Help with packing please!!?

Question

i am going on my school's music tour in a few days and i have made a list of stuff that i gotta take.

Toiletries:

1. Soap

2. Shampoo and conditioner

3. Scrub

4. Glove

5. “Emily” flannel

6. Toothpaste and Toothbrush

7. Hair brushes

8. Hair things

9. Jewellery

Clothes:

1. Loose jeans

2. Grey long sleeve t-shirt with buttons and singlet

3. Grey/black cardigan

4. Brown and cream jumper with scarf

5. Beanie with pom-pom on top

6. Beanie with rainbow colours on

7. Brown gloves

Pyjamas:

1. White top

2. “Purr” long sleeve top if really cold

3. Red, black, white and brown pants

Shoes:

1. Performance shoes

2. School shoes

3. Boots

Sleeping wise:

1. Sleeping bag

2. Pillow

i have a medium size suitcase. what is an easy way to put all of this stuff in there?

Answer 1

Try rolling up your clothing, this tends to take up less room, and make sure your toiletry things are in a bag.  If they are all in one place, they will also take up less room.

Answer 2

Seriously, this is the cutest question ever. You're really organized! I'm a great packer, so let's see if this works:

Toiletries: I'm assuming you got TRAVEL sizes for the soap and such, yes? There's nothing other than getting travel sizes I can recommend to try to condense your travel bag. If "scrub" and "glove" are for exfoliating, I'd suggest just bringing the glove, since that's flatter. If you think about it, you can do without the scrub for a few days and live with just the glove. You could probably get rid of the Emily flannel since you're bringing pj's anyway. (Unless "flannel" means "towel"?)

Clothes/shoes, et al: Roll your clothes and squish them into your shoes, if possible (depends on how big your shirts are). You could probably fit your gloves and undergarments into the shoes.  (Uh. No undergarments listed. I hope it's just because you didn't want to list them and not becuase you forgot!) Do you have outside pockets to your suitcase? If so, insert one beanie into another, and stick them in there. Bring only one pair of pajama pants (it sounds as if you're bringing four?). Try to avoid folding things into fourths or thirds. Fold things in half and stack your items if you can.

Unless you get one of those air suction things, you won't be able to condense your sleeping bag and pillow AND fit it in your suitcase. Do you really have to put that stuff in the bag? Can't you carry them? Or get an inflatable pillow?

If you want to save space, wear some of the items you are packing. Wear your jeans, the T-shirt, the cardigan, and the boots. That's four things you won't have to pack. Or consider not bringing your boots. Those take up a lot of space.

Just remember when you pack, you have to leave room for your dirty undergarments, which, surprisingly, can take up space.