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[quote=Anonymous]21:15 again.

If this is your first time doing this, you get the largest acceptable carry on and basically you just pare down until all your essentials fit, OP. It's trial and error.

I don't use packing cubes, because those just add more volume. I have hiking backpacks with dimensions that are at the limit of the carry on measurements. I need to stuff them in a certain way so that if need be, they can fit into the airlines' metal carry on dimension checker, so instead of bulging out in the middle, they have to be more rectangular. Underwear slides down in the inside pockets and socks are balled up and pad the bottom corners. Clothes are folded tightly and put into two squarish piles in the middle. Heavy stuff goes at the bottom, so the bags don't topple over every time I set them down. Little items go into other interior pockets. If I bring a laptop, it's slid down against my back. We have one toiletry bag to share, and it goes in whichever bag is less full. Everyone has a bag. ALL the available space is used up. When we accumulate dirty laundry, we sometimes need to fold that up too in its special bag, to avoid it taking up too much space. At the end of the trip, we sometimes have one backpack full of dirty laundry, all neatly folded, and the others with clean clothes. [/quote]

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