What a person chooses to carry around with them can be pretty, darn revealing. It can show how a person is fashion conscientious or practical to the bone. Whether he/she takes their coffee to-go or takes their tea leisurely. If he/she is a germaphobe, a planner, utterly disorganized, plugged into technology, eco-friendly…. Yadda yadda yadda. What someone bothers to haul around with themselves is often symbolic of what the person holds most dear or is representative of how they live. In essence, looking in your neighbor’s totebag = the ultimate “get-to-know-you” activity.
Unlike how most people read their magazines, I don’t read front cover to back. The first thing I do when a copy of Marie Claire arrives in the mail is flip to the last page where the contents of some fashion guru’s bag is sprawled out and annotated. For the “nosey anthropologist” in me, the monthly spread is fascinating as well as addictive. Hehe.
Most the socialites highlighted carry around a designer bag of some sort. (As you can see in the pic, the outrageously gorgeous Beth Ditto sports a Mulberry satchel). I can probably bet that most of you out there also carry around a pretty purse. J Uh-huh, you know who you are. I see all you ladies schlepping around your mammoth arm-bags whenever I am at work. Me. I carry around my trusty, blue back-pack. It is sortta like my security blanket, allows me to carry around anything without giving my shoulder a work-out. In the spirit of snooping in other peoples’ bags, I am now opening up my back-pack for all of you to see. Call it an opportunity to get to know me better! (…and give me a taste of my own medicine :P).
North Face Angstrom—I <3 the back support in this pack. It makes the difference between “I freaking hate text books *grumble grumble grumble*” and “I could go climb a mountain!”
Alrighty, so here are the contents of my backpack (artfully) dumped out onto my bed. Ironically, my ipod and mobile phone were charging at the time—so they are MIA from these pics. But my water bottle was still hanging out in my pack! I tend to carry around a hefty 1 litre bottle as I drink water like an elephant.
1. Dream Cream, LUSH. The all purpose moisturizer. You can use it on your hands, body, face, hair… I have ridiculously dry skin, so I tend to freak out if I don’t have some form of moister to smother on my dry patches throughout the day.
2. Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Tiger Lily. Great for whenever my pout is feeling a little parched. The tint is a half-way house between a nude balm and a sheer lipstick, ideal for slapping on in my sans-mirror life.
3. Tom’s of Maine Deodorant in Apricot. Because you never know when the heat might put you in an odorously-awkward position. Smells sooooooooooooooooooo fresh anyway. No need for perfume with this!
4. Stila Convertible Color in Lillium. Pretty color. I like to dot it on my lips and cheeks to add some life. Dot dot dot dot.
5. Sunglasses. I used to wear aviators, but the HUGE goggle style frames are more ideal for driving. No glare. Period.
6. Fold-up bag. I never know when I am going to end up at the grocery store… A mini bag in my back-pack is worth two sitting in my car.
7. Purell. A quick way to clean up after using a dubious public toilet….
8. Extra Gum in strawberry. I tend to fluctuate between strawberry peppermint. Sweet vs. spicy.
9. snack bars, Enjoy Life Coco and Biogenics Crispy Rice. For when I need an afternoon pick-me-up or am stuck without sustenance.
10. Pencil pouch, Anthropologie. I like to have options when I write. Pencil or pen? Purple ink or green ink? What if I need to erase something? Or need stapler? Yes…of all the things I could choose to worry about, I am concerned on whether or not there will be a stapler at my destination. But heck, no coffee shop that I have ever studied at had a stapler when I needed one!
11. Notebook. Because If I don’t have any paper on me, that’s the day I will need it.
12. Computer lock. Hmmmmmm. Just a convenient method to keep my laptop from being picked up by your friendly Samaritan with sticky fingers.
13. Book, Field Notes on a Catastrophe. Required reading for Uni. Not a bad book. Well researched and articulate book concerning global warming. It is actually turning into some thought provoking reading.
14. Black book, Moleskin. This little guy organizes my life. If I left it at home one day I probably would not be able to function… yup. I am completely old school. As I don’t trust technology (nor myself for that matter) to remember annoying details like dates and times, I have to write them down J
15. Pylones pocket book in Poppy. My one stop finance and identification book. I also adore the poppy pattern on this wallet.
16. Old receipts. You would not want me in charge of accounting your books. I only go through my pack every few weeks to tally up the bits and pieces officially in my check book. I know, very notty of me :/
Make of it what you will and enjoy the virtual snooping. Let me know if you carry anything similar with you, or completely different. For now, I am off to enjoy a bottle of ginger kombucha and the rest of Bright Star. I love that movie ^_^
Cheers, kaite ;]
Post script: While I was taking pictures of the Marie Claire spread, Mieku (my little Balinese kitty) wanted to “help”. He likes to sit on paper. Seriously. The ENTIRE freaking table, or bed, or floor, may be at his disposal for squatting, but he will still go to all efforts to sit on the solitary scrap of paper. This time, the given paper was my magazine. Gah! All I could do was snap a picture, share, then boot him out of the frame.
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