First of all, this photo belongs to Jane Young. She was very excited to take it at IRI this year, when I showed her my bag. It is a blue camo-print messenger bag that I bought several years ago, and recently I decided that I needed somewhere to put the pins that I got at competitions, and the bag seemed like a good size. After 2 years in FIRST, the front of my pants would no longer fill the role.
So here’s two years of pins and oddities. On a 573 carabiner, I have some of the keychains that I have also collected. There’s also a broken Spike relay and a broken limit switch on keyrings, which are apparently really cool.
Or more space : Before IRI, I attached two strips of ribbon to the bag to make more room. Post-IRI, I STILL didn’t have enough room, so I did some searching in my basement. I did find some chain that I safety pinned to the bag. The chain is just the right size for attaching pins to.
Reason #1 to not get a new bag - I don’t want to take all of these pins off. They all have masking tape over the pin clasp in the back to keep them from falling off. Even taking ONE off isn’t fun
How much does it weigh/how much would it hurt if you threw it!
I took some of my stuff and put it on my wall (buttons, team 78 AIRStrike rally towel that I found in the parking lot at BC10, pins, lanyards*217’s is my real keychain, rubber bracelets, Battlecry Alliance#8 paper, and name tags from FLL and the NH High Tech counsel a where I represented my team along with a few other students).
It feels like it weighs a lot, but it doesn’t weigh enough to register as a weight on the electronic scale that I have at home. I’d estimate a pound or two, but that’s a very bad and rough estimation. The bag itself probably weighs more than the contents of it (which can get pretty heavy - at competitions, that’s wallet, duct tape, zip ties, energy drinks, keys, and my camera)
One of our animators is a massive Beatles fan, and she has a messenger bag just like that filled with beatles buttons. looks like shes not the only one out there
