To ask what you actually carry round in your 'day' bag?

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Just that really, things for the commute or general stuff you need in the day?
I always seem to massively over pack mine and then never use anything, or unpack it and miss out key items 🤦🏼‍♀️

I currently have a plastic dinosaur and an oversized dice in mine- massively outing if you know me because they've been there for about a year 😂

Loads.

Every time I leave the house: phone, purse, keys, tissues, brolly, water bottle, snack, compact mirror, small hairbrush, multivitamins, other detritus

On work days add laptop, headset, work mobile and notebook.

Normally carry a medium sized handbag and on work days its a rucksack.

My handbag is full of nonsense - tissues, lipsticks (up to 7 - I don't clear it out often 😂) lighters, charging cables, perfumes, pens, Filofax, lemsip, foldable carriers....

A purse with about £40 and loyalty cards

Phone with cards - never in bag, nor are my keys. Always by coats/ jackets with decent pockets. It wouldn't be a disaster if my bag was nicked

Oh and always at least one pen, a pair of prescription sunglasses and usually some eyeliner. In the winter, a hat and in the summer, sunscreen.

Oh, and always a few bills and my contraceptive pills - god know why?!

I carry a fairly small bag but carry a fair bit of stuff. It all comes in pretty handy.

Cardholder with space for a few coins
Phone
Mints
Keys (with tiny torch about the size of £1 coin keyring)
Inhaler
Epi-pen
Umbrella
Work pass
Phone charge bank and cord
Cereal bar or piece of fruit

Small zip up pouch containing:
Tiny hotel sewing kit + safety pin
Pen
List of my medications & allergies plus ICE numbers
Tiny foldable scissors
Folded up £10 note for emergencies

Make up bag:
Tampon
Blister plasters
Concealer
Lipstick
Cotton buds
Nail file
Eyeliner
Tiny atomiser of perfume
Hair tie
Mini deodorant
Tiny bottle of SPF 50

Mini sterile first aid kit

Cotton shopping bag

I also carry a work bag with me which includes my uniform and work shoes, some equipment I use, lunch, a water bottle and my gym kit.

Purse
Keys
Hearing aid case and batteries
Lippy
Handcream
Tissues
Painkillers
Pens
Sunglasses
Diary
Phone
Kindle

Blimey some people must have suitcases rather than bags!

In my handbag I carry:
Purse
Inhaler
Nail clippers
Tweezers
Memory stick for ideas in case there's no planning left for the class I'm in that day
Diary
Notebook
Passport
Tampons
Folded shopping bags
USB wire and a power pack thing
Phone
House and car keys
Paracetamol
Eye drops and antihistamines
Comb
Variety of pens
Loads of old receipts

Purse
Phone
Tissues

Purse
Keys
BlackBerry (it’s work)
Tablet for work
Lipstick
Glasses cleaner wipes
Toothbrush and toothpaste
Teabags (I’m fussy about my tea)
Pen and notebook- no, lots of pens.
Then assorted things ‘just in case’ for myself or others - tissues, paracetamol, antihistamine, needle and thread, small scissors, spare tights.

All the essentials and

book, or at least kindle
Scarf, pachmina size. Can't go anywhere without one in bag, can be used if cold, if rains, as pillow, to hide wardrobe malfunction
Pen, paper
heaphones
painkillers

WIth kids, handbag also contains drinks/food/ distraction/ tissue/ wipes.

I can't count the amount of time when my full-of-stuff handbag was an absolute godsend.

Water bottle; tissues; small purse; small tin with painkillers & sticking plasters; pouch with charge block, cable, sanitary products, lipsalve, tiny hand sanitiser, tissues, mini sewing kit; phone; pen, pencil & v small notebook; folded up shopping bag.

Purse
Keys
Phone x 2
Power bank and cable
Notepad
Pens
Tissues
Tampon
Painkillers (several varieties)
Folding hairbrush with a bobble wrapped around it
Beeswax lip balm thing
Nylon shopping bag
Inhalers x 2
A couple of pairs of those weird trampoline park socks
Hand sanitiser
Moisturiser
Kindle
Six million McDonalds monopoly stickers from the coffee cups
Lanyard with keys
Fob

Water bottle; tissues; small purse; small tin with painkillers & sticking plasters; pouch with charge block, cable, sanitary products, lipsalve, tiny hand sanitiser, tissues, mini sewing kit; phone; pen, pencil & v small notebook; folded up shopping bag.

This is mine
I would say 60% of it isn't mine.

Ok maybe 30% actually

Way too much stuff. I have one of those handbag tidies which you can move from bag to bag. It was supposed to make me streamline and carry less shit around but seems to have the opposite effect.

Paracetamol
Phone charger and lead
Headphones
Purse
Hair clips and ties
Loose change
SAN pro
Pencil case - contains a set of Allen keys (no idea why)
Work notebook and personal journal
Emergency fold up shopping bag.

And receipts for everything I've bought since the beginning of time. for every one I chuck, two new ones appear by handbag magic.

I’ve given up with having a standard handbag and only take what I need when I go out.

School run - 1 key in pocket.
Work - pass, keys, phone.
Out - phone. Sometimes wallet if I need cash, usually use phone to pay. Key.

I don’t bother carrying things round on the off chance. I’m never far away from somewhere that sells painkillers, plasters, water, snacks. I don’t need an umbrella now I’ve got a hood and I check the forecast. I do seem to need pens quite a lot, I get annoyed having to buy them. But generally I love the freedom of just being able to leave the house quickly and not having to lug things around. I leave quite a lot of stuff at work so I don’t need to bring much in.

Purse
Keys
Phone
Inhaler
Tissues
Lip Balm
Earphones
Sunglasses

Purse, extra change in bottom of bag (I’ve always done this 😂) keys, phone, book, water, sweets, pen and pad, tissues, sanitary towels....my bag is always far too heavy 😆

Purse, Filofax, reusable shopping bag, a couple of sanitary towels, lip balm, nose spray, pain killers, phone and a drink.

Purse, keys, work pass, food, sunnies, paracetamol and a little bag with tampons, pads, knickers, contact lenses.

Phone, purse, keys, hand cream, painkillers, sanitary towel, kids water bottle, nappy, wipes, chewing gum, lip balm, sometimes a toy/distraction for dd, and a snack. If I'm working then I'll have work keys and pens in there.

Charger cable, phone, headphones X 2, lint roller makeup bag, comb, packets of ketchup and sugar, Tampax, keys.

It depends which bag and whether I’m working ir not but typically:

iPhone
USB power bank
purse
keys
make-up (face; lips; cheeks, eyes)
Tissues
pills
nail file
Multi-use tool
re-usable carrier bag
hand cream