What's in your bag?

I have this bag that goes everywhere with me...it's not too big, not too small, just about perfect except on days when I go swimming. And it holds lots in its seven pockets.


When we went to Europe in the fall, we often took only these shoulder bags and nothing else when we'd go out for the day. Sometimes just one bag. With two cameras, two water bottles, fruit, pens, paper, gloves, hats, scarves, maps, guide books and whatever else we thought we needed that day plus whatever stuff we picked up in the many shops and markets we visited. Now they make good work/lunch bags.


Contents from the top left:

• Bus pass
• Business cards
• Apple sauce
• Sunglasses
• Keys
• Grapefruit
• THE coffee mug (for hot chocolate these days)
• 1GB USB key
• Case for camera (usually with camera in it, but something had to take the picture)
• Cough drops (both packaged and loose)
• Girl Guide crest
• Agenda/calendar
• Cheque book (yes, some people still use those occasionally...I'm not sure why I'm carrying it around though, I don't use it very often)
• Key chain thingy that fell off the keys up there
• Two receipts...only...the rest must be stuffed in the granny wallet, because, well there has to be more than two!
• Appointment card from the doctor's office (for an appointment that already happened)
• Mail that hasn't quite made it to the mailbox (but at least I just put them in there today!)
• Cloth for cleaning glasses
• Cell phone
• Sad looking package of tissues
• Pregnancy friendly Tylenol
• Random coupon for Steeps Tea (tea date anyone?)
• Eiffel Tower key chain (for no apparent reason)
• Local-seattle-based-soccer-mom-mega-coffee-shop coffee sleeve with a grocery list on it
• Another grocery list
• The grandma wallet

Things that I often have in my bag but for some reason are missing today:

• A book
• A notebook
• Something (or things) to write with
• Address book
• MP3 player
• The rest of my lunch
• More receipts
• A reusable bag for grocery stops on the way home from work
• Lip gloss (I wonder where all my Burt's Bees is!)

I have been carrying my back pack a lot lately because of the swimming gear, so some of that stuff could be in there...and maybe I'm getting better at getting rid of receipts? HA! I doubt it.

So, I got rid of the receipts and the grocery lists and the appointment card, but the rest is there to stay until I get home tonight (unless I eat the grapefruit and apple sauce before I leave the office)

What's in your bag?!?!?!