InsideMyBag.com: What does your handbag say about you?

About InsideMyBag.com

Last updated: March 8, 2007
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Believe it or not, the contents of your handbag can tell a lot about you. It offers a peek to your identity, your lifestyle, your habits, your personality and your taste.

Have you ever wondered what's inside someone else's bag?

I do!

All the time!

Inside each and every bag lies a treasure trove of all sorts: designer wallets, expensive make up, jewelry, trinkets, the latest cellphones and gadgets. Some bags even hide prima facie evidence of one's sins: chocolate or candy wrappers, proof of infidelity, tissue stained with forms of bodily excretion,  firearms, stolen office supplies, illegal substances and in some cases, weapons of mass destruction.

I've always been curious on who's carrying who, who's carrying what. Every time I stand behind a tall skinny rich bitch sporting the latest it-bag on the queue at Starbucks, I cannot help but wonder what she's got inside her bag.

Is it stuffed with cold, hard cash?

It's not as if I could ask her straight up "excuse me miss, can I look what's inside your bag" just to satisfy my curiosity.

I simply can't count the number of times I asked myself the question what's inside someone's bag!

Take shopping for instance: why is that woman taking so long to fish her credit card/cash out of her purse?

I even know lots of people who literally pour the contents of their purse down  the pavement just to look for something ridiculous like car keys, mini-mirrors, or, like me, lip gloss, because their bags are just stuffed with... stuff!

What kind of stuff? This is what my little website is for.

What can I say... we really DO live in a material world.

I started this website back on October 2005 as a little online hobby to satisfy my curiosity. A lot of people have shown great interest but I ended up neglecting this little child because of prior engagements and well, a busy schedule. BTW, aside from this web site, I also run my own personal blog, www.bryanboy.com.

I thought it would be nice to resurrect Inside My Bag and hopefully, take it to a different level. Afterall, it's an interesting project.

One could easily assume it's a shallow obsession but in reality, there's more to it than bags and, as Miranda Priestly said it, "sttttttufffffff".All the photos on this website represent various members of society from around the world -- students, office workers, the "haves", the "not haves", people who carry fakes, people who rack up debt to get the real thing,  penny pinchers, drug addicts (I'm kidding), celebrities (well, there's good ol' Paris Hilton), trustafarians (who?), etc. InsideMyBag.com is a psychologist's WET DREAM!

All submissions are welcome -- I do not discriminate.

Blah blah blah yaddi yaddi yadda.

I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. My email address is insidemybag@gmail.com or SMS +63.915.785.1492.

Enjoy the website!

P.S. My English ain't perfect (it is my third language, next to Tagalog (Filipino) and Swahili) so please, for the life of god, spare me from the grammar police/English nazis.

Press & Media

Last updated: March 8, 2007

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For press and media inquiries, please feel free to contact me if you would like to feature my little online project, InsideMyBag.com. My contact details are as follows:

Bryanboy
Phone/SMS: +63.915.785.1492
Email: insidemybag@gmail.com (you may also carbon-copy my direct email address, bryan@bryanboy.com)

Submission Guidelines

Last updated: March 8, 2007

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Must-read: many people often ask if this website is dedicated only to "designer" bags or if I only publish photos of "designer" bags.

The answer is NO.

I'm a 100% equal opportunity lover and the label of your handbag doesn't matter. Whether it's made in China, Italy, France or bloody Ethiopia, I do not discriminate.
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Before you submit a photo to InsideMyBag.com, kindly read the policies below.

Photo Use Policy

By submitting a photo to InsideMyBag.com, you hereby grant me, Bryanboy, unlimited and full rights to do whatever as I please to your photo submission, including, but not limited to, photo cropping, photo resizing, photo editing, press & media exposure (digital/online/print/etc.) and last but not the least, use for promotional and marketing purposes on this web site (InsideMyBag.com) and any other web sites that I own, operate and/or manage.

Confidentiality Policy

I value everyone's privacy so by default, I will NEVER publish your full name, email address, telephone numbers and/or any other personal information on this web site (InsideMyBag.com) or any other web sites that I own, operate and/or manage UNLESS I have obtained prior permission to do so.

Photo Credits:

This is purely optional and you don't have to do this but if you would like me to credit a particular submission, please include the name and/or nickname you want me to use. You may also include your website URL if you have one.

Privacy Policy:

I guarantee you 100% that I will NEVER, under any circumstances, publish, share, sell or resell, whether directly or indirectly, your personal information such as your name, email address, telephone numbers and such, to any other individual, company or third party UNLESS I have your direct permission to do so.

Honesty & Integrity

It's human nature to have that desperate AND gagging need to impress others -- trust me, I get that "feeling" all the friggin time and I'm honestly not joking! However, one thing I've learned is that there will always someone out there who is better, bigger and WEALTHIER! On that note, please, please, please keep try to be as honest as possible and try not to edit your submissions. YOU know it's soo easy (and tempting) to stage something but let's face it -- we're not fooling anybody other than ourselves. Someone for instance submitted a photo of what's inside his/her tiny clutchbag no bigger than an infant's fist yet the sheer amount of items s/he submitted along with it required a forklift to carry.

The whole point of this website is to represent you, your personality, your lifestyle and your life, via your bag and its contents.

With all of that being said, here are some general guidelines I'd like you to follow. You DON'T have to follow them religiously -- I'm quite flexible -- but I'd really appreciate it if you DO take note of them. You'll save me lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of time if you do. As much as I'm extremely passionate on the work I do on this website, I'm still a one-man circus. If you can get Santa Claus to fedex me an elf who is willing to help me out for FREE (no-strings attached) then let me know. Otherwise...

1) Try to keep your file sizes to a maximum of 200-300kb (kilobytes) each photo.

2) If possible, try to avoid sending high-resolution images. Not only they take forever to download on a third world "high speed" internet connection (I'm not kidding!), I have to manually resize, crop, upload, etc each and every photo that I receive.

3) If you know how to resize your pics, please resize them to a maximum of 450 pixels wide. There is no maximum as far as height is considered.

4) Last but not the least, please limit your submissions to photos ONLY. There is no need to identify the contents.

I'll give you a kiss on the cheek and an oreo cookie if you follow those guidelines above. *wink*

Now... if any (or all) of that sounds wayyy too techie for you, I say "fuck it" and just email me with what you have. I'll just deal with it on my own. LOL.

Enough whinging. All I want is a bloody photo of what's inside your handbag and here I am asking for your first born child!

You may email your submissions to: insidemybag@gmail.com.

Questions? Send me a note. I'll try to respond whenever I can. Thank you, thank you, thank YOU from the bottom of my heart.