I just got a food saver this weekend, and so far, so good. I was packing a few items of my PSK, when I thought of a new trick. In te past, we've talked about sealing medicine, but the problem of losing the medical info. I've always carried a bunch of individual wrapped packs of medicine, you know the little foil packs? Well, looking at the instructions for the Foodsaver, you can seal that type of material. I cut a small slit in the top of each of those packs, and vacuumed and sealed them - same wrapping, but now they take MUCH less volume. Yeah, the square is the same size, but they can be rolled up, and stored in a LOT less space!!