From the thread title I thought this was going to be a thread about taking wives on holidays!
Try Asia. Only the kitchen sink and the double bed is checked baggage. The rest of the household furniture is "carry on"!
Indeed in the Middle East one accident some years ago (DC10 or MD11) was the result of firing up a gas cooker someone had brought on as hand luggage and cooking lunch in the aisle.
But I do recall an aurguement at an Aussie domestic airport when a pax objected to not being allowed to take his full size surf board on board as carry on luggage.
And the pigs we had sneaked on as carry on hand luggage in bilum bags in PNG. Mind you when a good pig is worth many wives, one can understand concern for such precious possessions.