Damp basements, musty bedrooms, closets that smell like a wet towel no matter what you do. If you typed best dehumidifiers under 200 dollars into a search box, you are not looking for a shopping list. You are trying to fix a problem you can already feel in the house. I have spent the last […]

A U-lock carrying a Sold Secure Gold rating is the right standard for city commuting, and a chain or cable is your second lock rather than your only one. That is the short answer. Everything below is built on that: what the rating actually means, how the lock fits your frame, and how much weight […]

A bag that calls itself waterproof usually means one of two things: it survived a rain shower, or it stayed dry when it went in the river. On a boat you need the second one. The best waterproof duffel bags for boat trips have to handle spray from the bow, wash water off the deck, […]

A rolling duffel bag is a soft-sided wheeled duffel with two inline wheels and a telescoping handle, and it is the only luggage type that swallows bulky, odd-shaped gear while still rolling through an airport. Our team put 10 of the strongest models through terminal floors, overhead bins and a week of packing to find […]

A leather duffel bag is one of the few travel purchases that gets better instead of worse. The best leather duffel bags for weekend trips hold two to four days of clothing, survive being shoved into a trunk or a hostel locker, and darken into a patina that nobody can fake. I have carried these […]

The best duffel bags under 100 dollars for are the HYC00 30L Travel Duffel for anyone who wants one bag that works as a carry-on and a gym bag, the Under Armour Undeniable 5.0 for structured mid-size volume, and the FocusGear Ultimate Gym Bag 2.0 for training days. All twelve bags below sit under that […]

After putting 12 travel backpacks through the same laptop-protection checklist, the MATEIN Travel Laptop Backpack is the one we kept reaching for: a padded 15.6 inch compartment, an 18 x 12 x 7.8 inch footprint that works as a personal item, and a 708 g empty weight that never made our shoulders complain. It is […]

A rolling travel backpack for students is a wheeled bag with a telescoping handle that carries books and a laptop on smooth floors and airport terminals, then converts to a shoulder pack for stairs and crowded hallways. That combination is the whole pitch: you get the load capacity of a roller case without giving up […]

Most pickpocketing does not happen with a dramatic snatch. It happens on a packed metro carriage when the bag is turned to you, at a cafe table while you set a phone down to order, in a hostel corridor when you carry your passport to a shared bathroom, and at a museum queue where a […]

A digital nomad backpack has to do three jobs at once that most luggage never tries to do: carry a laptop safely through airport security, hold a week of clothes without turning into a laundry bag, and stay comfortable on your shoulders for a full work-and-travel day. I spent six weeks testing carry-on packs with […]