Eagle Creek Pack-It Specter Compression Cube Set + Garment Folder, Black

I love the Eagle Creek travel Pack-It Cubes: they help keep me organized while on a trip.It’s debatable to me whether the cubes actually help put more clothing into a suitcase. I can pack pretty tightly, and it is conceivable that I’d be able to use more nooks and crannies without the cubes. However, the massive increase in organization is worth the slight sacrifice of space to me. Staying organized during a trip greatly reduces my stress and makes staying in hotels and traveling from place to place much, much easier.What I own: I have a variety of Eagle Creek cubes, sets like this one (cube, half cube, and quarter cube) in four different colors, plus several additional regular and half-sized cubes in those colors, and a set of two compression cubes.Here's what I like about them:* Durability: The bags are very sturdy and the zippers are strong. I have owned them for ten months and taken them on quite a few trips where they’ve been squashed into suitcases or backpacks, zipped up when almost bursting with clothing, and used by children who aren’t particularly gentle with them. The cubes have been dropped and flung and stepped on and they still are still going strong.* Improved personal organization: The cubes have greatly increased my ability to stay organized on a trip. Before the cubes, my suitcase would be neat and tidy on our outbound trip, but as soon as I arrived and opened it, the contents would explode into the room as I dug through everything looking for a pair of pants that I’d placed on the bottom, or a shirt I wanted to wear that was halfway down. It was like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. After a couple days the suitcase and area around it would be cluttered with clothing. Finding anything was a pain. Clean clothing would end up on the floor, and when it came time to go it was difficult to get everything back in it.With the cubes, clothing can be sorted into cubes by function, e.g. a cube of T-shirts, a cube of long-sleeved shirts, a cube of underclothing, etc. With the cubes I no longer have to dig through the layers of clothing, disrupting everything in my search for the one item I want. Now I can remove just one or two cubes, locate the one I want (thanks to the mesh on the side which lets me see the contents), open it, remove the item, zip it back up, and replace all the cubes. The suitcase stays nice and tidy through the entire trip, and repacking is a cinch.* Improved organization for families: These are great for families as well. I use them to stay organized on different-length trips:(1) Short trips. On a weekend trip, we can put each person’s clothing (two changes of clothing) into one regular cube each. Each person gets a different color. All the cubes (five) fit into a small, rolling 21” suitcase. Upon our arrival, I hand out a color-coded cube to each person. Each cube now acts like a mini-suitcase, keeping each person's weekend clothing together. Simple and neat.(2) Function-specific cubes. It is possible to put four or five compressible rain jackets plus a couple compact umbrellas into a single regular-sized cube. This means it’s easy to load up a backpack for a rainy day outing for five people: just grab the rain gear cube. No more stuffing everyone’s jackets loose into a backpack. On the outing itself, the cube keeps the jackets and umbrella under control. Without the cube the jackets would burst outwards every time the backpack was opened up, with the cube they all stay neat and contained. We can also fill a cube with swimsuits, goggles, lotion etc. for a trip to the pool or the beach.(3) Long trips with multiple stops. These are invaluable on long trips. In this case, each person gets their own 21” rolling suitcase and a set of cubes. For a two-week trip to Europe, each person got two regular-sized cubes and two half-sized cubes for their clothing. The two regulars fit snugly together on the bottom of the suitcase with no wasted space, and the half-size cubes fit sideways on top of one of the regulars. The remaining space was used for other items like a toiletries bag, first aid kit, extra jacket, boots, etc. which didn’t go into cubes.During the trip, the cubes worked beautifully. They kept all our clean clothing sorted and easy to move around when we were searching for particular items. If we wanted to unpack, we could just place the cubes themselves into drawers or onto shelves. No need to unpack the contents. Re-packing was easy: just load the cubes back into the suitcase. This made keeping track of multiple people’s clothing MUCH easier. We stayed in five places over two weeks and the cubes kept us organized the whole time.Note: I use the cubes in conjunction with a laundry management system, because as clothing gets dirty we no longer wanted it in the cubes with the clean clothing. I brought some thin, nylon, drawstring laundry bags to collect the dirty laundry each day. As the laundry accumulated I transferred it into a succession of plastic vacuum bags with one-way air valves. For these, just load the vacuum bag with dirty clothing, squeeze out the air by kneeling on it or rolling it up, then unroll it and you’re left with a solid brick of vacuum-sealed, plastic-wrapped clothing. Removing the air is important because dirty laundry, unless folded, takes up more space than clean clothing. I’d pack these flat slabs of dirty clothing on top of the cubes of clean clothing. The result was that by the end of the trip the packing cubes were nearly empty while the vacuum-sealed laundry bags were quite full. But between these two systems we were able to stay very organized on a two-week trip with five people and five different stops.

I liked these so much that I think I just might get another set for myself! I feel so much more organized now that I have these cubes!!! Instead of shoving socks, bras, and undies into random places and having to search the whole suitcase for them they have their own little home now! Same for my shirts and pants- all in one little cube and extremely easy to get to.The only issue that I saw with this set was that the small cube was just too small to carry my socks and panties for a week, so I got the half cube and it works like a charm! I wear mostly smalls and mediums (I'm 5'4") and all of my clothes fit very well in the cubes.. if I were packing this way for my boyfriend I do NOT think it would work well because he is very tall (6'5") and skinny, so his clothes are HUGE compared to mine. He doesn't even seem interested in the whole travel organization thing anyway, so it works out! :PI would definitely recommend these lightweight cubes for anyone who travels domestically or internationally. We are going on a week vacation this summer and will be going via plane, so I will be putting my cubes in a normal 21" rollerboard. However, I am sure they would work very well in any luggage you have. The large cube is the hole width of my suitcase, the half-cube is just that and the small is about a quarter of the large.

I use this in my Osprey Fairpoint 40 backpack and the large and medium ones fit perfectly in the bag with the large on the bottom and the medium on top and it still leaves some extra room on the sides for more items and a few items on top. These are very durable and functional, I would recommend them to anyone looking for packing cubes!

I couldn't believe how much easier packing was with these cubes! Not only was the color green less expensive than the others (not by too much though at the time of purchase), it is also easier to see if I put the cubes inside available drawers. This set of 3 fits perfectly inside the top half of my carry-on suitcase & looks really cute when I'm all packed up or when I'm unpacking.

I use these cubes for miscellaneous stuff. I can put nail files, lip gloss, tooth paste, etc. in this type of cube to keep these little travel necessities organized. These cubes have a stiff fabric side so they have a little more ridged shape but can squish down when the suitcase is closed. The larger cube is good to use for rolled underwear. It is hard to imaging traveling without our Eagle Creek organizers.We also have Pack-It Specter Cubes and love them in green for me and white for my husband.

You can't go wrong with Eagle Creek cubes. I probably have fifteen of these things in different sizes and colors now. When traveling, it helps to use different colors -- that makes it easier to distinguish different items in my luggage.In this particular set, I use the smallest cube as a shaving kit (razors, travel size shaving cream, shaving oil, styptic pencil, etc.). The medium one is good for underwear. The largest one is good for shirts.I recently purchased the "earth green" color of this set - a great new color for this product line.

Great set for helping organize your packing. When traveling for work or fun, I find that things often get mixed up. Have used these a couple times and appreciated the ability to organize items. These aren't meant for adding a ton of space to your bag, but I have found they do free up some by being smarter with my compartmentalization of items. It's nice to be able to pull things out as needed without creating a jumbled mess in the bag.

Sicherlich gibt es preisgünstigere "Packtaschen", aber die Qualität spricht für sich. Tolles pflegeleichtes und geruchsneutrales Material. Die Größen sind für meinen Bedarf super, da ich sie so auch problemlos für meinen Rucksack verwenden kann.Wer sich die Produktbeschreibung und die Maße der "Cubes" ansieht wird erkennen, dass es hierbei nicht um große und eigenständige "Reisetaschen/-Koffer" handelt, sondern um ein Pack-/Ordnungssystem für Koffer und Reisetaschen.Wer sehr auf das Gewicht achtet, sollte evtl. eher auf das "eagle creek Pack-It Specter Cube Set" zurückgreifen.Das werden sicherlich nicht meine letzten "Cubes" gewesen sein ...