Joan Collins excess baggage bill: $4,966 for $180,000 in luxury bags

While you visit Gadling and read my rant about $45 carry-on bag fees, other air passengers are having having fun turning excess baggage into a challenge - not a complaint.

Take for example Joan Collins - Because she travels a lot between London and the United States, she says she feels "compelled to travel like a packhorse".

And she isn't kidding either - each trip involves a professional packing firm, 30 Louis Vuitton cases and baggage transport fees for all those bags.

Think about that for a second - every single time she flies between her two homes, she carries clothes, accessories, books, CD's, DVD's and a bunch of other household junk.

Lets put this into numbers for a moment - her luggage firm charges $183 for each bag. Thankfully this price does include door to door service, but the total bill is $4,966 each time she travels (she gets a nice discount when she transports more than five bags).

Of course, that is nothing compared to the estimated value of her Louis Vuitton luggage - with an average price of $6000 each, her collection of monogrammed luggage is worth about $180,000. Kind of makes me worry a little less about paying $25 to have my bag placed in the hold.

I do have a tip for her: if you buy two of everything, you won't have to transport it between your two homes each time you travel.

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