Sorted out a cupboard today and discovered I have 18 handbags! All shapes, sizes and colours, including one I have never used (bought in Italy some years ago which I couldn't resist and haven't been able to find an outfit or pair of shoes to match!) This doesn't count shopping bags (5) cool bags (3) or beach bags (2). I tried sorting some for the charity shop but felt I couldn't let any of them go! I only regularly use 2 or 3. Now I have always had a weakness for handbags but now I think I have a "problem". Is there a Handbags Anon. organisation 
I have several. Change round every so often but there are some I never use - like the red one I bought to go with red sandals (long gone), the small navy bought for daughter's wedding (long ago) and used just the once. I have a beige one (again, matched sandals long gone) which I think I like until I use it but discard within a few days. I bought one that I saw and loved about 2 years ago but managed to nigh on kill that by using every day (had it mended but it's not the same 
). Back to reliable navy which I will also kill through overuse and stuffing too full.
You have motivated me to have a sort out and dispose of those that are either good but I never use or those that are totally worn out but I can't bring myself to throw. Well done!
I hate handbags. Life was so simple when I did not need to carry make up bag, a hairbrush, paracetamol, car key, caffeine tablets so I can safely use the car key, identity badge, debit card, wallet with lots of other cards, i.e. driving licence, library card,shop loyalty cards, old organ doner card, photos, cash purse, bunch of tissues, bunch of house keys with little furry animals from grandmonsters, paperback book, loose lipsticks, pen, another pen, old address book I will never change for a new one, mobile phone, pair of gloves, packet of plasters, half bar of dusty chocolate, pack of old mints, old receipts, Filofax which weighs a ton but has my life in it. That's without checking to see if there is anything else. There's no cheque book. Haven't used one for years. Does anybody still use them?
I used to carry a hankie in one pocket and a small purse in the other. Handbags were for old ladies. Like me now. As someone else said I also go to TKMax for a good handbag hunt. The idea of a secondhand handbag makes me shudder. Other people's handbags smell strange and have had other people's dirty hankies in them. 
I've just checked - I missed out the driving glasses and perfume.
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