Men usually want to know what ladies have in their handbags (also purse or pouch in American English) because it seems full of ‘stuff’ but it is always an endless scratching and searching without coming up with the goodies! And if a cell phone rings, it is a catastrophe if it is hidden away in the bag….They suspect the kitchen sink is in there somewhere too!
In mine:-
Red purse (American wallet?) with credit cards, some cash, my ID and driver’s licensee.
A Pen (well most of the time).
Lipstick and lip-gloss
A spare contact lens
Small bottle of perfume
My asthma pump
Some sweets which you get when you pay at a restaurant
Small pack of tissues
Waterless handwash
Keys
And sometimes my camera.
Just Fletcher 
Jun 19, 2012 @ 09:54:22
Nothing out of the ordinary here.
I have a few regular handbags and they each contain Labello and chewing gum. The money and phone have to moved to and fro depending on what bag takes my fancy that day. In my main, big bag I also have handwash, hand lotion, headache tablets, toothpicks and Xylitol because the sweeterners at restaurants have a bitter aftertaste. Always lots of tissues! Torn up pieces of ATM slips, old shopping lists…..
Jun 19, 2012 @ 10:05:45
Howzit?
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Would I admit to stuff? Noooooo!
But I wear my phone in my pocket if I can.
Jun 19, 2012 @ 10:05:51
I am trying to find a handbag trolley for my wife so that she doesn’t bend to the left permanently from carrying that weight. 🙂
Jun 19, 2012 @ 10:07:45
Hahaha!
You do find those,but the bigger the bag / space the more you carry = some law of physics!
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Jun 19, 2012 @ 13:10:48
Hehehe. You are married to the ‘Bag Lady’ ?
Jun 19, 2012 @ 11:00:28
“They suspect the kitchen sink is in there somewhere too!”
Only suspect?? Mine knows!! 😀
Jun 19, 2012 @ 11:06:18
Lol!
Well I must admit mine feels like I am carrying the kitchen sink
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Jun 19, 2012 @ 13:13:51
I can never understand why my bag is so heavy. Of course, I always have my purse, my iPhone, tissues, lip pencil and gloss, notebook and pen,plastic bags for shopping. It all adds up, I suppose. 🙂
Jun 19, 2012 @ 14:29:32
It all adds up, yes, I forgot the shopping bag that folds, but my phone I wear in my pocket if I have one – a pocket that is
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Jun 19, 2012 @ 13:41:52
OK to start of, a bright orange handbag of genuine leather. Everything is in nice and neat zipped bags.
One for ID’s, notebook, pen, pencil and business cards
One with lipstick, pills ect for anti-allergy, headache and Migril for migraine
One for tissues
Bright pink purse
Asthma pump
Kindle if I go somewhere where I have to wait
BlackBerry
Old Nokia phone, for the fantastic camera
The odd thing, like today the list with prices for taps, bath, toilet, shower door basin etc
Jun 19, 2012 @ 14:32:28
Well I might start out with nice and neat but it does not remain that way. And yes sometimes my Kindle too.That makes it really heavy. And maybe a clip for my hair.
Jun 20, 2012 @ 07:22:14
OK after a while, you might find some loose bits, like faded receipts, pamphlets, but at the moment it is neat and tidy.As ek regpak kom my kop ook skoon!
Jun 20, 2012 @ 07:50:10
Dis nogals waar. Ek het een van daardie deviders maar ag…. jy weet
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Jun 20, 2012 @ 07:58:29
Ek weet…
Jun 19, 2012 @ 20:52:57
nooi sonder ‘n sambreel nie! altans nie deesdae nie.
Jun 20, 2012 @ 06:21:03
Of course! Maar in die Kaap kan jy opstyg met ‘n sambreel. Ek sien die franse se sambrele hak om hulle skouers. Ek het ‘n kleintjie maar hy is soek
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Jun 19, 2012 @ 23:33:21
Can’t decide what’s funnier – your post, or the comments! Oh, and I’m not saying what’s in my bag, but I always take ages so find my keys, there’s so much stuff sharing their space.
Jun 20, 2012 @ 06:22:52
Lol! yes one cannot admit to eveything you carry and if we go away I even carry my hairdryer in my bag. Now that I see what I have written it really sound stupid!
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Jun 20, 2012 @ 09:27:43
No, what you wrote was not stupid, just funny.
Jun 20, 2012 @ 09:56:55
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Jun 20, 2012 @ 20:58:29
Mine has similar contents. I also have painkillers with me and a tiny notebook.
Jun 20, 2012 @ 21:20:24
I did try the notebook but I left it somewhere with all my notes so that was that
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Jun 23, 2012 @ 14:11:41
In mine: A small purse with office keys and work entrance security card. Reading glasses and a spare pare contact lenses. Purse with bank cards, organ donor card, library card, ID book and driver’s licence card, lucky charm. Notebook and pen. Panado’s. Passport (just in case I need to skip the country in a hurry 😆 ) Samsung Tab, which in itself holds almost my whole life. And in side bag, my cellphone, for easy access.
Jun 23, 2012 @ 20:13:06
I carry my glasses on my head, can you imagine scratching in my bag when I need it?
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Thanks for sharing!
Jun 27, 2012 @ 06:25:12
Preτty possibly i have all my belongings in my handbag, wηich is huge by the way… When we were about to go out my boyfriend once said
– Are we moving?
– What??? No, what are you saying?
– If we are not moving then where are you going with your suitcase?
Jun 27, 2012 @ 06:33:51
Hahaha! I have tried smaller bags but that is useless, whatever you need you find you have left behand
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Jun 29, 2012 @ 23:51:15
My Purse is A Feed Bag/WFP/One of the larger ones-
1.) Lipstick first and foremost, reddish, pinkish, mauve-ish, and always some Rose lip balm which can even be applied to other areas, i.e. elbows, eyelids, other dry areas…lest I be a dried prune without it.
2.) Sunscreen with titanium oxide/hat, the three of us are fair, my youngest “the fairest of them all”, “Schneeweiss, (imagine Snow White with white hair?) and the lightest blue eyes I’ve ever seen. My older daughter is blond too, yet not white haired, and her eyes are warm blue like the sea, and her skin a bit more olive like mine once was, before the Lupus, as now the sun actually hurts me. I have often told them that they complete me, as they are the two things I so adore…the sky and the ocean, and are mini versions of me, mini me’s, as I once was, as I once appeared, and thank g-d, as the alternative is too sickening for me to imagine, yuk…looking at him for the rest of my life. I love that verse from the Old Testament, the one which makes reference to you always know who your mother is…funny how appropriate and enlightening I now find these verses from the bible, especially since I am somewhere between agnostic and atheist.
3.) My wallet with zipper, passports for the 3 of us, as to flee in a hurry, should we need to, credit cards, little cash, checkbook, insurance cards for the 3 of us, and yes, pens, pencils, sometimes even a sharpener, sometimes colored pencils and a tablet as we all like to draw.
4.) Bifocals/readers, some more readers, and perhaps a spare set of bifocals, as I seem to be legally blind on some days, somedays better than others, depending on my current medications.
5.) Medications for myself and one of my girls.
6.) Notebook/Calendar, several in fact, as again my ADHD makes it hard for me to only keep one, as the one I have last written in is always missing, so I have a minimum of one, often times two.
7.) If we’re lucky, a brush or comb, as the three of us have long hair, more often than not we wear it up, more often than not mine is in a bun, more often than a brush or comb we have ponytail holders, lots of them, as often times we put our hair up wet, without first brushing it, and then we are done with it for the day, and when we then take it down at night for bed, it is often times still wet.
8.) Snacks, the three of us are all thin, slight in frame/failure to thrive, all hungry at the most inopportune times, and thus, I must prepare for this, as we tend to eat/need small meals throughout our hectic day, and yes, often they include chocolate, the dark chocolate sort, the swiss sort, as I am a snob about my chocolate and most everything else I put in my mouth!
9.) Gum or mints, and ALWAYS, ALWAYS dental floss!
10.) Whatever legal documents I am currently working on and/or in the process of litigating. Reading, writing, correcting, adjusting, etc.
11.) Camera, never leave home without it.
12.) Cell phone.
In other words, everything but the kitchen sink! My mother always asks me if I carry rocks in my bag/purse, as it might rival me in weight and for sure outweighs one of my girls, who weigh about the same amount. She often tells me that it might be the cause of my RA pain, and secretly she might be right, although, I would never tell her this.
Have you ever been talking on your cell phone while frantically riffling through your purse to find it? I must admit I have done this often, often enough, as I’ve even had to run into the house, after pulling the car from the garage as to leave the house for whatever errand, as I’ve thought that I did not have it with me, while talking on the phone all the while.
Sunnabelle
Jun 30, 2012 @ 08:23:28
Gosh that is a whole suitcase
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Get a kindle, can store up to 3500 books!
Jun 30, 2012 @ 21:04:08
Yes, it is a whole suitcase, yet, I am the most unorganized person ever, and though I usually have everything I need in this vast abyss, and more 🙂 I tend to take a long while to locate it. Sunnabelle
Jul 01, 2012 @ 06:20:32
I try to travel light. I took 7Kg to Italy (but nobody believes me) and try light blouses and slacks and wash most things at night. Heavier thing I wear on the plane and my make-up goes into my handbag. Toiletries I buy on the other side and leave it there.
My daughter goes to Stockholm for 5 nights and takes 20 kg. OK she says as she gives lectures it is some files too
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