Day 8: What's in your handbag

My usual handbag is a $20 purse from Target. It's getting kind of worn out. I've got another one just like it except for the fabric (this one is pink/purple/yellow flowers on a white background, the other one is pink and red flowers on a black background), that I bought when this one experienced catastrophic contact with a soda and I didn't think it would come clean. The Laundry God managed to get it clean, though, so I've been using the brighter one. It's probably time to retire it in favor of the darker one.


• Hanging from the outside are the keys for the car I drove today


• An orange wallet containing my less commonly used identification and cards


• A lined journal featuring Death of the Endless, which is mostly full of assorted mementoes and notes


• A checkbook


• A small notebook in which I am writing a long coming-out letter to my parents (it remains to be seen whether it will ever be mailed)


• A second ditto, in case the letter gets extremely long. I could probably keep this somewhere else until/unless I need it


• Sunglasses


• Several pens and pencils (why can't I ever find one when I want it?)


• Lip balm


• Glasses cleaning solution and cloth


• A glue stick for affixing mementoes into my journal


• My ziploc makeup bag (as packed for carrying onto a plane): one lipstick, one mascara, one liquid eyeliner


• Three pantyliners


• A pillminder (but I never remember to take the pills)


• A child's Hello Kitty watch with a dead battery (Yeah, me either)


• A box of Tic Tacs


• An emergency supply of painkillers


• A small piece of quartz


• A pursehanger for use at restaurant tables


• A skull-and-crossbones bag of knitting tools (darning needles, stitch markers, tiny scissors) and store reward cards and a house key


• Inside the big purse, I carry my 'traveling light' purse: a red and white polka-dotted wallet clutch from Thirty-one, decorated with a wooden token of a seven-pointed star and a dangling maneki neko.
  In the 'traveling light' purse:
  
  • My driver's license
  
  
  • My debit card
  
  
  • My credit card
  
  
  • My medical insurance card
  
  
  • Some quantity of cash (often $0, but currently a few dollars)
  
  
  • Some quantity of change (quite a bit, at the mo, because I haven't emptied it into the change jar recently)
  
  
  • A tube of Burt's Bees lip balm
  
  
  • A small nailclipper
  
  
  • A 16GB flashdrive
  
  
  • A set of iPhone earbuds with the built-in microphone
  
  
  • Occasionally present:
    • My iPhone (It migrates between pocket, small purse, big purse, and bedside table)
    
    
  • Also present, though not technically belonging there:
    
    • An SJ Tucker sticker ("We're all mad here and it's OK!")
    
    
    • A baggage claim ticket from my last trip to NC
    
    
    • A coupon for Priyaa Indian Restaurant
    
    
    • A leather bookmark
    
    
    • One of Chris's MOO cards
    
    
    • A Seafood Watch pocket reference card
    
    
    • The key to Chris & Rob's house