Figs and Flights {videos} launch every Tuesday. 

Figs and Flights Video #16 includes {Travel Tips} for packing for carry on travel.

Bryce and I explain our process for packing and why we only travel with carry on bags. We share our best tips and rules for doing so to help you do the same.

We answer questions about suitcases, folding vs. rolling clothes, and if we use packing cubes.

NOTE: The very light blue Away bag is the carry on. I exchanged it for the darker blue "the bigger carry-on" bag and love, love, LOVE the bigger carry-on.

Over the years of traveling with my husband I have learned and adopted his ways of carry-on bags only flying. It has been such an improvement in my life! No longer do I wait around at baggage claim, worry about lost bags, or pay fees for checked bags. 

While carry-on traveling is deserving of another post entirely, the key is making sure you're ready to go through airport secuity with a properly packed toiletry bag. That means your liquids (shampoo, soap, lotion, mousse, gel, etc.) have to be in small sized bottles and then contained in a bag that can be easily removed from your carry on and placed on the conveyor for the x-ray machine.

The sizing for liquids in a checked bag are totally different. This guide is for carry-on bags, the smaller suitcase you bring with you onto to the plane and stash in the overhead compartment. Once I forgot the difference in the size of liquid containers between checked bags and carry-ons and brought a giant bottle of Paul Mitchell (read: expensive) hair mousse in a carry-on. I had to leave behind the entire bottle, it was a tragic first world problem. The curly haired girl's nightmare resulted in both lost dollars and bad hair days while I swore I'd NEVER AGAIN make such a mistake. I have since perfected my carry-on toiletry bag packing! Spoiler alert: I always bring TWO mini mousses.