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Favorite line of the vlog..."Like most women do, we figure it out" That is SO true!!! haha

Best travel hack … travel often! The more I travel, the better I get at packing efficiently.

A tip for sneaking on a few extra pounds is to order a "memory foam neck pillow". I ordered one from Amazon and made sure it had a zipper. I was able to sneak on 2.5 extra pounds of clothing by laying them along side the pillow (with the inner foam removed) and rolled the clothes into the shape of the foam. I stuffed them into the pillow and buckled it around my carry on suitcase. This allowed me to take on extra clothing and it also worked as a neck pillow for the plane. Once I got to my destination I unpacked the clothes and put the empty pillow case in my suitcase. We went in the summer so I didn't have jeans but this would be the perfect solution for bringing heavier clothing items.

Thanks Laurie for the great tips! Over the years I’m traveling lighter and lighter primarily because as I’m getting older I find it difficult to lift and carry heavier bags 😂😂.

Thanks Laurie! Instead of packing cubes, I like to use the 2-gallon and 1-gallon Ziplock bags. Not all stores have the 2-gallon on the shelf but you can find them. They are large enough to hold a pair of folded mens Levis, or a few shirts, etc. And I use the 1-gallon for undies, socks, smaller items. When full, I sit on the bag to get all the air out then close the zipper. And just like the fancier cubes, I can just remove from my suitcase and toss them into dresser drawers. Also great for when TSA or customs decide to go through your suitcase. 😁☮️❤️😎

Hi Laurie, It's Laurie from San Diego. Another useful video with great tips and humor as always! Something I do is pack a plastic grocery bag in my personal item (purse) and then put the purse in the bag before I put it under the seat. I cringe when I think of what is probably on that floor and I don't want my purse on it. Safe travels!

Can anyone say, "cargo pants"? 😂 POCKETS

I went for 5 weeks with carry on only. I used a softsided backpack that weighs less than 2 lbs when empty. It opened like a clamshell and I used the bundle method of packing to get the most garments in. I purchased lightweight layers for all of my outfits and tried to stay within a capsule wardrobe for mixing and matching all items. My personal items had lots of electronics, meds and limited toiletries. We traveled 5 countries and never had anything even gate checked. We did laundry as needed, either rinsing things out and drying in the bath or using a washer and clothesline at airbnbs. The secret is to try to pack for a week and rinse out things as you go along. The stack/bundle method has proven to be the best on multiple trips over 5 weeks. Hope this helps

I also use contact lens containers for creamy liquids that I don’t need much of, such as antibiotic cream, foundation primer, etc. There are some that have little “gaskets” around the top so they’re less likely to leak. I’ve never had a problem using them and they save a lot of space and weight.

This may seem random, but after watching a whole slew of your videos in preparation for my upcoming vacation travel, I just want to say that you’re an absolute delight, Laurie. I mean, I’m here for the high quality, practical info, but bonus: you’re also just a fun hang!😊❤👏

Also I love to use the small to medium plastic or fabric bags that bedding comes in as packing cubes. They are very durable and it cuts down on waste to reuse ♻️ them as much as possible. They are clear and I label with post it notes inside the little pockets the labels are in to help organize.

In 2019 I went to Israel for 14 days. Had to get everything in an international carry on. I scrapped the large toiletries bag and downsized into a much smaller version. I also bought several zip bags in the school supply section at WM. They came in different colors so I color coded stuff in these bags such as make up, electronics, etc. These bags have a clear side, allowing to see what is inside. I scrapped the shoe bags and used plastic grocery Sacks for individual shoes. I bought stacking bead storage containers in WM and decanted toiletry items in them. Six of them took the space of one 3 oz bottle. I found medium size packing cubes worked better than the large ones for the international size suitcase. These changes worked very well. No checked bag at $50.00.

Love the bloopers. Great ideas for those wanting to travel with carry on only. Every little bit of weight and space can make a difference.

I always appreciate your cheerful demeanor & helpful tips. Your goal is to help our experiences in the airport go as smooth & stress free as possible; which they definitely do. 😎 Thank you so very much!

Thanks Laurie for doing these videos!! I’ve been watching for several weeks now to get ready for our trip to Hawaii..I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned and how many tips I’ve actually used!! 🙏🏻💜✈️🏝🍹🌺

If I am going someplace with warm weather I pack Sun dresses. It eliminates the need for 2 piece top and bottoms and I just pack a light sweater and wear a heavier jacket on the plane.

As always super helpful video and LOVE THE BLOOPERS! Thanks Laurie!

Laurie you've done it again and thank you for this. The security backpack makes me feel more comfortable while in a large crowds, been using it for several months now. Until next time, keep the bloopers rolling.🙂

Yes! We (women) do seem to figure it out! Another great video. Loved the bloopers again. You always make the video look so easy. The bloopers show how really hard it is to do what you do. 🌺🌸

Your tipis are always great! I just got back from a 2 week Med cruise and I brought carry on only. I was so proud of myself. I did not miss anything. The best part is that when we arrived at the Barcelona airport we did not have to wait for the check in counter to open, we could go right through security and sit at a gate!

Hi, Laurie. Love the end of reel bloops! Making it look easy and natural is hard work. Thank you for the great tips!

My mantra when packing has always been “every ounce counts!” I’m also a pilot’s wife and always looking for new tips. Thanks so much!

Love your humor….by the end of your videos, I honestly can say, “I can do this!” So, you have been a good teacher!

The bloopers made me laugh! You are so real, and I love that.

Thanks - good tips. Lufthansa has a 18 pound carry on limit. I use a ScotteVest jacket with 24 pockets.

Last European holiday I packed all my old underwear and after I’d worn them I just threw them out. So I took 60 pairs of old knickers and each morning after showering I’d put fresh knickers on and I’d throw away the old ones I’d worn the previous day and the old ones I’d worn to bed. 30 day trip to Europe. Had extra room in my luggage coming home for all my souvenirs.

I have used many of these tips and little bits really add up. I also get out the kitchen scale and weight everything. Really helps with deciding what goes with and what stays home

Your videos are always full of so much great information Laurie! I think this may be why I have so many types of packing cubes and bags. I like the Eagle Creek Specter cubes/bags for lightweight travel - they are literally lighter than a ziploc bag! And in warmer weather, I will pack a silky tank top with 3 or 4 filmy translucent tops that go over it. All those pieces can smush down into a small makeup pouch, they take up virtually no space. Replacing liquids with those dry soap sheets made for backpacking also helps - they make them in several types: shampoo, laundry detergent, hand soap, body soap. Although I have a sneaking suspicion that they are all the same product with different labels! My 'plus one' bag is always something that can conform to any space rather than one with stuff sides (either a Kipling Art tote or a Vera Bradley weekender)

Thank you Laurie for helping us to unpack the "anxiety" of packing & TSA. Still down to my 16 in. Travelon under seater & tiny backpack. They will always be on the Airstream, in case I have to fly into ATL for mama. On the last International trip we redistributed the hubby's shoes into my case to equal out the weight. Also putting his liquids into contact lens cases helped. He is now on board for minimalism. Hello Aullie & Nathan !

Love your tips and bloopers, Laurie! Your videos helped me with organization in my packing for the European vacation I took this past June. I am excited to use your great suggestions when packing for my next summer's adventure to Greece, Mykonos and Santorini!!

I always enjoy watching your videos! I learn something new each time and you make it fun!❤️

As always Laurie, wonderful information and great video. I appreciate your bloopers and I really enjoyed this one. Thanks for spending time making these.

Great and FUNNY video…..that’s why I watch you😂✈️ lots and lots of great tips!! Thanks Laurie!!

You never disappoint us! Thanks for always being on point when sharing tips and tricks when it comes to travelling. More subs to you!

Thank you! As I get older (60) it gets harder to throw my carry on over my head. I will definitely use your tips 🙂❤️

Great tips - thanks!

Thank you, Laurie!!! ❤❤❤

Thanks for the tips.

Loved this video. I switched over a year ago to toothpaste tablets (even at home). I can get a month's worth of toothpaste in a mint tin. In addition to being compact for travel, tabs have the advantage of being better for the environment - no plastic tubes.

Hi, I am Latina.. my English is no perfect but you are SO CLEAR and specific. I AM YOU FAN NOW !! You're a wonderful person ❤️ Thank you for you help 🙏 !!

Thanks Laurie! Your tips are always so helpful!

The weight of the bag itself is also important. For a European trip I use an ultralight backpack. Tom Bihn makes some great lightweight travel items. Pricey, but very well made.

excellent video and tips - as usual. tfs!

Thank you for the tips.

A stumbled across your channel recently and I love it. Thank you for these great tips. ❤

I was amazed at how much the packing materials of all the gifts I had bought in America weighed. Jettisoning the packaging lightened my suitcase considerably.

Have a colour scheme so you can take less clothes and have more outfits. I realized that I have a lot of blue and purple things that are great for travel if you mix with some black and white. I have been splitting toiletry bags for years…..much easier to pack two small ones. Always great tips from you!

Thank you! Planning for October.

I needed this! I have been traveling for years but I’m sick of the extra load. Thank you for making this video.

Great tips! When I travel I bring a shampoo/conditioner in one and I use it as a body soap too.

Your bloopers made me smile! :)

Thank you so much! Your travel tips are very practical and have been very helpful.

Perfect. No nonsense

You light up my day, you are so funny and genuine. Thanks for the tips and the bloopers.

Love Love Love your videos. Purchased a Travelon anti-theft messenger bag, it was just the best bag for all my needs. Just got back from Italy and this bag did it all. At times, I had two water bottles on each end of the messenger bag and Italy in August equals drink lots of water. Again, love your videos, keep keeping everyone informed.

For my solid toiletries referring to soaps. I warm mine up in the mircowave for about .15 seconds. It makes them soft enough to cup them down. I also tested different sizing of the soaps to see how long it will take to use. Instead of bringing the whole bar of soaps. I have all bars, shampoo, conditioner, facial, and body. Best decision to switch ever. I usually store them in the madotor soap bag.

Your tips helped. I recently went on a cruise and used a small bag and small backpack. Used compression bags. Thank you for all your tips, they definitely are real helpful.

LOVE your bloopers! 🥰. Your content was “oh-so-true”. Sometimes it surprises me how much items weigh so your tips are much appreciated Laurie. 👍❤️

Another great video with useful tips. Key words “cute” 😁 we love cute and functional! 🥰🤗💕

You are adorable! Your expressions and "If you know what I mean." Thank you for the great tips. I think I'm going to look into the shampoo bottle idea.

I bought myself Echo shoes for my trip last year and they are soooo comfortable even after walking all day in Istanbul. Planning to take them again for this years trip to Paris.❤️Thank you Lory for suggesting those, I love them!

I love all your tips. Recently I traveled to Europe with an international size carryon and a personal item for under the seat. I had on a raincoat with lots of pockets which held chargers, phone and any heavy some item to reduce the weight in my carryon and personal item which both had weight restrictions. It was nice to navigate all the steps and cobblestone streets with my bags. Thank you for all the great tips.

Love the bloopers Laurie!

Great tips

I do a double take when you mention “fanny pack”! It has a whole different meaning for those of us of British origin!

Fewer shoes was the hardest for me! Packing fewer clothing items (and rewearing them) makes deciding what to wear so much easier-fewer decisions =less stress + more fun!😊

I recently changed to shampoo and conditioner bars for travel. It's very helpful.

thanks again

Good tips once again! Love the Stamp Collector t-shirt!

I recently bought the cadence magnetic containers. They are not cheap but they don’t leak and you can customize the tiles with whatever label you want or use their standard ones. I really like them for my shampoo and conditioner. Love the Lush body soap and lotion that come in a bar. Made so much more room in my liquid bag. Thanks for sharing 😍😘

I always like your creative ideas! My wife and I are flying to Mexico City in a few months, and any tip is worth a lot. Thanks.

Hi Laurie, love all of your tips. Thank you❤

Yes, thank you

I just bought one of those carryons like the one in the background. Hope it really does fit under seats!

That’s one of my problems: Trying to be cute with all my travel gear 😂 And I received my shirt today; So comfy 👍🏾👍🏾

I love your videos! They are very helpful.

In Australia carryon luggage is mostly about weight not size, and the little delsey suitcase you showed is what I use. Super helpful tips!

But Laurie, I bought the travel packs because you said use them! Oh, and I bought the personal Carry on bag like your black and white striped one. It worked great on my recent 3 week trip to Alaska and people asked me where I got it!❤️

(Finally got around to posting this - wrote it the week I went.) You got me when you mentioned the watch charger - my watch has been going strong for over a year on its current battery.🤣🤣🤣 On another note, had a good travel day on Labor Day (to MN for my friend's wedding a month ago) - it set a new record for the friendliest security experience ever, even though it was 5 a.m. (my first real red-eye flight, at 5:45 - all my other early ones were 7 a.m. or later), but I honestly wouldn't expect anything less at that airport; I told them how much we truly appreciate them being friendly and cheerful even though it was really early and that I know it's not always easy at that hour, and the one officer told me that it's easier to be cheerful than to yell at people: that's small town Wyoming for you. I had also completely forgotten which pocket I had put my liquids in (packed them the night before and have PreCheck, so didn't have to take them out, and they were hiding behind something else; remembered where they were eventually, but panicked for a minute and thought I had forgotten them at home), and they were happy to run my backpack back through again to just make sure they were in fact actually in there (apparently, at least on their particular scanner, applesauce, peanut butter, and canned chicken salad don't really look like liquids, but when I told them what was in my liquids bag, they said that what it looked like on the scanner matched my description of the contents). The gate agent who was also working the tarmac there was really awesome - I was running about 15 minutes late getting to the airport, and was legit concerned that they would already be boarding by the time I got through security (they suggest getting to that airport only an hour before departure because the single security line feeds directly into the boarding area, and boarding started 25 minutes before departure), but the gate agent was super helpful and friendly, and the impression I got from her was that they were actually waiting for me to get through security and get my stuff and self situated before they started even preboarding (which for that flight consisted of just me), and since the flight was only about 1/2-2/3 full it wasn't a big deal. The flight attendant was great, too - the gate agent had moved me up several rows from the back to near the front, and I had an open seat next to me (I was in the window seat); I couldn't put my suitcase in the cargo hold because there was a lithium battery in it (not a smart bag, the battery for my nebulizer, and it was pretty buried, so would have been a lot of work to pull it out), so she helped me see whether it would fit in the overhead bin, but it didn't, so she let me put it under the seat next to the one in front of me, since there was no one next to me who would be needing that space (yes, there was more space under the aisle seat than in the overhead bin). Oh, and update, sometime in the last couple years (the last time I flew out of there was mid-August 2020), that airport finally got an ID/boarding pass scanner at security - before, they would literally just hold them up next to each other to make sure the names matched, and compare my face to my ID to make sure it was mine. It will probably be a while before they get the new technology where they only have to scan the ID, though (if they ever get it at all), since they're a tiny airport, and if it took them this long just to get even just the regular scanner, who knows how long it will take for them to get the advanced tech (not that I mind - I was actually rather impressed that they'd even gotten the normal scanner in the first place). I carry the IATA paperwork for my wheelchair motor when I fly, and in DEN there was a bit of consternation with the first gate agent, who didn't want to see the paperwork, let alone show it to the pilot, but still insisted that I had to put the motor under the seat in front of me because it had a lithium battery, even though I had told her at the beginning that the paperwork said it was safe for it to fly in the overhead bin, that that's what I had always done in the past, and if I put it under the seat it would end up just sliding around. Eventually, a different gate agent and another couple staff (not sure if they were passenger assistance team or also gate agents) came over, I showed it to them, and they borrowed it to study it (if I hadn't needed it for the return trip, I would have just given it to them, since I just print a new one for each trip and write the dates, my flights, and seat number for each on it; I think one of them took a pic of it because they'd never seen the IATA for that particular motor, so they wanted to learn about it and what made it safe to fly in the overhead) and show the pilot. Eventually the second gate agent came back to give me back the IATA and let me know that everything was set to go. It was smooth sailing from there - including having the entire row to myself again _(6 weeks later, I now can't remember whether I got moved forward in the plane for that flight as well or not)_ - and despite it being the first time in quite a while that I was on a plane with screens on the back of the seats, I was so exhausted from packing up taking far longer than I ever expected - and thus not getting any sleep the night before - that I slept through most of the movie that I had selected; guess I'll just have to get it out of the library and watch it again.

great ideas! Also, love the shirt!!

Your videos are my favorites (and I am obsessed with packing videos)! I would love to see a video for best personal item to pack light and to schlep around the airport for older people who can't carry a lot of weight.

As always a wonderfully informative video.

Too funny! Excellent tips as always, helps me when I travel to Canada. I’m always looking for ways to pack more lightly.

I was waiting for your vedio 😻

hey laurie! i’m a first time flyer here and your videos are super helpful. any layover tips? i’m super nervous and have no idea what to expect

I have been using different size ziplocks for years. Easy to see whats in it. Use 1 gallon for wet clothes. My next trip I am going to use across the body square type soft zip suitcase. Handle types add such weight. Mix and match outfits. No checked baggage.

Love your bloopers hee hee 😂

Europe and England in particular are very strict about liquids. They have to be in containers of no more than 100mls and fit into a clear plastic bag no bigger than 7.5in x 7.5in.

Loved the bloopers at the end 🤣

Hi from Germany! Here they really do check the luggage for correct weight and size.

In Australia, domestic flights are limited to 7kgs carry on in total. I think you can pay extra to take up to 10 kegs. It’s been a couple of years since I have flown anywhere. The airlines weigh your carry on items beforehand.

I was tuned in to your tips. Very informational then.... The bloopers 😂😂

And thank you to your commenters as well! What a great community of clever, helpful travelers.

I don't know if I've commented on this already! lol... but I got taken by surprise when I was flying internationally. That was the first time I had the weight of my carryon monitored. I had to make some tough choices about what to convert to my checked bag - and it was a poor choice. Having to make a decision on the fly like that is not fun as I am a meticulous packer and have solid reasons for bringing what I do onboard. I'm also a voracious researcher and found nothing on the airlines website, even in retrospect about carry-on weight. P.S. - Go Vikings!

Ollie!!! Love the tips too!

I wear a cheap battery watch that I can change the time for time zones. It’s a cute watch.

Laurie you are a lifesaver. My husband booked us on Emirates to Greece because it was the only non-stop he could find and I had no idea their carryon limits would be so much less than UA or AA. We always travel carryon only for our European vacations and never had a problem between the carryon and our personal item but Emirates only allows 1 carryon item 22x15x8 and under 15 pounds. I wanted to cry. I've already paired down so much to make carryon only our way of life and now we will have to check a bag and bring 2 small carryons. You have found me the only suitcase that is 8" or less. I won't do checked luggage only as I'm afraid it could get lost. Thank you!

Love the bloopers at the end of the video…makin it real!

I wore my travel vest that I’ve had for decades. It has lots of pockets. It’s Orvis hunting vest. I put it through security like a sweater. No problems. Everything thing is at my fingertips on the plane. No digging.