But improving every year, which is nice. The new lines are great.
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We’ve used something like that when we needed to travel lightweight but bring enough clothes for 2 weeks. We also found a long bag, possibly designed for sports kit, with skateboard-style wheels on one end but still lightweight, that could be easily pulled along through airports and railway stations. Par example:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wheeled-Luggage-Castors-Lightweight-Telescopic/dp/B00T45RCS0
https://www.sportsdirect.com/slazenger-v60-wheel-bag-unisex-adults-850054#colcode=85005401
Different sizes are available in the first style.
that’s what the IKEA bag is for; stick it in that.
I will have my carry-on bag, a carry-on wheeled case, two XL wheeled dog crates with occupants - I won’t be lugging any of this without a wheeled trolley, and a bungee to roll the doggos behind it!
I will be collecting a rental vehicle big enough to jam all this stuff in at CDG then driving, staying somewhere overnight, to Castelnaudary. Then dropping it in Toulouse Matabiu gare a few days later, then take the hour plus train “home” and a 15 minute walk to my summer rental. it’s going to be 4-5 days of travel hell, but worth it in the end, yes?
Heavens. I suggest this is the moment you develop a limp and have a cane and rely on airport staff to wheel you all to the hire car place.
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oh, this puppy will be loaded to the max 23 kg allowed!
yeah, it’ll be fun…
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Yes, but if the bag looks insubstantial, the airline may refuse to load it unless it’s wrapped in plastic film…
I think just the IKEA bag with several bands of reinforced duck tape around the circumference would do. Have you considered using Send My Bag.com? I shipped almost 30kg to France for $200 and I don’t know how I would have managed that stuff with the other boxes and suitcases.
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A great adventure 
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Yes, i will be using them for my non-essentials to be shipped in September once I have a permanent place. However, I’ll be bringing up to 9 boxes, so it will be spendy. My plan now is to consolidate all of that to 6 boxes if possible. I think I can do it.
If you don’t need them quickly it is a lot cheaper to send them on a ship with a moving company.
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Whatever bag is used, make sure it is well strapped or taped. On a flight just from Brest down here to Montpellier four years ago for xmas with the family, I bought a canvas suitcase on wheels from Amazon with zipper fastening all round which I locked the ends together with a small padlock. When I retrieved said bag at this end, the canvas had completely ripped all round one end almost like a knife cut which I doubt but you never know. Luckily I didn’t lose anything but was most upset and had to borrow a case to return north.
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I’m not surprised to hear that - airline baggage handlers are notoriously ungentle in the way they sling bags around - and it’s also easy for a bag to get caught in the machinery as it goes around the airport conveyor built system. When I used to go back and forth to Turks & Caicos via Miami, American Airlines and their ground-based colleagues always inflicted some fresh damage on my suitcases and bags.
The best bags from that point of view are the hard-shell ABS cases, but they are also the heaviest so you can’t get as much stuff in them and still be under the weight allowance.
I haven’t tried the “wrap it in plastic” services at airports but some people reckon that’s the way to go.
LeClerc do it here for items not purchased in the store that you want to keep with you LOL - perhaps when I go to the US I will call there with my case and ask for a wrap.
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Indeed. My kit travelled in Pelicases that weighed 12kg each. It dramatically reduced the payload but at least nothing was ever damaged in transit. Or aeroplane, just to forestall the inevitable puns …
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Can we create a luggage thread?
Just in case it’s needed? 
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Just give it bags of room.
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