Nobody at a bike shop ever suggested that to me over multiple decades, oddly enough. Now that I finally figured it out I have a milk crate wired onto the thing,

Nobody at a bike shop ever suggested that to me over multiple decades, oddly enough. Now that I finally figured it out I have a milk crate wired onto the thing, as well as several carabiners hanging off of it that I use to hang my bag on one side when the crate's full of groceries.