Chris picked up three laptop bags at work yesterday as the result of a “sell off for cheap all this old swag with logos we don’t use anymore” project. Anybody need one? I’m happy to send them to you. We don’t need them. I don’t know why he bought them. Clearly, he’s been hanging around with Dad too much.
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Each of you should have a Grab N Go bag, also called a Get Out of Dodge bag (GOOD). This is a bag with all the stuff you would need if yoiu had to evacuate for a few days, due to natural or man made disaster. Since you arfe not using your NOOK anymore, you could stick it in there and also a charger (both wall and car and possibly a pocket solar, llike a Juice Bar. Add some fruit leather or other snack, a change of underweart and socks and whatever else you hold dear (and is small enouth to fit.
You could also use it to make a car emergency bag for each car,with heat sheets in case you’re trapped in your car in the winter, first aid supplies, a flashlight, a Leatherman utility tool and other stuff that you think you might need.
Finally, you could use it as a genreric messenger bag when you have small stuff to carry around and have no room in your purse.
Dad isn’t such a bad model. 🙂
What I meant about that is that Chris collects bags like Dad collects TV sets!
These are good ideas. But I don’t like that “expecting the worst” mentality! You should know that by now.
Shouldn’t it be a GODB? Good thing neither of us drives a Dodge. 🙂
Can you post a picture of the bags? Would love to see one.
never got the idea reading your blog, now I do.
Do you still have the bags and want to get rid of?
Would be interested in one for my one bagless laptop. I dont mind outdated logos. At the moment it resides in an “internationale school” logoed bag. Only that I would never send kids to that school, since their logo contains a badde mistake and their flyer was not any better (the curriculum descriptions were teeming with grammar mistakes and typoes galore).
I am not good at it, but think, I would be one of their better teachers.
Nice to see you here! Unfortunately we did get rid of all the bags, but Microsoft is notorious for giving out logo-ed bags, so I will keep you in mind should Chris come home with any more. Thanks for posting.
I agree that it is infuriating to see so-called “professional” businesses with bad grammar and so on.