I used white-out correction liquid and painted stars on one case, arrows on another. They don't have to be large.

But remember to put whatever you put on all six sides of the case. Nine times out of ten, the handlers will heave the bags upside-down and backside-to onto the belt to the carousel.

Because my wife is a knitter, we chose to wrap international orange yarn around the handles. The luggage is almost always standing on end with the orange eye-catcher easily visible (on a carousel we must be more alert).

I use a bright green key chain on the handle of my suitcase, but if you want more ideas, you will find them at a luggage carousel at your local airport.

I have a bright green plastic Trip Advisor luggage tag that is great. Stands out nicely without being kooky.

(hint hint Fodor's ;-) )

Since I never buy black luggage, mine is immediately isolated from 95% of the others on the belt!

I've never felt a need to mark it beyond that. I've only once or twice given a second glance to another bag that looked anything like mine, and it was easy to see it was or wasn't mine at a glance.

Oddly I did have a fairly large and wildly colorful luggage tag on it once, and almost missed grabbing my bag on the first go around because the tag was missing when it came out.

For our last trip, I bought a new luggage tag that said, "So you thought we were all black!" It made the man at the check-in counter laugh.

I'm not concerned with finding my own bag, I know what it looks like. I just not that confident about other people confusing my bag with theirs. Not that there's anything valuable in my checked luggage but I feel like I need what I've packed. (It seems that red bags are the new black.)

The aliens from outer space may not admire my bag but I'll have my extra shoes.

My old suitcase was bright red, that's the only one that someone else tried to take off with!

Totally ignored the tags.

Luckily did not get through the security as this was return from an international flight. Had the dummy grabbed my suitcase from the regular terminal baggage claim, he'd have been home before he realized he had MY stuff. Grrrr...

Anyway, now I have dark blue (navy) and when I expand the bags, the expansion part is bright orange gold. That stands out pretty well, but I still use FABRIC PAINT to make my bag unique.

Always worked when I had BLACK luggage before the red one that someone else snagged that one time.

Still working on the dark blue luggage.

Patrick, I did that once also. Had an easy to spot tapestry bag and put a great big bright green luggage tag on it. When I went to pick it up at the carousel, I let it go by me because I didn't see the tag (it was gone). Now, I simply look for my gold/burgundy/green/brown tapestry bag and never have a problem. Even other tapestry bags look completely different.

At the baggage carousel in SFO, I must have seen at least 10 black bags with bright green ribbons on their handles. People were still getting them confused and grabbing the wrong one.

I have a big pink luggage tag with my initial on it.

DH used a hot glue gun and stuck a small New Zealand flag on one side of our luggage and a silver fern emblem on the other side.

3 different luggage tags on the bag. Even if one gets pulled off, no one else has even 2.

I also have an oversized aloha fabric luggage tag that seems to bring me good luck (suitcase always first off the conveyor belt, etc.).