Yes I already do this. 
3 Likes
I thought the same thing too. My set is very very similar to yours. Everything but our shoes and DH’s jeans fit for a 5 day trip to Disney. 2 carryon’s and honestly it was like 1 carryon suit case and an oversize bag.
3 Likes
Personally, I pack the outfits together, 2 or 3 in a bag. But I keep intimates and socks separate per person with other personal effects and toiletries. I have also put a small shoebox in one of the bags to separate DH’s and mine in 1 bag to save space. Then I just put the shoe box in the drawer or a shelf or where ever.
2 Likes
I do categories. Underwear and PJs go in one of the smaller ones. Actually a lot of the time that’s all I use since mine are awkwardly sized for my suitcase.I just pack the rest in the large zippered category. If I’m going on a cruise or to the beach, then bathing suits go in another one.
When I was doing a cruise out of Barcelona and was using checked-size luggage also, I did have my stuff for pre-cruise Barcelona in one so I didn’t have to unpack everything.
2 Likes
This is a lot of well-informed people spreading the good word of packing cubes…a thing I’ve never, ever considered using.
I’m an avid fan of unpacking the minute I hit the hotel…
3 Likes
Me too.
I liken it to licking the straw of the drink you want. I unpacked…it’s mine. You can’t take it away.
As I was typing that out, I realized you might have been referring to not wanting your clothes wrinkled instead! 
3 Likes
I really liked that I could throw my compression bags into the drawer and not worry about my clothes touching where other peoples clothes touched.
7 Likes
Yeah you could not pay me to unpack my suitcase into those dirty gross drawers.
5 Likes
Before I had packing cubes, we used small boxes, childrens & regular shoe boxes and Tupperware! I would never allow my clothes to touch the drawers. I also always have a travel size Lysol. Hard to find now. 1 have only 2 left 
I spray in closets, on the head boards, night stands, the floors, the door knobs and the chairs at a minimum.
2 Likes
Yeah, I used those and wipes too. Years and years before covid.
The boxes are a good idea. I may or may not have been looking at drawer liners since my last post.
2 Likes
I have this weird thing with saving sturdy boxes. They always come in handy. Before packing cubes I had a suitcase full of different sized boxes and ziplocks.
2 Likes
This reminds me of my trip to the keys. My travel partner hated flying and never really did it. I tried giving her packing tips and stuff to avoid checking a bag. She said she had to check one bc of the liquids she needed. We get to Miami and she pulls this ginormous duffel bag off the conveyor belt and I swear it looked and sounded like multiple dead bodiesweighed down in heavy chains. We nearly died trying to lift it up and into the back of the van. We get in the room and she has like a whole damn janitors closet of santizers and sprays She had multiple jumbo lysol canisters and sprayed literally ev-er-y-thing down. Each layer of bedding, every towel, the curtains, the furniture… I had to leave the room I couldn’t breathe. She probably has permanent lung damage.
6 Likes
She would do better investing in a battery powered, portable, room sanitizer. OH! I mean, 
Also, We practically have to leave the house everytime I clean the shower and tubs. I purchase my bathroom cleaner in bulk on what feel like the black market of Amazon because Scrub Free doesn’t sell the formula anymore 
I’m down to a bottle and a half. I can’t find anymore. It’s probably been pulled and banned. But when they say Scrub Free… they meant every word.
3 Likes
This is late but you’re getting it anyway!
2021 May we did a Western Trip for 2 weeks. First 6 nights were a different hotel each night. My sister and I packed an each day’s outfit into single compression packs. Clothes not rolled, but lying flat, with the air pressed out. We had five each because we intended to do laundry at a particular hotel (national park hotels didn’t have laundry). I don’t know what the kid did with their cubes. I think much the same. There was this wool duster that was going on the trip cuz still snow time at Yellowstone. We had a large square compression bag from one of the sets we bought and that wool duster, folded carefully, fit in there nicely. With the air pressed out it remained wrinkle free and was more like a board than a floppy coat causing problems all over the back of the vehicle.
On long trips we rent a vehicle from the local Toyota dealer. Usually a mini van. They were all booked so I had to reserve a Rav4. We needed to bring more food than we would have normally because covid still had some things closed and we were spending a lot of time in just opening national parks. No clear idea on what services would actually be available.
We were going to experiment with no luggage, using a crate in the back with stand up compressed bags of clothes. Other crates for food, compression bags of scarves, gloves, etc. Each night the plan was to reach in the crate for a compression bag of next day’s clothes. We each had a smallish backpack with toiletries.
I don’t know how this would have worked as the week before we were to leave the dealer called to say a mini van had become available for $100 more than the Rav4 so I claimed it. Even tho lodging was my job and vehicle/gas my sister’s.
She kept to the cubes in crate while I put my cubes and toiletries in a rolling suitcase. Cuz we had the room and I like wheels.
On laundry day we did repack into the cubes. Next trip tho I packed my 3 outfits flat in the suitcase cuz my 6 pairs of shoes fit better that way.
On the trip the kid never used the wool duster which stayed in that packing cube for easily 6 months. Came out wrinkle free and clean.
5 Likes
What brand of packing cube do you use?
1 Like
They were compression cubes. Rather than packing cubes. I did use packing cube interchangeably. Oops.
I bought some and my sister bought some. I think we had about 4 different sets. Nobody’s zipper or seams broke.
Gonex is what I bought, according to Amazon. Also no longer available. But maybe only the set I bought. Gonex had a lot of choices.
2 Likes
Great–thanks! I’m still looking around, listening–I’m going to try SOMETHING, just not sure what yet.
1 Like
Me too!!
1 Like
Found these–might be the ticket!
1 Like
