If you're one of those people who packs a month's worth of stuff for a weekend trip, you need this bag

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If you're one of those people who packs a month's worth of stuff for a weekend trip, you need this bag
Pack for days, weeks, or even months. Credit: gobag

Traveling is a hassle, y'all. Where's the happy medium between forgetting something and overpacking?

A Kickstarter project wants to help you get everything possible out of your excursions, sans the packing anxiety and embarrassingly huge luggage that makes spontaneous exploration next to impossible. And it comes in the form of a bag that sucks. (Stick with us here.)

By sucks, we mean vacuum compressed, which means more space to pack without the bulky feel. Meet GoBag.

Already super funded on Kickstarter, GoBag wants to be the only travel bag you'll ever need again — and with six different ways to open it and an air-tight compartment to pack more than you've ever packed before, we'd say that's highly possible. The vacuum compression can be done by hand, or by using a literal vacuum if you're really trying to pack that puppy full.

CARD ID: 300189, CARD TYPE: SideBySide

A separate pocket at the top makes for easy access (and less digging) for essentials like keys, passports, IDs, and the like. Add in a padded laptop pocket, water bottle pockets, a hidden pocket for a secret stash of money, and multiple straps for different carrying positions.

Oh, and you know how annoying it is to open your carry-on to see that toothpaste has exploded all over your belongings? GoBag also comes with a waterproof, airport security-approved bag for those liquids and pastes.

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Check out the Kickstarter video:

Shipping begins in June 2018, just in time for the kickoff of summer trips. Carry less and experience more with GoBag — back the campaign and get the early bird prices here starting at $176.

Leah Stodart
Leah Stodart
Senior Shopping Reporter

Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers essential home tech like vacuums and TVs as well as sustainable swaps and travel. Her ever-growing experience in these categories comes in clutch when making recommendations on how to spend your money during shopping holidays like Black Friday, which Leah has been covering for Mashable since 2017.

The robot vacuum beat in particular has cemented itself as Leah's main ~thing~ across the past few years. Since 2019, her expertise has been perpetually bolstered by the meticulous eye she keeps on robot vacuum deals and new releases, but more importantly, her hands-on experience with more than 25 robot vacuums tested in her own home. (This number has probably gone up by the time you're reading this.) That at-home testing is standardized through Mashable's robot testing guide — a granular scoring rubric for assessing all aspects of owning and using a robot vacuum on the daily — that Leah created herself.

Leah graduated from Penn State University in 2016 with dual degrees in Sociology and Media Studies. When she's not writing about shopping (or shopping online for herself), she's almost definitely watching a horror movie, "RuPaul's Drag Race," or "The Office." You can follow her on X at @notleah or email her at [email protected].


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