Hangbags, rucksacks, shopping bags, bin bags….whatever. Why do people use them in Second Life™? In case these serial accessorisers haven’t noticed, we all have a big magic ‘bag’ of sorts, a sort of box that folds up neatly to be carried around on your client, not taking up too much space, weighing nothing (in physical terms at least) and that carries thousands upon thousands of items. Better than that… it’s FREE. Yes, I’m talking about your inventory. Why do people insist on carrying bags around? Save yourselves the effort of ‘right click, wear’ because, shock horror (sorry to ruin anyone’s disillusions here) your bag does not contain anything.

But while people insist on having them, I thought I should at least attempt to figure out exactly what these pointless bags say about their wearers!

Bag 1. The cutesy ladies handbag. Just to accessorise an outfit maybe? What difference does a pixel bag make to your outfit?

Ok, admittedly, this bag gives off a whole different statement when worn by a guy.

Bag 2. The guy bag. The ‘check me out’ bag. The ‘I don’t even need this but don’t I look good’ bag.

In answer… no. it does not look good. It looks like you are carrying around a pointless, empty bag.

Bag 3. The ‘my boyfriend just left me his pixel credit card so I MUST shop and I MUST show the whole world that I am shopping’ bag.

HINT: the contents of this bag are already in inventory. The bag is EMPTY and thus, POINTLESS.

Bag 4. The ‘I will take any piece of crap I can find in the world and just hang it off my bag’ bag.

Save the world. Recycle. Hang your trash on your bag.

So there. 4 bags. All empty. All pointless. I did, however, during the, ahem, ‘research’ I carried out for this post, come across a bag that does serve real purpose in game.

The ‘I cannot face this pixel world today’ bag, also conveniently full perms to enable me to pass out to those whose faces I am getting, quite frankly, sick of seeing. Kudos to creator, Zim Andric for this amusing little idea!

Wow. Bag intepretation. I think I just discovered a whole new level to myself. The style mags are calling……

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