Whats in Your Back Pack, Bag, Purse, ETc.

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― anthony, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cellphone, address book, blue notebook with nothing written in it, a pen, two tampons, seven Curiously Strong Peppermints, red lipstick from the Body Shop, three lipbalms(blistex, and two "lipsmackers": "dreamy creamy pearl" and "mocha nova", novelty "Miffy" wallet, a floppy disk with an art theory seminar speech on it, a photogram depicting some pliers, supermarket docket, five bobby pins, eftpos reciept "filadelfio's".

― rainy, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wallet, Keys, Books for School, Hankie, Rosary,

― anthony, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An A4 file, an envelope, an umbrella, a half drunk bottle of water, a pen and a carrier bag.

― jel, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HOORAY!

My bag has my WALLET, hairbrush, empty packet of Maltesers (just removed), a Morrisons recipt, Rimmel purple eyeliner (which I haven't worn for YEARS), not filled in timesheet which I must fill in and send off asap on Monday else NO PAY FOR ME, 4 duracell batteries, "Lehcaresor" Papier Poudre whot stops your face from being a big greasebag, a Snickers bar (actually this is my mothers, I forgot to give it back to her), a MONKICHI ID WALLET which has a business card, an expired Yellow Card, easy everything ticket, tube ticket and membership card to the Phoenix Artist Club - agane, not mine.

More? YAY! Recipt from Blackpool HMV (White Music by XTC was on sale for 4.99), summat whot entitles me to two free shots of Aftershock in Bar Censsa, bus ticket (return Warton/Preston = 4.45?!?!?!?), hem hem, recipt from LITTLEWOODS (I needed change and bought some tights, okay?!), Young Wuns Railcard, green lighter I found in The Ship Inn on Thursday night, black eyeliner (heavens, never knew that was there), SUGAR FREE POLOS, Muji card holder which contains expired ISIC card and my NI card, train ticket recipt, single bus fare ticket, old temp security pass, glittery purple Hello Kitty compact mirror, Vaseline, Mac lipstick in New York Apple which my mum bought me to try and get me to make myself look pretty (don't force nature sez I), Boots recipt (DIET COKE), redcurrant lipbalm, a black biro, Japan centre recipt (Tare Panda present and Cutie magazine), ticket stub from BRING IT ON, random Dixons recipt (Strand branch), 25p in loose change, and FINALLY:

a scribbled all over job description for an Events Administrator in a LAW FIRM in the CITY.

Needless to say, I have not applied.

Momus, when you are next in Japan, could you buy Cutie magazine for me? For free, you know? And just send it over?

If we counted what was in mu SHOPPING BAGS next to me, this would be a very long post. Maybe I'll do a seperate one, cos I wanna waste even mroe of my time w/ boring fax.

― Sarah, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

different bags for different occassions.

My work bag ( World economic forum official bag): Phtocopied book on finite element modelling, two papers on chiral honeycombs, two boxes of matches?, unix login information, scraps of paper with equations and diagrams on them.

My leisure bag: camera, md player , headphones mds, flyers for next week, films

― Ed, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stanton Warriors CD, Marah CD, Discman, Timetable for University, Email account details for University. A jumper. lots of other crap I cant remember.

― Ronan, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pens, index cards or a notebook, a paperback, lip gloss, chapstick, powder, tampon or equivalent, $0.25-$50

― Maria, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A thin green three-ring binder filled with the syllabi for my classes, papers for those classes, and handouts for the class I'm teaching - all in the pockets, nothing on the rings. An interdepartmental mailing envelope containing the next test my students are taking. A Cambridge wire-bound (on the top edge) notebook, containing a) notes and b) another philosophy paper or two, tucked in the back. Books: A Philosophy of Mass Art and Mystifying Movies by Noel Carroll, borrowed from my aesthetics prof; Hacket publications of the Euthydemus and Ion / Hippias Major by Plato; the second library copy of Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art. My headphones, discman, and CD carrying case, which contains about 24 CDs: Boards of Canada, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country; Jay-Z, The Blueprint; Outkast, Stankonia; Talk Talk, Laughing Stock; Spring Heel Jack, Treader; Massive Attack, Protection; Magnetic Fields, Charm of the Highway Strip, and 69 Love Songs vol. 2; Einsturzende Neubauten, Drawings of Patient OT; Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out; Al Green's Greatest Hits; Basement Jaxx, Rooty; The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I; Fela Kuti, Shakara/London Scene; Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde; Burning Airlines, Identikit; Mekons, Journey to the End of the Night; Yo La Tengo, Electro-pur-a; John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman; Fugazi, Red Medicine; The Beta Band, Hot Shots II; Autechre, Confield; Masada, Live in Jerusalem disc 1; The Sea and Cake, The Biz. Two Duracell batteries which have the power meter thingies and so which I think are not really dead yet. A bottle of allergy pills. Two fresh Energizer batteries. A mechanical pencil, maroon, with rubber grip thingy. A little tube of hi-polymer HB 0.5 lead. A clicky eraser. A little plastic box of hi-polymer HB 0.5 lead, though I suspect it is not the same kind as in the tube. A crumpled up cough drop wrapper. A container of HB 0.3 lead for my nonexistent 0.3 lead pencil. A little stapler, and about 150 little staples, loose. A thing of Halls cough drops which looks scary from being in the side pocket for years but which I will leave in case I need it someday and the drops inside the wrappers turn out to be mentholyptusy enough. Sunglasses, with broken bridge piece (still stay on my face though). Scrap of paper counting the last exam handed out. Empty paycheck envelopes. Bus schedules for the 84, 50, 16. Phone number for the graduate school. Flier with "myth/fact" items on it, apparently distributed by pro-Zionist students, which I received at the start of a talk about 911 by a noted anti-Zionist. A small Cambridge notebook containing many things: phone numbers, bus route info, notes on the Russian art and exhibit of photos of Vietnamese POWs that I saw this spring, an unfinished letter to my Peace Corps friend, list of things to learn for quiz bowl, reference numbers from The Arcades Project, plan for bookshelves, other things. Kleenex. Blue medium-point Papermate pen.

After 4 years I finally took the Silly Putty out last week, and put it in my office desk.

― Josh, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In my school backpack, which I forgot about: massive American History text, with chapters that take three hours to read because they're so godawfully boring; folder of papers to go with this text, with the beloved Jonathan Edwards sermon I threaten people with; notebook to go with this text as well, with the inside covers pasted over in pictures of In Flames; three-subject Latin notebook with notes and two hundred lines of the Aeneid; absolutely delightful copy of the Aeneid with ten lines per page and the rest filled with notes and vocabulary, and featuring an old purple cover and gold and black print on the front; old notebook with archaeology notes now being filled with random thoughts and organizational lists; Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; CD player; six CDs in a small cloth case; NIN's The Fragile in its own case; pens; a pencil; numerous items of makeup; a brush; useless crumpled up papers (and that sheet I was supposed to turn in September 28, oh well); maybe an ID card if I can ever find it; driver's permit; loose change.

― Maria, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A book or two, a note pad, a palm pilot, pen, checkbook and headphones w/ 2 or 3 cds.

― Nude Sopck, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I Love Listing Things.

Lead for the bass guitar I just collected today. 'Reporter's Notebook' with front cover falling off and pretentious drivel inside. Rough Trade flyer advertising Strokes/Moldy Peaches/Dull Historical Society albums. College Handbook and Diary, completely unused. Wallet (see other thread). Canon camera. Lloyds bank paying in book- ha! Tesco receipt- £6 of Grolsch. Address book with Domino and Pattern stickers. Pencil case containing rubbish girly things like eyeliner that I never use, and a pill bottle. Brown tie that has finally returned to me after being in London for ages. Walkman with odd compilation tape in. Flyer for Manatee, who are rubbish. Very battered copy of 'Post Office' by Bukowski. Four Tet flyer. Two photos of our band playing the Notting Hill Arts Centre. Photo of my brother aged 7 dressed as a gangster. Too many bloody setlists. 3 sets of Sticker photos taken in service stations. Long unused dolebook. Flyer for screening of 'Gummo'. Flyer for Butterflies Of Love gig. Flyer for shit club. Two harmonicas- one in A and one in F. Photo of ex-boyfriend that I probably shouldn't even be mentioning. Lots of bits of paper telling me how to play music. A pen lid.

― emil.y, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a purse. It is small. I have inside of it: cell phone, wallet, lip liner, lipstick, "Rouge Pulp" lipgloss, kiehl's lipgloss, chapstick, GAP watermelon lipgloss (funnily, I barely ever wear lipstick at all), a top off a perfume bottle (don't know where the bottle went), a few loose receipts, a wrapper from a cigarette pack, a pack of Parliaments, a pack of Marlboros, about 20 books of matches, my lighter, some loose change, a tin of altoids, Mace, keys to my house, my Victoria's Secret gift certificate and store credit, a book of coupons for Tanger mall that I'm going to mail to my cousin, a compact.

― Ally, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah: you can get Cutie at the Japan Centre in Piccadilly, or even sometimes at Tower. Try those really ace newsagents on Old Compton Street too.

In my bag: Lollies party flyer, three cab receipts, NatWest bumf, Givenchy Rouge Miroir lipstick shade 702, 50p, Safeway receipt, Kirby grips, sunglasses, wallet (contents discussed other thread), Pierrot postcard from Venice which needs to be sent to its chosen recipient, spare keys.

― suzy, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cutie is cheaper out at the Oriental Shopping Centre in Colindale, if you can bear to make the trip that far. Japan Centre on Picadilly charges silly prices. Colindale also has a very good Asian food court, absurdly cheap. Colindale tube, turn right, walk about five minutes, turn right again, cross the road. Can't miss it. And there's a Sega amusement arcade if you're that way inclined.

― Momus, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have papers written by my students, class handouts includign repos, an intro letter to the slide library , ted gardners email adress, a notebook, THIS MONTHS SHINY SHINY ARTMAGS , some edo era japanese homoerotic reproductions (doing some provenance(sp) work for my advisor), the compact O.E.D, photocopies from Art in Theory, Jansons and a couple of theory books, agnes martin the collected writings, a poloriod camera , some film, some flash, pencils ( the yellow two hb ones), pens ( one black, two red, one blue, one purple), Chalk ( red, blue , purple and white), some grey tone pastels, a cd player , a small cd case w. momus folktronic, tammy wynette best off, rockin' the suburbs, september songs, teh sun sessions of elvis and a world pop sampler i just burnt, a Harbright anthologoy a nortons on modern poetry, some poems i have written and typed (to edit) , a blue sweater and a scarf, my rosary, two pictures of david , an irish linen hanky and a saints card. I packed for work tomorow,and i have a huge backpack

― anthony, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll back up Nick on the Colindale place - it's MASSIVE and full of more cool things than just Cutie. Hell, I'll even venture that it's worth leaving the force-field of Zones One and Two to reach. If you can fix it to arrive at 6.30 or later, you might be able to get some cut- price sushi from the supermarket there into the bargain.

― suzy, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My backpack comes from Banana Republic. It contains a cheap ballpoint pen; a checkbook; bills from AT&T, my psychiatrist and my gastroenterologist; a small quantity of prescription medicine; a Palm VIIx with a portable keyboard; a hardcover copy of David Halberstam's War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals; a paperback copy of Luc Sante's Low Life; and the 2002 IKEA catalog.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm perfectly aware of Oriental City in Colindale, and the Japan Centre and most other Cutie stockists and Japanese stuff. I just wanted Momus to send me stuff for free. IS THAT SO BAD?

The DDR machine at Oriental City skips, by the way.

And anyway, hasn't Toko shut down there now? That was a fabulous shop. I think it's still going under a different name but it's not the same. Ashiya books is wonderful, despite charging ridiculous import cd prices. And also, when I last got Cutie @ JC, it was £5.40 - same price as OC, whot?

And cut price sushi MINGS! Fresh sushi yum yum.

― Sarah, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have any of these things. Despite being a 'professional' all I carry is a travelcard holder, which goes in my pocket. In it I keep my bank card and swipe card.

― Nick, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Life Of Insects by Victor Pelevin, today's Guardian, phone, cd walkman, big cd wallet containing 47 cds, four bundles of Strange Fruit flyers (Lucksmiths, Trembling Blue Stars, EAR and French Kicks), 7p in loose change.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SOme CDs: Zappa, The Goons, Jacques Loussier, Radiohead, Kinks. Chequebook. Cheque from ntl for 7 pounds. Packet of Marlboro. Letter from freight company telling me I owe them more money. One unused match.

― Sam, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wow, someone else reading Pelevin! Richard, have you read any of his others? because both Babylon and Clay-Machine Gun are better than Life of Insects.

anyway, my bag. Annual Travelcard. Keys. Donald Barthelme's 40 Stories. A tape with a Male Nurse and and an Aerial M Peel Session. Another tape with Stereolab live and a Helen Love peel session and another Male Nurse peel session. Chequebook. A printed off review of Discovery (by Tim F by the looks of it) A receipt from Smallfish records for £12 from April 4th. assorted pieces of paper.

― gareth, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my mobile, a save chip sticker, an inhaler, a blue pen, my fantasy football registration papers, an uncut cd, a bootleg of Belle and sebastian at the albert hall, some cold and flu tablets, two penguins (biscuits, not flightless birds), my keys, and complicity by Iain Banks which I'm re-reading as I've run out of books and can't buy any more til after next weekend.

― chris, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to add that I've now eaten the Snickers. And replaced it with SWISH NEW WALKMAN, mobile, and an old mixtape tracklisting.

― Sarah, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth, yes, I read The Clay Machine Gun in June, after you recommended it to Tom. Good stuff, I thought, and nice to finally read something else with the same feel as The Master and Margarita. I haven't actually started Insects yet but I will report back when I'm done.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

faux fur leopardskin pencilcase with loads of ballpoint pens, pencils, and highlighters; wallet with a piddling amount of money in it; chococat checkbook; bank statement; stila lipstick

This actually makes me look far more organized than I actually am, because I just cleaned my purse out on Friday.

― Nicole, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know exactly as I am currently unable to lift my bag as my arm is killing me as I had to have a big injection in it this morning and it hurts like hell. But the contents are usually quite similar: wallet, house keys, travel card, office security pass, mobile phone, lip balm, lipstick, lipgloss, comb, CD walkman, new batteries, bits of paper, cigarettes, lighter, sunglasses (why? This is England in October) and millions and millions of tissues - I find that filling your handbag with used-looking tissues is a great way to stop nosy bouncers looking in it.

― Emma, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yay useless threads on monday mornings. . .let's see. . .A bag of caramel apple chips, a plum, hairbrush, allergy nose spray, some sour gumballs, a maya angelou article my mom gave me, check stub, fake car insurance, target receipt, free movie rental coupon, silly little rave bracelet that spells my name, hello kitty organizer, calculator, hello kitty hair ties, some film that needs to be developed, emery board, loose sunflower seeds, wallet, asthma inhaler, carmex, bonne bell lipgloss, lipstick, altoids, tampons, antidepressants, broken hello kitty watch, keys, a pack of chococat bandages, lots of tissues and tops to water bottles long gone.

― Samantha, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My purse comes from H&M. It cost me $5. It's fantastic.

― Ally, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today I'm using my canvas tote from Escalator records, I never see anyone else with one and it goes in the wash. Right now it stinks of cigarettes because I had it with me when I went out Saturday night. In it I have a compact silver umbrella, nine CDs to listen to at work, house keys on a Burger King Pokemon keychain one of my coworker's kids gave me, car keys on a stuffed Chococat keychain I bought myself at the Garden State Plaza Sanrio store, cellphone, palm pilot, 20% off coupon for Bed Bath + Beyond I'm going to use towards a new electric toothbrush, three blue uniball gel metallic pens, black + white dotted Marimekko purse with atm, charge, gym, Club 47 film, PATH, A&P Bonus Saving and metro cards. Driver's license and insurance card, St. Jude medal, ticket stub from Apples in Stereo show from 2 weeks ago, receipt from dinner at Cuban restaurant, just about enough cash for ordering lunch today.

― Lesley Higgins, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is a black shoulder satchel thing with a Glenfiddich logo on it & it contains : 5 blue ballpoint pens, 3 black ones, a red one, a black felt tip marker pen, a paperback copy of "Crime & Punishment" (Maryann's), paperback copy of "Ripening Seed" by Colette, letter to Andrew Tolley that I keep forgetting to post, 4 cassette tapes, walkman (Di's) & headphones (Richard's), my diary, paperback copy of "The Informer" by Liam O'Flaherty, part of today's Otago Daily Times, 9 used syringes, 1 not-used ditto, bunch of tissue paper, 6 condoms, concession cards from Echo Records & Real Groovy records, 4 envelopes.

― duane, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth did you not once say "Omon Ra" was Pelevin's worst bk? this memory could easily be based on just the fact that i know you've mentioned him a few times here & there & maybe someone else said it. 'cause anyway that's the only one I ever read & i thought it was choice.

― duane, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Duane
are you an addict or a diabetic ?

― anthony, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dope addict.

― duane, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

duane, i think i may have said something to that effect on my website. it is good but he hadn't got into full swing yet. so, yeah, the others are better.

― gareth, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walk to work and try to travel light, or as light as I can with a laptop. So my laptop bag contains a biro, a notebook (about 1/3 full), 4 boxless cassettes (compilation tapes from 96/97, and one from this year), 2 bills I should pay right now, and a couple of dead batteries. It doesn't contain the laptop because thats what I'm using to write this, ha.

― Tom, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's with all these "What's in yer..." threads?

But alright... wallet, mobile, day planner diary that I never use, Lollies stickers and flyers, some with lyrics scribbled on the back, comb, eyeliner, lucky pen and spare pens, whatever book I'm reading (still savouring Live Through This at the mo), mysterious swizzle sticks from cocktails I don't remember drinking, an A to Z, an address book which is completely out of date due to all my friends' current numbers being on the mobile, a few old tube passes and plane tickets, and schedules for the Amtrak Hudson River Empire Line and the Luton-Gatwick Thameslink.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's with all these "What's in yer..." threads?

We have robberies to plan.

― Graham, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thnaks for being honest

― anthony, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In my handbag: mobile phone, mini red leather filofax, The Rainbow by DH Lawrence, season ticket, cheque book, wimmins things, Wrigley's Extra PlenTpak (Polar Ice), Clinique lipgloss in Air Kiss, a butterscotch sweetie nicked from a B&B in Glasgow (actually just transferred to mouth), house keys, security card for the office, purse.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mobile phone, keys, pen, copy of Metro, work ID pass, chequebook and bills to pay, a London mini A-Z, scribbled directions to a house off Brixton Hill, a blank CD-R, three MDs (2 Yo La Tengo comps and the Fall Peel sessions 1978-93), deodorant, 'The Pornographer' by John McGahern, a Jigsaw Digital Tools catalogue and a black and white pic of Billy Mahonie (!)

― Jonathan, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

In my bright red vintage purse (which gets me SO many compliments) I have: * big breath *
- cell phone - super glue - certs - cinnamon tic tacs - 13+ different kinds of lip gloss/balm - checkbook - lockbox key - pens - receipts - a comb - tissues - pills - a small silver change purse - a huge wallet (filled with credit cards, I'm afraid, not cash) - several things to pull my hair back with (and it's really not very long at all) - movie ticket stubs - 2 David Cross postcards - lots of guitar pics - change jingling in the bottom - dirt

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

back pack- lab book, lunch pack, pen and 3 tapes and walkman.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Letter about the reopening of the Red Box Nightclub, CDs:My House in Montmartre-V/A, Underworld-Everything, Everything, Subliminal Records-The Story So Far. A4 Pad with a few reading lists in it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

cell phone
wallet
scarf
mix CD of "the good songs" from band we're seeing tonight from boy
burt's bees lip balm
bag of cookies i baked last night
pen
keys
coffee punch card
random change in euros that i don't know what to do with here

What are you supposed to do with foreign change that you end up with at home? Hold onto it until you go back?

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Undelivered letter to Laura
2 Minidiscs
Minidisc walkman external battery pack
Sony camcorder battery for CD player/recorder
Jiffy bag not containing Psion organiser it usually does
Oxford Brookes course info
Salford UG Prospectus 2001
Course handbook
Folder containing some of last year's notes and a pad of paper

― Graham (graham), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I am shortly being delivered a suitcase, which will get filled with 8-days-worth of winter clothing.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Cell phone
Wallet
Diskette with my CV
Checkbook
Sunglasses
Assorted receipts
Several outdated shopping/to-do lists
Several pieces of gum (spearmint)
Calendar
Lip balm
Keys
Metrorail farecard
Contact lenses case
Nail file
Approx. 10 pens
Ticket stub to Spirited Away

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 October 2002 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

in my small leather bag:

cell phone
sunglasses
cheque book and credit cards
FIVE sets of keys: home, office, bar, car, and a friend's (?)
postcard announcing a photography exhibition
map of the streets where i'm allowed to park in my neighbourhood with the resident card

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 25 October 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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I biked to the gym and on to work today, so in my giant bag I carried:

1 small bike seat bag containing a spare tube, multi-tool, CO2 cartridge and pump, and tire levers.

wallet + key combination

Bike lock

Combination lock for gym locker

Soap holder, small bottle of shampoo, small facial soap all in mesh shower caddy

deoderant

underwear, socks, t-shirt, button down shirt, jeans, other t-shirt for wearing at gym

3 year old 15g iPod + headphones

cellular telephone

Tupperwear container filled with rice, asparagus, a fork, and homemade potstickers plus a smaller container filled with soy sauce-based dipping sauce for potstickers

32oz Nalgene bottle, half full of ice, half full of water

― joygoat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

purse:
back pocket:
2 fancy pens (Japanese, archival ink), one regular ballpoint pen
1 ikea pencil
1 penny
albuterol inhaler

small inner pocket:
Dave & Busters power player card
4 horse cards for racing game
coupon for $10 in free play

large interior:
1 packet tissues
eyeglass case containing glasses and cleaning cloth
The Train to Estelline by Jane Roberts Wood
digital camera in case
pill caddy
Ricola lozenge
1 packet Fisherman's Friend

front pocket:
small tube of emery boards
sharpie
mechanical pencil

― patita, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I love these threads.

Brown flight-bag:

A4 lined, recycled 'Save the Rhino' pad.
Obligation, Dissent and War course pack.
How to do Things with Words (paperback) by J.L. Austin.
Timetable.
Guardian 'great speeches of the 20th century': Wind of Change.
Pilot goggles.
Address book with Domino and Pattern stickers (same one as in 2001).
Moleskin notebook.
Bank shit.
Pencil case with lots of pens.
Random pens that have escaped from said pencil case.
Wallet.
Draft of a terrible essay.
Flyers for: Jason Lescalleet, Nalle, the Aliens.
Young Persons Railcard.
Passport.
Lovely brown cigarette case.
Lighter.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, bugger, typo in there. Never mind.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Black leather bag with aqua and green stitching:

Wallet
Keys (car, house, office)
Checkbook
Victoria's Secret hand cream that smells a little too strong
Crappy cell phone
tampons
blank notebook + black ballpoint pen
Sugar Cookie glitter lipgloss
Ice Breakers Spearmint gum
Uniball Vision pen, pink
Maybelline Wet Shine lipstick in Copper Gloss
Some other brand of lipstick I can't remember in Sangria
Lancome Dual Finish compact in Matte Porcelain Delicate I

― luna, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

I left a bag at my stepmom's during our travels this week and called her to enumerate what was in it in case there was anything time-sensitive. A bit embarrassing. Among the detritus, a 2-month-old unpaid electric bill, an unpaid parking ticket, strapping tape, several rolls of pennies, a dirty tissue, a Black Sun cassette tape, a couple of tampons (if I remember correctly, their paper wrapping has come off), a copy of a grant application I just submitted, several metal CDs of Scott's, a mythology textbook, a diaper, crayons, some matchbox cars.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

Bag I got free! Hooray ridiculous insurance industry swag. CONTENTS:

*discman (I feel like such a caveman) containing:
- Thelonius Monk w/ John Coltrane, um, "1957" (not sure real title)
*3 CDs in a ziplock baggie:
- Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsum
- Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers
- War - Outlaw
*legal pad
*a paperback copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
*one blowpop (unopened)
*a coupon for a 49.99 lawnmower tune-up
*what was once a badass pen-light which is now just a stupid pen
*a 2006 pocket calender
*a fine-tipped sharpee marker
*rogue banjo thumb pick
*2 AA batteries (long since dead)
*a client's business card with a pterodactyl with a large penis drawn on the back

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

Guessing what's in my backpack:
-Computer power cord
-2 books on the Ottoman empire
-Folder with class papers
-Notebook with research notes
-A couple pens & pencils
-3 packets of yeast
-1 bottle of pomegranate cherry juice
-lip gloss
-powder
-CD with work I'm doing for a professor
-daily planner
-headphones
-keys
-$10
-randomly, a bottle of hotel shampoo and a bottle of red nail polish

― Maria, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

in my purse:

1 wallet
2 tubes of chapstick
1 tube of nars mongolian red lipstick
1 tube of maybelline coverstick concealer
1 compact of benefit get even pressed powder
1 checkbook
some receipts
1 cell phone
1 bottle of lexapro
1 copy of james a. kushner's the post-automobile city

― get bent, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

In my fancy handbag from Paris, which is the bag to end all bags:

Steinbeck book
Notebook
Fountain pen
Cartridges for fountain pen
Aveda mascara, lip glaze, and lip pencil (like franny, I never wear them, but I suppose they're for emergency job interviews or something?)
More pens
Prescription
Inhaler
Dog leads (to be removed today, not bringing them to ATP)
Pashmina
iPod
Cheque book

That's it. Now that I no longer have to leave my house to go to work, I actually only carry my bag around with me about once a week.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

Work bag:

An empty tissue packet (now in the bin)
About 30 business cards from my last job
Duplicate copy of my work contract
Files for two clients I have to see later today
An A4 notebook
An A5 notebook
Two black biros
Working Tax Credits information manual
Lots of dull J0bcentre paperwork
Marketing guff for my employer
A mobile phone
A cuddly toy mouse with an esure tshirt on ("calm down dear, it's a mouse" etc aargh)
A bananas and custard Muller Lite which may or may not be still edible
A diary
A Glasgow A-Z
A plastic fork
A plastic teaspoon

My handbag:

MP3 player with knacked headphones and no batteries
Mobile phone
Pink purse (subcontents: two bank cards, RAC card, 2 x gym membership cards (one out of date), ticket for Universal Studios Orlando, 2 day passes for London Transport, old bus ticket, Celtic season ticket (not mine), top-up card for phone, pink post-it note with the email address of someone I'll never email, ticket for the London Eye, betting slip for the horse that came 4th in the Scottish Grand National, which I shall later redeem for about £3.50, NO MONEY)
Keys - all on one ring (house x 2, car, padlock to the car park of somewhere I used to work two years ago)
Book of money-off coupons for attractions in Orlando (now in bin)
Various flight ticket stubs
Hotel receipt
Passport (oops, now in drawer)
A necklace
Two bracelets
A pair of earrings
Brown eyeliner
Brown-ish lipstick
Three daily disposable contact lenses
An assortment of pens, mostly without lids and probably not working
A battered-looking Chunky KitKat

xpost Pashmina

Any one carry a spare ILXor in case of emergencies?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

I change handbags quite regularly. You'd have thought that would mean I wouldn't have a lot of junk to cart around, but apparently not. Today I have my black Radley bag with me :

http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/product/230192550.jpg

in which there is :

Black leather purse containing credit, debit, store loyalty, library and work swipe cards, photos of my children, 6 first class stamps, my driving licence, a credit card sized laminated diary card listing my husband's shift pattern for the whole year (it's complicated and I can never remember where he's supposed to be on any given day), fifty five quid in notes, and £11.86 in loose change.

Hairbrush
Small pack of tissues in a Cath Kidston fabric holder (wot I made)
A keyring (with a Welsh lovespoon on it) with house keys, work keys + car park fob
Car keys
Phone
iPod
Emery board
Swiss army knife card
Ventolin inhaler
Mini pink filofax
Pen
Tube of Trebor extra strong mints
Small plastic bag containing some cross-stitch I'm currently doing, since I might have a lot of borin' sitting around to do today.
Lipsyl
Sheer lipstick (No7, Excite), blue eye drops, mini eye shadow collection (Clinique, Strawberry Fudge), mascara (Mac Mascara X in dark brown) and a tiny bottle of Estee Lauder Attraction perfume.
A banana and an apple

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

God, I want a Radley bag so badly, but I cannot justify the money they cost.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

Mr Unruly bought it for me for Christmas. I are lucky girl :)

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

I don't normally have a bag for going into work but my international travelling bag normally contains the following:

Work Laptop
Home Macbook pro
Power for the above
power adaptors for whichever country I'm in
My business cards
other people's business cards
spare dongles
spare software on DVDs
spare mobile phone
USB charger for above
Digital Camera
USB cable for above
Spare battery for above
iPod
Headphone
Charger cable for above

My bike bag (either under saddle or courier, depending on what I am doing):

Pocket rocket pump
Tufoslime
waterproof jacket
Streecuff
Multitool
some kind of chocolate
some replacement brakeblocks
lights

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

so, in short:

girls: lipstick
guys: tufoslime

?

― StanM, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

Is a "Pocket Rocket Pump" one of those penis extender devices I keep getting spam emails about?

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

No comment.

― StanM, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

a-HA!!!

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gigwise.com/artists/00013034_alan_partridge.jpg

― Trayce, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

in bag:

discman
book: alan hollinghurst, the spell
keys
a to z
sundry medical things - hayfever pills, bonjela, vitamin c pills, eye drops, strepsils which look a bit manky and which i should totes throw out
dead batteries
railcard
old receipts and other assorted paper detritus
glasses case
about a million cds

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

People are still sayiing totes?! Whodathunk!

- kogepan wallet with bug all cash in it chiz (cards = credit, debit, Game, EHIC, virgin megabore loyalty hoosit, two Italia Uno loyalty cards yum yum there's an idea for lunch, some passport photos and no effing stamps)
- keys
- mp3 player + cozy that it keeps falling out of
- oyster (also contains old gym card and cafe nero loyalty card)
- fugly work swpie card
- fantasty masterworks edition of M John Harrison's Viriconium
- phone
- small yellow hairbrush
- gym pass
- 2 x tampons
- 1 x dvd in jiffy bag to post back to friend when I can find some bluddy stamps (am ph34red our mailroom wouldn't send it if I just stuck it in work mail) - awful shop will not let me buy just the ONE stamp, and I know I have like five SOMEWHERE but I can't find them :(

― Sarah, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Mr Unruly bought it for me for Christmas. I are lucky girl :)

You so are. Good for him. Tell him I said he was a genius.

fantasty masterworks edition of M John Harrison's Viriconium

I have this too, but not in my bag.

Oh, I have just discovered that I also have an emergency copy of Master and Commander. It seems I cannot bear to be parted from it.

Later today, the DVD of Castrovalva is going into my bag, as are HUEG headphones, because I am going into town on the bus to meet up with pal to hand over DVD.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

But mine's black.

In it there is :

In The Main Bit and associated pockets :

Cheapo WH Smith Filofax
Ipod
Ipod to PC cable
Two knackered sets of ipod headphones
Fountain Pen
8 Roller Ball Pens in various colours - green, red, blue, black
Passport
A scarf
Work stuff : Various brochure copy drafts and associated artwork.A financial model.
An apple
A satsuma
Chequebook
2 duracell batteries (fat 'effects pedal' size)
A tennis ball - I don't know what this is doing here.
A letter from Battersea Dogs Home
A letter from The Newcastle Building Society
A map telling me how to get to Christ's Hospital
An invitation to a party
A scarf wot belongs to mrs dr.c. Why is this here?
A voiceover script for an ad - also belonging to the mrs. Why do I have this?
A change of address postcard from a friend.
A money off token for Waitrose/J. Lewis - expired a year ago!

In big side pocket :

A memory stick
Two CDs (my band's latest efforts)
4 pay slips
A shopping list of things my daughter wants for her cookery class at school
A gig flyer
A box of matches
Car keys
Wallet

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh feck. Well it's a John Lewis huge messenger bag thing fwiw.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Lowe Alpine Ace 25 day pack ( i really ought to be carrying a handbag at my age)

Like this but in beige and dark grey http://www.snowandrock.com/products/images/12digits/medium/LOW0006BB.jpg

In the main part

Vaseline Aloe Vera Tin
Ginger and Lemon Badger Balm
Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream lip tint in berry
make up bag containing max factor masterpiece mascara, shu uemura eyelash curlers, tweezers, green barry m chunky eye pencil, black glitter eye pencil, dark brown khol pencil and a tiny comb for grooming my eyebrows
M&S raspberry lip gloss
dior microfibre glasses cleaning cloth and two bottles of cleaning spray
4head stick
blister pack of paracetamol
various open packets of tissues
cranberry and apple cereal bar
ipod
sennheiser folding headphones
guerlain aqua allegoria spray in grosellina
travel size of impulse
curl balm and plain water spray to stop my hair puffing up into a big afro
ancient nokia phone
hair bobble
PCS union 2007 diary
purse containing a highline card, mastercard, matalan card (what a classy burd i am) and edinburgh leisure membership card and two rather ancient condoms

In the front pocket i have my housekeys, work keying card, work photo pass, office swipe card and lothian buses pass and in the mesh side pocket there is a 750ml bottle of highland spring water (half empty)

― leigh, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

Nivea cream
Nivea deodorant
Canon eos 400d
Mini tripod (that bends)
Swiss army knife
Creative zen 60 gig with sennheiser earphones
Pens
Tissues
Note pad
2 apples
Salad, in lunch box
Some kettle chips (lightly salted)
Wage slip
Mag light (medium size)
Lighter

That’s it.

― not--goodwin, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Pashmina

Any one carry a spare ILXor in case of emergencies?

haha, that's what I was thinking.

A lot of ILx0rs are asthmatic. Also, I need a better bag.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

I feel such a scruff, I think I am the only laydee with zero portable make up! In fact, I am not even wearing ANY today because - well, the real answer is that I am so demoralised at my job that I don't need to make the effort, also not going out or seeing anyone, AND going to gim at lunch would just mean reapplication after shower... yeah anyway! I am such a scruffy UGGER!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I don't have any make up either. In fact, the girls seem to share an inordinate amount of paper and books, more than make up.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Me either! I don't ever wear makeup and feel a little bad for it but, eh.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

In my bag:

Vanity Fair (the book)
Glasses case
Scarf
Loo roll (for nasal use)
Phone charger
Wireless internet card (just bought)
BT bill (that reminds me...)
Promo CDs
Dictaphone and tapes
Tobacco, rizla, filters
Floppy disc
Daily contact lenses
Deodorant
Diary
USB adapter for MP3 player
Batteries (AA)

― braveclub, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Floppy disc

!!!!!

Nickalicious, you are no longer the caveman.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

I feel such a scruff, I think I am the only laydee with zero portable make up!

Well, I might port it, but I certainly don't wear it. I can't stand make up, and only put it on sometimes because it seems to please other people to see people wear it. As in, I feel it makes me look less weird to other people. I am starting to be at an age when people notice that you don't wear makeup.

Strange logic, I know.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord did I carry a lot of crap in my bag back in the day! Including sandwiches! At present it's just a copy of the last Zadie Smith, a scarf, a notebook, an mp3 player and headphones, some envelopes, and a few pens. (But I think this is because I now have multiple bags, so I have to switch back and forth, and things don't wind up collecting in there over months and months.)

― nabisco, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

zadie smith + scarf = anglo scarfy?

― river wolf, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

cell phone; house, mailbox and car keys (all separate rings); chapstick w/sunscreen; passcard for work; checkbook/credit card/wallet thing; mechanical pencil (0.9 mm); mechanical pencil, no lead (0.5 mm); 3 pens from the Muckleshoot casino; last paystub; wine storage contract; badge lanyard from last place of employment.

I don't do makeup either. The makeup thread convinced me to buy some mascara and I impulsed some powder, eyeshadow, and a lip pencil. But every time I put any on, I just want to wash my face immediately.

― Jaq, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Last night I connected my home computer to the internet for the first time in about a year, so I will have no further need for prehistoric floppy disks!

― braveclub, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

It's a backpack I got cheap from a shop in Livingston.
80gb iPod
Sennheiser in-ear headphones
1Gb mp3 player/flash drive/voice recorder thing
Spare iPod headphones
Two flash drives (work one, home one)
Two red pens & one blue pen
Mobile phone
Spare phone battery
Pentax optio m20 camera
Canon powershot a85 camera
Spare camera batteries
Handtowel
Simon Reynolds - rip it up and start again)
Empire apple
Grey wooly hat.

― treefell, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Tiny IPod
Coach wallet (the only grownup thing I own) w/the usual cards, three bucks
biography of Natalie Wood
Interweb bill
Kleenex
colored markers
notebook that's a little too big for my bag
Carmex
Altoids
sundry pills
.98 Old Navy leopard print gloves

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

wait which livingston

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Contents of bag (red fake canvas record bag):
1 iPod
1 iPod charger
1 pair Koss PortaPro headphones
1 cellphone charger
1 checkbook
2 paid bills
4 flyers
3 copies band's latest cd
1 copy Coincidance by Robert Anton Wilson
1 copy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
2 pins
1 receipt
mystery lint

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

oh hey gimme a spare of that latest cd, plz

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have two bags.

1) Yoga bag has:
yoga mat
shorts
t-shirt
padlock
cellphone

backpack thing has:
digital camera
1 ipod
1 pair Koss PortaPro headphones
psp
asthma inhaler
two copies of the new yorker
time out book of london walks
Lights Out For The Territory
paycheck
SFMOMA notebook
lots of pens

― admrl, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: run into me tonight at Ike Yard, becomes likely

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

that's like 2200 miles out of the way :(

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

house/car/work keys in red/black leather key holder
2 VIP massage/acupuncture cards
postcard from accentmonkey
black ball point pen
book & deck of ‘The Mythic Tarot’ cards
out-of-date $15 Dymocks gift voucher
current $10 Dymocks gift voucher
Zen Nano
purse
mobile phone
prescription specs
prescription sunglasses
comb
hair elastic
loose 20c piece
Eclipse mints
Sally Hansen lip inflation clear lip gloss
pricelist/booklet for a day spa
Shop & Win competition entry
work security pass
list of weekly movies I want to rent
photo of my pop that I didn’t realise was still in there

― Hard like armour, Friday, 27 April 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

River Wolf that's Livingston, Scotland.

― treefell, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

Keys, USB drive on a lanyard
Clubman Moustache Wax (1 black, 1 white) so I can look like Greg Norton
2 rechargeable AA batteries
"Diabetic" bracelet
Canon digital camera
Motorola V3x mobile phone
"The Five Love Languages for Singles" by Gary Chapman
Pack of unopened Ritter Sport Almendras Whole Almonds
Black 60 Gb iPod video
Belkin armband case
Oregon Scientific Heart Rate monitor and watch
NovoPen 3 Injection Pen in case with 3 NovaFine needle tips
Optium Xceed blood sugar monitor in case with 12 unused test strips and about 30 used test strips
Diabete-ezy finger wipes
Red Camelback 750 ml water bottle
A small unopened pack of jellybeans
Psychonauts for PlayStation 2 (not yet opened)
2 bananas
A MS Society Sydney to Wollongong bike ride t-shirt from 2005

All kept in one of those new Belkin iPod backpacks

― I am not afraid of you and you can spank my ass, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

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