In the category of Things I Buy Way Too Much Of, one definite entry would be bags.  Camera bags.  Laptop bags.  Messenger bags.  You name it.  Am I secretly jealous of the fact that a woman can have 27 million purses while a man should only have a single backpack?  Maybe.  I go through too many of these and the floor of the second bedroom in my house is currently littered with the cast-offs.  (Maybe I should get it together and sell off a bunch, but the thought that I’d probably just get $100 or so for a bag that cost $1,000 isn’t that much incentive.

Anyway, this week, Crunch Gear is doing what they term Bag Week 2009 and it’s exactly what you’d expect, 2 or 3 reviews per day of different bags.  And it’s getting my Bag Lust warm again.

Me, I want a bag that will carry my 13″ MacBook, my Panasonic GF-1 (or sometimes my Nikon D300 – though things get awfully heavy that way), sun glasses, reading glasses, Kindle, mints, eye drops, Netvigator WiFi thingie, business cards, keys, earbuds or headphones (depending on my mood and destination). magnifying glass, USB memory stick, light saber (oops) and whatever shopping I’ll be doing that day.  So one thing I appreciate is a bag with lots of pockets.  Because I don’t want to have to scrounge around through 100 objects bumping together at the bottom of a messenger bag – I want my stuff safely separated and rapidly at hand.

So right now, from the bags they’ve reviewed so far, this Booq Boa Squeeze is looking very tasty because has room for up to a 15″ laptop and sports 27 pockets overall.

boa-squeeze

Of course then I zoomed over to Booq’s home page and saw about 10 other bags that looked good, too.

One problem is that Booq doesn’t have a distributor in Hong Kong (though they are in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore) so there’s no store to go into and actually see these bags in the flesh, as it were.  And at US$100 to $200 they ain’t cheap.  But they do look lust-worthy, at least to my demented mind.

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