A friend of mine drives to work on Monday morning, with his bike in the car along with a week's worth of work clothes. He then rides to and from work, showers and changes there in the morning, and drives home on Friday evening.
I do a similar thing for my food..I drive my car in on Mondays with my week's worth of food (assuming I've cooked/prepped it all on sunday), and leave it in our fridges at work. Then I drive home that evening and start biking tuesday - friday.
Never thought of leaving my clothes in my car (hanging) and leaving my car at work all week. I could bike home monday evenings.
That's a promising idea. just seems like it would mean not only would I need to have all my food prepped on sunday, but also all my clothes ironed and ready to go on sunday. Not terrible...but sometimes I just want to be able to prep a little the night before each bike ride and then go. hmm..will have to think on that one.
This week I realized I have a spot I can leave my shoes at work at my desk. I have to walk into work from my bike ride (after my shower) with my nice clothes + my highlighter colored tennis shoes on though...so I look kinda funny on the way in haha.
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I bought one of those "pack it system" type clothing bags for carry-on-only travel that has an insert you fold the shirt around then slide the insert out. We almost never need to iron our clothes when we travel, even after they've been in the suitcase for 12 hours.
I just checked out the Pack it folders/envelopes by Eagle Creek. These seem really promising. I will often take care to steam or iron my shirts and pants, fold or roll them (how ever I'm feeling that day), and think "great, that looks nice". Then go to put them in my bag on my bike and they just get squished/compressed in weird ways because they don't have any structure to them. The bag itself even compresses them some with how tightly it must be bound/secured to my bike.
So, if they were in a packing folder, they would have that built in structure and could slide easily into my bike bag! My birthday is coming up, so I think i'm going to ask for one of these.
Only concern is, if I only want to put a single shirt and pair of pants in there each day, will they have too much room to move around within the folder? Thus defeating the purpose of the folder? The folder seems to hold something like 12 shirts or pants..not sure if I read that right...seems like a single days worth of clothes will have a ton of extra room . Although I also will include a clean undershirt, underwear and socks, so maybe that will help take up some room.
I haven't tried them yet, but Uniqlo dress shirts are pretty highly rated and are $30. I'm planning on trying them the next time I need work shirts. I'm not sure about shirt sizing, but some of their clothing runs smaller than typical US sizes. I made an order a couple weeks ago and they had free shipping on anything at that time, so that might come around once in a while if you watch it.
https://www.gq.com/gallery/best-dress-shirts-under-75-dollars
Thanks - I'm checking these out as well. I've looked into them before but then talk myself out of taking a risk on the sizing. A friend of mine had some for a while but he ended up blowing out the elbow sleeves (holes) on all of them he said.