Getting rid of “work” bags?

[Katinahat]

I chose I still use them for work. I’m in education so I still go to work everyday. My work bags prepandemic were a Mulberry Bayswater and a Mulberry Seaton. I got a Mulberry Bayswater Tote just before the first lockdown too. It’s open topped so good for shopping trips or work.

After the first UK lockdown I bought a Coach signature central zipped tote which is a bit like a Neverfull with a zip. It’s wonderfully practical and wipes clean which mattered to me at the time. I’m not so bothered about that now.

I would still use them all in rotation but I’ve had to stop driving to work for a while for medical reason and now find a backpack better for my hour long walks. I’m sure that will change eventually but perhaps not for a year. My lovely work bags are waiting to be used again and on days I go into work later I can take the car so they get an outing!

 

[Love_N_Lune]

I previously used a Kate Spade saffiano leather tote bag for work. Since returning to work 3 days of the week, I have been using a backpack since I have to bring home my laptop daily. I don’t plan to rid my KS tote bag since it costed $100 years ago. I could also use it for business meetings, if needed. I plan to purchase a Neverfull for travel and errands. I likely will not use it for work.

 

[BleuSaphir]

I want to work in real estate full time. I will still need a work bag!

 

[poleneinblack]

Everyone, including me, used a backpack and a lunch bag pre-pandemic. I didn't get into handbags until the pandemic started. Now that we all work from home, I see even less of a need to get a designer bag to serve as my work bag.

 

[jackie100]

I am self employed but need to carry a laptop or tablet with me at all times because any time could be a time when i need to go online... so i cannot go anywhere, like hair appointments or getting my car serviced without bringing my laptop with me. It is a must so I'm def on the hunt for a good work bag, preferrably one with a zipper as I absolutely cannot leave the house without one

 

[ChickosMom]

I’m thinking I’m going to try to style mine for non work life but, I dunno how I can just yet. They’re “work me” which is almost a 180 degree difference from real me.

I am having the same issues with my work clothes and bags and shoes, though the shoes got worn out by using my in now-day-to-day life, but my clothes and bags are still waiting for... I don't know what..

 

[GraffS]

Due to Covid I had to stay in for 2 months in 2020. Other than that my life is exactly the same. Work, travel, going out, etc.
I’m surprised to hear that people’s lifestyle still get affected by it.

 

[Cali2HI]

I go into work a couple days a week and tele work for two days. I use a North Face backpack for my laptop and my Chanel WOC for my personal items.

 

[nyeredzi]

I used to go to the office every day. Once the pandemic started, for a while, I was going in once or twice a week. Now, I don’t go in at all. I never carried small handbags in the before times, and I still don’t like them. I always preferred medium bags, but large bags didn’t seem so large when I was away from the house for 10 hours a day. Sometimes I’d even put my lunch in my purse. A lot of stuff I might need, I kept in the office, but there would still be times I’d move stuff back and forth: medicine, cutlery, a bowl or a mug, a shawl because the office was cold, etc. I didn’t designate a bag as work vs. non-work because I also didn’t have very many bags. Usually just 1-3 and one of them would be general purpose and be used at work and most of my non-work life.

Now that I’m not away from home so many hours most days, my big bags seem huge! And heavy. I have 3 bags, so about 1/4 of all my bags, that feel too big now. And though they are still really pretty to me, I don’t carry them as much as I would now if they were smaller. I don’t want to get rid of them because they are pretty, but I realized the other day that I’m kind of making myself carry them more than I really want, so that they get used enough. Not sure what I’m going to do about them, or if I’ll do anything at all.

 

[allanrvj]

I used a Porter Yoshida 3-way briefcase for work, and since fully transitioning to remote work, I now mostly use it as a hand carry during traveling. It's very nice, because it has two front pockets with velcro closing where I can put my passport and all the contents of my pockets when going through airport security. And of course there's the laptop compartment inside which I sometimes use when I take my laptop with me.

 

[Amazona]

I used to go to the office every day. Once the pandemic started, for a while, I was going in once or twice a week. Now, I don’t go in at all. I never carried small handbags in the before times, and I still don’t like them. I always preferred medium bags, but large bags didn’t seem so large when I was away from the house for 10 hours a day. Sometimes I’d even put my lunch in my purse. A lot of stuff I might need, I kept in the office, but there would still be times I’d move stuff back and forth: medicine, cutlery, a bowl or a mug, a shawl because the office was cold, etc. I didn’t designate a bag as work vs. non-work because I also didn’t have very many bags. Usually just 1-3 and one of them would be general purpose and be used at work and most of my non-work life.

Now that I’m not away from home so many hours most days, my big bags seem huge! And heavy. I have 3 bags, so about 1/4 of all my bags, that feel too big now. And though they are still really pretty to me, I don’t carry them as much as I would now if they were smaller. I don’t want to get rid of them because they are pretty, but I realized the other day that I’m kind of making myself carry them more than I really want, so that they get used enough. Not sure what I’m going to do about them, or if I’ll do anything at all.

I've noticed the same shift in my thinking. My bigger bags seem waaay too big and heavy now. One of the biggest sufferers is my Coach Field tote 40. It just is heavy and so bulky. I do love it but still - it feels like dragging an Ikea bag around. The same feeling I get with the LC LP XLLH and DVF Voyage tote.
Medium has become my normal for free time, and now that I got a computer briefcase with wheels I've been carrying my small bags to work nearly every week. It's such a nice feeling to walk to work and just carry a Coach Penny or MBMJ small Percy and have everything else, incl files, computer, agenda, lunch, coffee thermos, umbrella, scarf, etc etc in my trolley that I don't have to carry around. My back and shoulders are also thanking me for it.

 

[DizzyFairy]

After 3 years in part time WFH, I started to sell off my old work bags (med size, Ferragamo Sophia types of work bags). I have moved into using laptop backpack for my heavy duty engineering/drafting laptop.

My WOC that I bought in 2013 now finally gets used, as i would fit it in my backpack and take to work.