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Erik Torkells:
You know dry cleaning bags? You put your clothes in those if you don't want them to wrinkle, because it's the friction of clothes-on-clothes that tends to lead them to wrinkle. What the plastic does is stop them from touching each other, so consequently they don't get all messed up.

Erik Torkells, Editor of Budget Travel Magazine and author of the book The Smart Traveler's Passport, has collected some really great travel tips from his readers. For example…

This one woman wrote in and she said that forever she had been driven crazy by the fact that she had to put her wet toothbrush back in her bag, and I think we all know that feeling. And then one day she looked up and saw the hotel room hair dryer and she thought, "Well, duh that'll do it." And she said it took her three seconds, she blow dried her toothbrush, it was dry and that was that and her life was changed in this fundamental little way that made her very happy.

If you're going on a cruise ship, there are two things you should bring.

One of them is a power strip - a lot of cruise cabins only have one outlet or maybe two outlets and if you're the kind of person who likes electronic stuff or curling irons or whatever, you might find that you need more than that. And the second thing is always bring extra wire hangers. I don't think that there's any cruise passenger on earth that has ever thought that they had enough wire hangers in their cabin.

And when it's time to go home from vacation…

What you've got to do if you're staying in a hotel is always go to the front desk and ask them to print your boarding pass for you because that will save you so much time at the airport.

You can link to Erik's website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.