hey there today's video is about 47 travel hacks these travel hacks are from
my 2019 list of tips and tricks that you have shared with me as airline
passengers these hacks can be used in the airplane in the hotel when you are
packing and even on road trip these are not going to be the trial hacks that
everyone has heard about like the lotion in the contact case or the razor blades
in the sunglasses holder this is a new 2019 list of travel hacks and I have 47
of them to share with you for when you travel next the number one travel hack
for my 2019 list is to use a beach ball to prop your feet up on you can inflate
it while in flight and when you are packing it it can be flat and take up
less space this year I bought a foot hammock and it hangs on the back of the
chair in front of me in the airplane seat and I can rest my feet up a little
bit like for a long-haul flight it will bend my legs so that the blood flow
keeps going through my legs and this lady suggested a beach ball my friend
Debbie shared a travel hack and that is to wrap duct tape twice or three times
around an old library card or a hotel key card and then if your suitcase has a
hole in it or you have something temporary that needs to be fixed
you can fix it like everything with duct tape and that just gets you to the
nearest store or at least gets you home my friend schemata is a flight attendant
and she suggested that you use the ice bucket plastic bag to put around the
remote control when you are watching TV as she does not like the germs and she
has found a way to fight them once your hotel room has been cleaned for the day
and you want to go out touring I suggest hanging the Do Not Disturb sign on your
doorknob to deter criminals from going into your hotel room because they think
you are in there and so they'll skip that ring by chance my friend Cheryl
shared another hotel hack and that is to use the hairdryer to get out some of the
little wrinkles you just sprinkle it with some of the water from the sink and
then use the hairdryer to help decrease those
creases another travel tip for a hotel room is to take a picture of your number
and that way you won't forget which room you're in I have an ambulance worker who
watches my videos and she shared about the oxy pens or the Tod pens to help
remove stains and she knows that because they are really good at removing blood
from stains and that way maybe you can wear white pants or white jeans on the
airplane my friend Nancy gives out gum to nice passengers if you have a
passenger who helps you with your suitcase or who does something beyond
the common courtesy they're more likely to take a packet of gum versus a dollar
bill or something like that mmm another travel hack is to pack a doorstop and
when you get to your hotel room and go to bed at night put it under your door
this has happened to my husband twice in 19 years someone has been assigned to
his room from the front desk and they opened the door and realized someone's
in there and closed it right back my friend Diane has a great travel hack to
help with liquid containers leaking and she just cuts off squares instead of
like the saran wrap kind of things she cuts out squares and just lays that over
the top of the bottle and then screws the lid on another travel hack is to tie
a bandana to your suitcase or a cute little scarf to your suitcase and that
way it is easily identifiable in baggage claim and then also take a picture of
your suitcase if it gets lost it's more easily identified and then also putting
some kind of contact either an email or a junk email your phone number even if
you feel safe doing that put that inside your suitcase in case it gets lost you
have a picture to show baggage services people so you can get that bag back when
I travel with a belt an easy way to pack it is to just pack it in the outer
pocket but another way which is kind of a travel tip or travel hack is to roll
it up and pack it inside the collar of a man's shirt it keeps the collar rounded
and inform and it also is just a flat place to put your belt and inexpensive
travel hack is to get a shoe container from the dollar store and
then hang it over the back of your door in your hotel or your Airbnb especially
if you travel with kids or teenage girls who travel with a lot of clothes it's
just another way to store and spread out everything and have space for all of
your travel gear when you're traveling and this travel hat from my old neighbor
Donna use this and found this out with her adult daughters when traveling in a
hotel room use an ironing board in your hotel room as an extension of the
countertop the make up their curling irons whatever you need so you everybody
has their own space but a tip from a pilot friend said be careful that the
makeup blush powders do not get on the ironing board for those people who are
ironing especially white shirts another packing tip and travel hack is to pack a
bright green peanut butter lid and use that in your hotel room counter to put
your key card your rings your jewelry eyedrops because when you leave it's
easy for some of those things especially jewelry to blend in with the granite
counters that are in a lot of hotel rooms and that one and this one are from
my friend Sheila when you get in your hotel room flush the toilet immediately
because that's when you want to find out if it doesn't work not after you have
unpacked a great trick when you have a departing flight that's really late at
the end of your vacation is to plan that day to be a spa day check out of your
hotel at a late time and then spend a few hours at a spa if you can afford it
still if we have not met yet my name is Lori and I want to say welcome to my
channel I am a pilot wife here in Houston and we've traveled and made tons
of mistakes and learned lots of travel hacks for about 19 years together I've
made a couple of other travel hack videos so be sure to look those up and
as well as a life hack video but one of these is how to store your cash when you
are traveling somewhere and you need to stash your cash in different places a
great travel hack is to use an empty chapstick tube and if you want to have a
bottled beverage in your hotel room and you don't have a way to open the bottle
you can use the V in the back hinge thing of
your hotel door my friend Lucinda has another inexpensive travel hack and that
is to get a bunch of washcloths from the dollar store and use those or cheap
underwear while you're on vacation and then get rid of those at your vacation
destination so that you don't have to pack as much when you're coming home I
can't remember if this travel hack is in my video or if I share this on the news
station here in Houston but you can use blue tape to cover the microwave light
in your hotel room the clock light over the peephole door but you can also use
band-aids or post-it notes my friend Elsie packs a set of sandwich bags to
portion out her snacks while she's going if you have kids you can give each one
these little baggies and I love that hack especially if you're traveling to
an Airbnb pack some baggies so that you can marinate your chicken that's what we
always forget anyway and then she also portion controls by using sandwich
baggies on her vacation from my friend Aubrey I learned a travel tip is to use
a school sheet lunch box as a packing cube this is one of my packing cubes
that I use to pack my clothes in but there are several different options some
people have even used gallon bags and then I have a friend Rebecca who uses
the plastic container squishy thing bag that your sheet sets come in this travel
tip is for when you do have a washing machine for your clothes but you do not
have a dryer run the wash cycle or the spin cycle three times and that will
almost well it will really help it get all of the water out of your clothes you
know what I'm saying I have to travel hacks for the original type of brush
holders you can pack eyeshadow brushes in there or you can pack your fingernail
file in there or you can treat yourself to a fingernail file travel carrier it
comes with like a glass or crystal fingernail file but I use one in my
purse that's this and I use my regular emery board and then this one I always
keep in my travel bag a great travel tip is to stick stickers that say fragile
all around your suitcase and it might get more sensitive treatment let me know
if you like this travel hack idea for making sure you have clothes to wear at
your vacation destination in case your suitcase gets lost one of my friends
packed some of her clothes in her husband's suitcase and some of his
clothes in her suitcase just in case your suitcase gets lost a
quick travel tip is to use your hair straightener to iron your collar if you
need that and then another travel hack is to use a Kleenex in the bottom of the
mesh pocket of your backpack for when you're at the airport and you buy a
bottled water and it's ice-cold well the condensation coming off of it
drips onto your cute travel outfit and this will help absorb some of the
condensation I travel with this backpack because it's like a school backpack that
you can probably get on sale now anywhere but this holds a lot of my
clothes when I travel but I recently got this one the spring and this is more
like a purse it's size large I'll link it below but I think I would go with the
small size so that it was more like a crossbody but it's a backpack my friend
Frieda packs an extra toothbrush just in case hers falls on the floor you can
always check with your hotel to see if they'll give you one which most of them
will but if you don't have that opportunity or if they're fresh out you
will have one in your bank a lot of you like to put on your foundation with a
Beauty Blender the way you use this is you wet it and it will get larger but
when you are just packing it in your suitcase or travel bag it can go in a
plastic Easter egg like I share it in my life hacks but for when it's large and
wet and you've got to put it in your bags
I suggest packing a golden egg if you travel with a lot of charging cords or
tech gear a one hack is to put rubber bands around those and then pack them
all in like a pencil case which are everywhere and now as well another
subscriber told me that she uses plastic baggies for everything and if you think
of it and you are really creative you can pack a lot of different items in
baggies she packs her earrings or earplugs any kind of small jewelry in
sandwich baggies and then she puts these inside a gallon baggie where she has
packed her necklaces just a little idea and then she also cuts like a rectangle
of a self liner that rubbery sticky type and that helps on the tray table to
secure your cup to hold up your phone without your phone slipping if you don't
have a phone pop brilliant you can also use this to open up a jar lid another
trial tip is to use a sandwich baggie or this snack baggie and wet your cotton
balls with oil or makeup remover or alcohol if you need that fingernail
polish remover and store those in here they do not count as liquids because
they're totally absorbed in the cotton ball I have another friend who thought
of a travel hack for when your tags get ripped off of your suitcase handle and
that is to use a little monogram sketch or and paint like a white lowercase
letter of your first name on all sides of your suitcase that way when it comes
through the baggage claim you can see it it's not ugly it's not flashy or
whatever it's just a neat way to identify it or you can just use a piece
of blue tape on all the sides as well another item you might want to pack for
a travel hack is suction cups they can be used to hang up towels they can be
used to hang travel clothesline you can put the suction cup on the bedside table
or the countertop somewhere and wrap the cords of your charging cords and cell
phone and everything around that so that they won't fall behind the bed or behind
the furniture in a hotel room especially if you're traveling alone a travel tip
is to ask the hotel staff what are some things to do or where to go and then
another way you might ask it is say I'm meeting people down here where should we
meet that kind of thing you get the local atmosphere and you feel a little
bit safer if you're interested in some travel safety tips be sure to check out
my movie that I'll put up there and in the description box below by the way now
can tell YouTube how often you want to get notified that I have uploaded a free
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can customize it for whatever you want to hear and see okay the night before
you leave for vacation and you are charging your cell phone your power bank
over in the wall by the plugs put your suitcase and your backpack over there so
you will not forget those cords a lot of my friends travel with their own travel
pillow case and that is used because it has the smell of home and it just helps
their sinuses or mentally fall asleep kind of thing but do not pack a white
one or Kremlin and you do not want to leave it behind
because it's going to blend in with all of the other sheets in the hotel room
the last two travel hacks I got from one of my favorite travel ladies and that is
Samantha brown and that is two uses for an ironing board in your hotel room you
can use it lower to use as a kid's activity section or activity center
table because it can be right where you need the height to be and then you can
also lower that ironing board and sit on the edge of your table and watch TV and
have your own tray table and eat dinner while you're watching TV in bed how
awesome is that to eat dinner in bed anyway thank you for visiting my travel
tips by laurie channel let me know if you have another travel hack and i will
start making my new list