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DD3 walks between 2 1/2 and 3 miles to school every day, and the same again to get home. Yeah, someday I am going to meet the former mayor that ditched the city bus system and sock him one.

Anyhow, she is taking art classes in addition to linguistics. One of the instructors she is going to have repeatedly is very fond of largish sketch pads, at present 18x24 inches (46x61 cm). There has got to be a better way to carry these things.

While I am contemplating getting her a laminated bamboo field easel with canvas carrying capacity that has an extendable handle and wheels like some rolly luggage for christmas, she needs something now. I have had a lot of ideas, but it is reconciling them with the fact that she has to carry 25+ pounds of books as well that makes it difficult.

I'm afraid that if I make a back carrier that goes over her backpack, that she will take off like the flying nun in the first stiff breeze. Optimally she should be able to turn the narrow section to the wind and secure it thusly quickly and easily. Plus not having it banging on her legs would be good.

After making dozens of sketches, I am about to throw my hands up and just get her a little red wagon. Except that would suck for maneuvering stairs once she is inside the buildings.

Please point out the obvious that I am missing!

NightMist

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NightMist
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What about a large flat bag that hangs (example) on her left side with the strap over her head/neck and resting on her right shoulder? It could hang fairly close to and under her arm pit and (being flat) just rest against her side. The other thought is to remover the paper from the pad and roll it up into a cardboard mailing type tube and put the tube in a fabric cylinder shaped pocket on the side of a backpack?

Good luck with the project and I'll sock that former mayor for ya, too! Grrr!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Leslie& The Furbabies in MO.

Have you considered a shopping cart with 2 or 4 wheels? During the winter I live in an RV (camper) park and the fairgrounds is next door. Each Thursday there is a Flea Market and Farmers Market. Most of us have a shopping cart to help carry all our purchases. Mine is has 2 wheels. HTH Barbara in FL

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Bobbie Sews More

One thing you might consider; I have seen some kids at our school use them, are one of the luggage pieces with back pack straps, collapsable handle, and small rollers on the bottom. Even the Euro back pack crowd uses them, because of the versatility. Then she could carry the large portfolio 18" x 24" pad, books, lunch and what-not and only have to schlep them up the stairs when she arrives at school, but because she has wheels on the bottom, and the collapsable handle, it should help in that regard. You might see what is available at a luggage store, and take her with you to get input, as to if she thinks the are "cool enough" and not "totally gross", or whatever the currently popular phrase is among the scholarly young. John

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John

Triangular wheels for stair climbing!

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Polly Esther

One other thing to consider, if you do chose to go with the wheeled luggage sort of thing, Make sure you get the one with the best set of wheels you can buy. This bag will spend the greater part of it's usage life, being wheeled along behind a child who might not be as careful as an adult would, when it comes to choosing the "path forward", so to speak. I have seen so many of those bags that come with cheap wheels, that are being dragged through the airport with one of the wheels broken and scraping along the concourse being struggled with by the owner. I would make that the primary concern when selecting the bag, rather than whether it had a lot of cutesy features. John

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John

Woah!

Unless your daughter weighs at least 125 pounds, 25 pounds of books is way too much for a young kid to carry, even in a properly fitted backpack with pelvic band. The recommendations are no more than 10-20% of body weight.

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Can she leave the sketch pad at class and have a second one at home? Carry her drawings rolled up? Can she get a second set of books?

Otherwise, the red wagon option is sounding better and better.

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Kay Lancaster

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:03:54 -0500, NightMist wrote (in article ):

Maybe one of those collapsable luggage carts? Then she can wheel sketchpad and back pack home, but stash the cart some where at school.

Maureen

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Maureen Wozniak

OK first off clarification, DD3 is 20 and in college. I still worry that hauling such weight about on her back for so long is going to reshape her. You gotta do what you gotta do though.

There are no lockers or any kind of storage on campus, teachers do not have assigned rooms, there is no place she can stash her stuff. Heck they only just put in bike racks, after proclaiming loudly that they would not be responsible for theft or damage of bikes. It is a "car college", no student housing and constantly expanding parking lots. Your car is your locker, and if you don't have one then it just sucks to be you.

At present I am thinking that a canvas sling is going to be the best option until I can get her something better. While I am leaning toward the easel, I am also looking at assorted wheeled thingies online. The easel is made for plein aire, so it should have good wheels designed to hold up over rough terrain, and bamboo is very weather resistant. I will call Dick Blick and ask questions though, if they tell me it can take it they will stand behind that. I may yet find something more suitable elsewhere, who knows?

NightMist

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NightMist

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