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 You know the term ‘a bee in your bonnet’?

Sarah is a multi tasker. 

Despite an aversion to bees, she can focus on a range of things at once. One of her ‘bees’ is luggage. Over the years we’ve been through a lot of luggage. Never damaged any. Just collected or passed on. 

Currently, her fixation is a kind of faux trunk. It looks like a normal clamshell suitcase, with an extra pocket on one side. But it’s not. What you think is the zip to open the case is in fact an expansion joint. Make the case a little fatter. The opening is actually that side pocket. It unzips around 3 sides to give you access to the chest when you lie it down. 

Why does this matter? Just look at how much space you get in a hotel room to keep open and pack/unpack your luggage. If you don’t have to disembowel your luggage at every hotel, then all the better. 

An added bonus is that you can pack larger items, not restricted to what fits into one side of the butterflied suitcase. Or is that spatchcocked? Can you spatchcock a suitcase? You know what I mean. 

It takes up less room. 

Sarah’s suitcase de jour is a brand called Lojel, but other brands do it too.