Originally Posted by
CKSec
Hi All,
Wanted to have a small clarification if possible. I have a nice leather Tumi toiletry bag I've had since forever which I generally use for personal items. In the past I have put a plastic zipper bag inside it, where I store my liquids. Recently I have just been leaving the plastic zipper bag inside the leather bag through security and nobody has said something. Am I able to just use the leather toiletry bag and ditch the plastic bag inside or is TSA Just being lax?
Any feedback is appreciated.
The real question here is why you would still take the leather bag. Seriously. Your stuff is contained in a leak-proof plastic bag already. And that's where TSA wants it. So putting it into another leather bag is counterproductive. It makes more work, it goes against TSA rules, it costs more space and it costs more weight. Ditch that leather thing.
Now you will say that you also have a brush and a razor. So do I. But they told me they feel just as well being transported in another ziploc as in one of my fancy toiletry cases. I now only take the toiletry cases if light packing and space saving are of no concern whatsoever. This means I usually only take them for car trips.
Till