Or is the contents of my DH's rucksack completely hilarious

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My DH goes to work everyday with his work rucksack. I've never given it a second thought.

This evening, for some reason, I had to move it out of the way, and found that it weighs a ton. For the first time ever, I've asked him what is in it, and we've gone through it together.

It contains

Tissues, smints, kindle - all fine
Umbrella - unnecessary but I can see the virtue
Woolly hats - two of them! It is 30 degrees outside and has been for months! He says you never know when someone will want to borrow one...
A large set of Allen keys - he has a desk job in an office.
Paperwork. Plastic files of paperwork. Including, but not limited to:

• instruction manual for dd's bike
• a pdf doc I once forwarded to him on managing child behaviour. (Unread).
• his pension details and p60
• the pension details of a nanny whom we no longer employ
• council tax bills. Thames water bills.
• The finance agreement for the car...

... etc etc.

I think this is completely mad. He thinks it's completely reasonable as he 'always knows where everything is'. Every day! On the boiling hot tube! With, to all intents and purposes, a filing cabinet on his back!

Please tell me I'm not BU to insist he leaves it all in a safe place at home?! Or is this the norm? Can we check with other DHs?!

You're all enablers. He now thinks all this is perfectly fine, and he has found his people , it wasn't meant to go this way!!

I think we may be married to the same man. Mine wonders why has has such bad posture...

I could survive for three weeks in a nuclear holocaust with just the random contents of my handbag. Add the random contents of my car and three months would be entirely possible.....😂

If one is not eccentric when it comes to rucksack use then it should be forcibly removed from the owner, Mine contains dog tags, sea sick tabs, combat field dressings, a first aid, pens and my various small eats and salad recipes accumulated from ship to ship and a small makeup set and other random stuff hat comes my way

Sat here chuckling to myself at this thread!! I got a small handbag a couple of years ago, but still manage to have half the house in it most days!! You never know when you will need things! all my collegues now that they can come to me for various medications! I also have a small can of deoderant, some plasters, safety pins, Sanpro, tictacs, extra strong mints, tissues, and probably 2 months of shopping reciepts! etc etc
About 5 years ago we had to do a 'elf n safety thing at work!(worked in community at the time and had to carry equipment) as a laugh i stuck my then handbag on the scales and was shocked to find it weighed 5kg!!

That's his filing system.

I’m infamous at work for my bag contents Someone once had what they declared to be the most perfect jacket potato ever. All it needed was a flag
A quick rifle thru my bag produced a tiny American flag ...

Not bad with my handbag but my desk drawers...

I can supply you with an entire makeup kit, perfume, toothpicks, floss, any kind of hot beverage you fancied, emergency "forgot my lunch" food...

Colleague "has anyone got any toothpicks"
Rest of office
Me "mint or plain? Or do you want floss instead?"
Rest of office 🙄🙄🙄

How is he carrying a pdf document? This is not a hilarious list, no. It is very disorganised and useless though.

My handbag contains

• Purse
• Bottle of water
• Some random questionnaires from work that i forgot to hand in
• note book
• pen
• mirror
• keys
• perfume
• plasters
• paracetomol
• diclofenac
• krispy kreme money off voucher
• some random reciepts
• star stickers stuck to the bottom
• a tampon
• an empty tampon wrapper
• a spoon
• a dummy belonging to a child that is not mine
• my DDs individual education plans
• my autism diagnosis report

Guy I worked with back in the mid 90s took a rucksack to the office every day. It was packed. He didn’t touch it all day. It went home again with him at 5pm. One day I asked him what was in it. He told me it was his porn collection that he didn’t want his wife finding.

Last time I looked dh had 4 ties in his work bag. He wears t-shirts.

Better than a squillion tissues and eleventy million scrunched up receipts.

DH has similarly weird paperwork combos in his backpack.

I once went to a bar where they search your bag with my backpack after work and was very dressed up (heels, make up, the whole lot). I'm a cyclist and hadn't used my bike that day, but still had my toolkit, fluorescent jacket, and (very heavy) kryptonite lock in there. When I handed my bag to the bouncers they were totally perplexed. Thankfully I was allowed to take it all in.

Sounds like a cutie! Instruction manual for dds bike, aw

Comparing him to my dh, there are some things he is lacking OP. Where's the string for example? My dh never leaves home without it in case an urgent knot situation occurs.

I have a mini emergency sewing kit, folding scissors (legal), a Radar key, tissues, wet wipes, meds, Werthers, Airwaves, water, two emergency whistles incase of vehicle crashes, mini coloring pencils and sharpener and hand sanitizer but tbf my anxiety is quite well controlled at the moment, there's usually lots more in there. I also have an emergency spoon

My peeps!

I was recently given a small, smart bag for work by a pal and I instantly wondered how I could stuff enough into it. Will use it for meetings where i pretend to be sooo reduced. Then will revert to huge, normal bag with all you need in case of nuclear war.

Hmm this inspired me to check my rucksack. In addition to my work laptop, charger and notebook, I have two metal spoons and four plastic ones, 3 sachets of coffee, a bottle opener, mini screwdriver (I took a fan in to the hospital last week when DH was in and had to assemble it), DS's power bank, a pair of converse and a bottle of soy sauce. I am definitely sorting it out tomorrow.

I removed a man attached to a parachute before I went out . I have been carrying him everywhere for a week

I must be so weird. I keep my bag as light weight as possible. I have a massive beach bag sized handbag and my bank card, phone and keys at the bottom. O and my water bottle.

Surely he worries about carrying bills though. Keep the hats but leave the forms at home.

There are 3 sets of camping cutlery in my office laptop that I put in there to take to a charity shop after last year’s annual camping trip (when we didn’t use them).
Our annual camping trip is next weekend 😳