A lot of content has been produced, suggestions have been written, videos have been shot about preparing
Cabin baggage… But I have something to say too.. For the last 4 years, I go everywhere I go, regardless of the number of days I have planned, either with a backpack or cabin baggage. Therefore, during this time, I had the chance to experience many methods while preparing suitcases.. In this article, I will explain to you which of the suggested methods for preparing cabin baggage I use and which I do not use, along with the reasons.. Before that, I would like to talk about the importance of cabin luggage.
The Advantages of Traveling with Cabin Luggage
Everything is unlocked as soon as we arrive at the hotel on our 2013 trip to Sri Lanka. It started with the fact that we couldn’t open it… The only thing that made sense to us until that day was to set out with a single suitcase.. We thought that we would like to have a single load in our hands, rather than having to deal with two people carrying suitcases separately, so we would be able to hold the suitcase more easily.. Whenever something happened to the suitcase, we were faced with the fact that we would both be victims at the same time, then cabin size suitcase entered our lives…
…But it only entered in size, so we were on our way with few belongings, but we were still giving the luggage to the cargo section because after checking-in, walking around with a suitcase in our hands is ridiculous! We are not in a hurry, we will wait for the luggage to be delivered when we land.. And who will have to deal with preparing bags in accordance with the cabin baggage rules!… Then, over time, we encountered surprises of THY losing small suitcases, sometimes we waited for 2 hours of luggage at Sabiha Gökçen Airport, sometimes our bag came out of customs. We found it open…And finally we happily made it a habit to go everywhere with hand luggage.. Why?
* Affordable
You may be new to this concept because it was not something we encountered in Turkish airlines until now.. Some low-cost airline companies, which we call low-cost, offer advantageous economic tickets without baggage allowance.. If you want baggage allowance, you have to pay an additional fee.. I didn’t know exactly when it started, but now Pegasus has started to offer tickets without baggage allowance.. Therefore, if you choose one of these airlines and travel with cabin baggage, your flight tickets will be cheaper.
Suggestion: Companies such as Pegasus and Air Arabia do not have baggage allowance. You are automatically entitled to 2 hand luggage on your tickets.. You can take a handbag or laptop bag together with your cabin-size suitcase.. If you get a wide and laptop-carrying backpack, you can put some of your stuff in it.. (The size of the bag should be enough to fit under the seat of the plane.) In some airlines, such as Ryanair, the hand luggage options on the ticket are divided into two: 2 hand luggage or one hand luggage.. I suggest you pay attention to it.
* No Risk of Losing
Unless you know how frustrating and time-consuming it is if your luggage is lost or not out of distribution. he doesn’t know. “It doesn’t happen to me.” Don’t say it, you may be the one squeezing left and right in front of the lost and found office tomorrow.. Everyone on the same plane with you takes the suitcases distributed in half an hour and goes on their way, you wait for another half hour saying “Maybe it will come out” and finally you find out that your luggage is left at the transfer point… You try to find beauties to console yourself but you can’t find them… you can’t taste anything you make… Hah! Here, hand luggage is my everything so that I don’t experience these again.. where I go, he goes there. All my belongings are in front of my eyes.
Suggestion: One of the biggest causes of disappearances is old barcodes left on the suitcase.. When you are not traveling with hand luggage, do not forget to clear these barcodes.
* Lightweight and Easy to Carry
The cabin is accepted, although there are slight variations in size from company to company. size of suitcases 55cm*(35-45)cm*(20-25)cm. This means: If you do not carry gold bullion or something in a suitcase with this capacity, the materials you will need during your travel will weigh a maximum of 10-12 kg.. Already the weight allowed for cabin baggage is a maximum of 10 kg. Therefore, it is much easier to move with hand luggage.. While preparing your suitcase, do not forget that the bigger the suitcase is in front of you, the more unnecessary items you have bought.
Warning: The maximum cabin baggage weight determined by the airline company. valid for each bag. Let me explain like this; If the specified cabin baggage weight limit is 8 kg, “We have the right anyway.” You cannot go with a single suitcase weighing 16 kg.. These weight limits are determined according to the case that the overhead lockers are opened and the bags inside are dropped in case of a possible turbulence or technical malfunction.. Therefore, you are expected not to exceed the weight limit on the basis of bags.
* Fast
We know that the biggest waste of time before boarding the plane is in the check-in queues.. The only way to avoid the check-in queue is to travel with hand luggage.. You also get rid of the hassle of waiting for baggage claim at the destination. Since I am obsessively sensitive about hijacking, I make sure to be at the airport 2 hours before the flight time, even if I check-in online and go with my hand luggage, I prefer to wait there when I go, but even the luxury of not waiting in the check-in queue is nice.
Suggestion: There are people standing in line while ticket control is done at the gate before boarding the plane, and you will watch with amazement their meaningless rush.. Now I’m one of those people and I have a very good reason: If I get on the plane late, I can’t find a place to put my cabin baggage! Especially in winter, this job turns into a nightmare as passengers put both cabin luggage and huge coats in their overhead lockers.. Well, what if you can’t find a place? Then, cabin crew takes your baggage and delivers it to cargo, you have to wait at baggage claim after you get off the plane.. It happened to us, I know from there.
* Easy Transfer
If the plane tickets you bought on international connecting flights are not connected flights, you may need to take your baggage and give it separately for the next plane after you get off the first plane.. The best way to get rid of this problem is to travel with hand luggage.
* Less Harmful to the Environment
Fuel consumption of aircraft varies in direct proportion to the weight it carries. The less load it has, the less fuel it uses.. This means less carbon dioxide emissions.. Don’t you think it’s better to leave less footprints on nature while traveling?
How Do I Fit Into Cabin Luggage?
Cabin size suitcase the trick to fit inside is not to fold the trousers origami-style by interlacing the items, but to buy less items. I know it’s not easy to get used to. It is sometimes difficult to sift through the thoughts of “What if it snows, the sun rises, or we go to a stylish place to eat in the evening…” but it is not impossible.. Let me just move on to what I did and didn’t do.
* I wore the same outfit on different days, I’m still alive.
One of the most important points that prevents us from fitting into a cabin-size suitcase is our desire to start every day with a completely different combination.. You can apply this in your daily life, in your business life, but if you want to travel with cabin baggage, it’s time to put it aside.. I understand the desire to look nice in the photos we took, but this desire begins to break as we experience it.. At the point when you realize that the important thing in travel is not to show or show up, but to gain experience, the clothes you wear don’t matter much other than their function.
Suggestion: Selma Hekim, who did not buy anything for 1 year’
Click for the story of Matilda Kahl, who wore the same outfit every day she went to work for years.
* I plan what I will wear and use for every day.
One of the factors that make my job easier is to organize a daily dress code.. Instead of taking into account the entire trip and making an approximate choice of clothes, I plan what I will wear day by day.. One day before my departure, I check the weather conditions at my destination.. If it doesn’t give enough ideas, I check the stories shared by people in that area on Instagram and look at what they are wearing.. Especially spring months can be challenging, I choose clothes to be prepared for any weather condition.. “If it rains I’ll wear this, if the sun shines I’ll wear this.” not, “I can wear this outfit in both rainy and sunny weather.” I prefer to say.
I also organize medication in the same way.. Since I have migraine, it is impossible for me to go without painkillers, but there is no need to put 1 box of Majezik in a 10-day trip.. When I think of the worst-case scenario and take that many pills, it becomes portable even in my wallet.
* I choose products that take up less space.
Trousers, tights or skirt&socks pair instead of jeans; instead of a very big, bulky sweater, a sweater that does the same thing but takes up less space (I have also detailed it in the underwear hood); a spongeless bra instead of a push-up; microfiber towel instead of beach towel; I prefer a bandana/scarf instead of a hat. In the summer, our job is very easy.. If you didn’t pack 10 kinds of clothes on the 3-day trip, when you fold your clothes, they take up a quarter of your suitcase.. There is no need to bring a lot of different kinds for the winter, because you always wear the same coat.
Suggestion: It only concerns women, but let me write it.. I am extremely satisfied with the winter bamboo socks I bought from Penti last year.. It’s warmer than trousers, you can try it out.
* Underwear is my best companion for winter.
Underwear is my savior when going to a very cold place or where I don’t know what the weather will be like.. Yes, it looks bad, but it’s already called “Underwear”, no one on the outside realizes it. The shirt I wear over a good thermal underwear is just as warm as a thick sweater.. Therefore, instead of buying big sweaters that take up space in winter travels, I buy thinner blouses that I can wear over underwear.
Suggestion: SPX, which, like Freedom, sells both winter sports equipment and street fashion clothes. you can get cool underwear from stores. If you find the prices expensive, I wrote the cheaper versions of similar stores in Prague. Click to read the article “Shopping in Prague: The Cheapest Sports Stores”.
* Golden rule: Maximum two pairs of shoes!
You should not forget the rule of two pairs of shoes, one of which is on our feet.. The product that occupies the most space in the suitcase is definitely shoes.. When shopping for shoes, I prefer shoes that are compatible with most clothes and can be suitable for four seasons travel.. Again in summer, our work is very comfortable, a sandal and sneakers are more than enough.. In the winter, I take care to get a comfortable boat that I can walk 15 km every day, and I go on a trip with it.. If I want an alternative, I can put a pair of sneakers if I have room.. I don’t need any other shoes since I’m not going to a fashion shoot. Putting socks inside my shoes is my favorite method. You may have seen it on other pages before, I’ve been doing it for a long time too.. It both saves space and keeps the shape of the shoes.
* I never roll clothes.
I don’t know who came up with this method, but it appears in almost all “suitcase preparation tips” articles or videos.. First of all, let me state that I tried this method and all my cotton clothes came out of the suitcase as wrinkled as used aluminum foil.. In addition, I both rolled and placed the clothes and placed them normally folded, I could not see any difference between them.. A properly folded outfit also takes up the same amount of space.
* I don’t use a organizer bag.
Organic bags are one of the solutions that I realized take up a lot of space on a trip that I use for a long time but can’t fit in my suitcase.. If I don’t have a space problem, of course, the organizers are very useful for me, but this is where I start to sift when I feel that the items are too much.. I don’t put any product in organizer bags except makeup.. These bags take up as much space as their current shape no matter what you put inside.. Instead, I put products such as cosmetics and medicines in bags or cloth covers so that I can tuck them in any corner in the bag.
* I don’t stuff the cabin baggage.
It must have happened to you too, it’s a physics I don’t know if it’s the rule, but for some reason, the things you carry on the way back do not fit in the same suitcase.. Considering this situation and thinking about the possibility of buying a souvenir, even if it is small, I do not go out with my suitcase full.
* I use the hotel type, not the travel type.
El I mentioned that we once gave our in-flight luggage to the cargo area of the plane due to the liquid restriction in the luggage.. Since we switched to hand luggage, I have to prepare all liquid products not exceeding 100 ml.. In the market, necessary cleaning materials such as shampoo, soap, toothpaste are sold in travel sizes suitable for hand luggage, as well as empty travel type cosmetic bottles, you can fill them yourself.. It makes sense to take these with you for a long trip, but frankly, I find it unnecessary for a 5-7 day trip because I don’t use 100 ml of shampoo in such a short time.
Instead, my stay I keep the shampoos provided in the hotel rooms and empty them and fill them with my own shampoo or conditioner.. After putting these tiny tubes in the freezer bag, they become so small that I can even put them in the outer compartments of the suitcase.. If you want to buy travel type vials, you can look here.
I don’t have a solution for perfume yet, I also get 50 ml small sizes of the perfume I use and use it on travels.. If I’m going on a trip for more than 10 days, I don’t even get into the liquid thing.. I buy and use smaller sizes from wherever I go.
* I wear the thickest clothes on me.
This is one of the methods used by those who travel a lot.. The shoes that take up the most space, sweaters, jackets, or hats or jewelry if I couldn’t resist buying them…. If I have concerns about the weight of the cabin baggage I have prepared, I also take heavy items such as books and notepads when boarding the plane.. If you’re more comfortable with half the wardrobe with you, “I never compromise on my style.” If you believe that your clothing is an important part of travel, of course, you can travel with a bag of any size, no one has the right to criticize it. The only point I want you to know is that the only way to continue with a smaller bag is to buy less stuff.
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