• Yes, things you can buy at home are often more expensive overseas. This is especially true inEurope, so a traveler who's flying across the pond may want to pack extra everything in the interest of saving money. But again -- think of the luggage weight fees. Simple items that you may need but can probably live without, like aspirin, nail polish remover, extra razors or reading material for the plane, can usually be purchased at drug and convenience stores in many destinations.
  
  Top Tips:
• Remember that if you decide to buy a lot of your items abroad, you will have to create room in your suitcase to cart them back home. Buy sample-sized items if you can to save space and money.
   
• Instead of bringing a virtual library of reading material with you, buy magazines and newspapers at the airport. Picking out what you want to read will give you something to do as you wait, and you can recycle the items (or give them to a fellow traveler) so you don't have to lug them back with you.