She Showed Me Hers, So I'm Showing Mine - The Crap That Lives In My Purse

After a special "puh-lease" from Erin at The Mother Load, I have agreed to show the contents of the hidden recesses of my purse (not that you asked to see it, but still). But you have to look at hers first. Click HERE. Go on, I'll wait.

Was that a packed bag, or what? Like Erin, I've seen this post around Blog Land, and thought about joining in, but didn't want to embarrass myself. Also like Erin, I wish I could remember all the blogs I'd seen it on so I could give them credit. If you are one of those, feel free to leave your link in the comments!!

Alrighty then, here it goes.

This is the bag. It's Nine West and I got it for $29 at TJMaxx. Because I REFUSE to pay more than $30 for a purse. Coach-smoach. I can buy lots of good stuff for what those other big name brand purses cost. Just not my thing.

And now the contents.

Hi, my name is Ally and I am a business card addict. Seriously, who needs this many business cards in their purse? You can't see them all, but on the right there, there are two STACKS of cards clipped together with those little clips. One has 5 cards and bandaid. The other has 21 - three of them are those "buy 800 and we'll give you one free" cards and nine are my own business cards. The unclipped stacks hold 26 business cards, one more "buy __ and get one free" card, and my season pass into the high school football home games. Of course the regular season games ended this last week. So the card is now worthless. 7 more of those are MY business cards.

Okay, what else. Oh yes, the Starbucks card that I have NO idea if it has any $ left on it, my keys (sans clicker that broke - grrrr), one return receipt from Target and my folded To-Do list, most items not done. And my Gravity-T cell phone that I can't live without.

That's right. SIX pens and a mechanical pencil. Face powder. Two pennies. A cough drop I'm not sure I would put in my mouth unless desperate. Two almost empty hotel bottles of hand lotion because I can't wash my hands and not put on hand lotion - another addiction. Purell. An inhaler I haven't needed for almost a year. A small tin mint box from Hawaii that I refill with Altoids. A beat up small note book. Another Starbucks card - this one DOES have money in it. Ooooh and a T-Mobile rebate card that used to have $50 on it that, AGAIN, I have NO IDEA if it still has any money on it. I'll be checking that as soon as I'm done with this post. That silver thing top left? My business card holder - STOP LAUGHING!! Yes, it has more of my business cards in it. And two keys - one belonging to my grandmother's house, one to my late mother-in-law's house. That's my wallet in there - I won't even begin to tell you what's in there (or count the business cards!!!) I WILL say that there is $96 in there and I NEVER have cash with me! Cool!

What, that's not enough?? Okay, well there's two nail files - those two cute things in pink on the left. A little pill container that has 5 ibuprofen, 1 peppermint capsule and a tiny screw that fell out of my old computer - SO THAT'S WHERE I STASHED IT!!!  One hair band and two bobby pins. My NANAK's Lip Smoothie in coconut - all natural and awesome. Dental floss. TWO bullet shaped Natracare tampons - I'm green too, Erin!! A lip pencil and a lip gloss, a hand wipe package that is probably dried out, a hair clip, nail clippers, a pack of Soap On The Go dissolving soap strips, a key ring flashlight, two more cough drops, a toothpick (GA-ROSS!), a dime, a free lip balm that I probably won't use, AND my green grocery bag that folds up tiny in it's own little bag that I keep in my purse in case I forget to grab a reusable bag from the trunk.


Phew. You are probably thinking I'm a business card hoarder. Yeah, well maybe you have a point. I'm happy to report that not all that stuff went back into my purse. And usually there's a Lara Bar - peanut butter cookie flavor in there, too, but I must have eaten in this week.

Do you have the courage to show what's in your bag?

***Ally