How to Weigh Your Luggage
Flying is already enough of a hassle without being told your luggage weighs too much. Finding out whether your bags are too heavy is something you can do at home, not just when you're at the ticket counter. To do this, there are methods that you can use to weigh your luggage before you leave home.
- Calibrate your scale.
- Practice packing your suitcase with everything you're planning to carry with you. While this will also help you pack your things in an orderly fashion it will also help you know how much it weighs.
- Stand on the scale without your baggage and weigh yourself. Write down your weight and call it A.
- Pick up one piece of packed luggage and hold it in your arms while standing on the scale again. Write down this new number and call it B.
- Subtract A from B. This is how much your luggage weighs.
- Repeat for all of your packed luggage.