Once you have planned an affordable trip with the purchase of cheap airplane tickets and discount hotel rooms or cheap vacation packages, it is a shame to waste money on travel essentials that you can easily find already at your house.
Several items that you often throw in the trash can make very good replacements for expensive specialty travel products. By recycling you can organize your suitcase, stay clean on the road, protect your valuables, and more.
The following are money saving tips from Independent Traveler:
Instead of paying $10 for something to protect a bottle of wine in your luggage, wrap the wine with bubble wrap and staple the side and bottom.
Instead of paying for packing cubes to help organize your clothes, save and use the sturdy clear plastic casings that usually come with zippers and store comforters, sheets and pillowcases after you purchase them.
Use free toiletry samples you have been given during previous hotel stays rather than pay up to $4 apiece for travel toiletries on sale at stores. If you dont have any free samples at home, check out Walmarts website and/or Free Samples Blog to find out how to be sent free toiletry samples.
Old pillowcases can be used as a dirty laundry bag, shoe bag, or a bag to store your liquid filled bottles and tubes.
Paper shoes provided by nail salons for customers having pedicures can be reused to cover bare feet when walking through airport security.
Savvy travelers often keep worn out wallets to use as decoys when traveling, putting a few bills in such wallets.
Half of a dozen egg carton makes an idea travel jewelry box. It generally does not interest thieves and sports segregated compartments to keep jewelry from becoming tangled.
Old nylons can be used to bind up a broken suitcase, tie on a piece of luggage for easy identification, as a laundry line in a hotel bathroom, or for washing delicate items.
Yogurt containers can serve as handy scarf or tie protectors if they are neatly rolled before storage. www.cheapfares.com