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SneakerShoulders · 05/09/2024 09:43

What do you do with your phone/keys/tissue if you don't have pockets in your dress? I can get that a handbag works if you're properly out, but what about round the house/office etc?

Does everyone use those round the neck phone holder things? I can't work out if they're ok or really naff.

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Fahran · 05/09/2024 09:46

I don’t carry my phone, keys or tissues around with me at home or in the office.

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 05/09/2024 09:54

I keep small items down my bra. I don't carry anything bigger around the house except to get it from A to B?

FeedingThem · 05/09/2024 10:05

In the office I'd have a handbag in which would be my keys etc. phone in handbag or on desk. No need to carry them around with me but would take handbag out to lunch, meetings etc
.at home, no need to carry them about. Keys on the hook. Phone on the side or somewhere near by, clean tissues the same, dirty tissues down the loo

jay55 · 05/09/2024 12:10

In the office I carry my phone, pass and bankcard with me to the canteen at lunch, prefer the days I have pockets.

SnapdragonToadflax · 05/09/2024 12:14

I either carry them, or wear a cardigan with pockets (I have a desk cardigan at work which I wear when the aircon gets too cold, which is useful for having pockets as well).

I wear a pass for work so would hate to have something else round my neck as well. Carrying my phone is fine, everything else is in my locker. At home I just lose my phone a lot...

Onelessboob · 05/09/2024 20:15

I always have pockets now in every outfit. I would find a lack of them just a bit debilitating. I hate carrying a bag unless I have to (I concede that I can't usually get a laptop in my pocket!)

reluctantbrit · 05/09/2024 20:36

I never carry keys, tissues or phones with me around at home or in the office.

In the office they are in my bag/on my desk. If I go to the toilet I need my keycard and it goes in the bra. I could put it on a lanyard but I hate having something around my neck.

At home my phone is either on my desk when I work or somewhere in the house, most likely in the living room.

Tissues are in boxes in every room and I put them straight into the bin.

Phone holder around the neck are naff, I have a small phone purse if I need a tiny bag and it's cross body.

Robotnik · 05/09/2024 20:45

Yeah, same as PP. I don't carry keys or phone around at home or work (unless I actually need it for work or I'm going out for my lunch, when it goes in my bag).

Also, you mention tissues - I never carry them now. I used to have to have tissues everywhere; if I didn't have pockets, they'd be up my sleeves; if I didn't have sleeves they'd be in my socks. Turns out I had a pretty bad allergies. It was a revelation when I got proper medication and realised that I hadn't bought tissues in months. I just don't carry them around now.

OhMyGiddyAunt · 05/09/2024 20:50

At work I have a swipe card/ID lanyard around my neck and luckily, as I'm one of "the chosen few" 😉, I have a master key which is wonderful as otherwise I'd have quite a bunch of keys to carry.

When I'm out and about at work I either just carry my phone or, if I have other stuff to take like paperwork, I have a thing that's a bit like a laptop sleeve.
...a bit like this.....

DeCaray · 05/09/2024 20:54

It's quite easy to sew a pocket into most garments. Takes less than half an hour.

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