ALL THE BACKPACKS I EVER HAD

• Little tiny REI little kid backpack, light grey
• ’80s backpack: grey and dark grey with slightly diagonal red outer zippered pockets and lots of pencil holders inside
• Black JanSport backpack, or maybe grey
• Dark green Eddie Bauer backpack with lots of pockets and flaps, eventually became not punk enough so I put a Citizen Fish patch on it
• Crummy backpacking backpack from Price Club, too big for school but I used it anyway because I was weird
• My dad’s hella old North Face backpack, dark green, got ripped apart during a fight in 8th grade :(
• A brand-new North Face backpack, bright red, wasn’t punk enough so I didn’t use it for very long
• My friend Brendan’s kid brother’s old backpack, black and plain, said “Loopid” in marker on the light grey bit on the bottom, so I blacked it out with more marker
• Really good backpacking backpack from REI for my first trip to Europe
• The best backpack I ever had, a small vintage North Face backpack, in gold, gave it to a girl I liked when she went off to grad school, because she’d always admired it (and it worked - she eventually had sex with me)
• Dolores Chiller by Timbuk2, traveled me all over the USA*
• D-Lux Laptop Messenger Racing Stripe by Timbuk2, traveled me to Berlin*
• Small roll-top messenger by Mission Workshop, bright red, traveled me to Michigan and back a bunch of times*
• Extra-large custom backpack by Timbuk2, in shiny vinyl red, white and blue, travels me to the laundromat and back every few weeks*

I know not all of these are backpacks per se, but I’m using Vic’s piece as precedent. (I saw the “history of backpacks” tag and really wanted to partake.)

*Bags I got for free because of blogging, nbd