The scale is small, easy to use and accurate. Use it before you leave on a trip, and carry it with you to ensure that you never have one of those embarrassing moments of trying to empty out our luggage at the check-in counter when you find that it's overweight. The scale takes one battery which seems to last a long time. You just turn it on, zero out the setting, select pounds or kilograms, then hang your luggage from the hook and lift it to register the weight.

We just returned from an 18-day trip to Peru and Ecuador during which we had 9 separate flights, and we weighed our checked bags before leaving for the airport and redistributed weight between the two. We also loaned the scale to others in our tour group who were very active shoppers and had started to pile on the pounds !  No one was dinged for overweight bags, so it was definitely worth the investment.