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Movie Prop Grocery Bags as Discreet Laptop Carriers

By

jgrahamc

8mo ago· 1 min readenOpinion

Summary

The author shares a personal anecdote about using a brown paper grocery bag as a laptop carrier at a Cloudflare board meeting, which prompted comments about needing a proper bag. The author argues that the ideal laptop bag should be inconspicuous and not look like a laptop bag at all. While regular grocery bags lack durability, the author suggests movie prop grocery bags as a solution - these look like ordinary paper bags but are actually silent props designed for film sets, offering the desired discreet appearance with better functionality.

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For me, the ultimate laptop bag is one that looks nothing like a laptop bag; it should look like nothing special at all.
Unhappily, grocery bags are not very strong. But there is a solution.
Looks like a classic brown paper grocery bag, but it isn't. It's actually a silent prop made for a film set where the noise from a crinkling paper bag would be problematic.
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A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting  and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...

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