Timbuk2

Many of you are familiar with the What’s In Your Bag mecca on Flickr, where you can peruse thousands of photos of what’s inside people’s bags. It’s strangely fascinating. And then of course there’s the What’s REALLY In Your Bag which seems to be a slightly more dangerous version of What’s In Your Bag. This week Tim J decided to send his WIYB photo directly to our team. He regularly carries 19 items. I find that fairly impressive, although I fear we all probably carry 10x more items in our bags than we think we do . . . Check out Tim’s contents below.

Tim on Tim’s Bag: “A friend asked me once after seeing me pull some amazing things out of my bag, how much crap do I really carry? So I decided to take a picture . . . I’m a systems admin and student at a University in Northern Illinois and ride my bicycle to work almost every day of the year and my Timbuk2 bag is on my back every day. I’ve had it for more than two years now and it’s by far the longest lasting, best made bag I’ve ever owned.”

Tim’s Timbuk2 treasure trove.

So Necessary: Tim carries not one but two laptops, just like James Fallows. See what else he carries below.

1. 17″ Macbook Pro
2. Power adapter for the Macbook
3. 15″ Toshiba laptop (not something I usually carry, I was bringing it into work to drop off for a friend but it was still in the bag this morning)
4. Ac-adapter for the Toshiba
5. Blue spiral notebook – usually accompanied by a textbook or two
6. Red small notebook – I’m notorious for coming up with ideas in strange places so I keep that around so I don’t forget.
7. Deck of cards
8. Calculator
9. Remote for Macbook
10. DVI-VGA converter cable
11. Headphones
12. Stereo splitter
13. Bottle of Advil
14. Pens (2) and a mechanical pencil
15. Big pink eraser
16. Various (3) flash-drives
17. Whistle
18. Bandanna
19. Clear safety glasses – for riding home at night to keep snow out of my eyes
20. The bag – Timbuk2 Outtawhack Daypack

Thanks for sharing Tim! May we recommend some lumbar stretching?