People have just realised you can transform any crossover bag into a backpack – and their minds are blown
IT can be hard to find the perfect backpack, because although they’re super convenient, they often don’t look the most appealing and can interfere with your outfit.
So viewers were delighted when one Instagram user shared her genius hack to instantly turn your favourite crossbody purse into a rucksack.
Rose, who posts on Instagram as @ribarra_, captioned her video with the bold statement: “I was today years old when I found out you can automatically turn any crossbody purse into a backpack,” adding a mind-blown emoji.
A visibly shocked Rose told viewers to “go grab your purse” while she prepared to show them the nifty hack.
“Put it over your head,” she explained, placing the strap behind her neck, before putting her hands up through the middle.
“Go under and grab the purse”, she explained, grabbing the bag from the underside.
“And then throw the purse back over your head,” she added, before showing off her perfectly placed new rucksack.
“It’s a backpack now,” she concluded, with a gob-smacked expression on her face as she checked out her own handiwork.
The best bit is that as soon as you’re fed up, all you do is remove your arm from the strap and “boom, back to a purse”.
The video was reposted by the page @WeAreMitu, alongside the caption: “The internet is really teaching me more than I learned in school.”
It quickly racked up a huge 280k likes, with shocked viewers confused by how the simple trick could be so effective.
“Whyyyy was no one telling us this a long time ago?” one questioned.
“A little mad I’m just learning this!” another added.
But some were a little less convinced that they’d be able to replicate the hack with quite as much ease as Rose.
“I smacked myself in the face trying to do the flip bit,” one wrote.
Another added: “Almost strangled myself doing this.
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