WTF? Am I serious? Yes. My wife decided she needed to wash, yes wash, her handbag. In the washing machine. Don’t ask. Anyway I took the opportunity to photograph the event. For posterity.
Not too scary. From a young age I was taught, ney ordered, never to go anywhere near a woman’s handbag. ‘Can you get my hairbrush darling? It’s in my handbag’. Forget it, I’m going nowhere near it. The contents here don’t look too scary. But what’s with the passport. Were we thinking of going somewhere? Darling…?
Women seem to be required to carry the entire contents of Kmart with them wherever they go. According to an article in the Daily Mail, the average woman has 40 items in her handbag. I have quizzed my girlfriend on the contents of her handbag and her answer is that she needs to be “prepared for any situation”.
Well, why not chuck a jackhammer in there because there is a small possibility that you could be trapped in a rockslide. Or maybe a rocket launcher so that if an elephant falls from the sky you can blow it up before it lands on you.
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If that’s goes in a women’s handbag, what is beyond the doors of the ladies’ room?
God knows, don’t ask!
Haha! I teach my boys (and hubby) to stay out of my purse too. Granted, my purse is the size of the average womans wallet and the size of my mothers change purse (that thing could fit all four of my children in it!). I like to keep it a mystery – it’s the one place that’s ALL MINE!
It looks just about like what in my bag. Being on the move I agree you need a lot of that, I have little bags now in my bag to separate everything, Seems to help
I stopped carrying a purse when my kids grew up ~ I can’t stand them. Probably because I put everything but the kitchen sink in it. Now I just carry my wallet, my phone, and my keys in my pockets. Everything else stays home…even on vacation
Great post!!!
My husband used to have me carry all his stuff. Over time he has increasingly become more of a Boy Scout and is prepared for any moment of impromptu urban hiking. Hand sanitizer? He has it. Lips are dry?…he has lip balm. Are you thirsty? He’s got water. Instead of burdening me with more and more stuff, he’s taken to carrying a “murse”. I love it as I’ve noticed that MY handbag has gotten much lighter! As for the passport: Never Leave Home Without It!
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I’m going to have to hide this blog now. My wife is not allowed to read content like this.
I don’t have anywhere near that amount of stuff in my bag. I have never understood why some ladies feel they have to take everything in their bathroom with them.
She keeps roll-on, hairspray and, is that shampoo(?) in her bag? Wow, it’s like a pharmacy in there…lol.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I’m glad you liked the recipe for poached salmon. Love your post about your wife’s handbag. I live in Virginia, and have never called that thing I carry my stuff in a pocketbook. But then I moved here from Ohio, where it is called a purse. I much prefer handbag, but then I’m an Anglophile. Incidentally, I’ve been thinking of writing a post about my handbag singing French chansons…I suppose I have to now that I’ve announced it. Do look for it!
I live in Texas…..we don’t carry a handbag, we carry a purse. I argued this point when I moved to Virginia in 1999, all the women there carried a “pocketbook”…..I informed them that when I moved back to Texas, if I said “pocketbook” I’d get laughed outta town. LOL
My hubby is quite comfortable going into my handbag and I’ve always found that very strange. Having said that, we now live in Spain and, here, men carry bags, so that means I can go into his whenever I like!
I am surprised that there is no hair dryer, the thing called GHD or a block of goats cheese. My eldest daughter has those in hers, or so I am told. I too avoid going near such things.
Mine is the same- funny that – which is why people have to ring my mobile twice – once to find it (advanced archaeology) and once to answer.
My mom, many years ago, told me that no man should ever peer into a woman’s handbag (or purse as we call it in Texas). To this day when my wife asks me to get something from her purse I get very nervous as if I am doing something illicit.
great post
Agree- I never go near the thing it is place of the unknown
maybe you should have your own handbag ??
You were raised right!
I don’t have that much stuff in mine because when I dig in, I can’t find anything. Are there 3 packs of tissues?
That’s not bad. Now how about the stuff in a man’s wallet? Why do men walk around with one bulging buttock?
Its all the receipts for all the purchases for their nearests and dearests.
Or it could be piles
I always carry my passport – women get asked for ID to buy a drink so much more than men!
Exactly thats the very reason why my wife carries hers! Its been an awful long time since I was asked for ID.
that’s very brave of you
It was my wife’s suggestion so I’m safe!
Why is she carrying her passport in her handbag? Is she going somewhere and hasn’t told you?
No we are just impulsive we just decide to go for for tropical weekends at the drop of a hat (not)
A lady likes to be prepared. That’s why I have 23 Target receipts in the bottom of mine. You never know when you might need tender to start a fire.
I had to look up Target – I think its like Argos in the UK. Last thing I got there was a Slendertone. They lied.
Sometimes I don’t even know what’s in my bag. Every once in a while, I clean it out and am surprised.
Pandora didn’t have a box. She had a bag.