How to pack when the weather is whack

I know Canadians have a reputation for talking about the weather alot, but this weather is seriously nuts. Yesterday I left the house and it was pleasantly what I like to call "no weather" - not hot, not cold, just perfect. Then withing 10 minutes of leaving my house it starts to rain, but only for like 15 minutes. A few hours later it was super sunny on our end of Dalhousie St, interspersed with some crazy gusts of wind (the bike rack across the street was almost blown out of its screws in the ground!), with another 10-minute downpour thrown into the mix in there too at some point. And now today looks sunny enough so far, but I know not to get too comfortable, cos a crazy switcheroo might be just around the corner.

So how does one leave the house to handle all this crazy weather? It's like you need a scarf one second, and then all of a sudden it's too hot for it and you need to whip out an umbrella. Oh yeah, and you also have to go by the grocery store on your way home to pick up some nacho fixin's for dinner (to go with the sweet homemade salsa your man made for you just before leaving on a mini tour...you know, so you wouldn't go hungry while he was gone). Anyways, how to carry all these things (and more) without looking like a bag lady?


Well thankfully reusable bag line Baggu has teamed up with Brooklyn-based designer Shabd Simon-Alexander (she of the to-die-for-tye-dye) for an affordable line of totes and backpacks in the most amazing palette of California surf colours. Use them on their own, or stuff 'em in your purse for the coolest reusable tote ever.


Each bag is dyed by hand, and in keeping with Baggu's mission to make wasteful bags obsolete, they make the totes and backpacks out of recycled cotton. Duck bags are 60$, back-packs 75$.