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Mar. 28th, 2018 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI don't precisely know why I fell out of love with my work bag, which is a Timbuk2 commuter laptop bag and does in fact hold my 15" laptop and half of the rest of my possessions if I want it to, while simultaneously being indestructible. But it's been annoying me lately, so I spent a week or so looking up bags online and being paralyzed by Too Many Options. I finally narrowed it down to the following requirements:
- Tall enough for my thermos
- Preferably tall enough for my duck-headed umbrella
- Pockets enough to hold phone, pens, ID, kleenex, and platypus (I have a stuffed platypus who lives in any work bag I'm using. He deserves his own platypocket.)
- Phone must be accessible without opening bag
- Must be crossbody
- Must not dissolve if it gets wet
Since I happened to have both thermos and umbrella on my person today, I stopped on the way home and tried them out on a bag in the Brookline Booksmith. We have a winner. I just wish it wasn't vegan leather, which is made of plastic. But it does everything else I need it to do, and maybe by the time I fall out of love with it, there will be an actual leather bag that fits the bill. I love the idea of a Saddleback Leather bag, but they don't believe in sufficient pockets and I'm not in the mood to spend that much money on something that isn't quite right.
- Tall enough for my thermos
- Preferably tall enough for my duck-headed umbrella
- Pockets enough to hold phone, pens, ID, kleenex, and platypus (I have a stuffed platypus who lives in any work bag I'm using. He deserves his own platypocket.)
- Phone must be accessible without opening bag
- Must be crossbody
- Must not dissolve if it gets wet
Since I happened to have both thermos and umbrella on my person today, I stopped on the way home and tried them out on a bag in the Brookline Booksmith. We have a winner. I just wish it wasn't vegan leather, which is made of plastic. But it does everything else I need it to do, and maybe by the time I fall out of love with it, there will be an actual leather bag that fits the bill. I love the idea of a Saddleback Leather bag, but they don't believe in sufficient pockets and I'm not in the mood to spend that much money on something that isn't quite right.
