THE RIGHT WAY TO PACK A SUITCASE ✈️ Carry-on only with compression cubes

It's been going viral, men on the internet bragging about raw dogging flights. It's this notion where you sit at your seat with no entertainment and you watch the flight map. Okay. But it did get me thinking, there are a lot of people out there that are still raw dogging packing or just taking your clothes from your closet and putting it right in your suitcase. No, no, no. It's 2024, say goodbye to stressful packing, say goodbye to disorganized luggage along with your dirty clothes. Hello, clean, organized systems using compression packing cubes. It's time to learn the right way to pack a suitcase. So, hey, I'm Finn, one of the co-founders of Tripped. Maybe you've seen us on Good Morning America or Travel and Leisure. Okay, in 2015, my husband and I lived out of just 46 liter backpacks for a year, which was kind of extreme. And over the last 10 years, our travel has changed. Now we mostly travel with our dog. We've packed multiple different suitcases in multiple different ways for multiple different length trips. Let's face it, there are a lot of challenges that we all face when packing. Overpacking, underpacking, limited space, weight restrictions, organization, keeping things fresh, packing for different climates, packing for different events or activities, time management, because I'm sick of packing taking the entire day. And all while adhering to constantly changing TSA regulations don't worry, I have you covered. That's why I'm here. I didn't mean to distress you out. That's just the realization of what it is to pack. So in the last video, you are currently in part two. In part one, we went through our three-day packing method that addresses overpacking and underpacking. So we created our capsule wardrobe in the last video. You can check that out in the link below to see how we drew all of these clothes. In today's video, we're gonna be taking all of these clothes and packing them into a suitcase. And a couple of you didn't think that this was all going to go in a carry-on. Maybe that's because you've been raw dogging. We're gonna use a compression cube system set to get all of this into a carry-on. And how about we just start at step one. Before everything starts getting lost inside of the suitcase, we first wanna verify we have everything 100% that we want. The best way I do this is to lay out everything very intentionally on a bed. I like to lay out the bed from informal to formal or if your brain works the other way, great. And even though not everything is gonna go in the suitcase because a few of these items are for the travel day, so they're going to be on my body and not in the suitcase, they're going to be with us at the destination. So they're still part of the capsule wardrobe because I can reuse certain articles of clothing that I'm wearing on the travel day. Because my more casual pieces will go together and my more formal pieces to go together, I can quickly see that I can create multiple combinations of outfits. Something that happens frequently for me at this stage is I'm quickly able to see redundancies. For example, I have two white shirts in this capsule wardrobe. For me, these are different enough because this is an athletic crop top and this is a very large oversized cotton T-shirt. But maybe that's an opportunity where I'd say, oh, I want a pink shirt and I could replace something here, making sure it fit for the reason that I grabbed it in the first place. So redundancies like the white T-shirt is a great way to avoid overpacking. And then a great way to avoid underpacking is that I can quickly see now that I do not have a more formal trouser pant. Then a lot of times at this stage, I'll swap out something for another article that's more versatile. For example, these light colored jeans are pretty informal, but if I was set on jeans for the reason that I pulled these in the first place for my everyday, a great swap would be a pair of jeans in black. Okay, that wasn't what I initially pulled, but now the black jeans are a little bit more formal if I wear them with one of my jackets, the lacy shirt, and nice shoes. Boom, done. Okay, maybe that wasn't my issue and it's not formal enough. I can see, okay. How about instead I go for a set of trousers? I can see that it works with the shoes that I have, the jackets that I have, the shirts that I have. Boom, done. Or maybe for this trip, you didn't need to go more formal. Maybe I could swap this for maybe a kind of like khaki hiking pant. In part one, we kind of talked about toiletries. We're not gonna go through that in depth in this video. It's too much to cover. So we'll do that in another one. And just say that we've got one toiletry bag worth of stuff. I know this is going to fit in my carry-on because I've packed for a bazillion trips like this with this amount. But so many people doubted. I think what I want to do is raw dog packing and see what this looks like without compression cubes. Let's go. We are in. Success. We raw dogged it together. I'm gonna get my smaller carry-on and see if that works. Ah, my pretty purse, ah. Whoa, okay. Oh, well this thing. So we took something out. Now I think we have an accurate before, before we dive into compression cubes. Enter compression packing cubes. We are by us, we make these. After living out of that backpack for one year and out of compression cubes, the light bulb went on. And in that year, there was no compression cubes that were matched with luggage. So enter tripped. We started our entire business on the concept that we built packing cubes that fit inside a suitcase. Revolutionary, I know. So we have our carry-on set specifically designed to fit in a carry-on suitcase. Fireworks. So in the carry-on set, there are six cubes, two larges, two smalls, a laundry bag, and the sleeve. All right, the best way to use any compression cube is to make sure it is fully expanded because there are two zippers. So right now it's in expand mode and after we put the clothes inside, we're gonna put it in compress mode. Pros of compression cubes. Firstly, our luggage is gonna be organized. Secondly, when we get to the destination, we're gonna pull these out like little drawers, put them quickly away. If you're moving between hotels on a trip, it saves you a lot of time. Thirdly, when you're going to TSA and you have clear, you have pre-check, you're doing all of the things and then you come to the case where you still are required to open up your suitcase. Yes, it's still happening. We just laugh because we were like always getting flagged for that. It just happened two weeks ago in the Azores on an international trip. Anyways, when you have to open up your luggage, it's so nice because your things aren't spilling everywhere. The right way to pack a suitcase, in my opinion, is to use the cubes to organize your different types of outfits. Speaking of, since we use the three-day method to pull all the items that are currently still behind me, I pulled downstairs, so we're going from the suitcase to the suitcase. I'm going to put all of my essential day, everything that I can, into one cube. Because this leather jacket is such an extreme example, I'm going to just pull it to the side instead of using an entire cube for it, which then takes us to the most controversial thought in packing, do you roll or do you fold? I'll wait while you let me know in the comments. I don't want to leave you hanging. I will give you my method, which I do both, which is maybe not what you want to hear. It's just some of these packing systems are so all in that rolling doesn't always work and folding doesn't always work. While I could totally fold this dress, I think it will hold up the best rolled with this satiny material. And cotton shirts, I love to fold because I can fold them to the exact width of the compression cube, which you'll see in a little bit, which is going to be the most efficient way to pack the cube. So if you're diehard one way or another, let me know in the comments, but I'm like a gray area person. Life doesn't work that way. Second thought on that, and also to avoid wrinkles as much as possible. You know, we do what we can. Shoving, raw dogging in the suitcase, I don't think is the best method for wrinkles. I've even seen these like weird wrapping things where people are like laying something out and then laying the next piece inside of it. And then the third piece inside of that. And then at the end, I'm like, who is in the middle? Who is like day five of the trip, moving hotels, like doing, who's doing that? Okay, we're not doing that. This is just a practical method for getting the clothes in the cubes. My dress is in there. I'm going to slide my belt in there because I know I'm really only wearing it for that dress or if I'm going to like a nice dinner. Remember we had the formal pant. I didn't go with that trouser. So I've got these like huge, heavy, massive jeans. So I'm going to fold it a little bit more intentionally to the size of that cube. And that will take me the perfect width to be as efficient as possible. I'm just going to wear that lacy top with it. And because these bulky jeans are on there, I'm just going to put that flat on top and great. How about this flat purse too? Everything I need for a nice dinner is now in this bag. So if we land, the first thing we're doing is having a dinner. I can grab this exact cube, know where everything is. Everything's right in there. Oh, I also forgot to say the underwear for these items go in here as well. Instead of at the end having just like the underwear bag because I know I want this pair of underwear for that dress. And I like to wear this pair of underwear with those jeans. So now everything is in there. You can leave it like this. It's just a packing cube. Everything's nice and organized. However, we're trying to save as much space as possible. So I'm going to use the compression tool and compress down the second zipper. Good ways to do that are to give it a little karate chop. Put your fingers on the inside and drag the zipper down. Dress, jeans, belt, purse, shirt. You will also see, ah, the compression cube fits perfectly filling the entire suitcase intentionally. We're playing Tetris here. Everything needs to be nice and snug. In my second large cube is going to go my next largest category. Like maybe you're doing a bunch of hikes on this trip. So you want all your athletic gear in one cube. I've got my everyday, which was a lot of that walking around kind of stuff. So that's what's going to go in here for me. In a similar mindset to all of that, I had in my what ifs, I was going big to make a scene. I brought this large jacket and this raincoat. So I'm going to make myself a little what if bag in the next small cube. This might be a challenge. Let's see. I'm going to fold this up really nice to fit in the back half of the small cube and fold this big guy up. I mean, this is a large corduroy top. All right, got a what if bag. I don't think that one's going to compress down, but what if I'm cold and what if it rains? Let's go put that on this side. In my final small, I'm going to put everything comfortable that I want in the hotel room. So you show up and it's late and you're jet lagged, you can reach for your cozy cube. And for this trip, what's in my cozy cube is, and this is the easy part, right? Cause like we already made all of these decisions of what's coming. So I had that pajama top underwear right here because I don't want to have to go looking for it when I land. Little spoiler alert, this is the best cube to have in your personal item for keeping on the plane with you if you need to change clothes, if you lose your luggage, all that kind of stuff. But we're not going to get into that in this video for the personal item packing. You're going to have to stick around for part three for that. These linen pants, this, it's like a terry cloth top. It is kind of chunky. And the underwear and bralette that goes with that outfit for me. You have to do the little pancake smack because it levels everything out in there and it's not bulky. So that's the drum playing it. Two small cubes fit really nicely and snug next to each other alongside the bottom as you're playing Tetris in the suitcase. And the large cubes fit really well perpendicular to the suitcase on this side. The sleeve has so many creative uses. Please let me know if you have this set what you've been using the sleeve for. If this is a tropical vacation, I love putting, let's say I have three or four bathing suits. I love lining them up in here because it also keeps them kind of just like that whole musty bathing suit thing on day seven of the trip. It keeps it all in one place. I did have a bathing suit for this trip, this ambiguous Europe trip we were packing for. But I also want to show you, I love the sleeve for hair products, especially like a curling iron or a straightener or something because it is of course the exact length because when we created all of this, we actually measured the stuff. We didn't just like randomly make it. That could be maybe my hair product bag on this trip. And then it's not really a bathing suit kind of trip. So I'm just going to like put it flat in one of the suitcase zipper pouches or something like that. With the laundry bag right now, I could leave it empty, roll it up. I know a lot of you like to put your dirty shoes in there. Let's bring our shoes over. Oh, my shoes. I have a size 11 women's shoe, which is a men's nine. So that's too long. So I'm going to pull one of these cubes over. Love to see that. Ta fricken da. My toiletry set is going to nest right on top of this. Purse, a leather coat. I also did it on hard mode. This suitcase, which I always love having this option, does provide the expandable version here, which we always love to see again because US carriers aren't usually as strict as this, like as European carriers. Now it's only fair if we do the same test of seeing what fits in the smaller carry-on size. And during my demonstration, you'll see how much faster and easier this is with the cubes. I think I packed this one actually with a better Tetris. And this silly leather coat that I just had to have for this example. Ooh, okay, so this is with that big coat that didn't fit in it before. So let's see. The green corduroy thing. Well, how about that for a test? It's more fun to just do this on camera and see if I'm going to make it or not. I don't know what I was going to do if this didn't fit. Compression cubes allowed me to add that extra corduroy jacket. Love to see it. Now don't forget, there's more to pack on this trip. Remember, we've got our travel wallet, we've got our travel pouch, we've got our entire personal item, too. Water bottle, all that good stuff. I think that could be better tackled in a new video. So join me for part three. And please ask me your questions of things that you want to see in the personal item video below because I'm reading every comment. We're so excited that you guys are loving. It was either incredible bad luck or incredible good luck that at this point, my microphone battery died. I'm taking it as good luck because I was clearly wrapping up the video. I'm pretty sure I just said thanks so much for watching and hope you have a great trip.