Aunt AM's Suitcase(s)

Aunt AM is gone. We took her to the airport and she is now back in NY emptying her suitcases. I've told you how stunning a woman Aunt AM is right? Well in order to look that good ALL the time the woman travels HEAVY ! Husband and I travel light . . . ONE suitcase each, no matter where we are going or for how long. The size of the suitcase does vary but not all that much. My sister-in-law does not know the meaning of TRAVEL LIGHT. Two years ago husband told AM that her suitcase was way too heavy for him to lift in and out of the car. She should GET RID of the BIG suitcase and get 2 smaller ones. (When I say big I mean BIG! It is about the size of a refrigerator.) So the next year when we picked her up at the airport sure enough she had 2 suitcases . . . the BIG one and one possibly an inch smaller than that ! I thought Ger would have a heart attack. Aunt AM defended herself by saying that even though she had 2 bags, they weren't filled to the brim. She was right, until we went shopping. (Have I mentioned her passion, possible addiction, for shopping?) So now we have TWO huge suitcases, filled to overflowing and the next cause for concern (besides husband's pending hernia) is WILL THE SUITCASE(S) WEIGH MORE THAN 50 POUNDS? If they do there is an fee from the airline. So now we are weighing the suitcases by standing on the scale, lifting the bag subtracting our weight from the total. Every trip Aunt AM would go through this performance and worry herself sick that the bag(s) would be too heavy. You and I would realize the simplest way of avoiding this worry would be to: A. Use a smaller bag.
B. Not pack so much
Neither of these seem to be an option for Aunt AM. She packs her entire wardrobe! Well, to be honest since she lives alone in a 3 bedroom house and EVERY closet and dresser are PACKED with clothes it really is only about 1/16 of her clothes that she brings. But that is a LOT !
But back to the weight . . . This year Aunt AM's daughter gave her a luggage scale. Great idea, right? Not Really. Wonderful idea if you are weighing a back pack or a carry on bag because it is a device that you tie onto the handle of your suitcase, lift the suitcase off the floor, wait a second or 2 for the weight to register and there you have it! Your bag weights ____ number of pounds. Wonderful until you try to lift a bag the size of a Volkswagen. Attaching the strap - EASY - lifting the bag -NOT SO EASY -. If you can't lift the bag off the floor with 2 hands how are you supposed to lift it far enough for the scale to register and high enough for you to read said scale?
We did find AM standing ON the bed, bent over trying to pull the bag up off the floor. I can just imagine the doctor in the ER listening to that story of how the 74 year old woman hurt her back/broke her hip.
In the end we took her beach bag out of the suitcase, filled it with shoes (all 7 pair) and a ton of other stuff and she used that as a carry on. Both suitcases weighted in at over 45 pounds so off she flew only to continue shopping for another year, probably in search of a new suitcase that is just as large but weighs less when it is empty.