What's in your bag today?

My collection of gorilla clitorises, a bag of warm mayo, and the pinky finger of the woman I went on a date with last Thursday. What a good gal she was.

What? Warm mayo? I'm shocked.

I thought this was for a "bag"... not my purse. I don't know if I want you to know what's in my purse.

Slappy...you are too much!

I'm going through my purse (bag) now... I have:

my drivers license
brush
make up kit
nail polish
perfume roll on
bank deposit/withdraw book
money (lots...I got paid today)
keys
2 email printouts from my lovey
2 credit cards
calculator
address/datebook

Wouldn't that be "gorilla clitori"?

What an interesting euphemism, ehbeth.

What's in the bag ... let's see ... wallet, of course, cell phone, some makeup, my pass for the library at the courthouse, some hand cream, business cards, a couple of prescription meds, brush, comb, lypsyl and some chewing gum.

From our last vacation in January, there's the family's passports (why am I carrying those around??), the dog's collar with his rabies tag, a change purse full of American change for the highway tolls, a mini flashlight, a Swiss Army knife, pens, bandaids, elastic bands, twist ties, and a couple of corks from wine bottles (???).

I have bags within my bag.

The outer bag has my purse
and a file folder with stuff from work that I could use at home, perhaps a recipe I photocopied from a magazine or some personal photos as opposed to work related photos. This happen in reverse too, I have home computer printouts that may help at work, a book my business partner might like to read, etc. I tend to look at this file when at work, as to put off actual work, and to throw bag on table not to be seen until I am late for work the next day, thus the file gets larger and larger.

Also in the outer bag, some of the pan roasted potatoes from dinner last night that went to work but I didn't eat all of them, due to having tomatoes and some feta too, coming back with me in a plastic sack.

Pacco's new Gentle Leader leash, which I need to practice with him more... lest he break his neck or mine in some sudden move or something. (We tried it for the first time today.)

The New Yorker, which I also took to work, but only read the beginning part of at lunch.

My paid bill stubs on way to my stack of to be filed stuff.

My actual purse, today rather clean, most of that grunge being on my dining table. What's left is wallet, hairbrush, little silver case of business cards for that rare occasion it occurs to me to drag one out. Sometimes a lipstick, sometimes a pen, rarely both. Thus I keep buying more lipsticks and pens, which have their own homes in various dishes. Small black drawing notebook, which is of course no good without a pen or pencil.

My cell phone is not in my car or bag, but in the kitchen charging away.

I can't help noticing that it is mostly persons of the female persuasion emptying their hearts and hand bags for this thread. Kicky, what are you up to? Is this some atrange sociological experiment or just a way for you to pick up?

Having said that, here's what's in my hand bag: My phone; my purse (matches my hand bag)- incorporating money (colourful Australian variety), bank card, train tickets, various membership and ID cards, photos of friends (taken in photo booths), purchase reciepts, movie ticket stubs etc; makeup- compact, eyeliner pencil, lip gloss, face blotters; pen and paper; ticket stub from A Midsummer Night's Dream; a spare shoelace; Panadol; bandaids; handy fold away scissors; nail clippers and file; fabric comb; little hair brush; deodorant; emergency "plumbing supplies"; personal alarm; sewing kit (a must have); hair pins and tie; fancy earrings (in case I have to look a little bit more special at a moments notice); phone change; fold away spoon; tissues (never go ANYWHERE without them); another two or three pens just in case; shopping list (not because I'm going shopping, that's just where I keep it so I wont forget it); packets of salt, sugar, and chewing gum; and a piece of polished haematite. I don't know why I have that last thing, it's the only thing in there that has no apparent use.

All of this fits comfortably in a handbag about the lenth and height of a woman's hand and a breadth about equivalent to your pinky finger's length. All (barring money and ticket stubs) are more or less permanent fixtures in my bag, with additions as needed.

My method of selecting what goes in my bag is experience, whenever I find myself in a situation where I wish I had something, I make sure I always have it later. There's nothing in there that hasn't come in handy, to myself and my friends, besides, of course, the haematite.

Fortune, why would you think it's a pick-up thread? I just got the idea when I was lugging all that crap around with me yesterday. No alterior motives. Just thought it would be interesting to see what other people carry around with them, and the difference between what the guys have and what the girls have. I have found that women seem to be serious pack rats. :wink:

About a decade ago I got really tired of hauling a bag around and tried to survive with just a small purse at most and often, say when going on long walks, just a small plastic holder for one credit card, my driver's license, and perhaps a five dollar bill. I kept leaving that little plastic thing in different pockets and drove myself nuts.

Pack rats? Erm, guilty as charged I suppose.

BTW, how's that poll going? I haven't placed my vote as yet...

Osso, I wouldn't even try to get rid of my handbag. It's gotten to the stage that when anyone needs something, no matter how odd it may seem for me to have it, they will automatically ask me first! These days I can't help but feel that I'm doing a public disservice when I go out without my bag.

OK, some male input for Kicky's wussy thread.
Ain't no way I'm totin' a bag around so the front seat of my pick-up truck contains the following essential items:

A small hair brush- for after I've been driving with my head outts the window like a family dog

Bottle of Excedrin-From back when I had a bad molar.

A cassette tape-The Best Of The Best Of Merle Haggard

2 harmonicas- Keys of E and G

My Lotto card

A white plastic bag with 5 packs of Camels and some cig wrapper cellophane.

Various pieces of paper with directions, phone numbers and grocery lists

Merle Haggard, two harmonicas, cigarettes...now that's the kind of thing that gives me an insight into who you are. And you called this a wussy thread. I can respect that. Especially coming from a panzy like yourself. :wink:

I toss the softball, Kincky smacks it outta the park.
Luv's ya baby!

I aim to please.

I have a purse with very little in it - this list looks long, but the bag isn't that big and it's at least half empty.

Cards:
Driver's license
4 for bank and credit
library
2 of businesses
2 for insurance
tripple A
organ donor
3 for free peet's coffee
2 'buy 10 get one free' types
1 for zoo access
Stoat's business card

other stuff:
a picture of my niece
gum
chapstick
decongestants from a long-ago cold
1 abuzz pen
cell phone
little piece of paper with phone numbers
spare car key
one female product
checkbook

I have a little plastic bag I carry stuff to and from work in. Right now it's a bit chaotic.

one crumpled plant catalogue
one reused plastic container (was mascarpone) with teabags in it
one reused cream cheese container with cough drops and vitamins
some crumpled tin foil (from a burrito)
a crumpled paper towel
4 more female products
2 pocket-sized packs of tissues
a metal star
4 juicebox straw wrappers
one take out plasticware set
directions to an outfoxed showing
receipt for food
pet-sitting service business card
used gum wrapped in old receipt
one yogurt lid (I can send it in for a good cause)
ibuprofen

and now all the trash is going into the proper receptacle.

I have a wallety thing with various cards, cash, a mirror, a pen, receipts, etc. It goes in my purse proper (a small black leather backpack style -- bought it when it was trendy, went to something sleeker and trendier when the backpack was no longer trendy, decided **** trends the backpack is infinitely more useful -- I love having hands free) which also has: kid comb, several kid hair things, bandaids, a Southwest Airlines ticket stub, a friend's business card, the program from a festival, the receipt from mechanic's, receipt for my new Mac (hug hug kiss kiss), old grocery list, directions to mechanic's, a kid's paper menu that sozlet wanted to keep because she made some beautiful drawings on it, Ricola cough lozenges, a forgotten until this moment confiscated unopened fruit roll-up thingie (came with a kid's meal at KFC, too sweet for sozlet -- we were waiting for mechanic to be done, didn't want her hyper while we waited), (just tried to eat it -- the ultimate confiscation -- but it was too too too sweet blech just threw it out), Burt's Bees lip balm, contact lens rewetting drops, lipgloss, film, a necklace, some spare change.

There.

Gonna have to be a wallet kicky:

Driver's License
1 Credit card
1 Condom (which has left a permanent mark on the wallet)
5 1-dollar bills
5 twenty-dollar bills

The cash is tucked away just in case the card doesn't work somewhere.

That's it, I like to travel light.

I have eight big bags on me, but what's in my handbag? Let's look:

My phone;
A pocket map of Paris;
Beck's 'Mutations' CD
'Teach yourself Afrikaans;'
Vaseline
InterRail pass (put inside three plastic wallets and sealed)
Small tube of sun-tan lotion
Bonjela (for mouth ulcers;)
Thyroxine tablets;
Hydrocortone tablets;
Asprin;
Hayfever tablets
A copy of 'no es nada, es un suspiro' that I scrawled myself;
A camera;
Eight films;
About 20 pens;
Ditto, but pencils;
My passport;
A few envelopes for easy impromptu letter writing;
Reporter's notebook;
About eighteen sachets of tomato ketchup, given to me by an eccentric in Spain;
Some sugar-free chewing gum;
My E-111 form;
A few receipts;
The IIId part of Lorca's Collected Poems
A letter that I was writing to an ex-friend but balled up;
A business card from 'M. Jean D'Avignon
A map of Hamburg
Lipstick
Blusher
Business cards of my own
Comb
Bulgarian money
Lots of tissue packs
Little adress book
A weird letter addressed 'Dear Anne Bronte'
A bottle of pineapple juice
A guide to Europe on a shoestring
ID cards
Lib Dem membership card
'Othello' and 'Troilus & Cressida' Penguin Shakespeare books

and then stuff in the pockets, mostly drafts.