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Ladies - what in your handbag?

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OT: Once i was surprised, now i'm more of indifferent. I have long ago given up on understanding why women carry all that crap around (no offence). Also, i've started referring to womens handbags as "black holes". since once you put something in there, you'll most certainly never find it again.

Now i'm a straight forward, no nonsese type of guy so i just carry around the basics.
Wallet, keys, cellphone, swiss pocket knife and on occasion headphones.

While at work, i usually carry a small med kit, a flashlight and gloves as well. although if all goes well, i'll be swapping out that small med kit for a big one.
 
Purse, iPod, mobile phone, small tin Vaseline lip stuff (Aloe Vera), small tin Nivea, pen, brolly, sunglasses, 500 bloody receipts, gloves, keys, painkillers.
 
So ladies, does it bother you when your partner gets into your purse?

I raid my wife's purse regularly to recover my pens (I use high quality & semi-expensive pens to write with and she routinely pilfers them) or to get things like receipts (rebates and cash backs) or her ID cards for paying bills. My mother-in-law flipped the fuck out when my wife told her about it (wife doesn't care) and said that it was a "invasion of a woman's privacy" and that "men aren't suppose to get into a woman's purse"-- be long rant about it isn't proper, manners, and "it just isn't "right"
 
I think any wife who has problems with her husband rummaging through her private things isn't entering into the spirit of marriage.
 
She raids my belt pouch and briefcase, I raid her purse, it's no big deal to either or us. My mother-in-law and a few of our female friends just freak out about me being in her purse, but my briefcases "well that's different"
 
Adm. V'ates said:
So ladies, does it bother you when your partner gets into your purse?

I raid my wife's purse regularly to recover my pens (I use high quality & semi-expensive pens to write with and she routinely pilfers them) or to get things like receipts (rebates and cash backs) or her ID cards for paying bills. My mother-in-law flipped the fuck out when my wife told her about it (wife doesn't care) and said that it was a "invasion of a woman's privacy" and that "men aren't suppose to get into a woman's purse"-- be long rant about it isn't proper, manners, and "it just isn't "right"
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Nope, couldn't care less. I'd never put anything in my purse I wanted to remain 'private.' I have better hiding spots for stuff like that :cool:
 
SPOCKED said:
Abigail Nussey said:
- Wallet
- iPod
- 2 iPod cords
- tiny hairbrush
- European money for some reason
- all the hair clips that have gone missing from elsewhere in the house
- cough drops from ten colds ago
- emergency bandaids that are so old they look like they themselves need bandaids
- lipbalm I never use
- keys => 1 car key, 3 house keys, and 1,000 useless keys
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You left out a tenner... which I "borrowed" today :devil:
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SPOOOOOOOOOCCCCKKKED! :scream:
 
WOW, LOL. I'm glad I don't have a handbag, then. :p

Although I admit, I probably carry that much stuff in my messenger bag...
- cellphone
- a thin binder [for sketching/drawing]
- 2 [old fashioned, spiral] notebooks
- graphing calculator
- book
- harddrive
- a set of papers that I won't bother to specify
- pen
- pencil
- eraser
- pen tablet [you know, the kind that you plug into the computer and sort of use as a mouse]
- pen tablet's pen + pen base
- mp3 player
- mp3 player charger + USB cable
- earbuds
- several flashdrives + memory cards
- miniature drawing notebook
- 2 pieces of precious chocolate
- library card
- school ID card
- USB extension cable

oh no, I'm worse! my bag is nerdy! :guffaw:

although sometimes I take out a few things and carry a netbook and it's power cable as well. LOL.
 
Adm. V'ates said:
So ladies, does it bother you when your partner gets into your purse?

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No. I cannot get mine to venture into it. Whenever he asks for something I tell him to go in and get it. This is always followed by him bringing me the bag by one strap -as if it were a polecat trying to bite him - and puts the whole bag into my lap to rummage for wanted article. Some kind of trauma of finding female hygiene products in his mother's purse ages ago or some such thing . . . :lol:

wallet (on a string - can double as teensy purse)
unpaid bills
phone
six pens
one mascara
one eyeliner
one lipgloss
four chapsticks
my lucky wade turtle
photo wallet
 
It depends on the day. Today I have my laptop bag (which looks like an overgrown purse/briefcase). It contains:

laptop
power cord
ipod
ipod cable
wallet
assorted papers
sheet music to Handel's Messiah (I'm singing tonight after work)
notepad
keys
hand sanitizer
pens/pencils
chapstick

I forgot my cell phone today, but usually I have that, too. When I don't bring my laptop, I have a small purse that carries my wallet, keys, phone, ipod, and chapstick.
 
Never use handbags (utterly uncomfortable most of them), either messenger bags or smart rucksacks, depending on how much I need to carry.

Today I had:
Wallet
Mobile
Earphones
Keys
Wind-proof micro umbrella
Neutrogena Norwegian formula mini hand cream
Small pack of Kleenex
Lancome juicy tubes lip gloss
Compact mirror
Decorated pillbox
 
Several ladies mentioned a brolly. What's a brolly? (yes, i could google it...)

Wallet
cellphone
change purse
pad & pen
phone book
gum
hand lotion
advil
wet ones

that's it!
 
Oldstredshrtevr said:
Adm. V'ates said:
So ladies, does it bother you when your partner gets into your purse?

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No. I cannot get mine to venture into it. Whenever he asks for something I tell him to go in and get it. This is always followed by him bringing me the bag by one strap -as if it were a polecat trying to bite him - and puts the whole bag into my lap to rummage for wanted article.
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:lol: Must be a regional thing, because my husband's the same. However if I say to any of my kids to get money out of my wallet they have no problems doing so (not surprisingly). Heck, my 13-year-old daughter knows the PIN for my bank card and I've sent her to the bank machine to get money out for me a few times.

My bag contains:

keys (car, house, and my dad's condo in Canada. No, I don't know why I keep the latter on my keychain)
small pack of tissues
hand cream
hand sanitizer
prescription sun glasses
packet of mints
Bach Rescue Pastilles
nail file
wallet
Blackberry
feminine hygiene products
small perfume
lip balm
headphones for Blackberry (never used)
two cereal bars
diary with pen
sock-in-progress knitting project

I often put my husband's stuff, especially his wallet, in my bag if he doesn't have a zippered pocket in his coat to keep his wallet safe.
 
What's worse is that my hubby, the computer guy, always carries his black shoulder bag in his car--it has his laptop, cables, USB sticks, etc., as well as all his medication (whether he needs it or not) and his glasses. But he won't carry his "Murse" in public (except at work), so I have to lug around his glasses and pills in addition to my own stuff.

Btw, he calls it his Jack Bauer Bag, but I call it The Murse.
 
auntiehill said:
What's worse is that my hubby, the computer guy, always carries his black shoulder bag in his car--it has his laptop, cables, USB sticks, etc., as well as all his medication (whether he needs it or not) and his glasses. But he won't carry his "Murse" in public (except at work), so I have to lug around his glasses and pills in addition to my own stuff.

Btw, he calls it his Jack Bauer Bag, but I call it The Murse.
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unfortunately, and i hate to admit it, but i can relate to that. except i simply call mine the work bag. and its contents vary from computer stuff to car parts (yes, car parts. i'm serious.)

on a sidenote: Murse?
 
Oldstredshrtevr said:
No. I cannot get mine to venture into it. Whenever he asks for something I tell him to go in and get it. This is always followed by him bringing me the bag by one strap -as if it were a polecat trying to bite him - and puts the whole bag into my lap to rummage for wanted article.
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I get this, too. It's like they're frightened what they might find. Like The Secret Sisterhood Book, or something! :lol:
 
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