Originally Posted by LTN Phobia

Taking 74 kg to Dubai is something I wouldn't do, but I am guessing they might have had the scuba gear or something similar?

When I lived in the far corner of Europe with supply of goods problems, I used to do my bi-weekly grocery shopping in London. I used to regularly travel with 2-3 checked baggage with around 30-31kg each plus a cabin bag weighing about 11-12 kg and a laptop-bag sized handbag that probably weighed about 8-9 kg (with a laptop in it). Ice packs weigh quite a bit - I was buying fresh scallops, ducks etc that was particularly hard to get there, as well as pre-packaged meals for convenience, so the amount of ice packs I had to use were quite ridiculous. They probably took up at least 25% of the weight as it was a reasonably long trip (Band 4) and I wanted to make sure that nothing went off.

When I was checking in, I might have sounded like I was going away for the weekend as I was going back and forth to London a lot as well (not every trip involved grocery shopping as it was a lot of hassle packing things), but I sure had a lot of baggage.

The easy ones were loo paper etc but they were bulky.

Nowadays I may go non-grocery shopping and end up with a shocking amount of things, although I do non-shopping and short trips with hand luggage only.

I also used to do a lot of other shopping in London, buying shelves and other bits of small furniture and flying back with them.