What’s in YOUR Bag?
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Early Sunday morning I was indulging in one of my favorite pastimes: reading a fashion magazine. This was September 2007 ALLURE. I came across an article on another of my favorite things: handbags.
This study is from ALLURE Magazine readers:
52 - Percent never go out without a handbag
10 – is the number of handbags owned by the average American woman
3.4 - is the average weight in pounds of the contents of a handbag
10 – Percentage of body weight your handbag should not exceed
It all got me thinking … I am a purse addict. I need to refresh my bag every season with something new. I need to match color scheme which means basically I need a black and a brown. I change my purse based on day or night. And I never have enough handbags.
What’s IN my bag? Well, that’s another story. So I decided to share a few tidbits with you and encourage you to do the same:
Do you use a handbag every day? Yes
Do you remember your first handbag? If so, what was it? I do. A LeSportsac classic rust, double handled bag. The fact that I remember tells you something about my obsession. Boy do I remember this bag fondly although at the time, when I carried it to school, I felt awkward and out of place, embarrassed (like if I were wearing a skirt and didn’t call my friends to ask one of them to wear one too!)
Big purse or small purse? Luggage size. Just kidding. But big. Definitely.
Now for the key question. What’s in your bag? In other words, what can you not live without? I admit to being anal. Totally. There are certain things that if I don’t have them, anxiety kicks in. This despite the fact that I might never use it.
1. Wallet – no small French Purse for me. A long, envelope shaped wallet filled with credit cards, license, health insurance card, and change. In the change purse part are my frequently used cards like the supermarket, Borders, etc.
2. Leather envelope – contains extra frequent buyer cards, coupons, etc.
3. Tissues
4. Pill case – I take the Fifth on what’s in there. If you know me well, you can answer this anyway.
5. Makeup case – must contain lip gloss, lip liner, a lipstick, cover up, and a mirror
6. Extra lip gloss that I can just reach in and pull out of bag
7. Mini calendar – I have a huge calendar at home that keeps track of the whole family but this one is to make dr. appts, etc. I have to synchronize the two a few times a week.
8. A (hopefully) mini water bottle – to take said pills – I hate when I have to use the 8 or 9 oz. water bottles because they’re extra heavy.
9. Pen – maybe two.
10. Sunglass case – with sunglasses inside so I can swap my real glasses for sunglasses and visa versa and have a place to put them without scratching them.
11. Hair tie and hair clip – not always but usually have one or the other … just in case.
12. Nail file
13. Cell Phone
14. Paperback book (sometimes)
15. Bandaids
16. Lipton Decaf Teabags and Equal – because don’t you know not everyone has the Lipton or Equal brand?
17. Digital camera (sometimes)
18. iPod Nano
WEIGHT of my bag? I don’t want to know.
Clearly I don’t know how to pare down to the bare minimum. So what’s in YOUR bag? Inquiring minds want to know!
