Packing a Carry on Part 2

There are techniques and tools to packing a suitcase that butlers have used for centuries, all designed to avoid damage, wrinkles, creases, & waste of limited space. These same basic techniques can be used in the challenging task of packing a small carry-on for a short trip. Useful in these days of checked-luggage charges, not to mention potential luggage delays.

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[missdarque]

What about packing multiple dress shirts? With the current luggage costs I would like to know how to pack as much as I can, nicely, into a carry on suitcase. This would mean multiple days worth of clothing. Up to a week.

[ModernButlers]

@missdarque There comes a point where four elephants will not fit into a Mini. If you need a week's worth of clothes, then you may want to spring for checked luggage. It would probably be less expensive than using the laundry facilities at the hotel. 7 sets of underwear & dress shirts (folded as when they are bought) & toiletries (I speak as a man, understanding that ladies may have quite a few more to carry) should fit into a carry on...if wearing the same outer garments. That's the compromise.

[missdarque]

@ModernButlers Thank you for your timely response. I only saw one men's dress shirt packed, so I was curious about how you would have placed more into the same bag without crumpling the collars.

[ModernButlers]

@missdarque The simple technique is to place one short on its back, and then the next shirt upside down and the opposite way around, "head to toe," so that the back is facing upwards and the collar is facing downwards, at the opposite end from the collar of the shirt on the bottom. Easier to draw than describe! You may need to place some smaller item in the middle between the two collars so that the top shirt does not sag in the middle.

[socaldude83]

what a waste of paper, this is not a very green way of packing!

[ModernButlers]

@socaldude83 Not the first time we have heard this complaint. If the paper is reused several times, which it should, and then used for some other function or recycled, then it is no worse than reading a newspaper and recycling that. Or you can offset the paper against the electricity needed (unless solar or wind power-generated) to iron the clothes, and sometimes even clean them, after being packed without paper.

[ModernButlers]

Thank you. It might not be that more instructive to do a video just for lady's clothes, as they are treated basically the same as men's. Where items are delicate and fine, as is often the case with lady's clothing (such as laced items), they are wrapped individually to help protect them. (Please see next entry, as over word limit)

[ModernButlers]

(continued) There is obviously one item of clothing that is distinct to ladies, and the trick here is to place one cup within the other, several being combined if necessary, and being sure when wrapping them into a bundle, to separate the hooks/clasps from the rest of the material, so that no snaring takes place. Unless these be some other item that concerns you (if so, please let us know what it is), this should do it.

[onewitch1]

Great Video maybe you could do one on women clothes.