Anonymous wrote:Ladies! Why so many bags when you commute?

A purse. Ok. But why is it big enough to be a weekender?
The "tote"? In addition to the purse a tote that's three times the size of the weekender purse. Why? What's in there?
The lunch bag that can't fit in the purse or the tote. Really? It can't fit?
The laptop bag/briefcase.
Finally, the ubiquitous yoga mat.

No wonder your tired and achy. You're moving twice a day!

Anonymous wrote:I get tired just looking at people lugging all this stuff around. I have a tote bag which fits my little purse and a lunch bag. That's it.

Anonymous wrote:I think the trend is open floor plans and fewer people have offices. I used to have a lovely office where I stored most of my crap. In the new virtual world, I have 3 "offices spaces" I can work from. The trade off is that one of these include my home. But 2-3 days a week when I'm not home I go to one of these other spaces depending on my work or possibly just go into the city for a meeting etc. So some days I need to pack my non-commuting shoes (my commute involves a fair bit of walking), lap top, lap top cord, phone cord, snack, in addition to my kindle, wallet, phone. I'm thinking of getting a wireless mouse to lug around as well.

Also some people go to the gym after. I work out at home since kids but man would I lug a lot of crap to the gym in my pre-kid days.

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Anonymous wrote:I get tired just looking at people lugging all this stuff around. I have a tote bag which fits my little purse and a lunch bag. That's it.

So you have two computers? or don't need a laptop? A lot of people need to carry their computer and all that entails (cords etc.) so not a good comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:Because some of us were Girl Scouts and were taught to always be prepared.

Some of us were former Boy Scouts, same principle applies.