How to Care for Your Backpack

How to Care for Your Backpack(backpack bags)

 

backpack bags

You will need to learn to care for your backpack, especially if you plan to go backpacking. You can?t go backpacking without a backpack, otherwise you?re just carrying a bunch of stuff through the woods. That definitely doesn?t sound like a vacation. It sounds like a chore or an unplanned escape.

Caring for your backpack ensures that it functions properly for as long as possible. A long-lived backpack is a green backpack indeed. You?ll reduce the amount of materials that go towards making backpacks and keep backpacks out of the Dumpster. And as you care for and repair your pack, it?s bound to gain an individual character that store-bought backpacks cannot replicate.

5 Ways to Extend the Life of Your Backpack

1. Pack Your Pack with Care
Don?t throw things into your back higgledy-piggledy. That hard corner of that science text book that you like to carry around to impress members of the opposite sex ( We need to talk.) may rip a hole in the backpack?s material. Sharp things like knives and hatchets may also bore unwanted holes into your pack. Pack deliberately and carefully to ensure that weight is distributed properly and that nothing that you carry will damage your pack.

2. Fix Holes Quickly
The smaller a hole is the easier it is to repair. A large hole, even properly patched and sewn shut, can reduce the structural stability of the pack. Bring a small sewing kit with you on your journey. Admittedly, it?s added weight but it can be used to repair almost anything that breaks, even tents.

3. Fix that Zipper
How to fix a zipper.

4. Clean Your Backpack
The easiest and more common form of maintenance is routine cleaning. If you carry food in your pack make sure there are no crumbs left inside. Wash stains with mild soap. Store in a dry, cool spot.

5. How to Store Your Pack
Store pack in dry cool area. Make sure that the pack is dry to prevent mildew.

Thank : http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/care-backpack.html