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Luggage

Packing and load

Weight, volume and what gets left behind.

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Scuffed tan leather suitcase plastered with hotel and shipping-line labels, a price tag tied to the handle — Hotel and shipping-line labels were the original luggage tags, pasted on by each stop along the route.Photo: Bryan Ledgard · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Open leather case holding a folded striped shirt, a wristwatch, a hip flask and a spirits bottle

Packing and load

Packing to a weight limit without weighing twice

Weigh the empty case first, then build a weight budget item by item. The arithmetic that keeps a cabin bag under the cap and the hold bag under 50 lb.

Updated 11/3/2026 · 9 min

Photo: Angelina Litvin linalitvina · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons