Needing to carry a bag less and less...

[Pheasantlysurprised]

Anyone else?
Ive only just thought about it, but since many garments and jackets have deeper pockets now (thank the stars!) I am finding that I don't need the bag space I once did.
I used to live in the wilds of Cumbria so always had a backpack stuck to me, it contained a variety of gloves, neckwarmers, weather related bits and bobs, but now im elsewhere there hasn't been as much need.

So I have been on the lookout for a new, decent bag but simply can't be bothered paying a premium for something that isn't all that urgent to me.

Maybe a shopper is handy sometimes but it feels so curiously liberating to just toss stuff into my pockets and leave the house in a waft of lightness previously unknown to me! It feels almost rebellious, new, exquisite!

With smaller devices and more pockets, does anyone else think it might be less important to always have the right 'bag' nowadays? If you wear makeup even a small minimal pouch under the coat could take care of that. Or a nice inside pocket!

Thoughts?

I like going out without one too. When I do use one, it’s a small ‘camera’ style, or a small Lululemon bum bag slung across my body, but no bag more and more.

I stopped carrying anything except my phone and debit card during peak Covid - then got spectacularly caught out when my card was declined in the Co-op, I didn’t have Apple Pay set up at that point, and no alternative card. It was actually their machine, not me, but I still had to go and draw out cash then queue again, which was a total pain.

So back to a bag. I’ve pared back what I carry but still always have purse, phone, small brush with a mirror in the handle, lipstick, sunglasses, umbrella. I was always taught to carry keys/purse separately in case of bag snatching (?) so keep keys in my pocket.

On a day I am actually in work I have a tote bag with my laptop, charger, whiteboard pens, and work pass as well as my handbag.