Excess Baggage

To keep your luggage weight down - take full size bottles of shampoo, shower gel, cans of deoderant etc, etc with you......just make sure they only have enough left in them to last you the week/fortnight as required. At the end of your holiday, you just bin the now empty bottles and containers. You now have lots of "extra" space/weight in your case for carrying back pressies (well ok, Ouzo then!). Saves you messing about buying stuff in resort that may not be your usual brand (it's a woman thing) and there's no wastage. I swear by this method now - makes an enormous difference, especially if you are like me and tend to take the whole of Boots AND Superdrug with you on holiday.

Also, where possible, for during the day anyway (when clothes tend to get all covered in suntan lotion etc) try and pack same old clothes that are pretty much on their last legs - then you don't even bring them home with you..... same can goes for towels - take an old bath towel, and just throw it away before you fly back (How many bottles of Ouzo can I fit in now). Another idea like this is to buy really cheap tops/T shirts (Matalan etc) and just don't bother bringing them home again.