Susanne Fritzsche, a German blogger who just joined my Tarot for Writers Workshop, has spotlighted a new trend: women are posting photos of everything in their purses. Since I’m an incurable snoop, I think it’s fascinating.
Here’s what I had in my purse this morning:
- MetTransit tickets from our trip to the Twins game on Saturday*
- Cash money: $34 in bills, and $1.36 in change (I can buy you lunch! Let’s go!)
- My watch
- Index cards in a plastic case, for recording sudden flashes of creative inspiration (and shopping lists)
- Handy-wipes from a gas station in outstate Minnesota
- My cell phone
- My credit cards (and bookstore discount cards)
- My wallet
- My makeup: eye shadow, cover stick, eyeliner, lipstick, mascara
- A ponytail holder (for any shaggy-looking child I have to take out in public) and a hairbrush
- A cheap-ass OfficeMax pen. (Who keeps taking all my good pens?)
- Receipts from last night’s excursion to the grocery store and the burrito shop
That might look like a lot of stuff, but only because I spread it all out. Normally, the money and credit cards are in the wallet, and the makeup is in the striped cosmetics bag. The receipts and train tickets are the only “extras” in today’s selection — because I cleaned out all of my purses over the weekend.
I actually have six or seven purses and tote bags that I keep in regular rotation. Most of them are piled in my closet. When one of them gets too heavy and full of junk, I pull out the core components (shown above) and switch. Then, about every three months, I clean them all out and start over.
*Speaking of the Twins, how do you like this picture of Dan and me at the game? Forget how fat my face looks; I’ve been retaining a little water or something. Instead, look at my sister Cari, who was sitting next to us. Doesn’t she look nice?
