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Woman uses Vinted method and Lidl bag to avoid £30 Ryanair charge
Laura Poole saved £27.41 by shipping a month’s clothes for £2.59 via parcel locker, avoiding Ryanair’s £30 baggage fee on her business trip.
- A Cardiff traveller, Laura Poole, shipped a month's clothes to Glasgow for £2.59 on February 22 to avoid Ryanair's £30 luggage fee, saving £27.41.
- Ryanair's pricing structure prompted Laura Poole to avoid costly baggage fees, saying she is frugal and part of the FIRE community with better things to spend money on.
- Using a gym bag wrapped in a Lidl carrier bag, she dropped the parcel at a Tesco Express InPost locker on Thursday before her Sunday flight, and it arrived after she landed.
- Poole's Facebook post went viral and, as a result, she avoided the £30 luggage fee, saving £27.41, with online commenters calling her `genius` and `stupid`.
- Poole says she has done this before and plans to use the InPost locker system next month, risking delays but saving money despite fees reaching up to £75 and £11 per kilo.
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Woman uses Vinted method and Lidl bag to avoid £30 Ryanair charge
The extra baggage charge would have been more than half what she paid for the tickets
·Glasgow, United Kingdom
Read Full ArticleRyanair passenger on Glasgow plane ships luggage for £2.59 in genius travel hack
Laura Poole, 33, swerved the additional charge and squeezed her outfits into a gym bag, wrapped it in a Lidl carrier bag and dropped it off at her local Tesco Express locker - all for just £2.59.
·Glasgow, United Kingdom
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