Today, I thought I would give you guys a peek into my very large and very disorganized bag! This isn’t a what’s in my bag, that may come later, but for now, I just wanted to show you guys how I like to organize my bag! This is a great method for anyone who has a large purse or tote that they use on a daily basis that does not have very many interior pockets!
As you can see from this before shot, my Kate Spade Beau bag has one large bucket style compartment, flanked on one side by some small accessory pockets and a large “iPad” pocket on the other! This bag is great because it holds so much stuff, but it’s not great at keeping organized (and this shot shows the bag without my work stuff inside)! This sort of set up can be a dangerous one for people like me who tend to just drop things into my bag like it’s a bottomless pit, but that behavior can ultimately lead to issues with the stuff in your bag. When things are just free-floating, chords can tangle or break, papers can become crushed, lip products can melt into wallets and onto cell phones– it can be a disaster!
So, to contain the mess in this bag, I have to institute the use of extra pouches to wrangle my loose items together! Once I pulled everything out of my bag, I found that I really didn’t have as much stuff as I thought, but there were just a lot of little items hanging out at the bottom of the bag. Using some extra makeup bags, I was able to put like items together– toilettes and beauty products in one, and extra wires and gadget goodies in another. This way I have a system!
Now, when you look in my bag, you can see everything laid out neatly! To save space in the main compartment of the bag, I tucked away my larger pouch with toiletries and beauty products into the large zip pocket in the back, this way I can just pull the whole thing out when I need it, instead of digging through the whole section. Everything else in the main compartment is either large enough to be seen and grabbed easily, or housed in one of the two accessory pockets. So much better, right?!?
What other tips and tricks do you use to organize your bag? Have you given your bag a makeover recently? Let us know in the comments below!
where did you get the purse its really cute
It’s a Kate Spade Beau Bag.
I’ve actually been having trouble carrying around all my crap, I was thinking I needed a new bag with more compartments but using old make up bags is genius. Thanks for the great idea.
thank you so much for sharing this post. ive been trying to achieve purse organization as I now carry my personal size planner. there are not very many ideas on the web which is surprising considering the planner community is so big.
Thank you so much for stopping by! You are absolutely right, there is not enough chatter about how to store your planner in your bag, so I am glad I can help. I actually have a video I wanted to share with you that features a very cool and inexpensive purse organizer that I use to store my planner in some of my larger bags, I’ll link it for you here. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIyC1OaalA
thanks that actually did inspire me. happy new year!