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Making the Most of your Allowance by Packing Smart

For travelers, the news of the airlines charging more for luggage is not welcome. To save money, time and room, there are some great tips to make the most of your luggage allowance by packing smart.

While the fee may seem unjustified, it does make people stop to think about what they need on a trip versus what they want. How many times has an item been packed for a trip only to never be used?

Packing habits throughout the years has also not been the best. Packing a suitcase meant stuffing as much in there as possible without regard to organization or how neatly those items are going to be coming out of the suitcase. Wrinkled clothes do not get worn on vacation, or any trip for that matter. People would rather go out and buy something new than to deal with them. Had the packing been done properly to begin with, wrinkled clothes would not be an issue.

So, in thinking about how to make the most of your luggage allowance by packing smart, start with the way clothing is folded. It is proven that if clothing is rolled instead of folded, it stays more wrinkle free. Rolling also takes up less room than folding creating more space to take more items in one suitcase rather than two which saves an additional fee.

Organizing the suitcase is the most important tip to making the most of your luggage allowance by packing smart. Think about what will be needed first making sure to pack it on top so there is no need to rummage through to the bottom of the suitcase disturbing the other items creating wrinkled and bunched up clothing.

Once the art of packing is learned and more tips are learned and utilized, people will be asking themselves how they were able to function with the old way of packing. When it comes down to it, making the most of your luggage allowance by packing smart is beneficial in more ways than just avoiding the added fees.