Tackling my Packing

Okay so I had 2 suitcases. I needed to fit a years worth of school supplies in one and all my clothes and belongings in the other. This has now turned into 3 cases for school supplies and 1 case for my clothes, 4 altogether :O

The school supplies are vastly overflowing out of the cases. My excitement about teaching out there has got the better of me and have acquired a desire for stationary shopping. Long were the days when I use to get excited about buying clothes, haha.

I was worried about how I was going to fit all my clothes in my final case. 
But never fear when JML are here. I purchased these air vacuum bags which you pack your clothes in and then suck the air out to compact them smaller.

Let me tell you this, the cheesy American women on the shopping channel make it look a lot easier that it actually is in reality.

 Firstly, I may have packed the bags too tightly as it was a struggle to zip them up tight. 





Then one last glance at the instructions....











....and Voila, the feeling of the air being sucked out was rather quite exhilarating, ha.

However, to be honest I am pretty disappointed with them, as the bag didn't go completely flat. 






But hey ho, it will do!