How we pack for two weeks in a carry-on: we do laundry. This is the whole kit.
Washing
Lewis N. Clark
SinkSuds Travel Detergent
Liquid detergent made for washing clothes in a hotel sink, in TSA-sized bottles. It rinses out fast, which is the thing that actually matters when you’re wringing a shirt over a basin at 10pm. This is how two weeks of clothes fits in a carry-on.
Arm & Hammer
Power Sheets Laundry Detergent
Detergent as dry sheets, so it doesn’t count as a liquid and can’t leak. One sheet does a machine load at a laundromat or a rental, and half a sheet handles a sink wash. Thirty-five loads weighs less than one bottle of the regular stuff.
earthwash
Laundry Detergent Sheets, Scent Free, 32 Loads
A flat envelope of detergent sheets weighs less than the sock it washes and can’t leak on anything. Tear one in half for a sink load, use a whole one in a laundromat machine. Scent-free, which matters when you’re sharing a rental with someone who gets headaches from fragrance. They don’t pretreat a real stain, so pack a stain pen too.
Drying
HONGYUTAI
Retractable Travel Clothesline
A stretchy clothesline that hooks across a shower or a balcony, with no pins needed because the cord grips the clothes itself. Suddenly the whole bathroom is a drying rack. Retracts to pocket size, and it’s the difference between damp clothes and dry ones by morning.
Rynapac
10L Waterproof Dry Bag
A roll-top dry bag that keeps water out or, just as usefully, keeps wet things in. Swimsuits, a rained-on jacket, laundry that didn’t dry in time: they ride home without soaking everything else. It packs flat and weighs next to nothing until you need it.
Travel Fanatics
Foldable Travel Laundry Bag
Dirty clothes need their own bag, or they end up back in the packing cube with the clean ones. This one folds flat to nothing on the way out and holds a week of laundry on the way home. Not glamorous, and the thing that keeps a suitcase organized on day eight.
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