Hey Sheldon, I brought about 1000 traders to the convention last year...and I brought them all as carry one. I would never check them. There are a few different ways you can go about it. I'll list my way first. I brought notebooks with chip pages. The notebooks (i think around 6)were in a business suit/ Thats the kind with wheels and still fits in the overhead. I also had plastic chip boxes that hold 100 chips per box. I think I had about 15 boxes in a carry bag. I packed a bunch more of the notebooks with empty pages in my suitcase. The plastic boxes can be obtained alot of places, I got mine from a Touch of Vegas. I could have packed all of my notebooks in the suitecase, which i think I'll do this year, and then just bring all of the chips in boxes as carry on. The I'll just take a half an hour or so whenI get there to put the chips into the binders.