is what causes us to run out of space for what is important. In this article we will give you tips so that this does not happen and you can travel without worries and with everything you need.

What to do when packing the suitcase?

Make a list

To know what things should go and not with us on a trip, the ideal, the basic and what will help us the most is to make a list of all those necessary things. From phone charger to passport, from the clothes we should wear to sunscreen or facial cream, everything must be on the list so as not to carry too many things or forget the important ones.

Think well about your outfits

Suppose you travel to a place where it is too hot and you plan to do a different activity every day because in this place there is a beach and pedestrian to go at night. You should, in principle, find what to wear the first part of the day and what to wear at night.

So that choosing an outfit is not chaotic when you are in the tourist place, the ideal is to assemble outfits beforehand, that is, choose what clothes you are going to wear and separate them. A jean, a t-shirt, underwear and stockings on one side, a dress and a jacket to wear during dinner hours on the other.

Having resolved everything you are going to wear is a great achievement since there will be no unused clothes left inside the suitcase and when you return you will not have to wash anything else, since usually when you return from a trip you intend to wash everything because the used clothes and the one that are not in contact inside the bag for a long time.

Don't fold clothes

Rolling clothes is one of the most useful tricks when putting together the suitcase, rolled clothes take up much less space than folded clothes, which usually cover half of the suitcase and only allow two piles of clothes to enter, between the towels and the sheets that sometimes must also be taken.

Storing the clothes rolled up with the suitcase vertically allows, in principle, to have each outfit separate and secondly to add things such as shoes or books in the empty spaces around the clothes.

Put clothes inside the shoes

Each space must be used, inside the shoes can go socks, underwear and even sunscreen and objects for which you no longer find useful space in the bag or suitcase.

Wrapping them in bags will ensure that the product that travels inside the footwear is protected and that you can put these in your clothes without dirtying or staining them, especially since the soles often have bacteria and dirt, so it is not ideal for them to touch clothes.

Put the stiffest at the bottom

The books, the hair dryer, the iron and some other device can be placed under everything because, firstly, it allows small clothes such as tops or socks to be stored between the holes and, secondly, it acts as a base for that all the clothes adapt to the space they occupy.

take advantage of every gap

This tip is useful for both suitcases and handbags, each hole counts and can be used to store any type of product, be it perfumes, creams, deodorants, batteries, a camera and objects that must be protected.

It is even better to carry them inside the suitcase wrapped in some garment than loose in the hand luggage, in this way bumps or sudden movements will be avoided and they will arrive safely at their destination.

small jars

For lovers of creams or hair or skin care products, the ideal is to make room in your suitcase by buying small plastic jars to pour part of the product into.

This helps not only to save space but not to spend all the product, especially if it is a short trip, where the stay does not last more than a few weeks, so the product in its original container will not be completely used.

These tips are necessary for a trip to go as planned but above all to avoid carrying too much weight, it always happens that we use half of what we carry because we are not careful or because we want to cover more than we can.

Most of the trips that are enjoyed are with half of the things necessary to survive, even with two or three garments we can enjoy the same way as carrying five or six that we will end up bringing folded in the same way that they boarded the plane.

To avoid this type of error, which although they are not fatal, the ideal is to organize the trip based on the weather, the context, the days, the place and who we will go with. If it is a trip with more than one person, we can even divide items such as a hair dryer, conditioner and other items of massive use and that one unit is enough. The rest is to enjoy.