We regularly take short trips to a relative's house Two to Three hours away. We rarely take luggage when we take these trips.

Why not?

We have a minivan. Our minivan typically serves as our luggage. We load the kids clothes into a couple laundry baskets, typically the closer folded straight out of the dryer they sit in the laundry basket naked pack straight in the van. And we thrown another laundry basket of folded clothes for ourselves.

The handy thing about using this methodology, is as a clothes get dirty, we watch them at a relative's house, drive them, resold them and put them back in the laundry basket ready to go home and get put away in a drawer.

Sure we could do this with some Samsonite luggage or something like that, but for short trips where you're only away from home for a couple of days this is pretty handy.

Plus we're just going to a relative's house and you don't have to worry about getting embarrassed carting a luggage carrier through a hotel lobby with all your clothes and laundry baskets!