Ok, so living out of hotels and travelling every inch of the country on a daily bases must mean a lot of consultants learn some great ways to make life easier.What great little tips do you have for getting by? Read a great one on a previous thread about hanging clothes up in the bathroom of your hotel room to save time ironing!Anyone got any other little gems which have made life easier for you that you would be kind enough to share with the rest of us?

Carry a large paperclip in your washbag.Most hotel rooms have clothes hangers without hooks, so you can't actually hang your shirts up in the shower with them.But you can easily bend the paperclip into a connector-hook with which to attach one of these clothes hangers to a shower rail.Surely thats a gap in the market for Samsonite or someone else producing travel accessories.

Everyone goes on about this "hang your shirts up in the shower" thing, but in my experience it doesn't do any real good. Sure it might get out some of the bigger crumples, but at the end of the day it still looks like an unironed shirt. Here's my top tip. Program taxi company numbers for each airport into your phone in advance. As soon as the plane lands at Heathrow or wherever, call a taxi and by the time you actually get to the exit you'll have a car waiting for you. All the other mugs will be queuing up for a black cab.Also, try and carry hand luggage only. Goes without saying - this can save literally hours on your journey.Next tip - stay fit. Do some pushups or whatever every evening.Next on the list - use the 'dead time' to organise your personal life. Sort out bills, complaints, holidays, day trips, etc using the time that other people waste doing things like watching the in-house Hotel TV channel or exploring the lobby.

My Gran always went on about folding everything around tissue paper....Old Wives' tale but, as with most of them, it does work. One sheet of paper, fold the shirt around it, and creases and minimal!

This explains why new shirts come with tissue in the packaging...Helen, can you describe the folding procedure in more detail pls? Thx!

how much tissue paper do you need? - Loads for so many shirts. You'd need to carry a roll of tissue paper with you.The trick is to fold shirts properly. Not like they do in the shops - takes too much space and end up messy. They teach you in the army to fold things well. Failing that, a structured, step-by-step problem solving approach to shirt folding might generate some positive outcomes. Give it a go.Hint, I always first fold it vertically in half backwards, i.e. the back folded inside and the two front halves - outside. The trick is to fold it at the right spot in the shoulder area but that takes skill

Buy some non-iron shirts. Recommend Charles Thyrwhitt.

Have two of everything - especially wash bag stuff. Always have one in your travel case and never use it when at home. This removes the nightmare of getting ready in some hotel somewhere and realising that you don't have a razor or a tooth brush.Similarly, buy some generic 'go with anything' ties and keep two in the bag. This saves the 'no tie terror' and means that you don't have to ask reception to check lost property for a tie at 7am when your car is outside.Work to increase your routine when you're away from home rather than letting it go as is tempting to do. Eat more healthily, drink less and exercise where you can and when you get back you'll have more energy than you thought and can really enjoy your own time. Booking a hotel with a pool means minimal sports kit needed - but only if you look statuesque in speedos like I do!

I'd rather see Helen in a speedo.

Similarly, have 2 pairs of underpants. This removes the stress I've been experiencing of having just one pair.But carry a Kensington lock with you to secure the second pair when you are out of the hotel on client business.

You only take 2 pairs of pants!!!?? LOL!!!!I know one guy who used to travel with literally NOTHING. He used the client PCs, and just washed his smalls in the sink every now and then. Gotta admire him in a way I guess.

The shower tip needs expanding on! Hanging a crinkled shirt in a steamy bathroom only makes a small impression. My trick has always been to hang the shirts in the shower and actually douse them with water so they are sodden wet. The weight of the water in the shirt pulls all the creases out - and with the air conditioning in hotel rooms your shirt is more or less dry the morning after you do this!!

You must work for a big 4. MBBB knows that in hotels there is express ironing available. Dousing your shirt with water? My shirts are 160£!!!

Why do you spend so much on a shirt?I got mine from Primark, £4 each. They look fine, nice style and not at all cheap looking or anything.Most of the people I deal with wouldn't know a £160 shirt from a £4 one, so why spend the extra?

"Dousing your shirt with water? My shirts are 160£!!!"What do you think happens to your £160 shirts when they are put through the washing machine?!?!?!LOL

Real consultants only ever wear black satin shirts, with one sleeve longer than the other and with whiteboard wipes incorporated in the right-hand elbow patch. Dry-clean only.

Easy. Keep tissue from suitable wrapped purchase (couple of large sheets). Fasten the top and bottom button of shirt and lie front down on a flat surface. Fold tissue in half, long-ways, and lie down length of shirt back. Fold one side of the shirt over the tissue paper, in a line approx 3" from the collar, and fold the sleeve back over. Repeat on the other side. Fold up the cuffs and the bottom of the sirt (just a couple of inches of the bottom), and then fold up again, bring the botton fold up behind the collar. Neaten!alternatively, get your Gran to do it.

The point with hanging a shirt in the shower is not to replace ironing, but to remove the creases caused by transporting a previously ironed shirt in your luggage.

Oh for the love of god. Either:a) Always book a hotel room with an iron and ironing board.orb) Invest in a travel iron.

Here's one for you......Used to notice this guy at the airport. Limps up to the check in desk and gets assistance boarding the plane first to always be in the front row. Miraculoulsy his limp seemed to diminish during the flight and by the time we landed he could have given Linford Christie a run for his money!!!A bit twisted but maybe that's what a weekly flight to and from the office does for you...

check out a company called SMARTPACKhttp://www.smartpack.co.uk/there stuff really works! The FLIGHTPACK bag is a bit big but amazingly fits everythingtoiletrieslaptoplaptop accessories2 shirts (special folded system)complete suit (specifal folded system)pair of shoesor the OVERNIGHT pack for a shirt and tie. great stuff!! by the way if anyone is interested I have a spare SUITPACK (just for a suit and shirts) which I am looking to get rid or (as have FLIGHTPACK). its in pristene conditions. anyone interested?