Category: Bags

One Year Later: Tumi Annapolis Zip Flap Bag

Last Sunday was the one year anniversary of the day I walked into my local Tumi location and purchased my current bag, Tumi’s Annapolis Zip Flap Bag, in Hickory.

When I reviewed the Annapolis last year, I praised it effusively, and I’ve raved about it to many people since then. In the last year, I’ve used it intensively, enough that I eventually decided I wanted to write this, a retrospective on the Tumi Annapolis with my thoughts on the bag after a full year of solid use.

Spoiler alert: I have never owned a better bag in my life. Never.

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Review: Tumi Annapolis Zip Flap Bag

Review: Tumi Annapolis Zip Flap Bag

On May 6th, I walked into a Tumi location to check out a bag I’d been heavily eyeing online: the Annapolis Crossbody Zip Flap bag.

I knew immediately that I adored it. I knew just as certainly that I didn’t need it. At that point, I’d been using Fossil’s Field City Bag for 3 months, and I was pretty satisfied with it. After checking out the bag, I turned around and walked out, determined to wait.

I drove back a few hours later and walked out with it. (Some wait, huh?) I’m really glad I did, and after 2.5 months of testing, I’ve been satisfied with what I’ve found. Tumi’s Annapolis Zip Flap bag is easily one of the 3-5 best bags I’ve ever had, if not the best.

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Review: Fossil Field City Bag

Originally written February 16th, 2017.
2 Sundays ago I was poking around at the Bluegrass Outlet Shops in Simpsonville, and found an absolutely ridiculous deal at the Fossil outlet that I snatched up at something only slightly slower than the speed of light.
TL,DR review: If this bag was a person, I’d marry it, and ya’ll would be invited. Smash that buy button, if you see it for sale online or elsewhere. Full review follows.
The easiest and quickest way I gauge how excited I am about a product is how eager I am to review it. I love testing, evaluating, and reviewing items/products/restaurants/you name it, and if it’s something I love, I find it difficult to force myself to wait long enough to give it enough time for a fair review. I began drafting this review mentally later that day.
Meet Fossil’s Field City Bag! #fanfare