The Tote That Won’t Eat Your Keys or Your Wallet

So, let me fess up. I’ve had my fair share of disasters with tote bags. They’re huge, they always beg you to carry more than you can handle, and they usually end up eating half of the stuff you put in them–especially when you’re ready to grab your wallet at the cash register. After several occurrences of trying to figure out which black hole in the depths of my tote bag had decided to devour my wallet or my keys, I strayed away from tote bags. Quite literally, I avoided them like the plague.

That is, until I discovered OGIO’s reconfiguration of what it meant to carry a tote. And despite all of the tote’s eccentricities, its efficiency, and its style, they simply call it the OGIO Tote Bag.

The bag is built capable of accommodating you on a stroll through campus, urban streets, or a short day-trip. In short, the bag is built for organization. But I will tell you this, it is not under-handed when it comes to size. OGIO designed its tote to carry your laptop (up to 15″) a sleeve and other miscellaneous items in its large main compartment. This is where its similarity to regular tote bags ends.

Nestled on the totes laptop sleeve are several compartments. Of course, there are slots for your pens, built where they are easily accessible. Then there’s the “no-boys-allowed”, the jewelry pocket, and the make-up pocket. All zippered of course. Not to mention the out-of-the-way water bottle pocket located on the inside of the bag–one of my personal favorites. Plus, the bag’s arsenal includes two mail and receipt filing pockets on the outside.

And did I mention that the exterior and interior materials are amazing?

After toting OGIO’s “edited” version of the tote bag, I was finally released from my phobia of non-existent black holes and vicious, hungry tote bags. If you’re looking for an unconventional tote bag that won’t make you feel like you’re pulling raffles out of a mystery box, then the OGIO Tote bag is definitely something worth trying out.