The Minimalist's Guide to Packing an Overnight Bag

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The Minimalist's Guide to Packing an Overnight Bag

How do some people fit everything in a single bag? Packing light: it sounds simple until you're actually standing in front of your closet. Suddenly, "just one night away" starts looking like three outfits, two pairs of shoes, your entire bathroom counter,...
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Guides, gear insights, and stories for carrying well.

  • A person cutting fabric at the TOM BIHN factory.

    Company Updates

    Update! We're shipping orders + answering emails but with a few changes...

    We've adjusted our shipping and customer service hours. In brief: we're still shipping orders and answering emails, but we may not be as quick as usual to do either. Nik, Darcy, and Tom (the owners of TOM BIHN) are working and will continue to work even after everyone else heads home; they're shipping orders, processing returns, and designing and making new bags. Darcy is training on the fabric saw, and Tom and Nik will be looking at the feasibility of the two of them sewing bags that we could (hopefully) make available for purchase soon.

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  • A TOM BIHN bag being washed with lots of soap and suds.

    All about Bags

    How To Clean — and Disinfect — Your TOM BIHN Bag

    We’re all being asked to do our part in stopping the spread of COVID-19 by washing our hands frequently and disinfecting commonly touched surfaces. Many of us may want to wash or disinfect our bags on a more regular basis. In an effort to help, we want to share an expanded range of options for cleaning your bag. Read on for the full details.

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  • Two people doing an 'elbow bump' instead of a fist bump.

    Sewn in Seattle

    Our Efforts In Seattle

    We are grateful that we here at TOM BIHN have not been directly impacted by COVID-19. Right now, our thoughts are with our community, our city, this country and the world; we are doing everything we can think of to do our part to stay healthy. Read on for specifics.

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  • Matthew with a Burnt Orange Pilot, walking through a Light Rail station

    sewn

    Q&A with Matthew

    Your work here at TB includes a lot of variety. Can you tell us about what you do? It does! Gosh, there are so many different things! Let's see, my primary responsibilities...

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  • Di cutting a cake to share with the rest of the TOM BIHN crew

    Company

    Q&A with Di

    Di has been a Sewing/Joining Professional at TOM BIHN for over 10 years. Joining is a skill that requires focus, strength, ability, and talent, and Di is a master at her craft....

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  • TOM BIHN Strap Keepers for excess webbing

    Design

    Strap Keepers

    Hey! We've come up with a new design of Strap Keepers and we'd like your help testing them. It’s one of those to-may-to or to-mah-to kind of things: some folks don’t like...

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  • TOM BIHN Wild Limpet Backpack (early 1980's)

    Design

    Our Thoughts On Load Lifters

    A design of Tom's from the early-mid 1980s that had load lifters: the Wild Limpet. In use, Tom found that the load lifters didn't do much for this pack (except distorting the...

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