to ask what do you carry in your handbag

[ghostspirit]

i have never had a handbag and dont get why people carry them. i carry keys/phone/money/bank card in pockets. why do people need a handbag.

Makeup (mini sizes), hand cream, mirror, wet wipes, hand sanitiser, spare phone charger, gum, tissues, sanitary towel, lip balm, pen, comb, hair bands, folding shopping bag, earphones, cash, spare Oyster card, painkillers, spare contact lenses, plasters, wallet.

Oyster card, phone and keys go in my coat pocket as I like being able to reach for them quickly.

Purse, keys, a bit of makeup, phone, mints, business card holder, tampons, mini dry shampoo, compact, hairbrush, little hand cream.
Then plus all kinds of shit like one felt tip, random Lego figures etc.

My life in a handbag.

Cannot beat my granny though... 7 pairs of scissors and a whisky tumbler

Dh gets quite cross at the state of my handbag lol. It is quite disorganised (full of junk) I suppose.
Generally I will have the following;
Phone
Keys
Purse
Lip balm
Deodrant
Body spray
Hair bands
Hand sanitizer
Paracetamol
Ibuprofen
Sanitary towels
A bunch of receipts.
Lose change (that falls out of my purse )
Wage slips
Training notes from work
A ton of sharpies (coz you never know when you will need them)

Quite often I have also found the following in there :-
Half eaten biscuit that one of the dcs have stuffed in there.
Toys also belonging to the dcs
Chocolate (If I am lucky some that I have stashed that the children haven't found )
Pictures (drawn by children at work for me)
Jewellery
Etc...
My bag really is a bottomles pit of tat at times!

If wearing jeans and only nipping to shops, I just take wallet, keys and phone with a shopping bag.

If heading out for general tripping about I grab my bag. Contains:

• wallet
• phone
• lip balm
• folding shopping bags
• water bottle
• apple and assorted snacks
• tissues
• organiser

Large purse
Mobile
Tissues
Keys
Lip Salve
Notebook & Pen
Dog Poo bags (at least 20)

Work passes
Oyster pass
iPhone cable
iPhone battery charger
Earphones
Couple of pens
Tissues
Lip balm, hand cream
Purse
Mints
Make up - powder / lipstick
Paracetamol/ tampon
Umbrella (if raining)
Work and personal phone
Laptop
Car and house keys
Spare fabric bag for shopping
Gloves/ scarf if cold
Mini hip flask if really cold

Weekends is a different matter. Cashcard, phone and house key. Simples.

Mobile
Keys
Lipstick
Nail varnish
Mints
Purse containing
Money
Cards
If it works for you not having a bag. That's fine

Water

Purse
Phone
Keys
Lip balm
Compact mirror
Pen
Small notepad
Hand sanitiser
Tampons
Lipstick
Paracetomol
Immodium (in case of IBS flare up)
Plasters
Hand cream
Hair brush
Deodorant
Small bottle of perfume
Umbrella
Sunglasses
Phone charger

And on the days I work I also have

Work mobile phone
Work Diary
Work ID badge
Travel mug
Cereal bar (never have time for breakfast)

Bloody hell, writing this down has made me realise how much crap I cart around on a daily basis . No wonder I have a bad back.

I have

• 3 pens and a pencil (just found 2 little red Argos pencils that my charge

must have appropriated!)
• Eyeliner and mascara.
• Aēsop hand balm
• 6 packs of wooden tooth picks
• lip balm
• lip gloss
• 1! contact lens
• large purse (what is in the purse is a whole other thread!)
• 2 pairs of sunglasses (mine and my charges)
• earphones
• Clarins hand and nail cream
• Inhaler
• deodorant
• Nurofen
• A pair of reindeer earrings
• Gum
• Hairbrush/comb
• Nail file/buffer
• Oyster card and the return part of a train ticket.
• 3 packets of tissues
• packet of wet wipes
• 5 reusable bags
• Keys

Just emptied out - the outward part of my train ticket, about 15 reciepts and 4 bus tickets (staying at my parents and no car!) lots of empty gum packets, various half eaten fruit bars, fruit chews, opened packets of kiddie biscuits, two fireman Sam characters that he has been wittering on about for weeks! And enough crumbs (and glitter) to fill a large cushion cover!

How big are your handbags ?!

I make my own bags, (I sew) and usually I have had in the past a medium size bag but started carrying to much crap in them. So I made a clutch for myself (google Necessary Clutch Wallet ) and I can take that as a minimum if just popping out,as it carries everything from my phone (iphone 6) to being a complete wallet.

But I am starting to think I need a big bag again for any extra stuff crap I need to carry.

Wallet
Purse
Glasses case
Inhaler
Tissues
Several lipsticks and lip gloss
Pens
Receipts
Appointment cards
Phone
Car and house keys

As a minimum - ie, for a "going -out bag" as opposed to a "work bag" - I would have:
purse
glasses
house keys
phone
pen and something to write on
usually car keys

which simply wouldn't fit in most clothes pockets, so it's easier to bung them in a bag

Quite often you can add to that -
carrier or cotton bags, in case I buy something when out
bottle of water
something I need to give to someone when I get where I'm going
umbrella
puzzle book if I'm going somewhere like a hosp appt where you will be sitting around for hours, or waiting on or for public transport
tissues
paracetamol

But, if you don't want a bag, then don't use a bag, it just seems a lot os pockets are needed for my minimum going out

Purse
House Keys
Car keys
DD birthday card
Phone
Reading glasses
Lip gloss
Small Hand cream
Small Hand sanitiser
Note book
2 pens
2 work related letters
Coins - always try to have a load in there for parking and shopping trolleys
DD snacks
DD small bottle water
Water wipes
Happy sacks
3 nappies
Random receipts - I really need a clear out

Nappy sacks not happy sacks

In my bag -

Purse
Perfume x 2
Make up bag
House and car keys
School keys and keys to my filing cabinets
Antibacterial wipes
Hand sanitiser
Hair brush
Spare socks
Ibuprofen
Paracetamol
Hair clip
Hair bobbles
Kirbie grips
Handbag size hairspray
Deodorant
Spare contact lenses
Packet of chewing gum
Two random horse treats
Nail file
Plasters
Miniature bottle of Cointreau
2 passports
Tissues

I don't carry much but it wouldn't fit in pockets - even assuming all women's clothes have adequate pockets, which they mostly don't.

I usually carry:
Purse
Passport (live abroad, have to carry ID)
Ventolin inhaler
Keys
Phone
iPod

Phone
Small coin purse
Card holder
Diary
Notebook
Pen
Keys
Earphones
Gum
Tissues
Foldable shopping bag
Watch
Spare leggings and knickers for DD in a waterproof bag
Small pouch containing:-
Lip balm
Lipstick
Hand cream
Hand sanitizer
Nail file
Nail clippers
Hair grips and bands
Another lip balm!

As a minimum I like to have:
purse
lipbalm
lipstick
tissues
Kindle
Headache tablets
Packet of mints

I have two types of bag.

The not-at-work-today bag contains purse; phone; reusable shopping bags; lipbalm; mints; shopping list; small pen and hearing essential spares kit (which I also keep painkillers in).

My work bag has all the above plus work id/entry card; diary; small bag containing nail clippers, comb, mirror, phone charger cable, nail file, mooncup, and a small body spray.

I tend to keep keys in my jacket pocket, on my work desk or in the bag.

I've never got pockets big enough to carry everything, although on some occasions I've gone shopping with phone, cards and keys only in pockets.

Mulberry purse
Spare medication
Painkillers
Max factor lippie
Chanel les beige
Lanyard and work id
Nars concealer
Travel pots moisturiser/primer/foundation
Urban decay midnight cowboy
2 X charlotte tilbury eye sticks
Joules reusable bag
Small moleskine diary
Pen
Chanel allure perfume
Compeed
Chanel mirror
Chanel sunnies
Prada glasses
Topshop lip tint

Just checked through mine:
My house keys.
Suster's house keys
Keys to my parents house (was at theirs 400+ miles away for Christmas and stopped at my sisters on the way home)
A swim suit.
MP3 player.
2 candy canes
Work ID
Tampons
Anti histamine tables
Random theatre tickets.
Purse
A few Christmas cards.
2 lip Bams.

Keys, cards, coins, and cellphone go in my pocket. My bag holds:

Transit tickets
Diapers
Baby wipes
Kleenex
Snack for toddler
Board book for toddler
Water bottle for toddler
Water bottle for myself
Bib for toddler
(sometimes) small knitting project for myself
(sometimes) small toy for toddler

So much glamour in one nondescript backpack