After seeing this blog post and @NathanaelB on Twitter’s collage of his manbag, I took a photo of the contents of my handbag. Did you know there’s a whole Flickr group devoted to handbag contents? I reckon Nathanael would survive a natural disaster. And I reckon the guy in the Wanderer blog could travel for three months with his bag, provided he can do the washing every third day. After a few months, he might find his clothes no longer suit the climate (assuming he’s in a place where there are definite temperature changes with the seasons).
So this is what’s in my handbag on any given day of the week:
The lipstick case has a bright red and lip balm. The sewing kit is actually not a sewing kit at all: it contains cough lollies and rosary beads. The three tubes below that are PureWipes, antibacterial cleanser, and eye drops. There’s usually car and house keys too.
Based on this, the situations I equip myself to deal with are:
- Access to things
- Minor physical discomfort
- Paying for things
- Communications (the iPad doubles as my phone)
I’m not sure what category the rosary beads belong to. Possibly all of the above.
