Bag Soup.
You know the feeling.
You reach in. You feel around. You pull out three things that aren't what you need. You find it eventually, at the bottom, under everything else. You've been doing this for years. Your bag has been doing this to you.
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Why bag soup?
The term came from watching how people actually interact with their bags. Not how they describe their bags — how they use them. The reach-and-fish. The tilt-and-shake. The pull-everything-out-and-start-over. When the contents of a bag stop having places and start having a collective location — the bottom — that's bag soup.
It's not your fault. It's not a packing problem or an organizational failing. It's a design problem. Most bags are built around what they can hold, not around how you actually retrieve things. The soup is a symptom.
We named it that because “suboptimal compartmentalization” wasn't going to fit on a page.
Answer a few questions about how you actually live with a bag.
No scores. No grades. No recommendations unless you want them. Just honest questions with honest answers — and after each one, a short note on what your answer usually means.
The questions take about three minutes. The self-reflection is on your own time.
Bag Soup is updated as we find new ways people and bags misunderstand each other.