This guy show off a cool “clown-car” technique for packing a lot of clothes into your luggage.

The key is to place the the shirts and pants into the luggage with the arms and legs sticking out. Alternate the sides the legs and arms are coming out of. Only after all the shirts and pants are in do you fold all the arms and legs into the bag.

Since the bulk of the material is in the torso of the shirt, or the hips to knees of the pants, you can stuff more clothes in your luggage.

Handy! I’ll have to try this next time I take a trip.

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