One of the bags I have is this one which is both a waist pack and has a shoulder strap for when a waist pack is not visually appropriate. For people for whom it's the weight-at-shoulder and not weight-at-all, something that lives at the waist might help.
(I have the older model: the waist straps are now an optional thing.)
I find mine really helpful sometimes, but not always.) It's often been the bag I stick into other bags, in which things like the wallet/inhaler/necessary med things/random bits of stuff I have to carry get stuck when I don't want to haul the whole bag out to a restaurant, or I'm walking around a museum or something.
It's big enough to hold a mass market paperback comfortably, plus glasses/tissues/etc. though obviously you can't put large size pads of paper in it.
I also find in general that a really well-balanced bag helps, though not if I overload it. (There are days I'm a lot more sensitive to weight on my shoulders than others, but most people's idea of a purse? Drives me up a wall because it neither stays on my shoulder without my tensing muscles nor can be easily carried in some other way that does not hurt.)
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Date: 2013-07-04 12:15 am (UTC)(I have the older model: the waist straps are now an optional thing.)
I find mine really helpful sometimes, but not always.) It's often been the bag I stick into other bags, in which things like the wallet/inhaler/necessary med things/random bits of stuff I have to carry get stuck when I don't want to haul the whole bag out to a restaurant, or I'm walking around a museum or something.
It's big enough to hold a mass market paperback comfortably, plus glasses/tissues/etc. though obviously you can't put large size pads of paper in it.
I also find in general that a really well-balanced bag helps, though not if I overload it. (There are days I'm a lot more sensitive to weight on my shoulders than others, but most people's idea of a purse? Drives me up a wall because it neither stays on my shoulder without my tensing muscles nor can be easily carried in some other way that does not hurt.)