Eight Simple Luggage Packing Tips To Keep Your Clothes Less Creased

Donning a neatly pressed and wrinkle-free attire is every traveler's challenge. Even the most expensive designer clothes can look trashy if it stays all tight and folded inside your luggage throughout several hours of flight or train ride.

Carrying an iron is definitely out of the question, and you're stuck with the age-old dilemma: How do you keep your packed clothes wrinkle-free? While there is no instant solution to this, there are however a number of ways that you can pack your clothes to minimize the occurrence of creases and wrinkles. Check out the following tips.

1. Iron your clothes and hang them in your closet before packing them in your luggage. This preliminary measure already reduces a bulk of your problem. It keeps your clothes wrinkle-free and ready to undergo a more careful and strategic packing technique.

2. Do not neatly fold your clothes item by item as you would when you arrange them inside your cabinet or dresser. Do not even think of ironing them after folding them. This common packing mistake of neatly folding clothes individually will only highlight the creases of your clothes once jam-packed in your luggage.

3. Fold your clothes by batches. Group three to five similarly sized pieces together and fold the pile just once. You're not only reducing the creases to your clothes, you're also reducing the time needed to pack your luggage.

4. Roll your clothes as you would a bundle of cash. Rolling gives the fold patterns or creases less definition. More importantly, it makes your luggage pretty compact, allowing you more space to toss in the other items in your must-bring list.

5. Use your clothes to wrap hard objects such as a book, a foldable umbrella or a cylindrical container for your cosmetics. The ideal shape is that of a rolling pin. The principle for this tip is just similar with that in Tip No. 4. A bonus benefit of this tip is that the hard object gets added shock absorption and impact protection from the pieces of clothes used to wrap it.

6. Arrange your clothes in layers instead of piling them up one after the other. Make sure that the bottom layer is compact before working on the upper layers. When you have arranged what needs to be placed inside your luggage, cover the top layer with a wide towel or scarf, then snap the built-in straps or belts in place. This prevents the pieces from spilling over and getting disarranged in unavoidable circumstances such as shaking or tossing.

7. Try the bag-in-a-bag technique. If you have a canvas bag which you intend to use later in your travel, stuff the bag with your rolled clothes, tie the bag securely and stuff it inside your suitcase. This technique conveniently separates your apparel from your non-apparel pieces. Your luggage will not only look neater, but will also be better organized.

8. Some suitcases have a dress bag and hanger in them. Use this dress bag for your favorite designer attire and “hang” the bag at the bottom most layer of your luggage.