What is in your (hand)bag ??

xzanti

I’m always thinking ‘God if I was in an accident and somebody had to find my ID I’d be morto’ But sure if you’re in an accident the contents of your bag is the least of your worries..

JaneyMc

Femmy wrote: »

once i found an un - used tampon that had come out of its wrapper in my bag..it had been in there for months!

:eek:This happened to me as well, but my bag fell of my table in a lecture one day in college and the wrapper fell out. Don't think anyone was paying attention but God my face must have been red for a good 15 mins after. Thanks God it wasn't the tampon/applicator instead. I would have died right there on the spot.

capedcrustacian

i have EVERYTHIN in my bag, like, packets of soup, sugar satchets, a teaspoon....it's bizarre i know but i pick up things in a hurry and realise as i'm walkin down the street that they are still in my hand and stash them in my bag and forget about them till weeks later

marti101

I have everything but the kitchen sink in there

sunnyside

I hate my big cluttered handbag. I want to be one of those people who carry tiny bags with keys, money, mobile and nothing else.

I tend to have a book, magazine, ipod, notebook, the sandwiches and bottle of water I just bought in spar, receipts and bus tickets, loads of make-up....clutter. Problem is I seem to use all this stuff so I need a big bag.

Rozabeez

Newest handbag lesson: Don't leave fruit in there.

Pythia

Femmy wrote: »

once i found an un - used tampon that had come out of its wrapper in my bag..it had been in there for months!

Always happens to me! What's even worse is when they fall out!

I have all sorts of cr@p in there that's not needed but because the bag is so big, they get lost.

Cmol

xzanti wrote: »

chewing gum wrappers, cinema ticket stubs, empty lip glosses etc, not to mention makeup stains in the fabric..

Add a view hundred dublin bus receipts in there and you have my bag!!

Faddymackshyte

The worst thing with a bag that's full of the usual stuff, is that when I put something in and I need it, I have to rummage through everything to find it, it tends to be my phone or keys and then I look like a fool shuffling through the bag. I think I have around 4 tins of vaseline in my bag, 3 different bottles of perfume, make up, jewellery, money, clips as well as the given bus tickets, receipts and just little pieces of paper. I'm an awful hoarder!!

hazeler

My bag issues are the usual ones wallet, keys, make-up, perfume etc etc...

But I have a 7 yr old daughter so I need to add in a packet of baby wipes, sachets of nurofen, some Bratz dolls, their shoes, clothes and accessories, anything thats pink and glitzy and I'll def have at some stage on a trip outside our house a Baby Born doll. Its almost like I cant go out without a big bag nowadays...

But if we didnt have our bags filled with all the cr@p that we "need", then we would just forget everything we actually need for the day.

JaneyMc

In my bag today :
scarf
hairbrush
wallet
smokes
lighter
fingerless gloves
hairband
earphones +
ipod
loose change
perfume
mascara
foundation
face wipes
blusher brush
deoderant
shiney face powder stuff
bus tickets
3 spools of thread
umbrella.

I'm actually amazed I can fit all that crap into a medium, sized bag.

Oh and Rozabeez, been there with the fruit! :mad: Oh and never carry yoghurt in your bag unless its inside a plastic bag.

Faddymackshyte

JaneyMc wrote: »

In my bag today :

3 spools of thread
Oh and never carry yoghurt in your bag unless its inside a plastic bag.

Hahaha, what a random thing, spools of thread.

You just reminded me of the time I brought a salad thing into work, but I rushed out the door and just threw the lunchbox into my bag. The sauce covered everything; phone, wallet, book, keys EVERYTHING. And it stank too. Should've left it at home.

Scarinae

capedcrustacian wrote: »

i have EVERYTHIN in my bag, like, packets of soup, sugar satchets, a teaspoon....it's bizarre i know but i pick up things in a hurry and realise as i'm walkin down the street that they are still in my hand and stash them in my bag and forget about them till weeks later

I always find teaspoons in my bag as well, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I've just found a screwdriver in my handbag.
Alongside the normal stuff plus two bottles of perfume, Nurofen and a packet of ginger.

Ginny

I just cleaned 25 bus tickets out of my bag, nothing else out of the ordinary in it other then some large large paperclips and a cut up credit card, oh and the list of stuff I was supposed to get before I went on holidays last week. (I lost the list in my bag and so forgot some stuff before I went)

fonpokno

I am the worst for bus tickets. A few years ago I was on the bus home from town and a conductor got on. Jesus I was there for a least 10mins looking for that day's bus ticket out of about a hundred. It was ridiculous, i was about 15 at the time so I was mortified and panicked and the bus tickets just kept multiplying. Thank god yer man gave up in the end, i never found that ticket....

Make up too, my concealer is really annoying and keeps leaking everywhere. I also found about 20pens in my bag last week. Ridiculous. For such a small bag that I'm using lately I can fit an inordinate amount of stuff into it.

Tupins

I was staying with my sister one night and I left my toothbrush in her house. The following night we met up in town to go out and she gave me back my toothbrush which i put into my handbag. I had also arranged to meet this guy that I had just started seeing but hadn't slept with. Anyway, we were all in the pub and I got up to go to the bar. I dropped my handbag and the contents spilled out onto the floor so the guy I was seeing started helping me to pick stuff up. He picked up the toothbrush and gave it back to me grinning madly - he thought that I brought it with me on purpose because I was planning to spend the night with him - MORTO!

SarahJ

I'm the worst handbag ever, everything is in there! a pack of chewing gum emptied in my bag, so they're just floating around with all the 1 cent coins and fluff etc.

I had my handbag on the passenger seat the other day (I know, I know, someone could break the window and grab it while I'm stopped at lights etc), and I swear to God, the seatbelt beeper thing started beeping! The car acutally thought I had a passenger. That's bad.

Jules

I still love looking throught this thread.. Hint Hint!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055203055

taram

fonpokno wrote: »

I am the worst for bus tickets. A few years ago I was on the bus home from town and a conductor got on. Jesus I was there for a least 10mins looking for that day's bus ticket out of about a hundred. It was ridiculous, i was about 15 at the time so I was mortified and panicked and the bus tickets just kept multiplying. Thank god yer man gave up in the end, i never found that ticket....http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=57467698

This happened to me yesterday :P And each ticket was for the same route at roughly the same time so had to spread them all over the seat next to me and find the one for the 3rd of October. He just laughed and told me not to worry about it.

Had a box of condoms that had been opened and the carboard got soaked one day due to leaking 7up and I pulled out about 5 when I tried to take my wallet out to pay for something one day in Smyths...a child picked one up and gave it back to me. Thought I was going to die right there and then!

msfreak

I used to have this problem with debris but have this great bag from Next - its divided in two so i keep my makeup on one side and big things like hair brush, purse on the other side, easy for finding things, it also has side pockets at each end, one where i keep my phone and car keys and the other i keep for bus tickets, receipts etc so at the end of the day, i just need to throw away the papers from that one pocket, its really handy! And it has an inside zipped pocket for embarrassing items! It looks like a bit worky since its from Next, but good for every day wear anyway!

Stheno

Taking Jules hint from the handbag debris thread, and after cleaning my handbag out it contained :eek: :

Work phone
Personal phone
Camera and cable (need to post these)
Make up bag (foundation, concealer, mascara, eyeshadow, blusher, two lipsticks, serum, powder, brushes)
Two bottles of perfume
Spare glasses
Work phone holder
Keys
3 usb keys
4 colored non permanent markers???
Mobile phone charger
Coffee loyalty card
Tissues
Face cleanser (didn't even know I had that!)
Moisturiser
Tweezers
Champix tabs
Spare buttons
Mini sewing kit
Pins
A lid off a bottle of water
Chewing gum
A broken keyring charm
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
Two passport photos
Eyedrops
Painkillers
Credit and cash cards
Various loyalty cards
Plasters
pens
3 lemsip
Disclosing tablets from the dentist
A Vicks inhaler
One of those tooth flosser things
Dry cleaning tickets
Bits of a pen
About twenty different pieces of post/bills/letters
Myriad receipts

It's not even a particularly big bag???? :rolleyes:

edit: after finding a rarely used pocket of the bag, I found spare tights, footies, two work invoices, minutes from a meeting, three bank statements, a credit card statement, contact lenses and a stash of business cards lolz

Zaph

This isn't your bag by any chance, is it?




I knew a girl once who never went anywhere without a can of deodorant and a spare pair of shoes in her bag. It was a feckin' huge thing she carried, I dread to think what else was in it.

Zaph

Merging this into the existing bigger thread

smares

It really needs to be cleaned out but at the moment there is:

Purse
Juicy tubes
Face powder
Foundation
Foundation sponge
Eye liner
Hair brush
Perfume 2 bottles
Deodorant
keys
hair clips
Reciepts
Tissue
Mobile
Chewing gum
Tablets
Visa bill
lighter
Earrings-that i wore out last week but were annoying me
A single earring-can't find the other one
Oh and i just remembered a wispa,going to enjoy that now!!

No wonder my bag is so heavy

Stheno

Zaph wrote: »

This isn't your bag by any chance, is it?

No the aforementioned handbag is similiar to this :

I knew a girl once who never went anywhere without a can of deodorant and a spare pair of shoes in her bag. It was a feckin' huge thing she carried, I dread to think what else was in it.[/

You might have an idea from the helpful post(s) above now???

I do keep three spare pairs of shoes in my car, ever since a heel snapped off one day in work and I had to walk around in my socks

I'll not mention that this is the third time in a month that I've cleaned out my handbag

Twee.

For a usual college day I have a leather messenger type bag containing:
Phone
Keys and memory stick on a lanyard (cool, I know)
Purse
Sunglasses (may need to take them out now...)
Concealer
Powder
Lush chocolate lip balm-yummy!
Hello Kitty notepad
Hello Kitty pencil case
Diary
And one of two books - Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, but if I'm not arsed carrying it it'll be The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold!

On a night out it's much less:
Phone
Keys
Make Up
Purse
Passport

Stheno

I appear to be slightly extreme in terms of what I cart about in my handbag

In my defence I make the case that I used travel a LOT with work, and am very forgetful, if it wasn't in my handbag, I couldn't guarantee it was with me.

Sadly that came to roost one night when having forgotten my pyjamas I went sleep walking on the ninth floor of the Hilton.

Hence the extreme handbag

allandanyways

In college so basically live out of a backpack that carries a whollle lot...

2 textbooks for Spanish
Spanish dictionary
Folder & A4 pad
Ringbound A4 pad
Academic Diary (cos I'd forget to do my assignments unless they're all recorded in one place)
Various novels and plays for English (Currently The Tempest, Tamburlaine and Titus Andronicus)
'La Casa de Bernada Alba' for Mod. Spanish Lt
An umbrella
2 tampons
Pencil case with various pens and highlighters
Bottle of water
Make up bag (containing Loreal true match foundation and powder, Benefit Badgal Lash, Benefit Thrrob blusher, MAC lipgloss, MAC Eyeliner, Rimmel Eyeliner, Foundation brush, powder brush and some glitter)
Purse (containing about a tenner in change, 20e, college id, garda id, bank cards, health cards, vision express card, photo of OH, photo of little sis)
Half empty box of Silk Cut Purple
3 lighters (think 2 of them are nearly finished though)
Deodorant
3 bus tickets
Bag of Special K mini breaks
Chewing gum (the shiny extra ones)

Alessandra

Day Bag:
Keys
Wallet
Phone
Makeup bag
stapler, paper, pens,
newspaper
mp3 player
phone radio headset
wipes
pumps
chewing gum

Night bag:
keys
wallet
phone
passport
flat pumps
chewing gum
make-up bag
hairgrips