You toss your unnecessarily large water bottle in your bag and think nothing of it. By the time lunch rolls around you open your bag, whether it be your backpack, tote bag, or designer purse, and BAM, you've created a lake right before your eyes. Your water leaked out all over your important items and you're pretty sure you're f*c*k*d.
DON'T FRET! HERE IS WHAT YOU DO:
1) Any and every form of technology should be laid out to assess the damage. Make sure you take apart calculators, phones, and take any laptops out of their cases. This way you can make it better before it gets worse.
2) Empty the rest of your bag out and throw it in the dryer immediately! If it's leather or another material that can't really take the wrath of dryer heat, then find a blow dryer and use it on affected areas.
3) This is the worst one. BOOKS, if you have books in your bag that got wet make sure you squeeze the pages together with as much pressure as possible. Don't use a blow dryer just yet because if you do the pages will get kinky and dry weird. place weights on the books so pages can turn to normal.
Hopefully, this advice helps because I promise you it's coming from a pro (ME). My habit of causing a mess has visited me multiple times in the water damage department. It's almost as if it's a blessing in disguise because it forces me to clean out my bag. Thank god for all of those old receipts, candy wrappers and used napkins on the bottom of my bags. Without them the water would soak itself up with my laptop and my textbooks.
