Hi everyone. I’m Alejandra from Alejandra.tv and in this video, I’m going to show you
how to organize and pack all your travel documents that you take with you on a trip or some kind
of getaway.
But first, if you are looking to get organized or you’re looking for more travel tips or
travel checklists, you can visit my website Alejandra.tv and search “travel” and all
the fun travel stuff will come up.
OK. So in this video or in the last video or in the recent video, I showed you guys
how to pack a carry-on suitcase and the top thing on the carry-on suitcase in that video
which I will link below, it was this baggie right here, this poly envelope.
This is what I use to pack all of my travel documents safely and in a way where it’s
not going to get damaged or wrinkled or torn or something. But I love this bag because
it’s plastic but it’s really like – what’s the word? Like foldable plastic, so when this
thing is empty, I can just fold this poly envelope nicely. I guess I will show you in
the end.
Then I can just stick it inside here and it’s really nice and it also has a really nice
zipper. You can’t feel this but it feels like butter. It’s just really nice.
It’s also indestructible. So it’s not going to like get damaged. It’s weather-proof
so you can take it out in the rain and nothing will happen. You can keep it in like extreme
heat and it’s not going to melt. It’s just awesome. So it comes in two sizes. There’s
letter size which is this size. It’s like the smaller size and then there’s the legal
size which is – it’s not really long but it’s bigger. It fits legal documents and
So I will put links to these in the description as well. But what I did on the outside was
I put a nice bright yellow label that says, “If you find this …”
There’s my phone number and there’s my email address. So in case anybody does find
it and they’re nice enough to return it, then hopefully I will get it back. But all
right, let me show you what is inside here.
So this is perfect for all those travel documents. I forgot if I listed them in this video but
all the travel documents you have when you go on a trip. Like maybe there’s ticket
stubs or hotel confirmations or some kind of like receipt or a map or a notebook or
a magazine. Like any kind of paper thingy that you want to keep protected is perfect
for this thing.
So let me show you what I have inside mine. So I have a book. Here’s a book on poodles.
I have a notebook. I have a little poly envelope. So I have shown this before. This is a little
poly envelope for travel receipts. So every time I go on a business trip or just like
a pleasure trip and I get a receipt from something, I will just put it inside here and then when
I get back home, I will just take this to my office and then I will just register all
the receipts and then if I need to keep them, I will file them away.
But it’s a good place to just keep them to distinguish what is travel and what isn’t
travel.
All right. So that’s in there also. Then I have my passport in here as well. So it’s
nice and safe kept away from like water or anything. I have a magazine, Getting Organized
Magazine. It’s my favorite organizing magazine. So that fits perfectly in there and then I
have packing lists.
So like I mentioned this in my carry-on suitcase video that when I go away, I check things
off of my packing list before I go, and then I also do it after I go. Like when I’m coming
back from my trip. So I will pack these with me and I will just check things off as I’m
packing to go home.
I laminate them so I can use a dry erase marker to erase it and reuse it over and over and
not have to keep it reprinting them. So these are my travel packing lists. So the front
has the full list and then the back, you can customize the list to yourself.
So if you have like special things that you pack, you can just type them before you print
them. So those fit nicely inside here and then anything that is inside, like any kind
of like single sheet of computer paper or like something that you print out, I didn’t
want to just like put it in here. I wanted to put it in like a sturdy file folder.
So a file folder and then I just have – in this example, in this video, I have more checklists
for traveling. So recently we came out with a license plate game checklist. So, when you’re
on a road trip in the car and you’re looking out the window, it’s a long car ride and
you’re looking for all the states of the license plates. We always played that as a
kid. So we made an official Alejandra.tv license plate checklist game. So that’s in here
and we just created this. So I didn’t have a chance to laminate it yet. But I would totally
laminate this. So this can be reused over and over.
Then the last checklist is a travel itinerary checklist which we just came out with this
also. But one of the problems I was having for a while is getting all the information
like my flight number, my hotel confirmation number, rental car information. Like printing
all that stuff out just seems like a lot of paper and then when you keep it on your phone,
it’s a lot of searching on your phone and stuff. I like to have the stuff in front of
me like when I need it.
So we created this travel itinerary checklist that you just like pick the type of thing
that you’re looking for and then you write the information. It’s kind of hard to explain
but that’s what it’s for.
OK. So those computer pieces of paper, we will just go inside this folder and then the
bottom here, I just have a dry erase maker for the laminated checklists. Then I have
a highlighter because every time I read a book, I always highlight in the book because
I like to go back to books. I sometimes go back to books. It depends on what the topic
is.
But I will go back and I will just look in my highlighted notes as like reminders, whatever
the book is. Then I have my favorite pen right here.
All right. So let me show you how this envelope folds. So just nice poly envelope and then
it just folds. Like, it’s so nice. You can just fold it in half and you can fold it in
quarters and stuff. You could probably fold it like this and like it unfolds perfectly.
It doesn’t keep the creases in it and that’s why I love it.
So yes, then you can just like pack this in your suitcase for your trip or put it in your
bag or keep it in the car, whatever. So anyway, that is how I would organize and pack all
the travel documents for my trip.
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and live a more productive life. Thanks for watching and I will see you soon. Bye.