Aurora63
<font color=0066CC>I do look ravishing, don't I?<b
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I've realized over the course of the past few days that I am obsessed with bags. I am a bag hag. Any and all types, it does not matter...designer, non-designer, backpacks, totes, luggage...they have all found their place in my collection.
My latest obsession is in finding the 'perfect' bag for my Disney trip in January, now a mere 13 days away.
Time is running out.
My first Disney bag was an Eastpack messenger bag, not a sling messenger, just the kind that was narrow and rests on your hip. I liked all the pockets, but found it to be heavy and cumbersome after being fully packed.
Next, I thought, that's it...I'll use a fanny pack. No more heavy bags for me! The fanny pack did save my back and shoulders, as I knew it would, but alas, she just doesn't have enough space.
For the next trip, I had yet another epiphany...I'll use a mini-backpack-purse, I gleefully thought! Now I'll have space while saving my sholders and back. But I was foiled yet again, when the constant removal of the backpack just made it too annoying to consider again.
All three of the aforementioned bags now reside together in a dark corner of my closet.
Now comes the task of finding 'the perfect bag' yet again...what to go with this time, that will rise to the challenge of commando days at WDW? I've read of many suggestions here on the DIS...the Baggallini messenger being top amongst the candidates, also the Travelon messenger as seen on late night QVC, the LL Bean Healthy Back backpack...I think the overall theme here is a sling-type bag is the way to go.
I am flirting with this one I found on ebags.com, a sling with a pink girly-ness about it...plus it's quite inexpensive. Do you think it will do? Should I buy a bigger sling backpack, like a school bookbag? Or do I succumb to peer pressure and get the Baggallini?
http://www.ebags.com/f_l/peabody_mini_sling/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=86454
Tell me what you think. From the resident bag hag, Aurora63.
My latest obsession is in finding the 'perfect' bag for my Disney trip in January, now a mere 13 days away.
Time is running out.My first Disney bag was an Eastpack messenger bag, not a sling messenger, just the kind that was narrow and rests on your hip. I liked all the pockets, but found it to be heavy and cumbersome after being fully packed.
Next, I thought, that's it...I'll use a fanny pack. No more heavy bags for me! The fanny pack did save my back and shoulders, as I knew it would, but alas, she just doesn't have enough space.
For the next trip, I had yet another epiphany...I'll use a mini-backpack-purse, I gleefully thought! Now I'll have space while saving my sholders and back. But I was foiled yet again, when the constant removal of the backpack just made it too annoying to consider again.
All three of the aforementioned bags now reside together in a dark corner of my closet.
Now comes the task of finding 'the perfect bag' yet again...what to go with this time, that will rise to the challenge of commando days at WDW? I've read of many suggestions here on the DIS...the Baggallini messenger being top amongst the candidates, also the Travelon messenger as seen on late night QVC, the LL Bean Healthy Back backpack...I think the overall theme here is a sling-type bag is the way to go.
I am flirting with this one I found on ebags.com, a sling with a pink girly-ness about it...plus it's quite inexpensive. Do you think it will do? Should I buy a bigger sling backpack, like a school bookbag? Or do I succumb to peer pressure and get the Baggallini?
http://www.ebags.com/f_l/peabody_mini_sling/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=86454
Tell me what you think. From the resident bag hag, Aurora63.
) - I need a new bag, as my Disney bag got washed w/ a crayon in the laundry....not good....it was beige , now its kind of weird tyedye! I'd be buying it as we speak except it doesnt look like it has a place for a bottle of h2o - a must.
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so the brand means nothing to me!
I go bagless! That's right, I cram the few things that I have to have into my pockets, or make DH carry them 
He got so annoyed with me for wanting to carry all of our family's passes, that now he insists on carrying his own. So, I trusted him once to go get fast passes for us at RnR. He comes back with the fast passes and hands me those, along with our tickets. I look and one ticket is missing. I had to run back to the fast pass machine to get it! Also, I have to carry hand wipes or purell and my cell phone.
When I put it on, my arms are completely free, and I don't feel the need to constantly adjust it. It had three main compartments and a small pocket on the strap...just where my fast passes and ticket will be residing next weekend! It does not have all the credit card slots or mesh pockets likek some bags have, but I find I rarely use those things anyway...and even though it doesn't have a pocket for a bottle of water, I am sure I can fit one inside if I want to. Probably won't, but it's an option. Plus it is not big and bulky. I'd say it's bigger than a Baggallini, but smaller than a regular day pack. 
