Last Updated on 2016-05-19 , 1:52 pm
Being the travel bugs that we Singaporeans are, there are several things that we all know we shouldn’t put in our hand carry luggage or risk having them confiscated. On the other hand, there are also many things that you shouldn’t put in your check-in luggage, which you would obviously know if you’ve seen how they’re manhandled.
Here are 8 things you should just carry with you the next time you fly, because your travel insurance isn’t going to pay for it.
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Cash
No lock is safe enough to protect money, and there is no guarantee that your check-in luggage isn’t going to be scanned or opened for inspection; not all countries are as transparent and law-abiding as Singapore. Keep your cash in your wallet.
Legal Documents
Nothing of such importance should ever be left in the hands of others, especially if they can be altered or tampered with. Moreover, with all that hustling and bustling in the storage hold, I won’t be surprised if it turns into a piece of toilet paper at the end of your flight.
Jewellery
If you’re not going to leave cash in your check-in luggage, then there’s no way you’re going to leave expensive jewellery inside. Heavier and even easier to detect, it is going to be even more tempting to pilfer it.
Cameras
Placing your camera and all of its accessories and equipment in your check-in luggage is a sure way to get them all smashed, unless you have a hundred layers of bubble wrap around them.
Laptops and electronic gadgets
If cameras weren’t already a big enough warning, imagine placing something with a screen inside your check-in luggage to be thrown, flipped and shaken all over the place.
Metalware
Regardless of how precious or worthless the metal itself is, placing metalware like spoons, plates and plaques in your check-in luggage is a sure way of getting scratches, dents and cracks all over them; they might also do damage to other objects in the suitcase.
Keys
Something as small as a bunch of keys can not only easily become lost or tangled in your luggage and potentially tear something, it is also something that might slip out of your suitcase when it is subjected to all sorts of abuse while transporting them around.
Medication
Other than it simply making much more sense to carry with you in case you need it, you might find yourself the accidental inventor of some kind of instant-killing poison after all your medication gets mixed up and possibly crushed into a fine powder.
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And in case our warning didn’t go through, here’s a video of what your checked in luggage goes through at the airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPloIzDa6bg
Top Image: Yulia Grigoryeva / Shutterstock.com
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