I carry a big bag out of necessity (by which I mean “need to hold a brick-like laptop”) and with a big bag comes a jumbly tangleblob of STUFF. I also travel from time to time, which only exacerbates the problem, because nothing makes your stuff harder to find than the impending stressful doom of a TSA line.
Enter the Grid-It. It is a LIFESAVER. Do you ever use those workout headbands with the tiny rubbery grips lining the inside to keep them on your head? Same principle, only…for all the stuff in your bag. It contains it on a sleek, pretty (duh) grid of those rubbery strips, interwoven to lock your stuff in place. See?
The one I got was about $14.99, and the price can’t be beat, especially for the sense of calm it brings me when I look into my bag, and have all my STUFF nicely secured and easily — yet stylishly — accessible.