Tamperseal Travel Blog

Luggage scales save you money

Save yourself from throwing your hard-earned cash at the airlines.

It's simple. Many of us pack just enough before we leave for our destinations, but packing for the return is a different story. We accumulate little items we can't live without while touring our destination -- that makes for heavier luggage.

A simple way to avoid overage charges is to bring a small luggage scale with you during your trip. You can weigh you luggage before you leave. If it's overweight, simply transfer to another bag to distribute the weight. You'll save yourself from panicking at the airline counter.

Product Details:

• Easy to handle, ergonomic design
• Weighs up to 75 lbs.
• Hook Tucks away
• Large reset button to zero out luggage scale
• Easily switched from pound to kilogram

Because hand sanitation is a good thing

Whether it helps prevent Swine flu or not, the CDC says proper hand sanitation is one of the best ways to avoid disease and helps stop the spread of germs to others.


1) When to Wash your Hands:

• Before preparing or eating food
• After going to the bathroom
• After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has gone to the bathroom
• Before and after tending to someone who is sick
• After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
• After handling an animal or animal waste
• After handling garbage
• Before and after treating a cut or wound

2) What to use:

Soap or Travel Soap
Hot Water

Spotlight on: The First Class Sleeper

Finally a way to stay comfy and maybe even catch some shut-eye during a flight.

 The first class sleeper. It allows you to have first class comfort in coach seating.

Benefits:

• Arrive at your destination rested and relaxed
• Provides comfort of a bed
• Lower back support
• Helps keep your head from moving from side to side
• Inflates with just 10 to 11 breaths of air
• Comes with a carrying case

Keep your laptop in shape

Laptops take abuse. Crumbs, accidental spills, gets stepped on by the dog.

It's time to get it back in mint condition. Use a lens and screen care kit to dust and polish your monitor keeping it squeaky clean.

Now that you can actually see into your crystal clear screen, keep the visibility high in the evening with a USB computer light.

Product Details:

• NO batteries required
• Two long-life LED lights illuminate keyboard
• Plug into USB port on most laptops
• Compact for travel
• Fastens to computer frame and swivels to provide light wherever you need it

Extreme luggage makeover

It's one thing for you luggage to have a certain character-- you know, to reflect all of the cool adventures you've been on throughout your life. But it's another thing to have a piece that is barely held together by duct tape or looks straight out of the '70s.

How about something a little more functional and classy.

Skyway Sigma expandable carry-on was designed with the economic traveler in mind.

Product Features:

• Expandable - 22" carry-on luggage are expandable up to a full 2.75".
• Fully lined interior - 22" carry-on luggage has a fully lined interior to protect the contents in transit.
• Three easy access external pockets
• Elastic tie down straps to keep items secure and to reduce wrinkling
• Internal mesh lid pocket 
• 10 year limited warranty

Functional trinkets to doll up your suitcase

It's baseball season. Isn't it time to show it?

A baseball luggage tag is just one way to spruce up your luggage and give some props to your favorite pastime. But of course there's more where that came from.

Here's just a sampling of our luggage tags and accessories:

• Neon luggage tags
• Find a Cure luggage tags
• Luggage straps for security
• Soft gel handle wraps
• Security luggage cases

Become a savvy traveler

Besides doing the obvious to protect your belongings (TSA locks, anyone?) you can learn tricks of the trade of become a savvy air passenger.

The Aviation Consumer Protection Division offers some great advice to help avoid travel headaches.

• If you have a choice between two connections and the fares and service are equivalent, choose the one with the less-congested connecting airport. This reduces the risk of misconnecting. Also consider potential adverse weather when choosing a connecting city.

• Put the same information inside each bag, and add an address and telephone number where you can be reached at your destination city.

• Report any baggage problems to your airline before leaving the airport. Insist that the airline fill out a form and give you a copy, even if they say the bag will be in on the next flight. Before leaving the airport, ask the airline if they will deliver the bag without charge when it is found.

• When selecting a flight, remember that a departure early in the day is less likely to be delayed than a later flight, due to "ripple" effects throughout the day. If you book the last flight of the day, you could get stuck overnight.

Safety at the gym or on the go

Duffle bags really are a super convenient travel companion. You tote it to the gym after work. Throw it in the car for a weekend at the beach. Live out of it at the hotel during your business trip.

Now, all you need is one that keeps your stuff safe.

Check out the PacSafe DuffleSafe anti-theft features:

• Locks closed using padlock and patented locking device
• Locks to secure fixture with heavy duty, 4 mm high-tensile stainless steel cable (which zips neatly away when not in use)
• Laminated, slashproof high-tensile stainless steel mesh

Don't let germs get the best of you

You can't help but think about all of the new and slightly disturbing kinds of germs you are exposed to when you travel.

Do your best to keep germs at bay with a travel hand sanitizer. It comes in a spray pump dispenser and kills 99.9 percent of germs. It's compact enough to throw in your purse or luggage for storage and easy access.

Product Features:

• No sticky residue
• Clean scent
• 220 sprays per 1 oz container

Featured Item: Travel Shoe Bags

Don't let weird spring weather make a mess of your clothes. Shoe bags keep everything clean.

If you throw your shoes in a suitcase then it's likely that reminiscent of outdoor rain, sleet, and snow can muddy your clothing.

Product Details:

Each travel shoe bag is designed to hold 1 pair of shoes with a soft fleece divider. Each pack comes with 2 bags for 2 pairs of shoes.

• Dimensions: 13.5 x 9"
• Made of soft fleece material
• Divided compartment keeps shoes from scuffing
• Keeps shoes away from clean clothes
• Perfect for travel or home use
• Fabric: Polyester Fleece