Welcome. This is what my wife calls "a bunch of stupid jokes and pictures of paper bags." She's right about the jokes. She's wrong about the bags: some of them are plastic.

What the critics say: "Utterly unnotable" (Wikipedia editor). "Ridiculous collections #4" (Buzzfeed). Other comments: "As complete wastes of time go, it's a very high quality complete waste of time... An entirely dispensable source of inane comments about a truly trivial subject... A monument to the planet's worst corporate design... An unwelcome reminder of some of the more unpleasant moments in our lives."

Donations (unused, please) of bags not represented in the bag gallery are welcomed -- please mail to this address, and I'll credit you on this site! I am happy to trade any extras that I have. Check out the links to other bag sites, find out how you can use your spare bags, and explore the fascinating world of bag manufacturers. 

Highlights: The design features page reveals the secrets of professional baggery, and the logos page analyses the enigma of airline corporate identities. Search for your favourite bag, browse the bag gallery by country and airline, and check out the biggest, best and worst bags!

Henbag

Tired of accompanying your friends on hen nights and ending up having to barf on the disco floor? Ann Summers, a firm specializing in providing accessories for such events, has just the bag for you: a "Girls Passed Out Sick Bag". This item comes with a range of other useful novelty articles for the spinster's final binge: sexy shaped peppermints, reserved sign, drink badges and sexy straws - enough to supply six women with an evening's worth of male-free fun. All this for for only £6. If you're not interested in sexy straws or drink badges, though, and just want the bag, £6 seems a bit steep. I suggest you wait till wedding season, then hang around a pub entrance waiting for a gaggle of boozy women clutching sexy straws to stagger out, and see if you can charm them into parting with an unused Girls Passed Out bag. Once you've got your bag, do keep it out of reach of children, though - as the bag itself thoughtfully reminds you. Thanks to Steve Silberberg for this item.

Monday, July 03, 2006 

Underbagged

What do Latvia, Liberia and Lesotho have in common? Yes, they all start with an L. What else? They're all missing from my barfbag collection.

What's the biggest country not represented? Chad. In terms of population? Burkina Faso. Other prominent absentees (coloured red in the map): Georgia and Rwanda. 

Major underrepresented portions of the globe are a swathe of Africa and chunks of Central Asia and Central America.

Donations from these areas especially welcome!

Centres of megabagdiversity are the USA (though many US bags are distressingly plain), China, the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil and Indonesia. 

Click here for details.

For new baggists only

New to the world of bag collecting? Want to get a head start on your collection? Then send me an email, and I'll send you a randomly selected free starter pack from my surplus bag stock. There won't be anything rare, and you may end up with some duplicates, but at least you'll be able to show your friends a few more of these lovely cultural artefacts. Make sure you include your mailing address in your email. Offer good as long as stocks last.

This is where old news goes when it's too old to be news.

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