When it comes to going on holiday, 15 – 20kg just isn’t enough for us women so it seems that we’re taking full advantage of our partner by using up some of their baggage allowance too.
Relationships on Female First
Sunshine.co.uk has found that women will fill their own suitcases and then take up a further third of their partner’s suitcase.
Over 2,000 women in relationships took part in the poll, each aged 18 or over and who had been on holiday in the past 12 months with their partner.
When asked, ‘Did you fill your suitcase up to the maximum weight allowance when going on your last holiday abroad with your partner?’ 78 per cent of those women taking part said ‘yes’.
They were then asked if they ended up packing much more than they’d needed on their last holiday abroad with their other half, to which the majority, 84 per cent, admitted they had.
When those who filled their own case were asked if they also put some of their excess items in their partner’s case, two thirds said that they did. They were asked roughly how much of their partner’s case they took up with their own items, to which the average answer given was ‘a third’.
When asked what items they tended to put in their partner’s case that they couldn’t fit in their own and asked to select all that applied from a list of possible answers, the most common items were as follows:
Electrical (hairdryer/camera/straighteners etc.) - 82%
Footwear – 64%
Toiletries/cosmetics – 49%
Clothes – 36%
Swimwear -21%
Furthermore, 27 per cent of the total respondents said that they, along with their partner, tended to mix what they put in each other’s cases (in terms of having some of each other’s items in each) in case luggage was lost; leaving them with at least some items should that occur.
Chris Clarkson, co-founder of sunshine.co.uk, said, “I think it’s well known that women, in general, pack a lot more into their holiday suitcases than men. I think it’s down to the ‘just in case’ mentality that many of us have, like packing for all weather conditions, occasions and eventualities.
“To see that many women fill their own cases and then around a third of their partner’s was surprising though; most airlines give quite a generous 20kg allowance for checked-in bags and it’s tough to fill that for just a week or two!”
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