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title: 🧳 Packing
tags: travel
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">🧳 Packing</h1>

# Update lists while traveling

#### Categories of items
- Pack
- Replace
- Remove if more space is needed
- Remove
- Add

#### Sample
- [hackmd.io/@adamhurwitz/packinglist](https://hackmd.io/@adamhurwitz/packinglist)

# Clothing
#### Amount
Pack one week's worth of clothes and do laundry weekly

#### Laundry
- Do laundry before flying
- Pack dirty clothes differently to tell them apart, e.g. Folding vs. rolling clothes
- If traveling locally you can carry dirty clothes in a laundry bag
- Laundry day strategies
- Wear any unworn pants/shorts and shirts from the week, E.g. Jeans normally need an occassional wash
- Do a second wash for the clothes you're wearing during laundry day
- Buy 2 extra pairs of clothes to switch off wearing each week while the other is in the wash
- No drying machine
- Use washer's dry spin cycle if available
- Use hangers to air dry clothes
- No washing machine
- Wash clothes in the shower
- Use natural shampoo|body wash
- Scrub with your hands
- *See [Washing clothes in the shower](https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/a1wrkr/washing_clothes_in_the_shower/) from r/onebag*

#### Winter and suit jackets
- Wear when traveling
- Fold into the carry-on or in a large backpack
- *See [How to Fold and Pack a Suit The Right Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=824LKuH1GGE) by GQ on YouTube*
- Tie a winter jacket around the long handle of a roller suitcase while walking

#### Overhead bin space on flights
Ask for a plastic bag to take items out of your bag if it is too big for the overhead bin

# Toiletries
- Use leak proof containers
- Screw on tops are more secure
- Tops with locking feature
- E.g. [toiletry bottles](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17dD4YedWuiw-Q7GSv9WCC2rYfsLmLZoqqXzWitLhXlg/edit#heading=h.9ko35yex9a8f)

# Food
Pack snacks for the day of travel and the day of arrival

# Razor blades and scissors
- Safety razor: Keep in the outside pocket of the carry-on to show to security.
- [Scissors](https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/scissors) (Less than 4 in from the pivot point) *for United States TSA standards*

# Testing completed pack
- Test overpacking to see how much you can bring back, E.g. How many additional t-shirts can you pack?
- Test what you can take out and wear if needed

# Unpacking and repacking
- Keep items as close together as possible when unpacking to make it easier to repack when traveling
- Gather items first before packing to reduce the distraction of going back and forth