In regard to my one suitcase goal: Ha. Hahahahaha.
My goal was to follow the advice of OneBag and other light travelers and, well, just have one suitcase. Pretty soon, I realized that is advice was geared for traveling, not moving.
One suggestion, however, was extremely helpful: limiting the use of wheeled bags. The frame and wheels on a good rolling bag add to the weight of the bag, and thus detract from the weight you can shove into the bag. In my giant, shapeless, and pocketless black duffel, I fit all of the clothes--all of them--and toilettries plues a few books. And it weighed about 25 lbs. I had to move some of the clothes into the wheeled bag for cusioning omiyage and such. The small wheeled bag, which has no books and nothing individually heavier than 5 lbs, weighs 45 lbs.
Of course, I'm switching stuff around because of a traditional discrepancy between my home scale and the airport scale. But if I had two huge duffels? I'd probably fill them up without approaching the weight limit.
The last minute luggage quest begins...now.
Of course, duffels are no fun if you're the one schlepping everything everywhere. Is JET smart enough to provide most of the transport?
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