Comments on: Streamline your security check point routine http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/ Daily tips on how to organize your home and office. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: jen http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2877 jen Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:42:21 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2877 I also put all my various electronics and accessories (camera, ipod, laptop charger, etc) in a large ziploc bag - makes it easy for me to access on layovers as well as easy when going through security. I also put all my various electronics and accessories (camera, ipod, laptop charger, etc) in a large ziploc bag - makes it easy for me to access on layovers as well as easy when going through security.

]]> By: TeknoRaidr http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 TeknoRaidr Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:52:25 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2876 I second the idea to put all small items (wallet, phone, keys) in my carry on bag. I wear slip on shoes or sandals. I put my boarding pass and ID in my pocket. I sequence my things through the xray machine - shoes first, then backpack, then laptop, then suitcase. That way I can put on my shoes while the other things are coming through and have my backpack ready to put the laptop in when it comes through. I second the idea to put all small items (wallet, phone, keys) in my carry on bag. I wear slip on shoes or sandals. I put my boarding pass and ID in my pocket. I sequence my things through the xray machine - shoes first, then backpack, then laptop, then suitcase. That way I can put on my shoes while the other things are coming through and have my backpack ready to put the laptop in when it comes through.

]]> By: Tyler http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 Tyler Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:00:52 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2875 I always make sure to wear a light jacket when I'm flying. It makes a good (clean) blanket for those over-air-conditioned flights, and I can also put all my loose items (wallet, keys, cell phone, coins, etc.) in its pockets so I'm not scraping them out of the bottom of the bin on the other side. I always make sure to wear a light jacket when I’m flying. It makes a good (clean) blanket for those over-air-conditioned flights, and I can also put all my loose items (wallet, keys, cell phone, coins, etc.) in its pockets so I’m not scraping them out of the bottom of the bin on the other side.

]]> By: beth http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2874 beth Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:05:32 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2874 I always wear slip on shoes, and remove anything like a belt or change (really anything in my pockets) and place it in my carry on bag. I always wear slip on shoes, and remove anything like a belt or change (really anything in my pockets) and place it in my carry on bag.

]]> By: Babs http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 Babs Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:35:40 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2873 Go naked. It'll prepare us for when our civil rights, dignity, and individuality are completely stripped from us. Go naked. It’ll prepare us for when our civil rights, dignity, and individuality are completely stripped from us.

]]> By: Richard http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 Richard Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:45:00 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2872 Ben, you're on to something there. Any advice on how to unclutter the government? There seems to be a huge amount of stuff there that we don't really need. It's untidy and a source of stress. Ben, you’re on to something there. Any advice on how to unclutter the government? There seems to be a huge amount of stuff there that we don’t really need. It’s untidy and a source of stress.

]]> By: ChzPlz http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2871 ChzPlz Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:43:39 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2871 don't wear jeans with rivets or button flys. Put everything in your pockets, and your belt, into your carry on. Untie your shoes while you're in line. Add those all up (plus some of the good stuff up above) and you fly right through and don't have to get screened with the handheld metal detector. don’t wear jeans with rivets or button flys. Put everything in your pockets, and your belt, into your carry on. Untie your shoes while you’re in line. Add those all up (plus some of the good stuff up above) and you fly right through and don’t have to get screened with the handheld metal detector.

]]> By: Ben http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2870 Ben Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:15:55 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2870 TSA is filth. I'd like to unclutter my life by getting rid of useless govornment agencies such as the TSA. TSA is filth. I’d like to unclutter my life by getting rid of useless govornment agencies such as the TSA.

]]> By: Frequent Flier http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2869 Frequent Flier Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:49:25 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2869 I would caution against getting your laptop and baggies out too early. At Oakland Airport this past Thanksgiving, the woman in front of me had pulled her laptop out in order to expedite the process. The TSA employee checking boarding passes made her put her laptop back in her bag because she had too many carry-on items (3 rather than 2), nevermind the huge line behind us and that the laptop clearly fit in her laptop bag. One thing that really annoys me is how the TSA employees let people who are "late" cut in line. One man who was allowed to cut in front of me was on my flight! He showed the employee the boarding time rather than the actual flight time. Please just plan to arrive early. I would caution against getting your laptop and baggies out too early. At Oakland Airport this past Thanksgiving, the woman in front of me had pulled her laptop out in order to expedite the process. The TSA employee checking boarding passes made her put her laptop back in her bag because she had too many carry-on items (3 rather than 2), nevermind the huge line behind us and that the laptop clearly fit in her laptop bag.

One thing that really annoys me is how the TSA employees let people who are “late” cut in line. One man who was allowed to cut in front of me was on my flight! He showed the employee the boarding time rather than the actual flight time. Please just plan to arrive early.

]]> By: Miriam http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2868 Miriam Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:29:59 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2868 Minimize zippers (like a hoodie), and I'm seconding the non-underwire bra. There's nothing suckier than getting felt up and yelled at* in a crowd. Unless you're into that. *Many TSA workers I've met might unclutter their enunciation... Minimize zippers (like a hoodie), and I’m seconding the non-underwire bra. There’s nothing suckier than getting felt up and yelled at* in a crowd. Unless you’re into that.

*Many TSA workers I’ve met might unclutter their enunciation…

]]> By: Me http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Me Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:09:12 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2867 Bollox. Those people are part of the problem, and deserve to be treated as such. Bollox. Those people are part of the problem, and deserve to be treated as such.

]]> By: Mike russell http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2866 Mike russell Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:40:24 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2866 Totally agree, I cannot understand why people are still taking their belt off right before they walk through the detector. Get your watch, keys, phone, wallet - everything that isn't a ID and boarding pass - into your carry on and loose tie your shoes before you even get in line. Then it's simply shoes, laptop, bag plop plop plop on the belt and you're waiting to be waved through. Also I agree with the above poster, if you get pulled out of line and swept just be nice about it. No sense in getting out of control and calling people names. Totally agree, I cannot understand why people are still taking their belt off right before they walk through the detector. Get your watch, keys, phone, wallet - everything that isn’t a ID and boarding pass - into your carry on and loose tie your shoes before you even get in line. Then it’s simply shoes, laptop, bag plop plop plop on the belt and you’re waiting to be waved through.

Also I agree with the above poster, if you get pulled out of line and swept just be nice about it. No sense in getting out of control and calling people names.

]]> By: Charlotte http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2865 Charlotte Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:40:09 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2865 If you're a woman, try to remember not to wear an underwire bra that day. Depending on the level of hysteria they've induced in the staff, you can wind up getting wanded or patted down because it sets off the metal detector. (It also helps to refrain from muttering indignantly about giving up one's civil rights to get on a plane. I've been sent to the penalty booth at my tiny home airport for "having an attitude".) If you’re a woman, try to remember not to wear an underwire bra that day. Depending on the level of hysteria they’ve induced in the staff, you can wind up getting wanded or patted down because it sets off the metal detector. (It also helps to refrain from muttering indignantly about giving up one’s civil rights to get on a plane. I’ve been sent to the penalty booth at my tiny home airport for “having an attitude”.)

]]> By: Betsbillabong http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2864 Betsbillabong Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:44:00 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2864 Agree with all the above posts. And if you are traveling with a laptop, my advice is to put that through last. That way you have a better way of being through security when it comes through. It scares me to have a $3000 laptop just sitting at the end of the line where practically no one is looking (or knows who it belongs to, for that matter). Agree with all the above posts. And if you are traveling with a laptop, my advice is to put that through last. That way you have a better way of being through security when it comes through. It scares me to have a $3000 laptop just sitting at the end of the line where practically no one is looking (or knows who it belongs to, for that matter).

]]> By: oneighturbo http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2863 oneighturbo Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:42:19 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2863 i put all loose things into my carry on bag (watch, keys, wallet, etc) sometimes even my belt.. ill either untie my laces or even pull the shoes off way ahead of time. then after i can grab bag and walk away to a clear place or even gate to "reassemble" the ziplock is a good idea! i put all loose things into my carry on bag (watch, keys, wallet, etc) sometimes even my belt.. ill either untie my laces or even pull the shoes off way ahead of time.

then after i can grab bag and walk away to a clear place or even gate to “reassemble”

the ziplock is a good idea!

]]> By: JH http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2862 JH Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:26:26 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2862 I prefer to pack light enough to carry everything on. Avoiding lost or delayed luggage is worth the couple of minutes extra it takes to go through security with an extra bag. Also, I can leave the airport right after landing -- no waiting around in baggage claim. I prefer to pack light enough to carry everything on. Avoiding lost or delayed luggage is worth the couple of minutes extra it takes to go through security with an extra bag. Also, I can leave the airport right after landing — no waiting around in baggage claim.

]]> By: missdona http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2861 missdona Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:17:18 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2861 When I go to the airport with my husband, I make him put his belt, keys and whatnot in one of the carry-on bags before doing the security thing. If I don't, something will get left behind. When I go to the airport with my husband, I make him put his belt, keys and whatnot in one of the carry-on bags before doing the security thing. If I don’t, something will get left behind.

]]> By: Jenika http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2860 Jenika Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:03:07 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2860 I can't believe how long it took me to figure out that it's just a lot easier to have nothing in your pockets when you go through an airport. I'm usually a pocket stuff fiend, but it's worthwhile to stow all that stuff in an easily-accessible pocket in your carry-on, rather than dumping it into one of the small bins to send through the scanner separately, only to have to stuff them back into pockets on the other side. Avoid wearing a belt if possible, too. I can’t believe how long it took me to figure out that it’s just a lot easier to have nothing in your pockets when you go through an airport. I’m usually a pocket stuff fiend, but it’s worthwhile to stow all that stuff in an easily-accessible pocket in your carry-on, rather than dumping it into one of the small bins to send through the scanner separately, only to have to stuff them back into pockets on the other side.

Avoid wearing a belt if possible, too.

]]> By: Anne http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2859 Anne Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:46:06 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2859 I should also add, and I'm probably more paranoid than most people about losing my keys, but I treat my keys like prescription medicine--I would never put them in checked baggage. I should also add, and I’m probably more paranoid than most people about losing my keys, but I treat my keys like prescription medicine–I would never put them in checked baggage.

]]> By: Anne http://unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-2858 Anne Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:44:43 +0000 http://development.unclutterer.com/2007/08/28/streamline-your-security-check-point-routine/#comment-2858 Put your bags and other things through the conveyor belt in an order that makes sense. For example, put your laptop bag through, and then your laptop right after it. Send through anything you will put back on your body (such as a jacket) in front of anything you will carry over your shoulder. Etc. Put your bags and other things through the conveyor belt in an order that makes sense. For example, put your laptop bag through, and then your laptop right after it. Send through anything you will put back on your body (such as a jacket) in front of anything you will carry over your shoulder. Etc.

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