April 22, 2016

Efficient Ways to Pack for the Holidays





By the time the holiday break rolls around, you will have already been living in your dorm room as if it were your new home. Your clothes will have found their perfect place and you can barely begin to imagine packing, unpacking, and repacking all of your things for the holiday pilgrimage back to mom and dad’s. If the thought of this makes you cringe and all you can think about are overflowing duffel bags with none of the right things (as you will soon find out), we suggest you start thinking about your packing strategy differently than before. Modernize is here to show you how packing can be done efficiently and sometimes even feel easy if you know all the best hacks. It just takes a little bit of effort to get it all right and you’ll be a practiced and savvy packer for life.

Every expert packer’s dream is to be so swift that their clothes never even need to leave the hangers when they travel. Sure, you can try to squish a bunch of clothing into your suitcase in this way, but chances are things will get wrinkled and become too bulky to fit. Even transporting hangers separately becomes problematic. The awkward shape and stiffness prevents them from fitting nicely into any corner of your bag—not to mention they could catch and tear a hole in that ugly Christmas sweater you bought for the ugly Christmas sweater party. Such a shame. DormCo wants to protect your ugly Christmas sweaters...and all the rest of your clothes with a fold-up bag that lets you layer pre-hung clothing in a pile with a tie to secure your hangers don’t slip out. It is the easiest and most ingenious way to eliminate the hassle of packing and unpacking clothes no matter how long you stay. 

Sure, there’s plenty of opportunities to do laundry when you are away at school, but there’s just something about the way that Mom does it that just makes your clothes the softest and the best smelling they’ve ever been—or this is what you’ll tell her when you walk in the door with twenty pounds of dirty laundry. Or you can admit that you’ve shrunken one too many T-shirts and turned all your socks pink but it’s okay, you were able to fit everything in a sturdy canvas tote with a drawstring that survived two bus rides and a quick drive home, so isn’t she glad that worked so well? Whatever the situation, you’ll appreciate the Oxford Laundry Duffel Bag’s chic look and helpful shoulder strap that makes bringing laundry home so easy you just might want to do it more often…

For everything else that you need to carry, DormCo.com’s FL-J Suitcase Trunk is spacious enough to hold any school books (just so you can stay sharp over the holidays, right?), laptops, or other valuable items that you don’t feel comfortable carrying in a backpack or purse. It’s important to remember that you should always find secure and safe ways to stash your belongings, especially if you are traveling alone. The FL-J Suitcase has locks on the outside and straps on the inside to keep your stuff from shifting around while you’re moving about. It’s also small and lightweight with 4 base wheels for easy transportation and is regulation carry-on size for planes.  

By Katherine Oakes

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