Do use a handbag still

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Since paying by phone has taken over and less use for cash or cards I never seem to use a handbag. Off I go with just my phone and coat with various things tugged in pockets. But I feel that I need to re-organise my self. Do you still have handbag, purse, phone all separately? The last purse I used was a massive spotty cath kidston one!

I’m reading this thread and wondering how many handbags we each own.

I think I have 12 having recently got rid of ones I don’t use. Generally, the given away bags were gifted by friends and usually too small for my needs. I feel obliged to keep the Pom Pom London one I was gifted for a big birthday. It’s nice but not very roomy. My usual bags are crossbody messenger bags and mostly bought by DH on his trips to Florence.

I have 6, which is surprising for someone who tries to get away with not using one.

I’ve got loads, no idea how many, maybe 30-40? . All different styles and I use one everyday, never leave the house without one, day or night. No fucks given whether they are fashionable or not, I carry a fair bit of crap around with me and I like them, so that’s that!

I love them and buy nice ones but not often:

I have two totes: a black one and a tan one (Coach and Kate Spade). Both well worn.

An ancient Radley Cream, soft cross body (v well worn) and a Radley, small cross body black saddle bag.

A silk black evening bag and a similar one in navy. Both old and have paid for themselves.

A champagne coloured tulle and silk/satin clutch which matched my hat for DS's wedding.

I am looking for a new bag in a putty or grey colour I think. Coach have some nice ones.

My bags get worn to death and I feel I can justify buying nice ones. I just wish nice bags in my price bracket came without names and logos. I once saw the perfect bag in Aspreys window and thought it would be nice to have and I'd pay £600ish it was so divine. I looked it up on-line. The price started at £8k.

@IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle

valm down yourself

All I said was I don't live to please other people & so don't care if they think it looks untidy. Why should I ?

I don't care that you think my phone in one pocket & keys in another looks untidy, your opinion is incorrect in my opinion and more importantly , I don't care about being pathetically pleading to you.

Im 55, I haven't lost anything or had anything stolen. Youre more likely to get your handbag stolen.

That's your opinion. A phone in one pocket, keys in another is not MY definition of scruffy 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️

@pictoosh

theres nothing ostentatious about me carrying water. It's litterally that or end up in hospital. I have an underlying health condition that leaves me drier than the Sahara. I drink litres & litres day & night.💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️

@FabFebHalfTerm I doubt that @pictoosh was referring to people with medical issues.
DD always carries water with her because her medication makes her very thristy. People without health issues don't need to be constantly sipping water

I take one to work because I think it looks smarter and ‘lifts’ my usually quite causal work outfits.

I no longer carry one out and about, I just use pockets or shove things in my gym bag.

I drive to work, and the only time someone sees my bag is whenn I walk through the office to my desk. I don't expect anyone to notice it.

Yes!!!!

i go into the office twice a week, I need to carry my laptop and lunch, plus the usual purse, phone, glasses, keys. So I have a back pack for these items, but keep a small cross body bag in my desk, which I use if I’m nipping out in my lunch hour

I haven’t read the full thread and if I did perhaps it would all make sense… but people don’t wear handbags anymore??! I commute from my large town to London a few days a week and pretty much everyone is wearing a bag of some description. Some fashionable, some functional, some fashionable and functional 🤪 A crossbody is a handbag, a backpack is a handbag. People in Regent Street of all ages from different places are wearing handbags. All the girls walking to and from school are wearing handbags and/ or backpacks. Boys are wearing backpacks which they call ‘bags’.

What parallel universe have I fallen into this evening? Who are all these bagless people? Where do they all live? 😂

It is if it's hanging out of your jeans arse

My options are:

1. Big, not that smart backpack.

1. Fairly small, smart leather backpack (evening stuff if I e.g. Need to take a jumper or whatever - I cycle a lot)
2. Tiny but somehow also capacious leather cross body (takes phone, small purse, keys, headphones and sunglasses [edit: and a shopping bag]). This is mainly for summer if I am in a dress that doesn't have pockets - in winter I can fit that stuff in my coat pockets.

I do have evening bags as well for black tie events.

I don't use a normal handbag for day-to-day at all, but I think that's been driven by the fact I cycle a lot rather than fashion.

Edit: I guess a cross body is a "normal" handbag but I think what I mean is that sort of medium to large sized bag that sits over one shoulder which I definitely used to use.

I also realised recently that I had just sort of stopped using a bag most of the time. A few years ago I would never have gone out with just my phone in my pocket and my keys, but now I do quite often. I do think it looks a bit scruffy but perhaps not in a bad way. A proper, traditional handbag definitely looks stuffy to me now.

I feel reasonably confident that I'd notice someone taking something out of my jeans pockets. I was always a bit of a hazard with a bag anyway - prone to leaving them lying around. Rucksacks do always make me feel a bit unsafe - it feels that someone could so easily take something out of it literally behind your back.

Nope, pockets all the way.

Yes I still use a handbag but also have Applepay. I have a mini hairbrush, lipstick, Vaseline, antihistamine, @paracetamol and phone plus tissues, hand cream and hand gel and purse in there.Oh and my reading glasses.
By handbag I mean a crossbody bag.

I notice a lot of posters say they carry a hairbrush. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone using one in the loos at work or when out.

No but she'd instantly judge your daughter or me in the street.

@BobnLen

its still not MY definition of scruffy.

Geel free to have your own definition, but don't tell me mine!

Not that I need to explain myself to you, but no, mine does hang out of my jeans arse.

@FabFebHalfTerm
Don't be silly.

I've scaled back what I carry as much as I can but it's still likely to be phone, a bit of cash just in case, my keyring with as few bits on as possible, lip balm, a pen, some hankies, spare glasses as I wouldn't be able to see to get home if my first pair broke.

I've got a bad back and hate carrying a lot of weight but a bag is part of my outfit.

It’s my definition of asking to get stolen or fall out

Definitely crossbody and messenger bags are handbags - it’s just the name of the style of bag