I agree MS, as I said, I take everything in a gym bag. Thought I had missed an earlier post. One could make an argument for "it's a sign of the excess" all over, someone feeling they need to take a behemoth bag to go for a 2 day trip. It's the same mentality that leads to someone having 5000 CD's or 41 pairs of athletic shoes, or 24 hunting rifles. In their next breath, they will blame "the man" or "those evil rich" for keeping them down. Let's not forget, 80% of the US "poor" have cable and air conditioning. To think that is unrelated to the suitcase issue is silly. If others have that, many need more...like 10 changes of clothes and 6 pairs of shoes for that weekend trip to Houston.