Liners

So, I've got a backpack. I also have a backpack liner. I thought backpacks didn't need to be lined. Not being, y'know, fine art. But there is a whole waterproof issue to deal with so, okay, I accept the value of the liner. Even though I quite understand it.

I've just bought a new sleeping bag. It comes with a sleeping bag liner. Once again, I furrow my brow a little. Okay, sure, there's all sorts of sleeping/easier to clean/pretty colours type reasoning behind the marketing and production of said items. But isn't a sleeping bag, at its most basic level, pretty much a big liner?

And then there are the liners within the liners: little bags I've put stuff in so it doesn't get lost in the mammoth recesses of the liner stuffed inside the backpack... Liners within liners! I just don't know where to go to get away from them! And they're going to be there all year. Sitting on my back, all within each other and waterproofing each others' lining!...

I need to leave the country.