# What's in your bag, baby? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197 "2002-05-15T14:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skijumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/1 "2002-05-15T14:02:20Z")
Let’s see… - Nike running shoes - Running pants - wallet - Lomo camera - 2 rolls of undeveloped film - an apple - bottle of Evian water - a notebook - 2 pens - pencil - keys - Martha Stewart Living magazine (_not_ mine) - Monty Python’s Flying Circus video (to return to the library) - discman - CD wallet with 5 CDs - spare batteries - train pass - security pass for office ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/2 "2002-05-15T17:50:17Z")
Let’s see: -various pens and pencils -purse w/ checkbook and wallet -Nalgene water bottle -the 4 CD’s (in cases) that I bought last night -legal pad -CD wallet w/ 128 CD’s -rain jacket -spare car key -small pack of tissues -package of herbal tea (leftover from when I was sick and brought tea to work) ---
**Author:** ![tigergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@tigergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tigergirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/3 "2002-05-16T01:47:38Z")
Okie Doakie: - Wallet - Keys (personal) - keys (work) - mobile phone - makeup - hair ties - Credit card statement - hankie - bank book - tampons (hey c’mon, every girl’s gotta have them!) - prescription repeat - penis-shaped straw (long story, from a friends hens night.) - 2 party invitations - postit notes - AFL membership card - 1000 Indonesian Rupiah - 1 Honk Kong Dollar - New Zealand 20 cent piece - pen - perfume samples (little glass tubes) ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/4 "2002-05-16T02:25:43Z")
- wallett - bank book - sundry coins - measureing tape - tampons - sun glasses - moisturiser - asthma puffer - steroids (for the asthma :)) - hairbrush - partial script to Hamlet - floppy disk - sundry reciepts - keys (work) - keys (home) - car key - keys (friends home) - mobile phone - pen - hotel sewing kit - time zone tickets - Jeffrey Deaver novel - lunch - friends pants ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/5 "2002-05-16T02:35:09Z")
My backpack today: Several bus receipts Intercultural Communication reader Intercultural Communication notebook Cybersociety reader Cybersociety notebook A printout of my Cybersociety presentation Glasses Sunglasses Pencilcase Carmex lip balm Wallet Keys Pills Used bus tickets University diary Quick deposit slip Mobile ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/6 "2002-05-16T04:26:59Z")
Book: Harry Potter, “Quidditch Through The Ages”. BART ticket with perhaps 32¢ credit remaining (used as bookmark in above book). .50 mm Rapid-O-Graph[sup]TM[/sup] technical pen (from whence I derived the name “inky”). Sketchbook, Canson, acid-free, 9"x12" hardbound. India Ink. Magic Rub[sup]TM[/sup] art gum eraser. Long dead Digi-Mon (kept for the digital clock, despite the slightly disconcerting corpse). [Titanium Spork](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=113061&highlight=titanium+spork)!!! Motorized frog. Swiss Army Knife. [Mysterious Green Plastic Diving Guy](http://www.fathom.org/inky/backpack.jpg) (found in street). Very old piece of cheese. Cellphone. Chap-Stick[sup]TM[/sup] lip balm, melted and congealed into one side of tube. Wine cork, Wente vinyards (Cabernet Sauvignon, most likely) used on tip of X-Acto knive to keep me from poking my eye out. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/7 "2002-05-16T04:28:45Z")
I don’t have a bag these days. ---
**Author:** ![ClairificC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ea924/32.png) [@ClairificC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClairificC)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/8 "2002-05-16T04:37:35Z")
hmmm… lotin tampons glasses blue pen boxers deck of cards wallet chapstick camera whoo hoo, I got a brand new bag a couple weks ago, it’s awesome 😉 ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/9 "2002-05-16T04:40:19Z")
**Inky-** Your mysterious Green Plastic Diving Guy is from the game Mouse Trap 🙂 He stands on one end of a board, which catapults (?) him into a tub, causing the mouse trap to fall. Does anyone play the game, or do they just put together the machine and watch it work? In my bag, there is a wallet with no money An unbalanced checkbook A hairbrush Sunglasses Various hair utensils (bands, scrunchies) which I have no use for anymore as I just had my hair cut off. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/10 "2002-05-16T05:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leafrog \* > **Inky- > Your mysterious Green Plastic Diving Guy is from the game Mouse Trap, He stands on one end of a board, which catapults (?) him into a tub, causing the mouse trap to fall.** Ah ha! “ **Fighting Ignorance Since 1972** ” ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/11 "2002-05-16T06:14:59Z")
Lemme see, I don’t usually carry a bag, but I had some homework to do at work tonight, so I brought it in… Two notebooks index cards loose change box of pens some pencils highlighters Intro to Psychology book stapler pencil sharpener gum AMP energy drink a timecard from work ---
**Author:** ![sirjamesp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sirjamesp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirjamesp)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/12 "2002-05-16T10:08:01Z")
My God! Why do you people carry so much stuff! Why don’t you just put your homes on your backs like snails, and be done with it?! My rucksack contains: English - German Dictionary Passport Bag of Cheesy Wotsits I wouldn’t even bother bringing it to work, except I always have a nagging suspicion that I _might_ need it. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/13 "2002-05-16T10:31:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sirjamesp \* > \*\*My God! Why do you people carry so much stuff! Why don’t you just put your homes on your backs like snails, and be done with it?! > > My rucksack contains: > > English - German Dictionary > Passport > Bag of Cheesy Wotsits > > I wouldn’t even bother bringing it to work, except I always have a nagging suspicion that I _might_ need it. \*\* What are you like??? What goes on in your life that might need a passport, Cheesy Wotsits and a English-German dictionary at a moments notice? 😃 As for me :- - diary - various bits of paper containing things that my wife has asked me to print of for her… - scarf, gloves and brolly (living in London - won’t need them **today** but you never can tell) - keys - pens - tissues - newspaper (the Metro - sad I know) - rental agreement on the weekend’s van (for moving home) - personal bag with wallet, asthma pump, spare shoelaces, torch, Vicks inhaler, cough sweets and Vaseline Lip Therapy - Pot Noodle (lunch) Gp ---
**Author:** ![bluddy\_bloodnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@bluddy\_bloodnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluddy_bloodnut)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/14 "2002-05-16T11:13:40Z")
okies i have: -old discman with the cure inside -waiting for godot by samuel beckett -japanese books -physics books -diary -oragami hat -bunch of other papers and shit that i dont need -almost empty can of lynx -calculator -bus timetable -mother courage and her children by bertolt brecht -of mice and men by john steinbeck as you can probably tell i am i high school student ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/15 "2002-05-16T11:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by grimpixie \* > \*\*… spare shoelaces … \*\* Which just came in handy!!! 😃 Gp ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/16 "2002-05-16T11:56:42Z")
Hmm. A bookmark. One of those electronic translator thingies. And four notebooks filled with amusing quotes, notes on heraldry, minutes of old PCC meetings, and a few stabs at translating bits of Gregorian chant. Best I can do, I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/17 "2002-05-16T12:02:09Z")
I never carry a bag, but on a typical workday, the contents of my pockets are: - Wallet - Handspring Visor - House keys - Car or motorbike keys - Cell phone - Public transport pass - Entrance pass to the office - Chewing gum - Handkerchief - Business card holder - Pen - Tic Tacs ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/18 "2002-05-16T12:03:08Z")
Oh, and off to IMHO. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/19 "2002-05-16T14:25:51Z")
Good question (and TIMELY! I am searching through it for my Gas Bill) - Gas Bill (found it) - Phone Book (not a yellow pages - the little purse sized ones) - Wallet - Calendar/Organizer - Assorted paperwork all clipped together with a binder clip and the wrapped with a rubber band but way too much junk to list and frankly I don’t want to dig through it - I’m afraid of what I might find - Keys for Work - Keys for non-work - Smokes - Leatherman type tool (it’s a cheap knockoff) - 25’ Stanley Tape Measure (don’t ask) - 7 pens - 3 pencils (that reminds me - I have to call the school) - Nail File - ID Badge for work - Yellow highlighter (forgot to give it to Mini2U) - Compact - Matches ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197/20 "2002-05-16T14:37:14Z")
Today my bag contains: \> one pen \> two return rail tickets (London to Edinburgh) \> one Duracell AA battery \> one chequebook \> _Sophie’s World_\* by Jostein Gaarder \> _The End of Time_\* by Damien Thompson \> this week’s copy of _Private Eye_ magazine \> a small pocket map of the Underground \> _The Holocaust_ by Paul Johnson (one chapter only) \> one earphone pad for personal stereo earphones \> one mobile phone \> A-Z map book of London \> one gas bill (paid today) \> one CD single (bought today) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bag-baby/109197.md?page=2)