What’s in your bag?!

[Robinni]

On another thread random discussion involving intriguing things we keep in handbags… a lot had diy things!! My list is v boring, how about yours?

Purse
Second purse (for all the loyalty cards)
2 sets of keys
Phone
Phone charger
Back up phone battery
Tampons
Panty liners
Painkillers
Foundation, lippie and mascara
Important documents
Wipes
Tissues
Sanitizer
Important documents
Too many receipts
Mini brush
Dry shampoo
Bobbles
Mini perfume
Random notes to myself

5 or 6 red lipsticks
Perfume
Diary
Phone
Work lanyard
Sunglasses
Tweezers
Keys
Purse

@DoubleShotEspresso You might be needing a chiropractors number very soon. How are you not lopsided!

@colouringfoxes, I’m a pockets user. I only have about 4 or 5 items. I don’t often forget items because there are so few and I don’t forget my keys because I’m usually driving and I need them to start the car.

No bag. Phone and 2 keys. That's all. I use Google pay for everything (which isn't a lot!)

Purse
Cards
Tissues
Hand sanitizer
Face mask
Medication
shopping bag
keys
sun block
Dog poo bags ( empty, obvs)

Actually I've had a back injury since giving birth but still unresolved!?! But you're not wrong-this sounds perhaps a lot but all fits in a standard tote bag which comes everywhere with me 🤷🏼‍♀️

It depends where I'm going, and how long I'm going out for. If it's not far, and for a short time ... not much. If it's an entire day ... oh my god, I wish I didn't need to carry so much stuff around.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned on this thread is a tape measure. I'm very rarely without one. It's so useful - I don't know how people manage without a tape measure. (I have a legendary moment of being in a tricky situation up a mountain in a distant foreign country, when we suddenly desperately needed a tape measure ... the people I was travelling with were astonished - and very pleased - when I produced one.)

Generally don't have a bag. Phone in one pocket, keys in the other have key ring which has a tiny cylinder with a £20 folded in for emergencies.

Fair enough! I can't even reliably remember phone, purse, keys if I'm going without my bag

Purse
Keys - mine
Random keys I thought were for my mums house but turned out not to be - no idea where they are for - she has dementia so they could be from anywhere.
Mask
Receipts
Little tiny of Vaseline
Paracetamol
Antihistamines
Pen
Hairband
1 random piece of chewing gum (unchewed)
Mini packet of haribo
Wrist splint
A piece of Lego

Work keys
House keys
Museum volunteer lanyard
Purse
Lip balm
Phone charging cable and plug
Pen
Phone

My current rucksack has all the usual stuff, so:
keys, purse, diary, phone and USB wire, hair ties, water bottle, masks in a case, Super Green Pass, sanitizer, sunglasses, reading glasses, receipts, car park tickets, tissues, dog poo bags.

Plus
choir score, jack to jack wire, memory stick, double sided makeup/pencil case, fold up shopping bag

AND
12 hand made (by me) key rings!

Am I the only person who doesn't need to carry a water bottle around with me?

If I am out for a while day I would stop for something to eat and a cup of tea. If I am out shopping for a couple of hours I don't feel the need to drink anything at all. I drink tea and water at home and at work and am well hydrated.

Phone
Credit cards
Tissues
Spare earrings
Face mask
Pen
Lipstick
Glasses wipes
Tiny coin purse
Keys

Not in a handbag but in a radley wristlet that I pop into my laptop bag

Purse
Reusable bags
A few face masks
Perfume
Tissues
Hand sanitizer
Lip balm
Lip gloss
Hand wipes
Pen
Sunglasses
Lens wipes
Mirror
Blotting sheets
Painkillers
Chewing gum

I have a backpack.

Purse
Keys
Phone
Spare charger
Sunglasses
Toiletries bag containing hair bobbles, deodorant, painkillers and tissues
Notebook
Pens
Book or Kindle
Playing cards
Seat pad that came with the bag (very useful at a wet football match recently)
Water bottle
Clip tub of teabags

On a work day, my lunch bag.

Work bag- purse phone lippy concealer mascara hand sanitizer masks emery board mirror pen or two small post it notes glasses keys

Other bags - lippy concealer emery board phone glasses purse keys

Purse
book
glasses case
tiny Steiff bear
hand sanitiser
hand cream
fold up reusable shopping bags

My cleaner seems to have had some kid of lunatic epidode this week had decided , amongst other crazy things to have emptied my handag for me. I only found out last night in a restaurant!
I now have keys, sanitiser and only one card(, she had hepfully put the other in a container on my bedside table)&.
My other essentials have dematerlised; receipts for things i need to return, my fulll coffe loyaty card😪😬, tampons, pads and liners, paracetamol, appointment cards, notes ive wriiten for work & reminders- BUT most importantly my emergecy medication which in some cirunstances could save my life.(it wasnt crtical but i actally needed it last night which frightened me when i joticed ot had gone).

What the hell? Your cleaner went in your handbag? She’d be sacked. That’s extremely weird and not her job. She has no right to go in your bag. I hope you’ve had major words.

There’s sod all in my bag, painkillers, lip balm, keys. I mainly use it to convey my lunch.

Mine is relatively empty

Purse
Phone
Keys
Wet wipes
Paracetamol
Hair bobble
Sunglasses
Lip gloss

Purse
phone
nappy nipper
lolly stick
two small pebbles
crumbs
sweet wrappers
hair pins
work pass

Purse
Keys
Car key card which won't fit on my key ring
Passport (I live near a border)
Documents including printed Covid vaccine cert, proof of address and printed out government communication that proves I don't have to exchange my driving licence yet
Diary
Pen
Tin with enough prescribed medication for 24 hours, plus extra of the ones I'm actually likely to take while I'm out
Eye drops
Strepsils
Plasters
Hand sanitiser
Hair bobble
Hand cream
Lipstick
Lip balm
Mirror
Face masks
Token for supermarket trolley
Deep freeze patches
Deep freeze gel
Tissues
Nail file
Panty liner
Headphones
Couple of teabags
Random receipts and appointment cards

If I am feeling very daring I might go to the supermarket with just my purse and phone

Big metal handbag contains duplicates of many of the above, plus make up, water (needed to take medication), sometimes a flask of tea, shopping bags, spare house key (DH has had to break in twice because stupid car key is no longer attached to bunch of keys 🙄), walking stick, crutches, fleece top and trainers that I only wear to physio