Originally Posted by
dulciusexasperis
Have you ever noticed how people are quick to defend any decision they have made, no matter how misguided? Or how they will use one example to try and prove something in general?
There are some things like toiletres or electrical stuff that it makes sense to keep separately in some kind of item like a packing cube. Giving examples of such things does not negate the general point I am making. You don't need a packing cube for your pants, another for your underwear, another for your shirts, another for a sweater, another for a rain jacket, etc. etc. Most suitcases already come with compartments to help organize your stuff anyway. Some people who will compartmentalize everything in their life if given a chance.
While you can justify one or two packing cubes, you can't justify a suitcase full of them and that is the point I'm making in reply to the comment by Paul56 regarding 'multiple' packing cubes. My comment is not directed at someone using one or two cubes where it makes some sense. So those defending their use of one or two are misguided in defending their one cube.
You know, I've only been hanging around here a short while, and while I notice you have some great ideas, you tend to state many of them a bit more
obnoxiously stridently than is needed. The PT Barnum statement about suckers is just one case in point.
And your post is a perfect example of "Have you ever noticed how people are quick to defend any decision they have made, no matter how misguided? Or how they will use one example to try and prove something in general?" IMO.
Because
you don't find packing cubes helpful does not mean anyone who buys them is a sucker throwing good money after useless products. The nature of packing is that there are
lots of good ways to do things, many of them a matter of personal preference. Whether one chooses a 2-wheel traditional rollaboard, a spinner hard side rollaboard, a backpack convertible style, or a Red Oxx Airboss, is a personal decision, and all of them are 'right' for different people. Whether one rolls a suit, uses a garment bag, folds them, or uses a suit folder is a matter of personal preference. Do you bundle pack, fold or roll? Or a mixture of all of them? They all work, pick your method and go with it.
Same with cubes. I don't load my case up with a half dozen of them, but if someone like doing that, for whatever reason, why not, if it works for them. I use one for packing clothes only when doing an overnight trip and carrying only my expandable briefcase, no luggage. That's a great use for them. GadgetFreak's use for segregating a quick change at the airport is a great use for them. I've read others who use them on vacation trips to segregate clean from dirty clothing, another great use for them.
The point of this forum is to facilitate an exchange of ideas. You have some good ideas. However, I've noticed you have a habit of disparaging the ideas of others in many of your posts, not just in this thread. Normally I would not bother with this, but your P.T. Barnum comments was the last in a string of posts I've observed by you that are a bit over the top, this seems to be a habit with you. I have three words for you.
By all means, keep sharing your thoughts. But quit knocking others, it just makes you sound insecure and it is very annoying. Take a cue from some of the high post-count folks here and offer helpful tips and encouragement without the snark. You sometimes have something to say, but it's hard to hear it often hard to hear it because of the condescending tone of many of your posts.