A brilliant find I must share - takes the guesswork out of suitcase weighing

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You attach it to your case, lift up the case & it gives a digital readout. The best bit is that you can take it with you on holiday to check the weight again for the flight home.

I'm not a gadget person but I love this:

digital luggage scale

What I mean is, lift up the gadget, while it's attached to the case. So it weighs the case. Sorry. Not complicated really.

That's cool.

If you're travelling by a budget airline (and I'm thinking mostly of Ryanair) make sure that you're under the limit by at least half a kilo as their check-in scales are usually wrong and in their favour.

Yes, we go with Ryanair and you have to pay extra for each case, and we are tight so have three cases between four of us, and had a very embarrassing re-shuffle on the airport floor last time so this gadget will put an end to that. Now I shall be serene at check-in.

Yes, but if it looks like you have to lift the whole case off the floor, on the end of the gadget. Do you think you will be able to lift a 20kg+ case in that manner? I don't think I would. What's wrong with just putting it on the bathroom scales? If you put the same stuff in it on the way back, it'll weigh the same. Also, are you aware that, as long as you're not over the weight limit for your entire family, you won't be charged. So, if there are four of you, the limit would be 20kg each = 80kg so, for example, you can have one case weighing 25kg as long as the other three together weigh no more than 55kg. So, unless you are strong enough to lift four cases at arms length it seems a bit pointless to me. Or am I missing something?

I just weigh mine on the bathroom scales at home.

i may invest, the palava dh and i have weighing on our home scales is comic. i am paranoid ever since BA charged me £120 excess. i thought i was being organised and packed all books and magazines, my most expensive read ever.

me and dh ought to get one
our suitcase was 100g under the weight limit when we flew with Easyjet recently-bit of a narrow squeak...

We bought one recently. Used it on Ryan Air flights to Austria. It was really useful, not just to weight things before we left, but more inportantly for when we were returning home. Ryanairs weight limits are so low (15kg for each suitcase) that it is very easy to make one suitcase too heavy and another too light on the weigh back.

somersetmum - unfortunately, what you've said doesn't apply to Ryanair. They are real sods. One of your cases could be 10kg under and one of you 1kg over and they would charge you for the 1kg over. You aren't allowed to share the limit.

This thing weighs up to 40kg, which is nearly three times the Ryair limit, so it's strong. We always have a lot of faff trying to balance a big case on the scales, usually in fronbt of my bemused PIL because we spend the night with them on our way to the airport. Then the end of the holiday after we've bought stuff there aren't scales, so I'm thrilled with this gadget. If you fly with 'proper' airlines and don't buy anything when you're away then no doubt you won't need it .

ooh we need one of those i am terrible packer i take anything and everything and when we get there use not even half of it. i dont think i have been abroad yet and not been under the weight, luckily i have never been charged but its only a matter of time.

something like that might make me pack more efficently and only take what i really need.

I have several relatives like you & they are all getting one of these! I don't think it'll make me pack lighter - Ryanair kindly take care of that - but it'll take away that awful uncertainty, as someone has said, of not knowing whether all the heavy stuff has been distributed evenly.

On our last 2 holidays I have paid extra when i've booked for extra baggage allowance, as my case is usually about 22kg.