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

[cordiality]

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?!

"He's very interested in the GDPR issue with the nanny details, and has removed the offending paperwork! "

Perhaps he should print out the GDPR details and keep them in his filing cabinet rucksack so he can refer to them when needed?

Slowly sneak an item out at a time and see if he notices

Put the paperwork.somewhere safe so when he finally notices you can reassure him that it's safe and he doesn't need.to carry it with him

dontdrink that makes complete sense! I keep all parking tickets and illicit snacks in my handbag so my DH doesn't see them and judge/want to share!!

Oh my husband is the same. He has so much shit in that bag, literally its so heavy i can hardly move it a lot of it is essential but he doesn't half carry rubbish just think it goes in there ane he doesn't have a clear out

I am known in the office for having a first aid kit in my handbag. Everyone laughs until they need something! (ha!)

The bills are an invitation to identity theft or a thief knowing where he lives should he have any mishap or accident and be parted from his rucksack.

I laughed the baby awake reading this!
Don’t make the mistake of getting a filing cabinet! DP joyfully set about filing ours full of thingys when we first got it. He isn’t allowed bags as he puts ‘things’ in them and puts them in corners, cupboards etc never to be opened again. He uses his work van instead, when the cab over flows he gets a new one!

I feel like I am always emptying bags out but they are still always full of crap

Yesterday I cleared out the car and found a wheeled laptop bag from when I had a bad back, just add this to the other 2 laptop bags and realise that is where all the chargers and tiny mouse have been hiding... along with some espadrilles, wrappers and wrappers and more wrappers - all my bags are basically just walking bins, with nothing useful inside

My DH doesn't carry a bag. He doesn't even take his wallet out with him. Just phone and keys.

Nobody seems to have mentioned those individually wrapped biscuits you get with your hot drinks. I always put them in my handbag for the children and at anyone time have at least three. Trouble is they automatically dissolve into minuscule crumbs when put into a bag and are entirely useless unless inhaled straight from the packet.

Actually, my friend’s car is like this, full of junk. You have to move piles of stuff to sit down and then you either have to hold it or put it on the floor (on top of other stuff) and rest your feet on it.

DH claims his work rucksack contains money, cards, keys, cigarettes and lighter.

I am not convinced this is true and will rifle though it later.

My handbag contains:

A4 notebook
dozens of ballpoint pens
work phone
personal phone
charger (thankfully, fits both phones)
keys and a security fob thingy that enables me to call for urgent assistance should one of my clients turn into a knife wielding maniac
lens wipes
prescription sunglasses
first aid kit
tweezers
Swiss Army penkife
torch
co-codamol
anti-histamine
eye drops
nasal spray
poo bags
enough lipsticks to start the National Lipstick Archive
factor 50 facial sun cream
blister stick (new sandals rub)
anti-bac hand wipes
cigarettes
4 cigarette lighters
chewing gum
hand cream
emery board
a few gravy bone dog biscuits
purse
copy of the descriptors for PIP and ESA
blank client assessment form for work
copy of LHA rate table
work ID badge

Some of this stuff gets removed at weekends. When it's full, it weighs a ton, but is preferable to lugging about a second bag for work.

Omg lakie I'm picturing you wheeling a massive suitcase around with you!

raisin can I have your husband? He sounds dreamy.

Makes me feel better about the wad of shopping lists I accumulate in my handbag every now and then.

I especially like the pension details for the ex nanny

I once emptied DD's school bag (which she had been complaining about being so heavy) and found a chunk of tarmac almost the size of a brick

Apparently they had been playing at having mobile phones (this would have been one of those steam powered ones from the early '90s) and forgotten it was there... then fell in love with it all over again and put it back in...

enough lipsticks to start the National Lipstick Archive

I also have these, all in various shades of Harlot Scarlet.

My handbag contains:
Keys
Purse
Business card case
Mason Pearson pocket hair brush (expensive but last for years)
Prescription sunglasses
Lamy fountain pen (dirt cheap and really good)
But I do have a (regularly edited) vintage filing cabinet and stationery cabinet in my sitting room.
Control freak - moi?

Hahaha brilliant!
My work bag/every day bag contains:
Spare hoodie
5 lipsticks various shades
2 lip liners
Vaseline
A water bottle
3 lighters (i dont smoke)
Plasters
Some twine for gardening (i dont have a garden)
Purse
Mobile
A bag of crisps

Haha, maybe he teleports to colder climes during his working day? My DP doesn't take a bag, but his work trousers are stuffed with things like torches, notepads etc 'just in case'.

I made a list of the things I emptied out of DD’s weirdly heavy schoolbag last year. Wish I’d kept it. I remember some of them:

various twigs and sticks
various stones (“Why is your bag so heavy, DD?” “Don’t know”)
seashells
gymnastics medal
hairbrush
soft toy panda
soft toy fox
soft toy squirrel
school books
water bottle
lip salve

etc. (She’s 8)

ivymaud people never ever suspect that I'm a creepy prepper type but I always get fairly admiring 'ooh' s and 'ahh' s when I pull something useful out of my bag like a confused clown.
Can anybody recommend a good sized side bag/satchel with compartments for better storage? Currently I have to throw all my things in there like a skip.

Well I carry a ton of shit around in my bag, so no, he's NBU really.

@LilMadAgain
You can buy an insert to put inside your handbag that has lots of compartments etc. Only a few pounds on amazon and can then move it between bags that you like. Search handbag organiser insert

We popped out for dinner with friends and someone needed a pen, so I had a rummage in my handbag. Found 27.

tomatosoup I found them and have bought one, thank you ever so much! :D it's brilliant from the looks of it and it arrives tomorrow, it's taken such a panic off my mind as I've had to leave really important things home incase they got broken.