A few months ago, I bought a new purse. The price was right ($20), the purse was cute (turquoise!), and my old one was dirty and fraying. I love this new purse. It's kind of like Mary Poppins' carpet bag -- seemingly bottomless. It's that capacity for carrying everything that is the purse's one drawback. Carting around a bunch of stuff can get heavy. Yesterday when I picked it up, I thought "No wonder my arm is all jacked up."How heavy is heavy? I took the purse upstairs and set it on the bathroom scale. It weighed nearly 6 pounds! Truthfully, I expected it to be more than that. But still, 6 pounds is the size of some newborn humans.
So exactly what is in a purse that weighs 6 pounds? This:
- 1 box of generic allergy medicine
- 2 bottles of ibuprofen (the shoulder, you know)
- 2 different kinds of lip gloss
- Foundation (ironic, because I rarely wear makeup)
- Blush
- A broken mechanical pencil
- Lip balm, free from a exhibit booth at a trade show
- Binder clip (to pull back my hair)
- A Diet Coke cap waiting for me to enter the code for Coke Rewards (drunk by someone else)
- Wallet (sadly, the emptiest of all)
- Pool key
- 3 maxi pads
- 1 pack of Splenda
- 1 pack of Pure Via
- Acne medication samples
- Sunglasses
- 2 hardback books -- one biography and one daily inspirations
- 35 cents in loose change
- A pen that I told the kids absolutely must not leave the kitchen calendar area
- An envelope of coupons
- Random register coupons from Target and Walgreens
- 2 expired Walgreens monthly savings booklets
- Numerous old receipts that just got shoved in the purse as soon as the cashier handed them over
- Bag of box tops someone at the office gave me to turn into school
- A ticket I saved from Annie's last show
- An Rx for bloodwork
