Are you one of the people carrying a tin opener in your 1.6kg handbag??

[TheBlonde]

The average weight of handbags in the UK has reached a back-breaking 3?lbs (1.6kg).
Bags of freedom or a heavy burden?

The article lists various common handbag items including bottle opener and tin opener

Does anyone carry a tin opener??

[mustrunmore]

I have keys, cards, coins, small hairbrush, body spray, oyster card, tictacs, phone. Thats it.

[Cappuccino]

my handbag is tiny

currently it contains two mobile phones, a purse, a credit card wallet, keys and a Galaxy Ripple.

[saltire]

I have
keys
purse
comb
inhalers
painkillers
2 sachets of calpol
tic tacs
phone

erm i think that's it

[Cappuccino]

if you get a bigger bag you put all kinds of tosh in it

[Freckle]

I find I have all sorts of odds and sods in my bag, including a battery for my car remote control (guess whose battery ran out and couldn't get into her car when parked in a loading bay!!) and a screw driver to unscrew the back of said remote, plasters, umbrella, plus the usual purse, cheque book, etc.

[octobermum]

I have
Purse
Car Keys
phone.

My sister has every thing bar the kitchen sink in hers and she doesn't even have children. She also doesn't have her handbag with her at weekends but has her garden tool bag.

[Bozza]

I have started carrying much less these days. But it does depend on where I am going and what I am doing. They do tend to acquire kids junk though - stuff that they insist on taking out with them and then want to get rid of.

I am immensely pleased that now with a 2 1/2 yo and a 5yo I am past the changing bag stage. I occasionally carry a few wipes in a freezer bag and sometimes take DD's folding pelican bib, but that is the maximum.

Last night I went out with house keys, mobile, purse and lip gloss. Today at work I have all of the above plus work pass and various bits of paper.

[Bozza]

I went out with a friend with a 4 month old baby. She had with her nappies, wipes, bottles and thermos with hot water. OK fair enough. But then she had a full size tin of formula and a full kitchen roll among other things. And she carried this all around with her for the four hours we were there.

[calebsmum]

Have a seperate nappy bag and handbag. In Handbag have keys, purse, diary and DS's potatoe masher

[charliecat]

Possibly I also have sachets of mayonaise and tomato ketchup for when we stop off at a chippy and the chips comes without.
As well as cheque book
purse
2 mobiles
2 gameboys
a parsnip(still in there from yesterdays shopping)
and a loads of crisps and reciepts laying at the bottom.

[Kittypickle]

I carry as little as possible as a rebellion resulting from having to carry around all the stuff you have to when your children are little. Usually keys and some money.

[NotQuiteCockney]

I have no handbag. I win!

(In my pockets, I have a wallet, keys, phone, lip goop, and asthma puffer.)

[hoxtonchick]

i have a silly amount of handbags (do you want one nqc ?), which means i don't carry very much so i can easily swap to a different one.

but still have wallet, diary, phone, camera, ipod, oyster card, work pass, keys, drugs, lippy.

[NotQuiteCockney]

No thanks HC :-P

(I do actually own a handbag or two. And I have a "bum bag" which I use in summer, when I don't have a fleece with pockets on.)

[NotQuiteCockney]

"bum bag" because that's not actually the word for it, it's really a fanny pack.

[hoxtonchick]

fanny pack is soooooooo wrong .

[LadyOfTheFlowersIs1Baby1Bump]

Possibly....
Last time ds1 up-ended it in public, I had strangers scrabbling for the following, amongst others:
as mentioned, sachets of sauce, sugar, drinking straws, serviettes.
Various manky old pieces of make up- most without lids.
Tampons and FemFresh (OMG!)
Sweets
Sticky, hairy bottle of calpol & spoon
Plasters
Diary/organiser thing, stuffed with bits of paper
Clean vest, newborn size (Too small for either Ds!)
Mobile
Purse
Loose change
Keys

these is so much more but i daren't look inside the bloody thing.

Oh yes, the other day i found a bag of mouldy apple pieces i had used to pacify ds1 with on the bus!
Eeeew!

[hannahsaunt]

Ds1 pulled a vegetable knife out of my mother's voluminous bag once. When asked she replied that it was for peeling oranges...obviously...

[Sugarfree]

For your entertainment I have just weighed mine and it is 1.225Kg (2lbs 10.5oz).
Purse
glasses
sunglasses
phone
pen
travel wetwipes
two JuicyTubes
Lipstick
two old tampons

[suedonim]

Today I had in my handbag

A purse with small denomination money

A second purse with Nigerian Residency cards and membership cards to various organistions and photocopies of same.

About 50,000 Naira (Nigerian currency (250N=£1)in 500 Naira notes, in four airmail envelopes

Two passports

Passport renewal form and photos of DD2

Mobile pharmacy of tablets for tropical ailments

A second mobile pharmacy with hygiene needs such as alcohol rub, band aids, antispetic wipes

Mobile phone

Keys

Sunglasses

Filofax

Packet of shortbread

biros

Airsickness bag

Folding brush/comb

Pen Torch (electrcity v unreliable here)

Lipstick

A large, heavy glass bead, about 1 inch across!! Was at a beading session yesterday, making stuff to sell for charity and it must have fallen into my bag.

And for today only...a book and a bottle of water as I anticipated a long wait at the Consulate. But I was dealt with quite quickly so could have gone without those.

[Avalon]

I don't have a handbag.

[NotQuiteCockney]

Avalon! Let's start a clique!

[Avalon]

My first clique.

[airy]

I've just ventured into mine, it's about time I sorted it out and I have:

A box of Nurofen
Purse
Hairbrush
Toy truck
Chewing gum
Excessive ammounts of makeup...I do own a makeup bag I have no idea why I'm lugging it all around in my handbag
Tweezers
Loads of tiny hairclips
digital Camera
Mobile Phone
Bottle of water
Pair of scissors??
Cigarettes
Lighter
Pack of lockets
and a bottle of nail varnish!


None of which I'll end up sorting out and it will all just get dumped back in