When I worked, I used to carry a case something like today’s offering back and forth from the office with rarely anything taken out at home, if I could avoid it. Now I use a small (about 6"x9") shoulder bag to carry some necessities, but my wallet and keys are in my pants pockets, as they have been since I started carrying those things.
If I’m going into the office, a laptop bag similar to the type being sold today, a lunch bag, and a purse. Not a work day or running errands during lunch on wfh day, just pockets.
None because I’m not white so all businesses assume if I have a bag I’m using it to shoplift and kick me out. Even the thrift stores make me leave it with the cashier.
@brennyn WOW…
I tried to keep my mouth shut here but I’m really bothered and kept scrolling back up to reread.
Being a woman of Lebanese heritage
I’ve been asked to leave my bags at the counter from time to time. I’ll say, it’s never happened in my town and I’ve NEVER thought it’s been because of the color of MY skin! It’s happened while vacationing or in nearby vacation towns (probably during peak season) but I’ve never taken it personally. I’m just wondering where you live, is it a vacationing town or maybe a HIGH CRIME area?
Do these people really do that in the stores you go into daily, and do they do it to everyone or single YOU out? It’s got to be sucky feeling to think YOU are specifically being targeted and especially just for the color of your skin! That’s awful! I’m sorry that’s been your experience! That’s disgusting!
I’m hoping someday soon your story won’t be anyone else’s reality.
@brennyn@Lynnerizer I see this kind of bigotry here in Texas, mostly out in the less urban parts, and the observation has made me all the more aware of how few blacks venture into stores outside of “their neighborhoods”, and just exactly why that is the case. It’s not just stores, either. Our society is still a very long way from accepting the idea of equality on one side.
@brennyn@Lynnerizer brennyn’s experience is all to common, even in the Northeast as are Lynnerizer’s observations. There are many events I could tell you about that have occurred.
Backpack. It has extra pens and markers, extra copy of my ID badge, extra cables and chargers to loan to patients who forgot theirs and need to charge your phone before they can get a ride home, trauma shears, eye protection, powdered drink mixes, Tylenol, Motrin, Tums etc
It was an internet-fueled acquisition fest, about 2 weeks ago. Thereby displacing the 40oz Stanley Big Mug from the top internet quest. The stories are always fueled by people reselling on eBay for 3-figure prices. Not sure what it is this week.
@IndifferentDude@pmarin@Star2236
Yeah, if people would just not buy the resold stuff this would stop, but evidently there’s plenty of people willing to buy stuff for 1000%-plus mark ups.
@IndifferentDude@pmarin@Star2236 I’ve got a bunch of their big bags, which are dirt cheap and almost as good as the LL Bean bag that costs almost ten times as much.
@craigthom@IndifferentDude@pmarin
Yeah I have tones of their big bags (loved when they sold the holiday packs) but I have never seen a mini one before.
An over-the-shoulder bag (“man-purse?”) that is fairly slim but big enough to hold a standard size iPad and occasionally some paper items. Side-pocket big enough to put a phone in, sometimes a checkbook, a pen, and a small pocket knife.
I use a small key ring in my pocket when using a vehicle that needs them, but when I am using the Tesla the key is just my phone, but it’s strange because I keep thinking I forgot my keys because my pockets are empty. (Except maybe the phone if I put it my pocket instead of the iPad bag)
I used to use my purse and it held everything but the kitchen sink! ( I wonder though, I might’ve had the sink in there too!) I would’ve been the perfect contestant on the game show “Let’s Make A Deal”! Lol
These days life is much simpler and I don’t go or do the same things as before. My STUFF isn’t much and the few things I might need are either attached to the back of my cellphone (CC, ID/DL, insurance cards etc.) and the rest goes in my bra!🫣 A wod of money and a lip gloss! I know, I know, it’s bad… I NEVER thought I’d be THAT girl/old lady! Especially since I never had a bra more than a B cup! Lol… Not really room for much more than what was already in there.
Fast forward to post covid and EVERYTHING CHANGED, from bra size to where and what I carry AND WHERE I CARRY IT!
@Lynnerizer In your bra huh… hopefully your shirt (or bra) is tight enough and the neck of the shirt is high enough to contain all the “stuff”.
Let me tell you about one of my MBA students… Her bra held all sorts of shit and her shirt showed a lot of her crack. So one day in class she bent over to pick up a pen off the floor she had dropped and out fell her boob, phone, wallet, keys and other shit. Fortunately she was in the front row and only women were in the front row so the men didn’t get a free show.
Of course I have had students keep cheat notes in their bra too. Once after an exam (again an MBA class) one woman was walking out talking to another one and right in front of me stuffed her cheat notes back in her bra. I took them and told her if a test question could be answered from the cheat notes she wouldn’t get credit for that question. If she didn’t like that solution I’d be glad to report her for cheating. Take your pick. She chose the lose points solution. If I recall correctly she still managed to get a D.
Moral of these stories: be selective about what and how much you keep in your bra besides your boob, and be careful bending over in public.
@Kidsandliz My phone rides around in a holster attached to a belt loop via a carabiner when I have a belt loop. When I don’t, it’s either in my purse or tucked into my bra. That’s the only unattached thing I ever carry in that location. I used to carry most of my stuff in a belt pack, but that only works some of the time. I finally ended up switching out to a purse for the stuff that I don’t need to lug around with me here in the house. If I have pocketses, however, there will be car keys on one side, and a small flashlight and folding utility knife on the other. Because I need those things constantly.
@Lynnerizer
One daily boyfriend and I were getting ready for bed and I had forgot about the money I stuffed in my bra, so I go to take my bra off and money fell out all over the floor. He was like “ two of my favorite things, do it again, do it again.” Like I had just pulled off the best magic trick lol.
@Star2236
It doesn’t take much to get them going… Lol
My guy just made a similar comment the other day! He ONLY wanted the money though! Darn that Keno addiction!
Depending on whether or not I need my laptop with my I either carry a sling purse or backpack. Once day at the doctor’s I decided to test his observation skills and see what he even noticed from my chart. I stepped on the scale with my backpack and jacket on. I weighed 18 pounds more than without all that stuff. The nurse thought is was hysterical and let me do it. The doctor made no comment about the 18 pound weight gain in 2 weeks. I doubt he even noticed as this one I don’t think even reads past notes beyond his conclusions (yes I am trying to get a different specialist).
Technically I guess my car is my bag. I don’t put things in a bag unless it’s for some groceries. If you don’t use a bag, you never forget it and you never forget what you put in your bag.
@5665150 the problem with using your car as a bag is that a car can hold a LOT of stuff. sometimes for years…. so a task like properly going through your bag or purse can become a multi-day affair when it’s an entire car, trunk, glovebox, center console. trust me I have been there.
@pmarin Presumably, it never reached the level seen in some of the “Just Rolled In” videos on YouTube. (Those are clips submitted by people in automotive service facilities, showing both mechanical nightmares and sanitation horrors that have been brought in for repair.)
Well it depends on what I need to carry, My laptop is in a backpack with every kinda cable/ adapter & others Kool stuff I might need. Well my Camera gear is messenger bag from Temba. But for stuff, well I grab a tote, most likely one of those that are given away for FREE it has someone’s logo on it. Most of the time it is. Combo of any of the above.
@pmarin This is only my 2nd in 15 years. I like them small so I can’t carry a lot of Stuff! I am now down to 2 lens they cover 18-300mm. But as I said my laptop bag, well Since I am a Computer Mechanic, I need to be prepared for nearly anything.
My pockets. They are quite full.
@Mehlachi What does it have in its pocketses!
@xobzoo Many things. Wallet, Keys, Phone, flash drives-all the usual. Right now though, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
@Mehlachi And here I thought you were just glad to see me.
A wheeled laptop case, my mobile office.
When I worked, I used to carry a case something like today’s offering back and forth from the office with rarely anything taken out at home, if I could avoid it. Now I use a small (about 6"x9") shoulder bag to carry some necessities, but my wallet and keys are in my pants pockets, as they have been since I started carrying those things.
If I’m going into the office, a laptop bag similar to the type being sold today, a lunch bag, and a purse. Not a work day or running errands during lunch on wfh day, just pockets.
My cargo pants.
tool
Lunch bag. Wanna eat. Every day.
None because I’m not white so all businesses assume if I have a bag I’m using it to shoplift and kick me out. Even the thrift stores make me leave it with the cashier.
@brennyn WOW…
I’m sorry that’s been your experience! That’s disgusting!
I tried to keep my mouth shut here but I’m really bothered and kept scrolling back up to reread.
Being a woman of Lebanese heritage
I’ve been asked to leave my bags at the counter from time to time. I’ll say, it’s never happened in my town and I’ve NEVER thought it’s been because of the color of MY skin! It’s happened while vacationing or in nearby vacation towns (probably during peak season) but I’ve never taken it personally. I’m just wondering where you live, is it a vacationing town or maybe a HIGH CRIME area?
Do these people really do that in the stores you go into daily, and do they do it to everyone or single YOU out? It’s got to be sucky feeling to think YOU are specifically being targeted and especially just for the color of your skin! That’s awful!
I’m hoping someday soon your story won’t be anyone else’s reality.
@brennyn @Lynnerizer I see this kind of bigotry here in Texas, mostly out in the less urban parts, and the observation has made me all the more aware of how few blacks venture into stores outside of “their neighborhoods”, and just exactly why that is the case. It’s not just stores, either. Our society is still a very long way from accepting the idea of equality on one side.
@brennyn @Lynnerizer brennyn’s experience is all to common, even in the Northeast as are Lynnerizer’s observations. There are many events I could tell you about that have occurred.
Backpack. It has extra pens and markers, extra copy of my ID badge, extra cables and chargers to loan to patients who forgot theirs and need to charge your phone before they can get a ride home, trauma shears, eye protection, powdered drink mixes, Tylenol, Motrin, Tums etc
Obviously, EVERYONE should be using an IRK BAG!! DUH!!
@IndifferentDude
WE DO, WE DO! We use ours all the time, ALL OF THEM!
@IndifferentDude
I have lots of them in the car and get complemented on them all the time, especially at Trader Joe’s.
@IndifferentDude @Star2236 maybe at Trader Joe’s you could work out a trade with an employee for their coveted mini-bag.
@IndifferentDude @pmarin
What’s their mini bag?
@IndifferentDude @Star2236
/image trader joes small canvas bag
It was an internet-fueled acquisition fest, about 2 weeks ago. Thereby displacing the 40oz Stanley Big Mug from the top internet quest. The stories are always fueled by people reselling on eBay for 3-figure prices. Not sure what it is this week.
@IndifferentDude @pmarin @Star2236
Yeah, if people would just not buy the resold stuff this would stop, but evidently there’s plenty of people willing to buy stuff for 1000%-plus mark ups.
@IndifferentDude @pmarin @Star2236 I’ve got a bunch of their big bags, which are dirt cheap and almost as good as the LL Bean bag that costs almost ten times as much.
@craigthom @IndifferentDude @pmarin
Yeah I have tones of their big bags (loved when they sold the holiday packs) but I have never seen a mini one before.
An over-the-shoulder bag (“man-purse?”) that is fairly slim but big enough to hold a standard size iPad and occasionally some paper items. Side-pocket big enough to put a phone in, sometimes a checkbook, a pen, and a small pocket knife.
I use a small key ring in my pocket when using a vehicle that needs them, but when I am using the Tesla the key is just my phone, but it’s strange because I keep thinking I forgot my keys because my pockets are empty. (Except maybe the phone if I put it my pocket instead of the iPad bag)
@pmarin, checkbook? What’s that?
@pmarin
We call it a murse, my brother has been using on for as long as I can remember.
A Timbuk2 Messenger bag, which I have had for like 11 years. I wish they made them as good as the one I had.
Guaranteed for life, and waterproof material.
@Oldelvis I like my Timbuk2 messenger bag, too. It’s my man purse. The zipper bag it came with is my portable medicine cabinet.
I used to use my purse and it held everything but the kitchen sink! ( I wonder though, I might’ve had the sink in there too!
) I would’ve been the perfect contestant on the game show “Let’s Make A Deal”! Lol 
I know, I know, it’s bad…
I NEVER thought I’d be THAT girl/old lady! Especially since I never had a bra more than a B cup! Lol…
Not really room for much more than what was already in there.
These days life is much simpler and I don’t go or do the same things as before. My STUFF isn’t much and the few things I might need are either attached to the back of my cellphone (CC, ID/DL, insurance cards etc.) and the rest goes in my bra!🫣 A wod of money and a lip gloss!
Fast forward to post covid and EVERYTHING CHANGED, from bra size to where and what I carry AND WHERE I CARRY IT!
@Lynnerizer In your bra huh… hopefully your shirt (or bra) is tight enough and the neck of the shirt is high enough to contain all the “stuff”.
Let me tell you about one of my MBA students… Her bra held all sorts of shit and her shirt showed a lot of her crack. So one day in class she bent over to pick up a pen off the floor she had dropped and out fell her boob, phone, wallet, keys and other shit. Fortunately she was in the front row and only women were in the front row so the men didn’t get a free show.
Of course I have had students keep cheat notes in their bra too. Once after an exam (again an MBA class) one woman was walking out talking to another one and right in front of me stuffed her cheat notes back in her bra. I took them and told her if a test question could be answered from the cheat notes she wouldn’t get credit for that question. If she didn’t like that solution I’d be glad to report her for cheating. Take your pick. She chose the lose points solution. If I recall correctly she still managed to get a D.
Moral of these stories: be selective about what and how much you keep in your bra besides your boob, and be careful bending over in public.
@Kidsandliz My phone rides around in a holster attached to a belt loop via a carabiner when I have a belt loop. When I don’t, it’s either in my purse or tucked into my bra. That’s the only unattached thing I ever carry in that location. I used to carry most of my stuff in a belt pack, but that only works some of the time. I finally ended up switching out to a purse for the stuff that I don’t need to lug around with me here in the house. If I have pocketses, however, there will be car keys on one side, and a small flashlight and folding utility knife on the other. Because I need those things constantly.
@werehatrack My phone is small and is usually in my back pocket of my jeans.
@Lynnerizer The bodega near me actually has a NO BRA MONEY sign at the register.
They got one too many completely sweat soaked bills.
@Lynnerizer
One daily boyfriend and I were getting ready for bed and I had forgot about the money I stuffed in my bra, so I go to take my bra off and money fell out all over the floor. He was like “ two of my favorite things, do it again, do it again.” Like I had just pulled off the best magic trick lol.
@Lynnerizer @Star2236 You have a “daily boyfriend”? Does it depend on the day of the week?
@Lynnerizer @phendrick @Star2236 depends on how much cash the boyfriend brings to stuff in the bra?
@Star2236
Darn that Keno addiction! 
It doesn’t take much to get them going… Lol
My guy just made a similar comment the other day! He ONLY wanted the money though!
@phendrick @pmarin @Star2236
(said in a sarcastic tone)
We’ve got a ‘special’ group here.
Yikes…
@brennyn Yeah, it’s kinda gross even without the bra sweat!
🫰
I try to have my money in hand prior to any check out register.
@Lynnerizer @phendrick
It does seem like with the attitude he’s been bringing home from work lately, I never know who I’m gonna get.
Depending on whether or not I need my laptop with my I either carry a sling purse or backpack. Once day at the doctor’s I decided to test his observation skills and see what he even noticed from my chart. I stepped on the scale with my backpack and jacket on. I weighed 18 pounds more than without all that stuff. The nurse thought is was hysterical and let me do it. The doctor made no comment about the 18 pound weight gain in 2 weeks. I doubt he even noticed as this one I don’t think even reads past notes beyond his conclusions (yes I am trying to get a different specialist).
I work fully remote and almost never leave the house. On Sundays I do grocery shopping and bring my various reusable bags.
When I do leave the house it’s usually to leave the country. When I travel I use one of my suitcases and a theft resistant backpack.
Technically I guess my car is my bag. I don’t put things in a bag unless it’s for some groceries. If you don’t use a bag, you never forget it and you never forget what you put in your bag.
@5665150 the problem with using your car as a bag is that a car can hold a LOT of stuff. sometimes for years…. so a task like properly going through your bag or purse can become a multi-day affair when it’s an entire car, trunk, glovebox, center console. trust me I have been there.
@pmarin Presumably, it never reached the level seen in some of the “Just Rolled In” videos on YouTube. (Those are clips submitted by people in automotive service facilities, showing both mechanical nightmares and sanitation horrors that have been brought in for repair.)
Messenger bag with a big ol’ skull on the front flap.
Laptop bag.
Has anyone said scrotum?
@MrJazz Just you, sort of.
Did you mean this…
www.etsy.com/listing/1603492049/kangaroo-scrotum-bag-coin-purse-oddities
@werehatrack Of course I did!
@MrJazz @werehatrack Eeeeewwwww!
@Glittergirl724 Yep.
No bag. I don’t care to carry anything around with me.
Now, when grocery shopping or other food purchasing, I’ll use one to and from the car, but I don’t carry them with me all the time.
I also don’t care to my bag
@rickeywhaley
Welcome to the madhouse…
Well it depends on what I need to carry, My laptop is in a backpack with every kinda cable/ adapter & others Kool stuff I might need. Well my Camera gear is messenger bag from Temba. But for stuff, well I grab a tote, most likely one of those that are given away for FREE it has someone’s logo on it. Most of the time it is. Combo of any of the above.
@mycya4me Yeah Temba camera bags were pretty good.
@pmarin This is only my 2nd in 15 years. I like them small so I can’t carry a lot of Stuff! I am now down to 2 lens they cover 18-300mm. But as I said my laptop bag, well Since I am a Computer Mechanic, I need to be prepared for nearly anything.
When you come right down to it, a bag is just a portable place for your stuff.
@werehatrack the Earth is just a big portable bag and we are the stuff!
@medz Gravity well. We can haz one.
@medz @werehatrack Yeah the Earth has a “best by” date of 8 billion years from now but I’m afraid we might use it up much sooner than that.
@medz @pmarin That’s what happens when maintenance is entirely DIY and nobody wants to RTFM.
@medz @pmarin @werehatrack Well, the EARTH will survive that long but we might not.
@medz @pmarin @werehatrack Time to revisit George Carlin’s classic on “stuff”.
He probably would have liked several of today’s bags.
/giphy ur mom
Cargo pants.
My purse which weights a ton. Everytime I try to switch to a smaller purse I just can’t fit what I need in it.
I switch it up. Currently I’m using this Børn bag that Meh sold but I have some foldable nylon shopping bags attached.
@Kyeh i like the mini-bags clipped on ready to jump into action when needed. also extra credit for figuring out how to do the slashy-o.
@pmarin Thanks - it’s easy to do on my phone.
I just hold down the letter and the various permutations come up. ôö òó œø ōõ! Hah, they look like eyes.
Pockets.
Especially my overalls that have nine, count 'em, nine pockets (and a hammer loop). That is some high performance clothing!
Everyday bag? The closest I have to one is my car’s boot.
… trunk if you must
@OnionSoup what about the bonnet?
Though in new terminology it seems to be called a frunk.
@pmarin sadly I have an old fashioned ICE car without a frunk.
Five fanny packs, some filled with shopping bags.