Things you remember from your mum's handbag?

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From when you were little?

I remember her purse, she always had the same leather purse since I could remember til when she died (when I was in early 40s)

Sweets in case anyone needed a wee treat

A tissue with lipstick on it where she'd blotted her lipstick

Half a million pens

Her lucky charm

SO many receipts

Loads of other random nonsense.

@Mosaic123

Folding silver fruit knife. Compact with max factor powder for a shiny nose. Lipstick in fancy case. Tiny box for sweeteners. Chocolate.

Ah my Mum had a little knife in a pouch that said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" that she kept in her handbag.... Also had Max Factor compact, Avon pink lipstick, a comb and loads of tissues. She passed away in March last year, miss her so much.

I am a little freaked out by all these knife wielding women!

Boots no 7 powder compact
Hair grips and comb
Huge purse stuffed with cards, receipts etc
Address book
Numerous pens
Book of Stamps
Sketch book - she was an artist and would often whip it out to sketch if we were waiting for something

I loved my mum's bags and always wondered when I'd get my own when growing up. She has dementia now and I put keys and a comb in a bag when she goes out, even though she needs neither. Maybe I should fill it up with more memories for her as it might feel more like her old self (who I miss terribly)
Tissues in various stages of being crumpled up, plus extras stuffed up sleeves

My mum was just the same, 20 B&H and a lighter, powder compact, lipstick, tail comb, headscarf and tissues that always had makeup on which she would attack any grubbyness on our faces having spat on the tissue first.

This post made me smile. I always remember we were never allowed to go in my mum's bag but would pass it to her to get something out. My mjm always had Rennies in there, tissues, a little notebook.

Yes tissues up the sleeve. I do that sometimes and think of her so much. Missing my mum reading this and she would have been 64 tomorrow if alive ❤️

Oh gosh - this is making me feel nostalgic.

A fat (nearly bursting) purse
Biro
Sheets from a whist scorecard
Tic tacs or Wrigleys chewing gum
Half a tube of fruit pastilles (never a full or nearly finished one...)
Silkcut pack and at least 2 lighters
"Missing" house or car keys (she could never find them)
Revlon lipstick
Coty L'aimant

Tissues, Rennies, and Silvermints.

My mum always kept all her gas bills, electricity bills, goodness knows whatever other bills you had to pay in cash in person in the 1980s. Her handbag weighed a ton!

Purse, keys, paper driving licence, chequebook, pen, red lippy, cotton hanky, comb.

Black wallet with a silver clasp, it was massive. Makeup bag with mascara, eyeshadow (always in pieces spilling everywhere), kohl eyeliner (always painfully used right down to the wood). As someone else said - car keys that were always lost. Shop keys ditto. And a weird little plastic container thing shaped a bit like a large cigarette lighter with a flippy top that it turned out contained tampons (the long tampax type) but held huge mystery for me as a child.

Definitely no painkillers, pens or water bottle which is 90% of my bag. I do share her knack for disintegrating makeup in my bag though

Also PONDS face cream, does that still exist?

Has anyone else said Quickies?

Sounds rude now! 😂

Atrixo handcream and Lipsyl lip balm

@EmmaH2022 Yes, Quickies! The smell of Quickies will forever be associated with going on holiday and excitement. Baby wipes are not the same.

She has dementia now and I put keys and a comb in a bag when she goes out, even though she needs neither.

Ah @pastaparadise I think it's lovely that you do that for your mum. I'm so sorry for your situation, I was devastated when I lost my mum but I would hate to have to lose her twice. 😢💐

Cheap perfume, lipstick, purse and fags.

Oooh and Fisherman's Friends!

[quote IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere]@EmmaH2022 Yes, Quickies! The smell of Quickies will forever be associated with going on holiday and excitement. Baby wipes are not the same.[/quote]
They just make me think of my mummy and daddy and being a little tot! 😍

Pp asking about ponds face cream, it still exists but none of them smell the same.

Cotton handkerchiefs ironed into perfect triangles
Chequebook
Paper driving license in its own leather wallet
The Times Crossword always with an envelope and stamps and her Schaeffer pen
Georgette Heyer books
Sewing kit
Rive Gauche YSL perfume
Diary bursting with receipts and scribblings
A very ornate powder compact that had to be filled every few months but smelt wonderful
Keys that she could never find

Ponds cold cream, powder compact, cotton lawn handkerchief with her name on, (I embroidered her name on all of her hankies) headache pills,
Spare tights, a pen and notebook,, house key, her purse, which contained an oval shaped St Christopher medallion, a packet of butter candies, bus pass.
She never wore perfume, nail polish, lipstick or eye make up.
A bit of face powder and a light dusting of blusher was her make up routine. She had the most amazing complexion, soft, smooth, unlined at the age of 86.
I’ve inherited her skin. Neither of us smoked, ever, so that may be a factor.

Oh, and the tail comb, plastic rain hood and depending on the length of journey and if her corns were playing up she’d pack a fold up plastic Mac too.
If her corns were playing up then it meant rain was forecast.m

Comb, cigarettes, lighter, purse, trinkets that she would find on the street - broken earrings, anything shiny. I do seem to remember pressed powder and lipstick too. It smelt of hairspray

Yes! Fisherman's friends 😍. Those were weird

Nan's bag was massive...probably close to the size of my wideacreen laptop bag now. It always had a bag of Murray Mints, some Ponds Cold Cream and a compact that smelled wonderful. I don't recall what else lurked in its capacious folds save for her purse. But I do remember carrying it up to her bedroom regularly as a teen, and teasing her about its weight.

Mum was more minimalist: cheque book in its cover from the bank, a purse, a tail comb, Astral cream and a Coty solid perfume compact with amber and patchouli. The smell of the last item remains with me, even though she'd switched to Coco Mademoiselle in later life.