I do occasionally. My bra fits perfectly well, which means that it’s easy to slide a slim phone or ipod in at the top - bras aren’t supposed to be so tight that you couldn’t insert a finger at the top of the bra and lift it up, and that’s thicker than the stuff I put in there.
The couple of times I’ve kept money in my bra, it’s been inside a little plastic bag (the type you take to the bank).
I do it, but only occasionally. I usually only have time to walk around 9 or so at night; if I’m walking outside, my husband likes me to take a cell phone. Not all of my pants have pockets, so sometimes the top of my bra has to suffice.
When you can’t slip a twenty in your shoe or sock …
My bras are professionally fitted, but there’s room at the cup/strap juncture for my cell phone on a long road trip. It’s the perfect place to answer the phone and I can feel it vibrate when the tunes are cranked. Works for me.
I wonder if the women who couldn’t possibly fit a cellphone in their bra are the ones who haven’t been professionally fitted, and their boobs are hanging from their straps. A well fitting bra shouldn’t carry weight on the straps; the strap is just there to hold the top of the cup, not the weight of the boob. So it shouldn’t be tight there - it should be tight around the band.
My sunglasses hang from the neck of my shirt and are anchored by the bra occasionally but that’s it. When I was younger and had more separation, stuff would fall through. Now I’m older and, um, bigger so there isn’t room.
Even from short garden-to-house distance, I’ll bet they probably turn a brighter red color. I have never had tomatoes toted in a brassiere before and would very much like to try some.
As a last resort I’ve done it. Not a cell phone or cash (I almost never carry cash), but a drivers license, credit card, hotel room key.
No, I’ve been professionally fitted. I wear a 32D, and my breasts don’t touch, and there is just not lots of saggy fabric all around my boobs. My breasts are about the same size as the cups, so they’re not hanging from the straps, they’re just… full. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? I don’t think it’s a sign of good fit that you’re just sloshing around inside the cups. My breasts are also firm, so, even placing an item near the top where there is less fullness, it would just stick out very obviously.
I’ve also been professionally fitted for a sports bra, and it about takes a crowbar to get myself out of it. Sportsbras work by compression, if they work at all.
I think the difference is that WhyNot is saying she can stick her cell in the STRAP of the bra - I could too (I’ve been professionally fitted), its just never occurred to me to do so. I don’t EVER wear a shirt where I could put a cell phone in my bra strap and not look like a complete tool and almost always carry a purse. But if my shirts were baggier and my shoulders broader, I could do it. (If anything, my straps have too much space for a cell phone to be secure, it would work for a short term ‘tuck my cell phone in place’ situation though).
I could fit more than a credit card of a couple of bucks inside my bra cup. Those are filled with my breasts. And again, the shirt factor comes into play - most of my shirts would look rather silly with anything tucked into my tops (I don’t even wear seamed bras).
My cleavage (I’m a fairly busty woman) is deep enough to carry a tube of lipstick or a cell phone with discretion (granola bars, my wallet, a small handgun, a vanilla latte, an umbrella, not all at once of course). But its never really occurred to me to carry anything in my cleavage. I’d think tomatoes would get smooshed (and chocolate or lipstick get too warm), but I could fit half a dozen cherry tomatoes in my cleavage.
I can sort of see what you’re getting at, but how would it stay put? Bodies move, and cell phones are much larger than bra straps. If the cell phone was just tucked under the strap it would fall out as soon as you turned around (especially if the strap is not bearing weight, as it shouldn’t). My understanding, for those who place things inside their bra is that,
a)“Inside your bra” means inside the cups or else inside cleavage
b) the object when “inside your bra” cannot be seen while normal, non-skin-tight clothing is worn.
Neither A nor B is true for me. Maybe I don’t understand what WhyNot meant.
B is not necessarily true. Travelcards and cash might be invisible, but phones won’t be, though they’re not really very noticeable. I don’t think anyone said they would be unseen.
To me the “gross” is putting a germy object next to my boob. My cell phone has been placed on the counter top at the bank, for example; money is very dirty, as has already been pointed out, and so forth. I don’t want to put germy things in my bosom area. 
Only my phone and only around the house if I’m wearing something without pockets. And even then, it’s only if I’m moving around and my hands are otherwise full, like carrying a sleeping child to his room or a full laundry basket upstairs. Once I sit down, it comes out.
Agreed, hauling cherry tomatoes gets a, :p;)
Carrying around live amphibians (reptiles?), lets just go with live critters of any kind, gets a, :dubious: :eek: WTF?
I agree with Dangerosa. I’ve never done it, but if I did I’d just look ridiculous - there’s no way you’d not see the outline of whatever it was I’d stuffed in there. My clothes just don’t work that way.
I’m a 38C, and can hold pens and suchlike in my cleavage, but never do. At least, not ever in public - sometimes I’ll stuff a pen there while paying bills at home or whatever, but never outside my front door. I used to never carry a purse, but carry a small one now, and if I’m without it or pockets, then whatever I need carried I hand to my husband.
I’m clearly in the “bras are for boobies only” clan.
I realize some of you ladies have practical reasons regardless, but when voting “no exceptions” how many of you would have voted “sometimes” or “once in a while” had you only known ahead of time carting tomatoes was an option?
Just wondered…
I often wear a tank top with a built in shelf bra around the house, and doing farm chores. The shelf bra is an excellent pocket for collecting chicken eggs and cherry tomatoes, so really, I do that all the time, but you’ll not catch me pulling anything out of my boobs in public.
You’re just going to have to go get fitted for a mansierre and try it out.