💬 My roommate laughs at how I fold clothes but my bag always closes

Packing for the flight home from Jeddah is easy for me, my bag closes on the first try. My roommate stands there watching. He folds his clothes in squares and pushes them in. His zip never closes unless he sits on it. I roll everything tight, shirts first, then trousers around them, socks stuffed inside the shoes. It takes 20 minutes. He says I'm ridiculous. He says no man should spend 20 minutes on a suitcase. I say watch. We flew the same day last year. I took 1 bag for me and 1 for gifts. His idea was 3 bags. At the airport mine weighed 22.5 kg. His weighed 26 and he had to pay for the extra 3. I didn't say a word. I just looked at the scale and then looked at him. That was enough. He paid 90 riyals and went quiet for the rest of the queue. He still isn't over it. The shirts come out less creased than you'd think. My mother only ironed the collars when I got home. She asked who showed me. I said nobody, I worked it out over 6 years of flights. My roommate says it only works for thin shirts. Jeans don't roll, he says. They do, mostly. I won't pretend it's perfect. Jeans get a crease down the middle that never leaves. If you have a better way for jeans, tell me. I'm open. I fly again in December. Please don't say vacuum bags. I tried them once and my bag looked like a pillow someone sat on. My roommate thinks I'm being polite to him by asking for help. I'm not, I just want the extra kilos. He's already bought a new suitcase. A bigger one. I haven't said a word about it yet.

I'm the opposite. Everything gets folded the fastest way and shoved in wherever there's room.

My roommate laughs at me too, and my method fits twice as many clothes in 1 drawer. I learned it from a video years ago and never went back. Fewer wrinkles came as a bonus. For jeans, try folding in thirds and then rolling. The middle crease mostly disappears for me. Nobody warned me that packing could turn into a hobby, but here we are.

I sort my closet by colour and type. It's unnecessary, but getting dressed takes half the time now. Setting it up took a whole weekend, and now 1 shirt in the wrong place bothers me all day. Your roommate paying 90 riyals for extra weight is the best part. I'd have mentioned it every week. Rolling jeans sounds impossible. I'll try it on a pair I don't care about.