However, while on one of those last minute "gotta see what else we must buy from Costco" trips over the weekend, I stumbled on the vacuum travel bags. Costco has 12 of them (6 large and 6 extra large) for $24.99. The beauty of these babies is that you can carry twice as much stuff in half the space. The bad part is that you have to weigh your bags to make sure you're not going over the weight limit for the flight.
Our puppy, Liesel, was terrified when Charlie vacuumed the air out of the first bag. We had loaded up a bag, squished as much air out as we could, hooked up the vacuum to it, and vacuumed out the rest. Now, there are goods and bads about this also. We had to repack a couple of the bags because they ended up being too wide for our suitcase. However, after the first two bags, we got the hang of it, and did the rest of the packing in no time.
ONE REALLY IMPORTANT PACKING TIP: We always pack half of my clothes and half of Charlie's clothes in each bag so that if one of our bags gets lost, we will still have some clothes each. We came up with this idea after Charlie's bag with all of his pants and shirts was lost when we arrived in New Orleans for a cruise. He had to rush like crazy at the port to find a pair of pants and couple of shirts he could wear until we got his bag three days later.
Back to the vacuum bags - I've been cautioned to carry extra bags in case one of more of the bags spring a leak and we have clothes exploding everywhere when we open the bags in London. Let's just hope the security personnel at the airport don't try to open one of these. They'll never get all of those sweaters and jackets back in the bag.
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