I happened to be watching a show called "Collector" and the featured items were Snoopy collectables, including over a thousand dolls, toys. books, ornaments, and on and on. The one piece that stirred my memories was a huge five foot tall plush Snoopy stuffed animal. As the husband of the collecting couple was describing how he squeezed the huge dog into a box small enough to bring home on a plane, it reminded me of items I have carried home on planes from trips. The items I bring home from trips as souvenirs are almost always small and packable like magnets and jewelry, but because I don't drag large carry-on luggage through airports I always seem to have a hand free to help a friend. There were frozen Dungeness crabs from Seattle (that was for my boss so I couldn't say no). Then there was the two foot tall metal rooster with sharp spurs that kept poking through the carry bag. All the way from Spain, My travel buddy who collects roosters couldn't resist. One thing I didn't have to carry home was a carry-on bag. I had left the US with a new carry-on bag that was larger than I really liked. My favorite travel bag (an old camera bag of my husband's) had accidentally been sold when I downsized. I found one a lot like the missing one in London and bought it, So now I had one largish suitcase and two carry-ons to get home. When I checked the large bag I asked how much more to also check the middle size bag. Sounds, a little like Goldilocks and the Three Bears doesn't it? Anyway, there was no charge to check the extra bag. They were happy to have one less bag in the overhead bin.
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