Avoid Over-Packing with a Hand-Scale

What a great idea:

Avoid overweight luggage charges next time you've filled your bag with souvenirs with the New Digital Scale. You can easily weigh your luggage on a regular bathroom scale to ensure that you're under the airline limit, but after you've gone on a trip, packing your souvenirs for the return fight is where you're most likely to get burned—and chances are you won't have a bathroom scale handy. The New Digital Scale attaches to the handle of your luggage; you then lift the scale until it beeps and displays the weight of your suitcase. The New Digital Scale costs $25 and weighs only 8 oz.

Digital Scale [Magellan's Travel Supplies via InFlightHQ.com]

See many of my tips for traveling the world with carry-on only luggage. (My record length is six-weeks (five of them in Japan) with only carry-on luggage and I've made it to all 7 continents traveling this way.)

Now if I could just figure out a way to make my case books lighter...