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What's in your handbag?

26 replies

janji · 02/09/2012 12:43

Was reading an article about what women carry in their handbags and got me thinking, what do you all carry in yours?
Mine was stolen recently and it wasn't until it was gone that I realised how much stuff that I was dependent on I actually carried around with me!
Anyone care to share?
Mine has:
Purse (photos, store loyalty cards, travel cards, ring, receipts in it).
Fold up shopping bag
Scarf
Make up
Mini sewing kit
Wet wipes
Carrier bag
Mints
Umbrella
Phone
Keys
Small cuddly owl
Pens
Plasters
Hair bobbles
And that's the new replacement bag slimmed down version!

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40notTrendy · 02/09/2012 12:46

2 lipsticks
1 mirror
Indigestion tablets
Paracetamol
Nurofen
Tampax
Plasters
Waspeze (got stung once, won't go anywhere without it)
Germolene
Purse (all usual stuff, cards, cash etc)
Brush
Phone
Raisins
Sunglasses
Wipes
Pens (many)
Mini notebook
Shopping bag

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lilibet · 02/09/2012 13:58

Umberella
purse
phone
shopping bag - a cotton fold up one
i pod
hair brush
pack of tissues
make up bag (concealer, facepowder, mascara, eyebrow pencil, neutral eye shadow, lipstick, tweezers, tampax)

lilibet · 02/09/2012 13:59

Glasses and sunglasses!!

WAD · 02/09/2012 14:02

Make-up pouch which also contains cards and a few receipts
Small coin purse
Random bits of paper
Notebook (so why the random paper?!)
No pen (ironic given above!)
Plasters
Tissues
Word access card
Tampax
Pay slip

janji · 02/09/2012 15:07

I used to have a small set of screwdrivers too (courtesy of last yrs Xmas crackers). Also used to carry a crystal to bring good fortune (didn't work cos bag stolen)!! Anyone else carry anything unusual / surprising?

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Princessdivaaa · 02/09/2012 16:03

I think my bag is quite empty in comparison to others I know (in particular my mothers which weighs a tonne!)

Purse (cards, cash etc)
Nappy, wipes, nappy sacks..
Shopping bag..
Phone and keys..
Cosmetic bag (Nail files, clippers, hand gel, nurofen, pocket Vaseline, pocket sudocrem, hand cream, mirror, tampax, panty liner)
Pen
Mints
Tissues

pumpkinsweetie · 02/09/2012 16:05

Phone
Earphones
Keys
A nappy
Small pkt wipes
A few hairbands
Reciepts
Purse
Lipbalm
For once my handbag is actually tidyGrin

janji · 02/09/2012 16:08

I am so impressed with all of you organised ladies. Mine very often amasses crumbs, sweets stuck to lining, odd earrings, broken bits of plastic tat toys etc!

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Ambi · 02/09/2012 16:31

Notepad
2 pens
Cheque Book
Lip balm
Nail clippers
Glass nail file
Wet wipes
Chewing gum
Trolley pound thing
Swiss army knife
Fruit hard sweets
Handwash gel
Hand cream
Phone
Headphones
Plasters
Keys
Purse - with cards and memory stick back up of laptop.
Extra USB stick

Used to be a bugger to find anything but just got an organiser insert for 99p from ebay and it's so tidy for the first time in years.

MamaGeekChic · 02/09/2012 16:40

Purse- cards, cash, reciepts, ID
Make up bag- foundation, bronzer, 2shadows, 2lippy, mascara, eyeliner, lipliner, vaseline, gloss, blush, concealer, brushes.
Notebook
Business cards
Pens- several
bobbles
tampax
handcream
cigarettes
Lighter
Mints
Perfume
USB
2*phones
Nailfile
Work Pass
Car/House Keys

No wonder my shoulder hurts!

scentednappyhag · 02/09/2012 16:51

Keys,
Phone,
Wallet,
Lipstick,
Cigarettes and lighter,
Game boy colour equipped with Pokemon blue,
Cheapie water pistol,
Flat shoes.

maryquant · 02/09/2012 16:52

Migraine tablets
Paracetamol
Voltarol
Handwash gel
Bunch of house keys
Car key
Mobile Phone(personal)
Mobile phone (work)
Purse cash/cards
Makeup bag smallish seelction of make up
Notebook
Sunglasses

valiumredhead · 02/09/2012 17:02

phone
purse
umbrella
lipstick
kindle
keys
glasses

ChoccyJules · 02/09/2012 17:09

Purse
Phone
Keys
Eye-drops
Glasses Cloth
Emergency AF kit
Mysteriously disappearing pen/s

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 02/09/2012 17:13

I can add 2 (yes 2) mouthguards belonging to my son (rugby and karate).
Both in cases I hasten to add.
And one of those mask things for doing CPR mouth-to-mouth.- you never know, and you need to be prepared.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 02/09/2012 17:43

My bag is tiny so I can only fit in the bare necessities:

Purse (pink Designers Guild - v v v old)
Family railcard
Tiny Muji notepad with phone numbers in (I don't have a mobile)
Tiny L'Ocitaine handcream
Tiny Lancome lipstick
Une lipbalm/stick hybrid
Mirror
Two pens - one ballpoint/one purple
Tiny hairbrush
Key

And, children, our word for today is TINY. :)

Itsgottabebags · 02/09/2012 17:51

I will have to do a tidy so my bag will contain:
Phone
Phone charger
Long purse
Make up and mini makeup brushes
I'd on lan yard
Flash drive
Diary
Book (hopefully!)
Pen
Coin purse
Bus pass in CK travel card holder/purse
Papers
Notebook

janji · 02/09/2012 17:55

Scentednappyhag: live the water pistol! Lol

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everlong · 02/09/2012 17:55

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janji · 02/09/2012 17:55

Love not live, sorry!

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CaptainHetty · 02/09/2012 18:05

Wallet
Phone
Headphones
Eyeliner, mascara, eyebrow pencil
Gaviscon tablets (my saviour at the moment...)
A packet of wipes
A dozen old bus tickets
God knows how many receipts
A load of change
And at the moment a pot of wax worms for my lizard.

cheesymonster · 02/09/2012 18:20

Purse
Maternity notes
Make up bag containing lipstick, hand cream, hand sanitizer, nail file, dental floss, hair ties and Kirby grips, paracetamol, eye drops, mascara and concealer
Powder compact and mini kabuki brush
Body spray
Tissues
Gaviscon tablets
Gum
Pen and notebook
iPhone
Earphones
Keys
Umbrella or sunglasses (I check weather obsessively before leaving house)
Glasses in case I need to take contacts out due to dry eyes!
Kindle
Lip balms x 2

Catypillar · 02/09/2012 19:12

I think the worms for the lizard are the oddest things so far!

I have-

Purse
House/car keys
Work keys
Phone
Diary
Notebook for lists of things I have to do
Other notebook for writing things I need to remember
Ipod and headphones
Stethoscope
Pen torch
Kindle
USB stick
Hotwheels cars
Plastic dinosaur
3 days worth of all the medication I'm on in case I get stranded somewhere
Folding hairbrush

Catypillar · 02/09/2012 20:06

Oh and also some pens- the fountain pen that I use most of the time, spare ink cartridges and a few biros in case I run out of cartridges or have to write on something with carbon paper under it