{"id":305988,"date":"2026-01-27T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:32:09","slug":"everyones-talking-about-analogue-bags-can-this-viral-trend-reduce-screen-time-and-boost-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305988\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s talking about: Analogue bags \u2013 can this viral trend reduce screen-time and boost mental health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhenever there\u2019s a spare minute, your first instinct is to reach for your phone and scroll. But what if you didn\u2019t? Experts confirm the benefits of this new take on old ways to pass time\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It's time to ditch your phone for an analogue bag. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ih analogue bag.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">It&#8217;s time to ditch your phone for an analogue bag. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We\u2019ve all been there; sitting alone in a caf\u00e9, on a train, or in a waiting room with nothing to do. Whenever we have time to ourselves, our first instinct can be to reach for our phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What starts as checking notifications can quickly turn into aimless scrolling, and it can end up feeling like we\u2019ve wasted time on very little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whenever there\u2019s a spare minute, your first instinct is to reach for your phone and scroll. But what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23,6796,147476,147477],"class_list":{"0":"post-305988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism","14":"tag-shp","15":"tag-signature-health"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115966610303929669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}