Spill it. What’s in that thing? Anything slimy? Anything that would make your former (cooler) self completely embarrassed?
I tend to spend a lot of time with my son that my husband doesn’t witness… he has a fulltime job, you see, and probably imagines that what he doesn’t see simply doesn’t happen.
This means I have a few tricks up my sleeve (often in the form of portable snack food) that he doesn’t know about; it also means I’m hoarding some pretty weird stuff in my stylish tote purse that I carry every day (courtesy of Whitney that she probably now wishes she could rip from my hands and retire, but she can’t cuz she made it).
Yesterday (while not with baby), I found:
- a mini board book
- Holden’s socks and Robeez
- a pacifier on a leash
- some bubbles with a cool wand
- a miniature slinky
- some Veggie Booty in a ziplock
Now you have the option to streamline your purse (and thus your life) or just laugh at yourself and reload. Or make some piles, compost what was left inside, and move on
There’s also a flickr cluster for the voyeuristic purse-dumpers among you.
UberMoms can solve any problem, fix any mess, heal any hurt because everything and anything is to be found in the purse.
imo.
MotherPie Cheers.
What? No crayons? I checked my purse just this morning, and found two ziplocs of crayons, 3 small ziplocs of wipes (when in doubt, throw in another one), and two fortune cookies held onto for emergency kid snack purposes. I often also have a diaper or two, a sippy cup, random (small) stuffed animals, and a snack trap loaded with cheerios.
I clean mine out weekly, but my purse still amazes my coworkers. Even with my kids being older than yours, a usual dump out will net:
Aleve and Tylenol (Tylenol for the kids, Aleve for me)
Pens
Magic Markers (4 or 5)
change
a tape measure
a calculato
my iPod
gum (not mine, the 12 year old’s)
camera (don’t leave home without it)
wallet (and the ever important APs to Busch/SeaWorld/Aquatica)
EpiPen/Imitrex injections
I think all those episodes of “Let’s Make a Deal” as a kid made me think I need to carry all this stuff.
I have a mini bag that I fill with my daughter’s stuff so I can just take it out of any purse and put it in another one and just go. Diaper bags depress the hell out of me. But I always have diapers, wipes and a pacifier that she refuses to take.
my list is embarrassing. i carry everything with me!
i have a container of veggie booty (best lil’ snack on earth)
tons of cherrios on the bottom of my bag that used to be inside a snack trap
a travel bottle of clorox everywhere spray (yes, i’m the germ-a-phobe mom in the restaurant)
an earth’s best cherry cereal bar in case she won’t eat veggie booty
wipes/diapers
diaper disposal bags
a small devotional book
wallet full of receipts from the grocery store and target
small make-up bag (which i only ever use the mascara from and it’s falling apart)
sunglasses (for both my daughter and myself)
travel toilet set covers
there’s a side pocket filled with diaper rash cream, hand sanitizer, hand lotion and stuff like that.
my daughter always requests a hat (and she’s only 14 months) so the style is selected and thrown in before we leave the house.
ya, i need to clean this bag out!
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