Handbag contents

Unbelievable.
Probably only in America.
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Here you go HurdyGurdy

Until I reached Happysexagenarian's post, I was thinking I was the only person in the world who never left home without Imodium Instants!

So those, along with nail clippers and tweezers are my "must have" items, beside phone and bank card.

Given free reign, I would fill a postman's sack and lug it around with me, but I have had to dumb it down quite a lot.

Love this post/thread.
I too am cured of handbags and rarely carry one, I just have my phone with cards inside it. I will stick a tissue and a lippy in my pocket if I’m going out ?

I like to wear my 30 years old men's biker jacket. Loads of inside pockets so no need for a handbag

When my Dear Mum was younger and was able to engage with all the family and to go out with us, we all joked with her about "Granny's Disaster Bag". Whatever happened, DM had something in her (capacious!) bag, to resolve the problem, or to at least deal with the problem temporarily. Decades later, I now carry that sort of bag....

My large beige handbag contains purse, cheque book, two A-Z map books of Notts and Derbys, tissues, pix of hairstyles to inspire hairdresser, driving licence, mini nail clippers and shoe horn (from Christmas crackers), pen, diary, small inner bag of mini towels, hand wipes, hook to hang said bag from table - rarely used.
It's very smart but weighs a ton.

I forgot to mention that I have recently started carrying a folding hook to clip on tables and hang handbag on. This is since a friend had her bag stolen from beneath her table without her noticing! No good for evening clutch of course.

These posts got me thinking back to the 70s. I lived in Belfast and we had our bags searched at security checkpoints when entering the city centre. So embarrassing! Albeit necessary at the time.

I've cured myself of handbags, that is most of the time. With my knee probs and 1 leg quite a bit shorter (accident) - carrying a big handbag = even more stress and unbalance. I do take a small bag for special events, with very little in it, tissues, small hairbrush and lippy and a small bottle of perfume. And if I travel, I have a small leather backpack- so weight is equally distributed on shoulders- again with essential only- purse with credit cards and small amount of cash (I live with 3 purses all the time, 1 for Switzerland, 1 for France and 1 for UK ...) driver's licence and Swiss identity card, tissues, lip balm and lippy and small hairbrush. Done.

Purse with all cards/any money, bus pass, screwdriver, asthma inhaler, morphine tablets, ibuprofen, 2 large shopping bags, huge hook to hang everything off the back of wheelchair, book or kindle, old receipts, mobile phone, 2 pens, rocketbook

Just tipped the contents or my bag out, so here goes:-

Purse, tissues, keys, husbands blue badge pass, lipstick, hand cream, lens wipes, oh and a tube of cough drops, where did they come from - not had a cough for years!

I carry a very small handbag in the daytime as I can't be doing with a heavy one. It just has keys, purse with cards, driving licence, NT card , Boots card etc plus some cash, an address book, mobile phone, paracetamol, prescription tablets, one lipstick & a biro. If DH & I go out together in the evening, I don't take a bag but use his pockets for the essentials - I don't need money then as he'll take a wallet so just mobile & lipstick then.

years ago mine always contained make up, perfume, tampons, tissues, condoms, spare knickers , cigs, lighters, painkillers, money and keys, phone, mints.

Now it consists of money, keys, phone, painkillers , medication, stomach tablets, some make up , Tena liners, spare knickers, no cigs or lighters yay

Survival essentials phone, credit card, tissues ,shopping list, two sets of spectacles, shopping trolley coins.Less is more as dislike having to' fumble'.

Sunglasses, large clutch bag sized wallet, sweeteners, bag of Werthers, tape measure, phone, house keys, car fob thingy, spare Tena, pop socks for emergency shoe trying on, pen, multi tool thingy for screwdrivering, sawing etc, 2 folding shopping bags, a letter I forgot to post, and a cereal bar for emergency starvation moments.

It’s a big bag ?

This topic made me smile and realise how much my needs have changed over the years.

When I was youner I rarely carried a handbag at all, just my purse in my hand. I didn't wear makeup so didn't need to refresh it, and no mobile phones back then.

But now.... my very capacious bag contains a large purse with all the necessary plastic cards etc; mobile phone; house keys; spare car keys; small notebook; a pen; a comb; asthma inhaler and spacer; Paracetamol; protective underwear and spare knickers (I have IBS-D); Imodium Instants; baby wipes; Sanex hand gel; lots of tissues; a tape measure (just in case I see some fabric I like); my camera; a small penknife and a compact umbrella. I use the same bag whether I'm shopping or out for an evening - no small clutch bags for me sadly!

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Debit card, small pk of tissues, keys, phone. That's it.
Can only take a purse if taking my rucksack.
I have 3 purses on the go into which I put only necessary cards.
Receipts get sorted every few days.
See why in pics.

Have to ask Minimoon why the darning needle ?

among all the "stuff" in my handbag is a screwdriver (double ended), a measuring tape, mp3 player in a case, tiny speaker, two bottles of perfume, anti bac handwash, tissues, painkillers, sewing kit, hairbrush, comb, stylus pen to use with my mobile, digital camera, case for credit and store cards which isn't used, gloves, mirror in a case, wipes for glasses, four lipsticks, nail varnish, house keys, car keys, charger and cable for my mobile, purse containing all the cards which should go in the case plus driving licence, insurance documents and not much money!
might be other things which have sunk to the bottom and haven't seen the light of day for years.
hanging on the outside are various "dangly" things including a trolley coin and a "p" (blingy).
must have a sort out of old till receipts and shopping lists.

Oops gd not dg!

My day handbag has my purse, car keys, carex wipes, phone, reading glasses for all that irrating small print, lip gloss and small make up stick, emergency tablets and the first scan picture of my dg.

I was about to ask does no one carry a tape measure but I noticed two ladies do. I have a pretty ladies one with a fox picture.. always good to have one.

Anti bac hand cleanser .....

I am totally in awe of women who go on a night out without handbags. Oh to have their confidence. I take my purse, bank cards, house keys, lipstick, compact, hairbrush, foundation (to redo my face if necessary as my skin is awful), phone, tissues, paracetamol, plasters, if wearing a dress, spare tights, pen, probably more that I can't think of. DH calls it my 'just in case bag'.