For those who need to bring along a variety of meds, especially prescription meds... When crossing borders (especially *certain* borders!), it's probably a good idea to have the meds in containers with the pharmacy printed labels (and copies of the written scripts, etc.). Our pharmacy recently stopped stocking their smallest size little amber-colored pill vials, and even those usually had way too much empty space. So now, there is waaaay too much empty space in those containers. Weight isn't the problem but if one has quite a few meds (regular plus the "in case of..."), that takes up a *lot* of space in those carry-ons.
DH just had a great suggestion ("Why didn't *I* think of that", and perhaps some/many of you already have?). He's got a bunch of the teeny "ziplock" type bags, something like 2x3 inches.
So we just asked the pharmacist to give us new "stick-on labels" for our current meds, and those will fit nicely on the side of one of those little bags. Worst case, it could wrap to the back.
And the best part is that whether there are 60 pills or 6 pills in one of those, the air can just be pressed out, so there is almost no extra space used up.
We are about to do this for the first time two weeks from now, and I just wish we had thought of this some years ago. At least in the past, we were able to request the smaller bottles, and the pharmacist would put fresh labels on those, so if we had a 90 day supply of something, for example, but only needed a couple of weeks' worth, we didn't have to deal with any jumbo bottles.
GC