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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

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Daily Record broke the news in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 25, 2026.
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