Please help me find a bag

[janeite]

I am so not a shoes or bags person but I really need a new bag and am hoping some of you might help me please.

It needs to be:

• quite small - big enough for classroom keys, a couple of pens etc but not much else;
• a long very slim strap so I can wear it across the body all day and stop losing said classroom keys, pens etc;
• slim enough to fit inside work tote to go to work and back;
• not expensive (in fact, cheap).

Thanks ever so.

[EachPeachPearMum]

wow- so many responses....

Do you do leather, Mrs Veggie?

[AngryPixie]

this fits your criteria but had a bad review.

[AngryPixie]

nice but too expensive???

[AngryPixie]

A selection from TKMaxx

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Am a bad veggie nowadays and 'do leather', yep.

Thank you Angrypixie - some of the TKMaxx ones loo good and I like the style of the Debenhams one too. I don't like your 2nd one as it looks a bit fussy.

Any more please folks?

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

looK - am marking poetry essays and typing at the same time!

[EachPeachPearMum]

I would say TKMxx too- I have had some really good bags from there in the past (radley and coccinelle mostly)

[OurLadyOfPerpetualBloodSucker]

I've just bought the Lana Bodybag (!) from www.whitestuff.co.uk, it fits your description and looks much nicer irl.

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Will brave TKMaxx. The White Stuff one looks too big tbh but thanks anyway. I only need a tiny one.

[AngryPixie]

But this whitestuff bag is gorgeous

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Yes - that one is lovely.

[Sunshinemummified]

Next have some good bags at the moment here.

[AngryPixie]

WOO-HOO I found the perfect bag tra la la la la

[MarshaBrady]

(Janeite As a quick aside -we just finished the book in your name. Love John Burningham. Have you read Courtney?)

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Now I didn't say it was perfect. To be perfect it would be black, not brown and it would be on offer just to me at a tenner!

I like this one on the Next site but maybe a bit big?

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Not read Courtney, no. But John Patrick Norman is the coolest boy in school! My girls have long grown out of picture books but I couldn't resist the little name change.

[AngryPixie]

Noooo to the next bag - just say no to tassels!

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Oh I was thinking that the tassle would be easy to cut off.

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

I liked the colour of the burgundy one.

[Sunshinemummified]

I think the tassle would be easy to get rid of but personally I like a bag with a tassle.

[OurLadyOfPerpetualBloodSucker]

I thought the coin bag looked smaller than you needed (huffs).

I've had a few bags that size and they're cute, but they don't half bulge once your purse, phone, keys and lippy are wedged inside.

[OurLadyOfPerpetualBloodSucker]

Burgundy's a great colour but don't they look a bit like despatch riders' bags?

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

I just need to be able to fit keys and a couple of pens in. Might have a look at it anyway. Thanks.

[JANEITEPatrickNormanMcHennesy]

Ooh look at this one - what do you think? Would prefer cheaper though.