• It’s very important to consider the type of clothing. If you’re wearing heavy acrylics, it’s not going to dry quickly, especially if you’re in a super humid climate like Thailand.
• It slims down your bag, you have more space for gifts to bring back for everybody.
• You can wear the same clothes the next morning and they are ready to go.

Hey guys. It’s Shauna, correspondent from Without Bags, and I am here today to talk to you about one of my absolute favorite methods for washing clothes. Anytime you travel, you guys know, I travel without a bag. If it doesn’t fit in a carry-on, it doesn’t come with me. Well, laundry detergent, having to do laundry in hotels can be very expensive. You can do them in the sink, the little dry laundry sheets, that’s pretty good, but you always need some place to hang them and then you might have multiple days of clothes you’re hanging. The whole laundry situation just gets a little bit crazy.

One of my favorite ways to deal with it I actually learned from another passenger on a plane. We had both been upgraded to business class, we were both really happy about that, so we were really chatty with each other, and his suggestion … So first things first, the type of clothing is important. If you’re wearing cotton, if you’re wearing heavy acrylics, that kind of thing, it’s not going to dry really quickly, right? Especially if you’re in a super humid climate like Thailand, one of my favorite places, it can be really, really humid. Definitely be looking at the type of material that you’re wearing, but my favorite, the thing that he suggested which I just fell in love with, is basically it’s a little weird, trust me right now, it’s a little bit weird, but my favorite thing is you actually get in the shower with the clothes on that you were wearing that day.

You use, the hotel typically provides a shampoo/soap combination, you lather yourself up, all of your clothes, lather them all up, and then let the water rinse it all off. You hang up that layer. You lather up the next layer of clothes, you hang that up, you let it dry. By the next morning, if you’re wearing some of that quick dry material, that kind of thing, it’s dry, it’s ready to go. In this particular case, now I’m not that hardcore, in this particular case this business traveler was only bringing one set of clothes, one. The only thing he had in his bag were basically his particular toiletries and his shoes and his laptop and that kind of thing.

I was so impressed, but I did try it on one of these past trips and it was kind of weird. It was okay, but certainly taking a shower in your clothes the first time, it feels really, really odd, but I’ll tell you what, if it slims down my bag, more space for gifts to bring back for everybody, it makes me pretty happy. Signing off, Shauna for Without Bags, and let me know if you’ve ever taken a shower in your clothes. Would love to hear the story. All right, I’ll talk to you guys later. Bye.