Have You Looked in Your Purse Lately?

The Dark Basement, the Dungeon, the Black Hole…have you given your purse a name yet?  I have a hand bag fetish (as well as a shoe, shopping and clothing fetish, but that’s besides the point) over the years I have grown to love REALLY BIG HANDBAGS and one of the perks or evils of carrying a big hand bag is the fact that the majority of your belongings go in and very rarely easily come out.  I put lip balm in my over-sized “Jessica Simpsonish” Louis Vuitton hand bag and ten minutes later went to retrieve it and couldn’t find it.  It literally disappeared to the naked eye.  I had to dump all of my belongings onto the bed just to find a little .15 oz  tube of lip balm. 

This is my “WORK” hand bag…..

I requested, and my mother purchased me a lovely mid-sized Dolce & Gabbana hand bag for Christmas.  I’ve been trying my best to separate my “work” hand bag from my “out on the town” hand bag and my “everyday hanging out with girlfriends” hand bag.  The above picture is my work hand bag and even as I was taking the picture I was disgusted with the lack of important items not making an appearance.  I live in Philadelphia and walk to work which means I have to travel light, so I can’t take the entire box of Wet Ones that I would normally take with me if I had one of my bigger hand bags.  Instead I have essentials, my must haves…Keys, lotion, hand sanitizer, mirror, lip gloss, wallet, advil, feminine clutch and diet pills (oh! and a cell phone but I was using that to take the picture :-).  What I don’t have is make-up, gum, breath mints, umbrella, book, ipod, wet ones, sunglasses, pen, brush, hair spray, deodorant, camera, change of jewelry, make-up wipes,…etc.  you get where I’m going.

Here are the top ten Must Have Items women carry in their hand bags…according to an anonymous online survey:

1. Cell Phone
2. Make-Up
3. Feminine clutch
4. Keys
5. Mirror
6. Music (iPod, MP3 Player etc)
7. Lotion/hand sanitizer
8. Wallet
9. Gum/candy
10. Sunglasses

Where do you fall on the top ten? 

Tiana