10-17-2008

I found an old hard sided suitcase at a thrift store the other day.

After I aired it out and stopped sneezing, I noticed that it was missing one of the straps

I vacillated between saying "eh, who ties down their clothes anyway" and the reality of how I usually pack creating a necessity of compressing things and then sitting on the top of the suitcase and having a good friend fasten the latches.

So, obviously something had to be done.

First was fabricating some sort of hook for the end of the tie.

You use what you have, so this is made from a Diet Mountain Dew can - not just for holding yummy cold caffeine!

Requisite funky construction using a tie

And it works, as well as the other one anyway!

Using the tie makes me think of it as a traveling salesman fix.