What unexpected thing have you found in your handbag?

[Surtsey]

I was rummaging in my bag for my car keys this morning, and found a Cadbury's Creme Egg. It must have been in there for months, and I've no idea how it had remained hidden from my chocoholic self for so long. It was a bit battered and squashed, but I ate it anyway.

Please tell me I'm not alone in finding random surprises in handbags!

50+ live mealworms. Quite a few of them clustered in my wallet. I’m just very grateful that I did not discover this whilst paying for something in a shop.

A small jar of miso paste.

The house phone.

I always have either salt sachets or a tiny travel sized salt shaker. I’m on keto so I add extra salt to everything 😁

I found a dog whistle. I don’t own a dog, never have. No clue where it came from.

I’ve also found a live mouse. Very cute.

I’ve had this too both poop and wee. Didn’t notice the wee until I took my phone out to pay for some shopping and it was all wet. And smelled gross!

in happier news I found £35 in my bag this week from a few months ago, someone gave it to me at a party and I thought I must have thrown it away as I couldn’t find it anywhere - turned out I’d been using a different handbag that day!

One Sunday after ‘lively’ night out .
A denture.
The owner was never found.

Shrimp, mackeral etc, bait for crabbing that my grandson secreted in my bag! Can still smell it now, it was rank!

@RovenderKitt that made me really laugh.

A dummy, very many years after my DD stopped using them! In my defence, I hadn't used the bag in a while but I hadn't realised quite how long.

A paraplegic mouse.

A goldfish in a bag of water

(Oh no, hang on, that was Phoebe...)

I did find a scratch card in a secret pocket. My mum had bought me the handbag and hidden the scratch card as a nice surprise. I didn't really like the bag so never used it, and just happened to check it thoroughly before selling it years later. The scratch card wasn't a winner, but that's maybe as well because I probably couldn't have claimed the prize anymore.

Several salted peanuts that must've fallen out weeks before. Not as weird as some of these.

Ooh but actually - tonight a silver bracelet not mine!

A ginger beard.

My cat!

@CatsMother66 That is so sweet 😍

A mini cucumber....!

I once had my driving licence posted back to me after I'd left it in an inner pocket of a handbag I'd donated to a charity shop. Someone had bought the bag, found it, and very kindly returned it to me with a little note.

Various stones, twigs, etc., seen as interesting treasures to be kept forever by Gdcs (usually little Gds) and forgotten about 5 minutes later.
And so unearthed from my capacious bag days or weeks later, when I eventually get around to emptying it.

I was at a funeral a couple of years back and went to pull out a tissue as got a bit tearful. As I did a piece of thick ham flew out. I had been out for a meal a few days earlier and my meal had way too much meat so I thought I'd bring a slice home for the dogs. Of course I had then forgotten about it ! Person sat next to me was in stitches.

this week I have found a hand grenade and some nerf darts - I have a grandson

A well sucked digestive biscuit in the side pocket where my travel card lives . I held up a line of horrified commuters when I yelped and whipped my hand back out, flicking moist biscuit goo everywhere. I think I have PTSD because I always look now before reaching in.

^Prepares to be judged
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A chicken wing

I'd been in a night out and really needed to soak up the alcohol and the pub didn't serve food so I snuck in a box of chicken wings for a group of us. Clearly one escaped and I didn't find it until the next day when I was rooting around for my Oyster card. Grim.

Lego Batman

it was a bag I hadn’t used for years I think we went shopping and took a selection of Lego people with us

made me miss those days

Spider

I'm arachnophobic. Screamed, threw bag in air and ran away from it.

Went on a work trip to the US. In a meeting with my client’s executive team on Day 1, I reached into my handbag for a pen, only to find that my DD had replaced all of my pens with teething rings.