How to Pack Light for Travel and Never Check in Luggage

Hi, I'm Farnoosh Brach and today we're going to talk about how you can

pack

light

as a woman when you

travel

and still look stylish and have everything you need with you, so in this video I'm going to show you. exactly what I'm taking on a five week trip to Europe in the spring and then I'm going to show you how to

pack

it so I hope to leave you with some really helpful tips and inspiration for packing

light

and not

check

ing

luggage

, that's the challenge so When you first think about your trip, the first thing I do is put aside the clothes I'm going to wear on the trip and what you want to do is carry your heaviest

luggage

. shoes and wear them and your heaviest jacket and whatever scarf you have and wear them that way you don't have to pack them in my case I'm going to wear my new running shoes now I know you're not supposed to wear your running shoes except what you're running but since these are heavy I don't want to pack them I'm going to use them on the trip so they can go here I'm going to take a scarf because the planes get very cold and the weather can be cold where I'm going, so I'll use the scarf.

I'm going to wear a light, simple shirt and again I'm going to think about layering if this is very important when you're doing the whole packing process, so this is a very light shirt, it can be a t-shirt and it'll be over here and then my pants, these They are a pair of black Luci pants. I love shopping Lucy. I've had these pants for probably ten years, they're stretchy, they're very thin. easily washable. I can wear pantyhose underneath if it's cold and they're very comfortable for

travel

ing so these are my pants that I'll wear on the road and then my jacket so you'll need a jacket if that's the case.

It's going to rain and it's going to be a little cold, but you're really going to want to just wear a jacket, so think about your most comfortable clothes and your ability to wear things that go with everything else, so this is one of my best jackets It has a hood so that way we don't have to worry about packing an umbrella and it's relatively lightweight because I don't want to wear it out when I'm walking for hours and hours and if I'm cold I can just put a sweater on there so these are the clothes I wear on the trip and I'll put it aside and then I'll think about what I'll take with me, so I'll show you everything I'll take with me.

I'm going to start with the shoes. I already have my running shoes. I'll bring a pair of very comfortable walking shoes. I have bags and bags for everything, so these are the bags I put my shoes in and pack all my socks inside. my shoe, these are a pair of eco-friendly shoes that I recently bought and they're supposed to be great for walking and you'll be walking a lot, especially if you're going to Europe, so these are my go-to shoes, they're black. As you can see, choose a color that goes with everything and looks very pretty and elegant when you are in a city.

These are my shoes. They are going to go here. I'll take one more pair of shoes. These are. my flat dress shoes, very, very light, very light, but something to wear maybe if I don't wear the walking shoes and we go to dinner or something, so again they have little bags and you just put them like that because you don't want them to touch your clothes and then you put them here, I'm already close. These are a relatively nice but extremely comfortable pair of black pants. This will be one of my essential garments. I can dress her. top I can dress it down, it goes with everything and it's comfortable, so while you're choosing your clothes, choose the most comfortable clothes and the clothes that make you feel nice and sexy and slim and all that good stuff, don't take things that you just buy something you have

never

worn and you don't know how you will feel in them because you feel good and happy then you will have a good time so these are my pants they will definitely come. right, I'm also going to wear a pair of tights so I can wear this under skirts in your long sweaters and maybe under my pants, my skinny black pants, if I get cold, now I'm going to move in this direction.

I'm going to show you my blouses, so I like very pretty earthy colors and solid colors that I can then dress with scarves. These are mainly from Uniqlo which is all over Asia and you can also find them in some parts of Europe, they sell beautiful clothes. at very affordable prices and as you can see I have five tops and one very thin turtleneck, you can layer them and they go with almost anything, so I have a black burgundy green, a kind of orange color and a more green dark, so these are my then I have my other blouse, these are the blouses that I would like to wear.

I'm going to pack all of this with you and if I can't fit everything here in this luggage, some of these may have to stay behind, but I picked out some dressier tops that can be paired with my black pants for the evening or if we're going somewhere. nice during the day so you can see I have a burgundy blue blouse, a burgundy gold gray and a red shirt so these are the ones I would wear. I would like to take them, but we'll see how well it works and then I'll think about your activities, so I like running and yoga.

I know I won't go anywhere without the ones I'm carrying. Where is my yoga mat? I'll show you how I pack this and I'm taking a combo version of yoga and running clothes, so we have two sports bras, a stretchy shirt that will go over the sports bras and then another yoga top and two running shorts. Very short yoga pants. I can practice with these at the hotel or possibly in the studio and then I would like to bring a long pair of purple yoga pants which we'll see as well as another pair, it's very thin, it shouldn't take up too much space to pack and then a pair of shoes running lengths, shoes, running pants that can also act as yoga, so I'm wearing a lot of workout clothes, but I was hoping to work out every day, we'll see how much of this I can pack in here, okay?

Going back to your clothes, two skirts. I really like wearing skirts and it makes you look much more elegant and there is much more style, but you have to be careful with the colors you choose, so I have a neutral beige color that goes with everything and my black. skirt that I wear everywhere is very comfortable and it is very elegant and I feel very good wearing it during the day or night for a dinner or any occasion so these are my two skirts. I always carry a dress with me. I know this is not exactly a color that goes with everything, but it has its own set, so this is a dark blue dress, very comfortable and stretchy.

I may wear pantyhose with it or not depending on the weather and I may put a sweater over it if I'm cold but it's nice to have a dress, it's nice for UM to have a variety of clothes and then I have a couple of sports shirts so we'll see if I can put them on and then lounging clothes, okay, so I have a pair of lounging pants. and some really nice shorts that I bring with me and a couple of work shirts to wear in the hotel room when I'm relaxing and then a beige tank top just in case I want to layer more, so okay, so that's it the main clothing. oh, I haven't shown you all three pieces here, so these are my three sweaters like this is the white thing that covers everything.

I love this one. I have a gray one that is longer in case it gets windy and again this kind of goes over all my tops and then I would like to wear a black sweater that I can wear with my tights and pantyhose and all that so we'll see that the sweaters They take up space, so you have to be careful and selective, well, that's all. my clothes now I'm going to talk to you about my toiletries and the other essentials that need to come so we're not going to

check

luggage so you need to comply with the airport security rules and regulations.

I carry all my toiletries. Here in this little bag they all have to be less than three ounces and you just have to be careful. My husband brings the toothpaste and the lens solution and all that. So I'm lucky, but I have my shampoo, conditioner, toner, sunscreen. I absolutely need sunscreen on you and the rest of my moisturizer and stuff like that, so all the liquids go here and then I have my makeup. I love my makeup. I wear makeup if you like going to Terrell that's fine but I love my makeup so I'm going to carry all my makeup here as well as my eyeshadow palette here so this and this actually come in my tote bag for laptop, so I will put it here and show you when I pack it in my pocket because I packed my bag, so this is a baggalini bag, it is rainproof, expandable, very comfortable, it may not be as stylish as my bag Coach, but okay and I'm going to pack this inside my backpack, so I'll put it.

Here my bag has to be close to me, so it's right here in my laptop bag, so here's my jewelry. Since you are going to wear simpler clothes, you want to bring some jewelry to dress her up, so I put all my jewelry. another galini bag and this one has served me well for years and I just put all the little bags here to make it nice and organized so I put it here it will go in my laptop bag and then of course on my laptop I take a bit. I love these wipes so if you're going to restaurants or the bathroom and really want to clean yourself or after a run you can do that instead of howling.

You can really use them to cool off so I love them and then of course my iPhone and an expandable bag I guess because I hope to take the souvenirs home so this is the expandable bag and it's actually part of my baggalini. which serves as a small bag, so in case I don't want to carry my entire bag, say for dinner or just going out for a few minutes, I'll take this, so that's it. and then accessories, so you need accessories and they don't take up a lot of space, but they have a great purpose and that is to help you get dressed and complete your outfit, so I carry three or four scarves with me whe

never

I travel, I read one, a nice blue one and a green one nice that it has several colors, yeah, I think that's it, and again I put them in nice little bags and I like to separate and compartmentalize all my clothes and all my stuff, so these bags really help you and help you feel organized, so that when you open your suitcase when you arrive, everything is where you put it and it's in its own little place, so these are all my score, okay, and here I have My headbands, so I hope I can use them all, are they sunny or to run, so they all come with me here and then just for toiletries.

I like to bring American toiletries. I don't know if I can find some. or not, but we're going to be there for five weeks, so I'm not going to go any further than this, this is the maximum amount of toiletries I'll take with me, okay, take your two favorite bras, ladies, don't try to overcrowd. everyone in there and you don't like one, take something that's very comfortable, so I'll take my two favorites here in their own bag, of course, and pantyhose and my black spandex because it goes with everything, so that's gone. here and the unmentionables in their own little bag and then this is a nice jacket that's warmer than you can imagine and you can see I just got it out of here.

This is again from Eunuch Cologne and I love wearing it, it's sleeveless. So you can know that you can have long sleeves, it has a hood and it's a wonderful little thing to throw on if it looks cloudy or rainy, it keeps you warm and it's very small to pack so just do this and these are These are ideas to get you thinking in terms of efficient travel clothing when you go shopping because not only does it save a lot of space, but it is multi-functional and can really serve in many different ways to complete your outfit.

Whether you're going to dress up or a little bit Sportage, so here we go, so this will come too, okay, and then just a few other things that we're almost trying out, okay, so a pair of sunglasses because, Hopefully it will be sunny. -tips deodorant a file for my nails my makeup remover so I love using these wipes and I will definitely take the whole package some Advil which is my entire medicine cabinet and this is my yoga towel but it's more like my security blanket it's really nice It's cotton and I love to wear it when you're out and about in public and if you don't want to use the towels in the bathrooms or whatever, I love to carry this with me and then my reading glasses, okay, now let's talk. luggage, so for years I used a Patagonia MLC.

I loved it, I took it all over the world, I had a couple tears and they fixed it for free, so I love Patagonia, but I'm not crazy about the new MLC and MLC. it's max or carry-on so we splurge and what's this bad thing it really looks like a backpack it's scary I know but this puppy is what I'm going to pack all this in and basically he was just going to do your The best thing is that he expand a little bit here to give you a little extra space and make sure all your luggage has information in case you get lost with your phone number and your address so there's my little tag and it's yellow too.

So in case I need to check it or whatever, I can easily identify it because it's a different color than black. Okay, so we're going to start packing now, so I'm going to show you how to fold your clothes and the way we pack. Let's start with everything that has to come no matter what and then we'll see if we have room leftfor the things that we would really like to take so we'll start over here and I'll start here with my black pants they will definitely come so the way you want to pack is if you want to fold more like if you want to roll up your clothes so you can spread them out like this and you start rolling and you just use this motion to make the garment as small as possible, okay and then you start.

I live in the corner of your bag and then we go, so I'm going to do my stockings here next and it's really liberating to be able to have the backlight. I really struggled with this for years, but I'm really seeing the benefits of packing light and carrying less with you because, on the one hand, you're not. You really travel so you take all your stuff with you, you travel so you experience the new place and all the wonderful things that await you, and more than that, you get to buy things in a new country and that's exciting, so I'm going.

Let's see this as a positive experience, that's my goal here for you too, okay, so the shoes I'll put on you as soon as possible, so I'll put them here mmm, actually, there's a little divider here, I had to put it in . Up, but I'm not going to use it, so I'm going to push it down so it's a big container. Okay, so I'll put my small bag, my small jacket here and my shoes, my bigger shoes, so these will go. here like this and the other one here, so I like to distribute the weight, so I'm not going to put two shoes next to each other, I'm going to put them at the other end of the suitcase, in fact, I'm going to move these shoes. here to the side towards the edges, so okay, I'm going to change my sitting position to have more control here, okay, now we're going to move to the top, so I'm going to bring my tops here and Taking this, a pullover very very thin turtleneck because it's probably cold at night so we'll be safe so everything I'm taking before I pack everything I looked at and visually made sure as much as possible that everything went with everything, so that's it. because the colors are pretty neutral and that's what you want to do, you want to create outfits in your mind and make sure you're not wearing something that you only wear once or twice, right, it's just not worth it, so do it before you throw away.

Everything together is good, so the next thing I'm going to do is pack my running clothes, but I'm going to wear light clothes, so I'll leave these pants that I would like to wear here. These are the long pants that I really feel comfortable running in. and spring will probably be a little cold, another one, okay, here we go, my running pants, okay, I'll leave this top here because maybe I can do without it because my sports tops can also be for yoga and running and actually , this particular one with one of my yoga pants has to act as a swimsuit in case there's a hot tub because I'm not going to pack a swimsuit just for a possible necessity, so there's something you can have. double duty if necessary, it's nice to be able to comfortably say that everything I'm packing is something I love to wear and you want to be able to say that because you're going to be in this for a while, these are my lounge pants, so just we'll roll them up another trick is to take something that's really comfortable and well worn and maybe it's close to the time that you're ready to donate it or leave it so you can finish wearing it and then leave it behind and that's it. that will save or create more space for you as you come back so we're getting close and I don't like to pack but you pack it to the brim very very full so we're getting pretty close here so we have got to have Be careful what happens here, so I'm going to put on my dress.

I want to take my dress and my red blouse. I want to take this one, so at this point I'm going to look to see, yeah. We still have a little bit of room to go and we still have all of that and the yoga mat stuff is actually going to go outside, you'll see, so I'm going to put a couple more things in here. I'll leave this. one behind this is nice, just roll it all up and if it wrinkles a little that's okay and that's another point, don't wear clothes that might wrinkle, try to wear clothes that don't wrinkle so you don't have to worry.

As for ironing, I don't use an iron either, obviously, or a hair dryer, because every place you go they have a small dryer, so that's it, it's very important not to have to carry you around, okay, my little cardigan, We are almost done. with this compartment so and of these I'm going to take one of them this is the cutout that I'm still cutting out yeah it takes a lot of guts but you can do it too okay I might pack this one too I really like this one Okay let's see I'm not I'm sure I'll have room for my black sweater, so it might have to be between this black sweater.

Let me put it here and not worry about the gray right now. Okay then. We're going to go, we've left three pieces behind four, actually, so what we're going to do is put my unmentionables here, my pantyhose here, very nice and press them, you won't break them there, just close my ribbons for the head. over here and my score is this is the last thing I'm going to put in this main container, now we're going to close it, so here we go, okay, and you're really going to squeeze this tighter and then this side is okay, come on, Alright.

I'm already very impressed with the e-bag, so we'll see how it goes on the trip. Now I'm going to close this top part. I have a bat bag here, no. I'm sure I'll use it late but I could put some of my essentials back in here but what I want to do now is pack my bag this is what I'm most worried about with this one again this is my baggalini bag very nice bag I put the UM with the handle in and it's empty relatively empty and then I put it here okay, perfect, so now I'm going to put my expandable here my toilet, we're going to try to put them in my wet wipes, sunglasses, I'm going to have a little of care, so I might carry them with my bra here and it's a very good idea, ladies, to put everything in small bags in case security opens your bag and you don't want anyone else touching your private clothing.

So my other one is fine, so this is working fine, and it's not terribly gigantic or anything, so I'm going to close this now, at this point I'm going to take a look at the clothes that I left behind that I can do without. this without this without this without this but I really want to take this so I'm thinking maybe I can use it on the plane that I have three layers on or maybe I can still put it here it's a game time decision so I'm going I'll look here and I'll try to close this and put my yoga mat here.

How are we doing? This is where I call my husband to say: can you help me? and he will tell me that you will also bring. not much nothing no this is the minimum so here we go so it's the external compression so I don't know maybe I have to use this type on the plane so we'll leave it aside for now and not worry about it. Regarding that, now I will show you how I carry my yoga mat. This comes with me and will go out. I think it's going to go here, so we'll put it like this and use these handy outside handles.

This one come on, okay, lovely and then this one, okay, so this is my main luggage, what do you think you see? This is actually it. Oh, I can actually look at it closer because I haven't even used it in its full print, so these are. the handles of the backpack, as you can see, I could take it like this or like that or just put it on my back, so this is the first section of packing and I actually feel pretty good about what I won't be carrying. I'll be fine. Now I'm going to show you how I pack my laptop, so I decided to take this one on the plane so we wouldn't have to worry about packing it.

I'll just look very warm. This is my laptop bag, it is a very nice bag. I've used it for a few years and I'm basically going to put my laptop in here. In fact, I also have an iPad that will go in the outer bag. My little yoga towel. My toiletries. I can easily take them out for safety my makeup bag flips over and my jewelry goes in this bag here then the headphones your other things other electronic chargers I'm going to put all that here my USB key I actually like to use this outside USB pocket and iPhone, so I'm going to put my sunglasses out here so they don't get compressed and then the rest of my makeup here along with my purse, so this one is super easy.

I also put out some snacks, some bars. or whatever for the plane and that's it, we're done here, so this goes over my shoulder like this and my husband will bring the laptop charger young, so I'm ready, so this is it, this is what I will take to Europe. five weeks in the spring, so if I can do this, you can do it, try to pack light, don't check luggage and enjoy your travels, don't obsess over carrying too much. I hope you enjoyed this and I'll talk to you. you in the next video goodbye