To wonder where you keep your stuff?

I can only speak on behalf of Android, but it lets you take a picture of ANY card / ticket and converts it into a digital one.
Ultimately all NT needs is the QR code, so as long as it's there I think you're all good.

Lots of leggings have an in built pocket for your phone now. Most of mine do.
I wouldn’t normally use a bag for going out and about unless going out for the whole day.
If just going out for a few hours I’d have phone in pocket with everything I need on there - cards, kindle. Keys fit in pocket too. I wouldn’t take a perfume or a lippy. Maybe a bobble on my wrist. Hair clip clips on outfit.
One thing I do normally go out with is a water bottle and that usually gets left in the car.

Sometimes I leave the house with just my phone, i dont need a purse as I use Apple Pay.

My 18 yr old DD is similar. Her “handbag” is her bag for college with her tablet in and her dinner and her coursework etc . If she goes out her phone is her bank card . She puts her car keys in her pocket and everything else is in the car . I rarely see her with an actual handbag unless she’s going clubbing and then it’s tiny .
We were in river island recently and she loved a bag but she only wanted it for clubbing and then she walked away coz she said she would probably put it down and lose it . Youngsters today have everything they need on their phones .

You can make NT card digital?!

How?

I was thinking the other day about how l won’t buy a coat without a hood anymore.

But at one point l did. Then l realised it was because l always had an umbrella in a bag.

Now l just take out phone, keys and lip balm. It’s liberating.

Pssst! You can put your national trust card in your phone wallet to save yourself with that!

I would have thought most people kept an eye on their battery and adapted their phone use accordingly? I dunno, I use my phone all day at work for sat nav, taking photos, listening to music etc. and have never had any worries about battery life.

Yes, seen those but our local trains haven’t got then or sockets either.

God I miss Mizz and More

Quite a few places here charge the newer phones by contact. So you can pop your phone on the charger on a table and it charges without the need for a lead or worrying about the battery dying.

Battery in my phone dies really quickly if used on a train etc. it is quite old though. It was just a word of warning. DDs phone is only 2-3 yrs old.

I use to carry a handbag as a teenager to hide my fags and lighter in now I very rarely take a bag if im nipping out but if im properly going somewhere I would take a handbag

I’ve been known to tuck my phone in my bra as well.

Realistically though I have my bank cards and house key on my phone, a hair band round my wrist or in my hair, predictable periods and enough apps on my phone to be able to not need a magazine if I’m bored.

Edited to add that I don’t wear those leggings though.

I've never had my phone die on me ever. I don't think it has an especially long battery life, but it will easily last 24 hours if needed.

To all the people who just take a phone, no cards or cash-do you have phones with ultra long battery lives? DD never caries cash/cards went to London for a show. Coming back her phone battery died and she fell asleep on the train. So-no money, ticket on phone. She ended up in a little station, had to borrow a phone to ring me, necessitating a cross country trip in the small hours.
The falling asleep is on her but the rest was a lesson. Take a lead or power pack for your phone.

Whenever I've put my phone in my bra it gets all sweaty and makes my screen/camera lens blurry. If you carry your phone in your hand around here (London), it'll get snatched. Some leggings do have pockets though. I generally only wear jeans or trousers with a pocket so I have somewhere to put my phone. But I like to have a small bag with a proper wallet. I can't put everything on my phone, for one thing I use DH's debit card so I need to carry that separately, plus a lot of other cards which can't be put on a phone like Freedom Pass for free travel, Access cards for free carer entry and Ride Access cards for queue skipping. I usually have several sets of keys as I have 2 properties plus Radar key. But a typical 17yo won't have a need for all that.

I am fascinated by this. I have very small boobs and am always amazed at the things larger chested women can do and wear that I can’t.

I had a neighbour who used to keep her phone tucked between her boobs. It was like having an extra pocket. You couldn’t see the phone at all, and then she’s just have a rummage in her cleavage and produce it. I always wondered if it was uncomfortable when it rang, or whether it got too hot against her skin.

YANBU. I always have a bag!

When I was young I had a tiny bag with my phone and wallet and keys.

I’d love to go back to that level of stufflessness, but encroaching decrepitude means I now also need to make sure I have my migraine tablets and absolute fucking gallons of water with me at all times.

And SEN parenting means whenever I manage to persuade DS to actually leave the house, I also need to bring ear defenders & power banks and multiple chargers so the Switch and iPad don’t run out of battery leading to apocalyptic meltdowns.

I only ever really carried a lip balm and my wallet back in the day. As a teenager we didn't have phones (I was 6th form by the time I had my first). I would be wearing jeans normally and have those things in my pocket.

Nowadays I still travel light if just me...car key, phone and lip balm, hairband on my wrist. I rarely need anything else, if I do I have an emergency kit in my car. (Has tissues, various medications, lip balm, charger, gum etc.) Car key has a hook on so I can clip it to my belt loop while in my pocket cause I am paranoid about dropping it.

If out with the kids I take more obviously, said 'emergency pouch' (not the one that lives in the car), bottle of water, a cereal bar, little pouch with a change of pants and some wipes for the youngest.

It's always a boy called Chris.

I don’t need any of that stuff you detailed in the op. Wouldn’t even put it on at home, let alone think it’s important enough to carry around. Don’t have an umbrella. Keys we have a safe thing outside our house. Wallet in my phone. All I need is a phone.

Am I allowed to link my favourite reddit thread? It love this. I can read them all day.

www.reddit.com/r/HerOneBag/search/?q=Bits+and+bobs&cId=59ecec24-1277-47af-8404-061fb5bc77bb&iId=6e958c46-68a9-43cd-8b5d-f3ee5e025421