How to distinguish your luggage in the heap?

@lkbooi (16070)
Malaysia
November 26, 2007 6:00am CST
Many luggages look almost alike so we must be very cautious when collecting our own one from the airport or from the racks of the train or bus. It will cause a lot of unnecessary troubles if we should take a wrong luggage. So whenever I go for any vacation I usually tie a big navy blue ribbon of a particular shape, each to either side of my baggage so that it could be easily identified even from a distance. My dear friends, what do you do with your luggage so that you can collect your baggage easily when traveling? Can we share your idea? Thanks a lot.
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@shinjiao (1457)
• China
4 Jan 08
I prefer to tie a remarkable stuffed toy above.I choose the stuffed toy myself and it is easy for me to choose my own baggage in the heap.Most of my friends use the same way.One of my friends print a shining color on the surface of his luggage bags so if he finds the shining luggage bags in the heap,they are his.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
7 Jan 08
Yeah shinjiao, using a remarkable stuffed toy could always enable you to pick out your luggage easily from the big heap. Young guys are smart enough using they own ways to make their baggages to look extraordinary among the others.
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I always tie something bright onto my luggage pcs..usually its a rainbow coloured tie or scrunchie etc...or a bright pink or green one..seems to work so far :-D
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
26 Nov 07
Yeah, a rainbow tie contains a spectrum of various colors and could make it rather attractive and distinguishable. Other bright pink or green colors do serve the purpose well as they are quite conspicuous. Thanks for your valuable ideas.
• India
13 Jul 08
It is so easy for me,no need for any kind of markings... my baggage will be so very dirty.. and no one will even bother to touch it.. hahaa.. just kidding.. i can recognise it without any identification..
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
13 Jul 08
I can’t help but laugh after reading the kidding words in your comment. Hi saivenkaat I think your luggage must be a very unique one so you can recognize it without any difficulty. Hope that you don’t bring a similar one wrongly home Happy posting and have a wonderful day.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
27 Nov 07
Hello lkbooi. I have travelled in a plane for one time only. That was the winter vacation of the 2006 from January to February, in 2007. I am glad that there were no other shoulder-bags looking alike. So there was no problem for me to recognize my bags when I got off the plane. Thanks for your discussion, dear friend.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
4 Jan 08
Hi jisir, I understand that there will be a tremendously big crowd rushing for the tickets during the festive season. We can book our train ticket 10 days in advance here. I earnestly hope that you will be lucky enough to get the ticket as you wish. Good luck my friend.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
3 Jan 08
Hi dear jisir, I believe your shoulder-bag must be quite particular in shape or design. When we take such type of bag we won’t have to worry any mix up of them. Your first time to travel in a plane in that winter vacation must have given you a wonderful impression.
• China
4 Jan 08
That was really very impressive to me. I hope that I am lucky this year to get a train ticket back to my hometown this year as our winter vacation is drawing near on around 25th of January.
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@jtr115 (722)
• United States
11 Jun 08
Finding my suitcase during my last trip was a bit easier. Unfortunately, that was because the wheels had broken off on the trip before that! Still, I put large, green tags on the handles of my suitcase and garment bag. One side of the tag had my name, address, etc. plus my initials in giant letters; the other side had a logo from one of my jobs. One person I met online is an artist. Before one trip, she painted large pictures of two of her characters on her suitcase.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
12 Jun 08
Hi jtr, I am sorry to learn that the wheel of your suitcase had broken off during the trip. I bet it would be rather inconvenient for that. Well, large and striking tags on the upper part of the suitcase and garment bag usually could attract our attention readily on them. Other than the big conspicuous ribbon I will never forget to write my name, address and contact number on the tags attached whenever I go for traveling. Thanks for responding and have a nice day.
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@hillock (749)
• Qatar
29 Nov 07
i love keychains..So in order to distinguish my suitcases from other, i always put a couple of keychains so even if im few meters away i would see it! LOL! And it works! its noisy but no one will mistook it as their luggage! ^-^
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
4 Jan 08
Hi, dear hillock, I hope today I could manage to add comment here. You know, presently I could only post here by chance :c. Really, there are lots of unique and beautiful key chains which are so attractive. It is nice to be aware, so that people won’t take away them from your luggage.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
8 Jan 08
You are most welcome, I do hope that I will be managed to post all my replies daily. If I am not wrong, this is your third avatar. The second one was purposely for Christmas and the current one where I can see a sweetie, is for the year of 2008, right? You better put it into a practice, to make it one of your great collections. Happy new year too.
@hillock (749)
• Qatar
5 Jan 08
thanks for trying to post a reply. hehehe.. and its good that you were able to post one. i was thinking of collecting keychains from different country cause i got few courtesy of my friends. Happy new year! ^-^
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
26 Nov 07
When I went away to Rhodes this year mum gave me a yellow strap which she used for her journey abroad, it is tied around the outside of my case and it has my surname on it! I was grateful for it and it worked a treat, no more hunting, it stood out like a sore thumb! Perfect, no wasted time and no taking home the wrong case. The strap were real cheap too, great little invention.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
5 Dec 07
Hi wolfie34, your intelligent mom really has a good idea to give you such a wonderful yellow strap even with your surname on it, to make your baggage so distinguishable as to save a lot of troubles in hunting for it. This way is quite practicable as it is rather cheap as well.
@biggerb (2024)
• India
26 Nov 07
Hi! Many a time I have had this experience of trying to distinguish my baggage from someone else's.Most of the bags and suitcases are similar.I just mark it.But I do appreciate your idea.I will try it the next time I travel.Marking can get rubbed off.Thanks for that suggestion.This is an interesting discussion.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
27 Nov 07
Hi bigerb, you are most welcome and thanks for your nice words. I did place a label with my name and particulars on my suitcase but it might easily get rubbed off as what you had said. The label is not as conspicuous as the colorful ribbons that I always use nowadays. Anyhow if we find a way to make our baggage distinguishable then it is considered good enough, right?
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Nov 07
I am a lazy person and not so good in taking care of luggage. So I always pack my belongings in the last minute and thus won't be so well-prepared when boarding the plane. I just wish that I didn't miss anything out LoL. But, it's really good idea to mark a special tag on the luggage so that it could be easily distingushed from the others. I will try that out next time, because I usually I will be facing difficulty in locating my own luggage on the conveyor belt. Besides, it will also save us trouble if other people accidentally picking up our luggage due to the the similarity.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
3 Jan 08
Hi dear cheongyc, a lazy person is a relaxed person. It is good not to worry about packing luggage before travelling. Just like you I prefer do my packing at the last minute but I always make sure that I don’t leave out any important items. I am used to do in this manner as I do travel quite often. It is quite essential for us to mark our luggage with special stuff so as it could be distinguished easily.
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I have always done something to my luggage to make a distinctive mark. Sometimes it is something tied to the handle or sometimes tape or writing on the bag itself.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
5 Dec 07
Yeah, jillmalitz, I do notice that different people have their own ways to do with their baggage to make them distinctive so as to be detected or noticed easily without much difficulty. Same as you, I do like to tie something which is different from others so that it could be recognized easily from far.
@yanstill (1490)
• China
14 Dec 07
i travel a lot since i am out from my hometown,always by train.lol,but i never missed my luggage.i have a bag where i put important things like money,card and ticket.i hold it with me on the train. i put clothes in another bag,even if i lost it,it wont cost much.so i dont care about that.interesting thing is,i never took the wrong bag.maybe because others all know their bags,i dont need to worry about it.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
4 Jan 08
I know, yanstill, train is the main and most convenient transport vehicle in your country. I believe you are such a careful gal and will never miss your luggage or take it wrongly. I utterly agree with you, we must never leave our bag which contains the essential items apart from us, especially as the train is congested with passengers all the time.
@youless (112570)
• Guangzhou, China
26 Nov 07
I think my luggage is very special as well as me:) It is unique and I don't think there will be another one looks alike. If someone takes it, he must be a thief.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
26 Nov 07
You are great! I wonder how your luggage really looks like. I am quite curious to know about it. I do hope to get one so I could save a lot of trouble to tie ribbons on it. Oh no! My friend, it might be mixed up with yours coincidently at the airport one day lol...
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I tie a pink ribbon on the handles of mine so when they come around on the carasol I can pick it out right away. Too many bags look so much alike. I can see mine right away.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
3 Jan 08
Hi dear jillhill, from what I have observed I notice that most of the luggage are tied with red ribbons. So your pink ribbon will make your luggage rather different from others.