I decided to have a good sort out in what is becoming a black hole i found, 2 bandaids, blush, powder, eyeliner, 2 kinds of eye shadow, lip liner, 2 lipsticks, Purse, glasses, hand cream, mascara, Mobile phone, pen, pencil, little note pad, A small book with telephone numbers,Two sets of keys,, hair scrunchie, money of coupons.(which two of them had expired)Two used train tickets, half a pack of chewing gum, and a small amount of change at the bottom. I wondered why it was getting a bit heavy.
So girls for those of you that use them. What you got in there?

Heh.

Nappies, Purse, Spare Socks, Spare Spoon, Sudocrem, Keys, Glasses, Pen, Superstrength Ibuprofen, Calpol, Calgel, Wet Wipes, Bibs, Hairband, hairbrushes x2, scrunchie.

you're not a mum by any chance are you? :)

*empties out bag*

my personal organiser thing, a payslip, 5p, a make up forever lipstick, a chequebook, nus card, old DLR travelcard, two No. 47 bus tickets, sunglasses, a sony battery (dead), 50 colones coin (costa rican currency i think- bus driver wouldn't accept it, pedantic sod), cinema ticket, log book.

where are my house keys? :(

Funny you should ask. I set the alarm off with mine at the supermarket checkout yesterday. Main section: wallet, collapsible umbrella, Walkman, two cassettes, copy of Ira Levin's 'A Kiss Before Dying'(currently re-reading) and copy of Dan Lucarini's 'Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement' (someone lent it to me yesterday) address book.
Front section: cheque book, prescription renewal, assorted bus schedules.
Front pocket:comb, compacts, lipstick, mascara, eyeliner. Side pockets: mobile, keys, calculator, handcream.

Mines more of a satchel thing...

MP3 player, mobile, keys, mascara, pen, my german stuff, my french stuff, a small plastic gumboot, sunscreen moisturiser, 3$, notebook, probably 20+ used train tickets.

blah, i need a cleanout.

ipod
book - Stupid White Men
mobile phone
purse
4 lipsticks
2 lipbalms
hair band
crocodile clip
gift vouchers
various oddments from receipts etc

this is most of it.

Perfume (Moonflower by the Body Shop)
Concealer (all round concealer by Red Earth (new to the UK, totally fabby))
Purse (FraserCard, Switch card Dorothy Perkins account card, top-up card, Nectar card, money, a condom)
Lipgloss (by BeneFit in Thigh Highs)
Lipgloss (by Red Earth in BR023)
Phone
4 sets of keys (flat, mum's, sister's, work locker)
Bus Timetable (service x3)
BeneFit Lemon Aid
Pen
Crap

My God girls....

and I thought I had to carry crap around.

I suffer from anaphylactic shock if I eat nuts so I have to carry round 2 syringes of adrenalin (epipens) and a ventolin inhaler.

I do tend to minimalise all other crap to the essentials such as mobile, purse and keys.
Nights out are a pain as I can never take a small bag with me as my epipens have to go everywhere with me and they aren't the smallest things in the world :(

too much junk in mine but lets see....
cell phone
wallet with family pics, I.D, Soc. Sec. card, voter reg. card, organ donor card, medic alert card, debit/atm card, etc.
money
check book
hair pick
lipstick
perfume
gum
mints
about 5 or 6 lighters (no wonder I can never find one!)
3 pens
calculator
face powder
tylenol
tampon
kleenex

that about covers it....like i said too much junk!

So if we're including the contents of our wallets as well - Perth Zoo membership card, Medicare Card, Private health Insurance card, Visacard, In-store Mastercard, A.T.M. card, 2 video library cards, hairdressers discount card, book of postage stamps, and a GirlsF1 'I've Adopted Nick Heidfeld' photograph print-out.

yay lets start on wallets -

Bus timetable.
Office photocopy card
Library card
Student ID
Fabric shop VIP card (it makes me cool)

13 Metcards, yeesh.
Photo's of various ex boyfriends which i should really get rid of.
Boost Juice frequent sipper card.
Gloria Jeans coffee card.
18 hair pins. (these days i wear it up on my head, takes an awful lot to keep it all up there)

I hardly ever use a handbag. For day to day use I have a ruck sack stuffed with..

Hair brush and comb,
Purse,
Book.. Song of Susanah by Stephen King,
9 pens?
Phone book / organiser thingy,
2 Mobile phones..One is a works phone,
3 AA bateries,
Half a pack of chewing gum,
A kit kat, Cant even remember buying that...
2 scrunchies / 1 hair band,
keys,
A little photo album made by the kids with their pics in,
2 lighters and a spare pack of ciggies,
Bottle of mineral water,
£1.27 in change and a $10 bill (wtf?)
Small glasses repair kit.

Small glasses repair kit.

So you found one then ? :))

I have... no handbag.

In my jeans pockets I always carry: house/car keys, lighter, lip salve (panic if I lose it must have one must have one) and my card wallet in back pocket. I only carry money if I'm goin to a corner shop or something these days you just use your card.

i have a quite a small gucci bag and its in need of a clearout and this thread is an incentive so in no particular order i give you:

my bus pass
my purse
£300 (wont fit in the purse as its too small)
emergency packet of 10 mayfair (ciggys - only 5 left)
half an envelope with an address on it
a bank statement print out from a cash machine
a tissue with lipstick on it
a piece of toilet roll with suspected bogies on it
2 rather battered tampons
another print out bank statement from the machine
a receipt for a birthday card dated 15/06/04
a comb
a tampon (one of those push in ones without the applicator)
a small apir of plyers (i use these to turn the key in the door when my hands fail me)
two tiny hair grips (them ones with the teeth like the bulldog clip)
3 plasters looking rather worn out
another of those tampons of the push in type
a pen
10p
my cash card
a hair slide
british gas payment card
lady i met todays phone number (see spooky thread)
hand mirror
rent payment card
the front page off a book of stamps
bank payment card
eyeliner
lipstick
mascara
spot disguising stick

and out of all that ive disposed of 4 items and shoved the rest back in.

should add its a fake gucci bag. what you think im rich???

forgot my purse! how ruse of me.

about £10 (in change! bastard!)

other side of purse contains :

post it note with my mums address (even though i know it - used it for my AA call out)
another abbey national mini statement
library card
unison (union at work) card
bank card for old bank account (why is it still in my purse?)
money shop card
prescription receipt
credit card
mastercard payment receipt

i prefer my other purse what had photos in it but its too big for me bag.

What i have is

My purse
My phone
House keys
lip gloss
sometimes eye shadow
my necklace
sweets

That's all i think.

my bag went to uni with me today (its a nice large leather one)...
-some thrilling books... "2450:computations 2", "engineering mechanics, dynamics", writing pad
-calculator
-large assortment of pens, pencils, etc
-two tampons
-kitkat wrapper
-wallet
-mobile
-bobby pins
-small dog clips
-thongs (they got shoved in there this afternoon when we fucked off to the beach - at least they're my "going out" pair)
-comb
-sunglasses
-ribbon
-panadene
-sunglasses
-hey, chewy!
-vaseline lip cream
-train timetable
-mobile goes in when i go out.
-wallet: ~$10, licence, student card, library card, flybuys card, old bus tickets, medicare card, private health card, 1/2 price drinks vouchers.

mines not really a handbag, but i still carry around town

black eyeliner
wallet
purple eyeliner
hairbrush/mirror contraption
mobile
keys
cds and cd player
picture of josh
face powder
pads
random book of the week
lip gloss + balm
vaseline
chewing gum

everything. i am prepared.
-aleve
-nail file
-tweezers
-make-up
-wallet
cigarettes
altoids? no? gum then?
tampon
hand cream
picture CD
hole punch
keys
pen
receipt for computer. must mail in rebate.
lighters in various secret places

but no money:(

Wallet: bank notes, receipts, ATM card, credit cards, driver's license, health insurance card, and local department store discount card.

Coin purse: spare change for the soda machine

Personal organizer

Make-up pouch: travel toothbrush, mini toothpaste, tweezers (by Body Shop), mini eyelash curler (by Body Shop), mini bottle of make-up removing oil (by Shu Uemura), eye cream (by Estee Lauder), nail clippers, lip balm (by Burt's Bees), mini tin of cuticle cream (by Burt's Bees), and dental floss (by Oral B).

Cellphone

Various discount coupons - in chronological order of expiration date.

Pocket tissue paper

Wet wipes

iPod

House & car keys

Ballpoint pen

Automatic pencil with refill leads & tip eraser

Sanitary pad

Oil-blotting paper (by Body Shop)

Compact foundation (by Lancome)

Two lipsticks (by Chanel, #20 & #45)

Hair brush

Scrunchie

Low-calorie sweetener tablets

(Has anybody figured out how to fit a bathtub and the kitchen sink into a handbag?) :P

Walett, book, cd player, mp3 player, bus ticket book, harmonica, keys, assorted change, gum (sometimes if I am lucky)

Golden virginia
1 Clipper elite
box Swan Vestas
2 packs silver smalls
1 pack silver kingsize
pot pot
Betty Boop roach book
Dior Addict eau fraiche
Lipfinity in some plummy colour
Revlon Skinlights
Rimmel superlash mascara
"Sickened" by Julie Gregory (A damn shocking but compelling childhood account)
Housekeys
Listerine dental floss
mobile phone
a half eaten slimfast bar :\

Purse - thirty quid and 79 pence
credit card
bank card
phone top up card
bus pass

This is so interesting so here goes mine.

keys (my huge set with keys from houses i dont live in any more?)

my make up bag which in itself contains:
vaseline, No7 waterproof mascara, dr. feelgood by benefit (this stuff is great!!), The gloss by benefit in Thigh High,eye liner, concealer (the pen one with the paint brush top to it), small brush for blending. a 3in 1 pencil, big topper to top that with, a normal topper for the eyeliner, a toothbrush and Sui by Anna Sui.

i have a medium sized purse with contains 4 pads and 3 tampons, with aplicaters.

my scarf

my mittens

my hat

my phone

body spray (impulse air)

a pot of vic's vapo rub

20 camels ( 14 left)

3 lighter & 2 boxes of matches

my purse which contains:
50euro
a cheque for 21 euro
my bank card
ticket stub for cinema (wimbledon uck terrible)
cuba (niteclub) membership card
public library card
Brown Thomas voucher card
college ID
Irish age card
photocopying credit card
a picture my friend drew (shes 20 its child-like but sweet)
the ticket stub from a niteclub from the nite i kissed the boy i like.

it seems like alot when you write it down but its really not.

oh my god thats terrible i cant believe i did that i was just messing with the fonts and shit and then that happened its fuckin huge, any1 who has read the blonde moments thread will know this is 1

Another christmas season, another bag cleanout.


ee gads.


wallet (containing...)

The ever-growing metcard collection.
$14.70
bank card
library card
2 raffle tickets (the raffle is over)
Hodders cafe club card
subway sub club card
melbourne arts festival membership card
concession card
coles-myer giftcard

Other crap...

4 pens (two of which dont work)
7 spoons (yoghurt each day, you see...)
phone
keys
2 calculators (?)
2 dead batteries
3 unposted letters
MiniDisk Player
1 guitar pic
sunglasses
diary and pencil
photocopies of upcoming concert music
4 bandaids (in case shoes attack)
large quanitity of dirt
packet of chewing gum

Nothing!
I cleaned it out yesterday...

A plastic knife and fork
A load of receipts
Usual make up paraphenalia
A pen
A toothpaste cap
56p in loose change
4 Quality street wrappers
A mobile phone
2 phone numbers
One purse....
...and two photographs of me!!! ... Yes ,its my wifes handbag,and she let me look through it.

What a brilliant thread (hope i'm allowewd here :) )