The bag, and what goes in it

The holidays are down to their last pages, which means the annual audit: does last year's backpack still zip, and what exactly is that at the bottom of it. For a clean restart, the 5612679 from Eastpak carries a laptop without ceremony, while the 5629230 is the one that gets chosen because everyone else already has one.

Lunch is its own negotiation. The 4960080 from Lassig is stainless and shrugs off being dropped; the 2762786 settles the argument in a Mario household without further discussion.

Everything quieter — plain rugzaks and lunchboxes without a licensed character on the front — is a scroll away on discover.