11-29-2021, 09:02 PM
Cheap cubes are easy to find on eBay. Eagle Creek makes nice ones, but they're pricey. I have a midsize one from Rick Steves that seems to be pretty well made. It's mainly the quality of the zippers and seams.
Essentially, you want the cube to be just big enough for what you're packing‚ thus my earlier mention of "a folded dress shirt/trousers folded in quarters." That's something like 13 x 9 inches. And you want it to be no more than about 3 inches deep, so the clothes for a short trip won't have room to move around. I think the ones sold on the Rick Steves site are too deep. Taking more clothes? Use two cubes. File folder analogy again.
I'm more or less a backpacker these days, so for most destinations I head out with one 13x9x3 cube, packed with two pair of khaki trousers and three golf shirts. I wear a long-sleeve shirt and jeans on the plane. A smaller cube holds underwear and socks. For a cold-weather urban trip with my rolling bag, almost the same but a couple of long-sleeve shirts go instead of the polos, and Uniqlo Heattech undershirts + a second sweater go in a second 13x9.
Essentially, you want the cube to be just big enough for what you're packing‚ thus my earlier mention of "a folded dress shirt/trousers folded in quarters." That's something like 13 x 9 inches. And you want it to be no more than about 3 inches deep, so the clothes for a short trip won't have room to move around. I think the ones sold on the Rick Steves site are too deep. Taking more clothes? Use two cubes. File folder analogy again.
I'm more or less a backpacker these days, so for most destinations I head out with one 13x9x3 cube, packed with two pair of khaki trousers and three golf shirts. I wear a long-sleeve shirt and jeans on the plane. A smaller cube holds underwear and socks. For a cold-weather urban trip with my rolling bag, almost the same but a couple of long-sleeve shirts go instead of the polos, and Uniqlo Heattech undershirts + a second sweater go in a second 13x9.