![]() No brown paper bag for lunch, no plastic Tupperware containers, nothing. I don’t expect every bag to have space for lunch.īut most of these brands’ websites, when you click through the beautiful photos or watch the gorgeously lit “See what fits” videos where thin women in blazers seem to be packing for some sort of fancy overseas business trip (there’s always a passport), they are never once pictured packing food. the size of bag that will actually hold all the things I want to carry (probably not super small). And I’m gonna have to find a happy medium between the size of bag I see as ideal (basically, as small as possible while still holding a laptop and a journal) vs. That’s fine different people want different things. Some of them just, plain and simple, don’t have space for lunch. My new job doesn’t change the way I prioritize my spending. I’ve got student loans to pay off and goals to save for (two-bedroom apartment, new car, new couch, VACATIONS). If all my calculations are correct (I haven’t yet been paid for a full month so I’m still looking at my financial estimates based on the overall salary), I will be making a bit more per month. I’ve recently converted from working as a contractor with an hourly rate to working as a full-time employee with a salary. I’m a fastidious budgeter, and I want to save my eating out for a select few, nice meals with my boyfriend, instead of watching my budget dwindle steadily by $7–15 a day. I put in a good bit of effort to avoid spending money on dining out during the day. Or, like right now, sometimes I’m in a play and I’m headed to rehearsals after work, so I’m sometimes bringing food for lunch and dinner. I try to bring my lunch to work as much as I can-salads, leftover pasta from the night before, something. I need these two options to co-exist, and I’m finding more and more that they don’t. Why is that? I want a tote bag that looks nice and professional, and I want to bring my lunch to work. But there’s one box that almost none of them ever checks. ![]() I go over and over the pictures, comparing bag to bag and brand to brand, looking for the tote that’s going to check all the boxes and be absolutely perfect for my working life. The actual buying of said bag has almost become irrelevant looking is a hobby. I’m a sucker for that aspirational feeling of looking like a “professional” woman-which, as we all know, includes wearing pencil skirts and heels and generally looking as flawless as Helen Hunt in What Women Want (not a great movie, but killer professional-woman fashion). ![]() I’m drawn in by the organization, the idea that my day-to-day life can be compartmentalized, neatly ordered, and easily carried. I’ve spent more time than I want to admit over the past few weeks looking at professional women’s tote bags online. ![]()
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