Still Choosing a Bag

Remember eons ago when I asked if you had a bag you loved? I have since gone down a rabbit hole into bag land, to the point where ads for random bag companies fill my entire Facebook feed. I’m not even sure they are real companies. I’ve never heard of them. Just hundreds upon hundreds of ads for bags.

I measured the three bags I own and put the measurements in a spreadsheet. One is perfect but falling apart. It will not last another trip. One is too large. One is too small.

Every bag I put in the spreadsheet has a drawback on paper. It’s longer than the perfect bag (yay!) but has less depth (boo!). Or it’s the same size as the perfect bag (yay!), but it doesn’t zip closed, which doesn’t feel great for travel (boo!). Do you remember LeSportsSac from the 1980s? Did you know they still exist? I didn’t. But now I do, thanks to the rabbit hole I’ve disappeared into during my quest for a replacement bag.

I wish I could go into a store and see these bags. That is the drawback to online shopping. I used to go to a store with my current bag, try to fit everything into the new one, and see how it looked when it was full. Trying to judge the size of things from pictures is really hard.

But I have to make a choice soon.