19 Embarrassing Things You Can Find in Any Teacher’s Bag

We’ve all seen those cute worksheets where kids try to guess what’s in their teacher’s bag. Well, let’s hit the pause button on those children’s imagination games, and reveal the shocking truth of what’s really in our purses, totes, briefcases, and/or backpacks.

1. Dozens of pens & whiteboard markers all dried up that you just can’t let go.

2. Random toys confiscated from students…

3. Stack of papers to grade that you keep telling yourself you’ll get around to… when you have the time…

4. A random fork from last week’s lunch… that never made it to the dishwasher.

5. A few loose tampons… unused of course! (sorry guys)

6. A back-breaking amount of books.

7. Definitely a bottle of aspirin, for obvious reasons…

8. Multiple mini-chocolate bars that melted and deformed into odd shapes or that somehow escaped from the packaging and stuck to the inside of your bag.

9. Tupperware from the lunch you barely had time to chew…

10. Car keys, house keys, classroom keys, and those mystery keys that open nothing we own, yet we keep them just in case…

11. The essential bottle (or two) of hand sanitizer!

12. At least ONE pen that’s leaked all over and made an “ink-redible” mess!

13. Less-than-flattering pictures of you, hand-drawn by kids with a strange perspective of the shape of your body…

14. Mosaic junk balls created by a sticky mixture of unwrapped candy, paper clips, hair ties, and loose change at the bottom of your bag.

15. Crumpled-up to-do lists, grocery lists, receipts & reward cards to every coffee shop in town…

16. Tissues of all shapes, brands, colors, and levels of softness.

17. A sweater or scarf in case of a broken thermostat or a flash cold front.

18. At least one pair of impossibly tangled headphones…

19. GLITTER. Everywhere.