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How do you make your luggage stand out?

18 replies

Novs · 05/09/2025 14:45

I try to buy cases that aren't blue or black and I've always wrapped a bit of bright fabric round the handles as well as luggage straps.
Last time we flew ( east Midlands) they made me remove the fabric ties and said they weren't allowed any more.
Just thinking about alternatives.
Please don't tell me to travel hand luggage only as it's not going to happen.

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1VY · 05/09/2025 14:47

I have a red woven strap with my name on it around the case.

Bjorkdidit · 05/09/2025 14:48

Ours just have coloured electrical tape on the handles.

I learned this after my first ever solo flight abroad when it seemed that just about all the other passengers had the same medium sized black suitcase from Matalan that I did.

AdaColeman · 05/09/2025 14:55

I always buy bright luridly coloured luggage, and add stickers on too. This helped me once in Dublin airport when a man tried to walk off with my case.

Maybeitllneverhappen · 05/09/2025 14:57

Brightly coloured luggage strap with surname on it.

KnickerlessParsons · 05/09/2025 14:58

Coloured cable ties around the handle.

MsMillyMollyMandy · 05/09/2025 15:14

I bought a neon yellow American Tourister from TK Maxx. No doubt a great bargain because of the lurid colour. Unfortunately it picked up dirty marks on it’s first outing so I subsequently bought a nylon luggage cover from Amazon. It zips on snuggly so along with the usual luggage locks makes the case feel secure and I can wash it when I return home.
(I’m pretty sure the conveyor belts and luggage transporters are very grubby)

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TheChosenTwo · 05/09/2025 15:15

I don’t! Thanks to everyone else my plain black unadorned case is pretty much unique 😂

dementedpixie · 05/09/2025 15:15

Green straps around the case.

BrownOwlknowsbest · 05/09/2025 15:20

I have a red woven strap with my name and 'recycled teenager' on it

Peridot1 · 05/09/2025 15:26

I have just bought a bright pink luggage strap to put around my new black suitcase. I’ll put some stickers of some sort on too. Already regretting buying black and not the turquoise I could have had. I was being sensible. I might put a cable tie around the handle and cut it short too.

Twice I have ended up with the wrong case. Funnily enough both times at Dublin airport @AdaColeman.

Secretidentityofthesecretsociety · 05/09/2025 15:27

Bjorkdidit · 05/09/2025 14:48

Ours just have coloured electrical tape on the handles.

I learned this after my first ever solo flight abroad when it seemed that just about all the other passengers had the same medium sized black suitcase from Matalan that I did.

Edited

We do the same with the small black case we have. White tape around the handle and across the front.

Our large luggage is lime green - so easy to find!

ReignOfError · 05/09/2025 15:29

My rucksack is a lovely shade of orange. I’ve never seen another the same colour.

nannyl · 05/09/2025 15:39

bright case
uncordinatiing brightly coloured luggage strap around the bright case (from poundland)
Big Unicorn luggage tags (also from poundland)

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 05/09/2025 16:04

Brightly coloured luggage label.
Plus a unique strap with my initials painted on in pink nail polish all around it.

BeyondMyWits · 05/09/2025 16:09

Tkmaxx was our friend! Garish, bright orange with "retro" brown and white flowers. Never seen luggage like it. The brighter, and uglier, and dirtier the better. No one is taking my bag!

Novs · 05/09/2025 16:55

I had a bright green case and a fluorescent pink one. Both were those shell cases and I didn't like them and I replaced with boring green Tripp cases. Though actually now I use packing cubes the shells might work for me.
@MsMillyMollyMandy that looks good.
@oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends brilliant name! I don't have small children so no stickers around but I need to get creative with nail polish.

I take it no-one has had problems with luggage labels?
Maybe I just got a jobsworth who didn't like red scarves on luggage. They did make a big fuss about it though.

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ErlingHaalandsManBun · 05/09/2025 17:00

We brought some luggage stickers for ours from Amazon. They are fab! We decorated our case in them to make it look funky and unique. They stayed stuck, didn't come off (and are still there looking fine despite loads of trips) and we can spot them a mile off when the come onto the luggage conveyor belt 😂

MyTommyGunDont · 05/09/2025 17:05

We have a luggage strap on our relatively distinctive cases (not overly garish colours, one red one grey, and now one green one black, but in a style we bought from Samsonite/Antler directly and we’ve never seen anyone else have before!

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