Pop quiz: What’s really in your bag right now? Tell us below…
Exciting news: This is part of a new series with Emily McDowell, one of my favorite illustrators; she’ll be asking us one pressing question every month.
(Illustration by Emily McDowell for Cup of Jo)
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A moleskine journal, Nexus 7, cell phone, charger, cord, keys, pen, keys, kleenex, gum, punch card for Pastoral cheese shop, sunglasses in a case, Tocca hand lotion, cloth shopping bag, bandaids, tampon, Aleve, a check for 600 Euros (I live in Chicago) and a business card case with cards
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Well…
* Kleenex – only two tissues
* Vaseline Lip Chap – the Mini bottle
* A blessed medallion that my mother asked me to carry around b/c it’s supposed to “protect me” – haha
* wallet
* iPhone
* Business Cards (looking for work)
* Keys with an Italian pepper key chain
* Breathe mints – the Green flavoured kind ;)
Panera bread receipt
dirty kleenexes
Aveeno sample that I got from the makeup girl at Target
Cetaphil wipe sample from Target
old shopping lists
Anthropologie bday coupon that expires today that I won’t actually use
coupons
wallet calendar
makeup bag
sunglasses
Oh my,
my bag is always full of things that maybe one day I could need… haha!
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Love “What’s really in your bag?”
Is this available as a printed card or poster?
I’m always getting teased about my huge “bottomless” bag, and this exact topic came up with friends recently. At the time, I dumped my bag, and we went through it all. I took that opportunity to trim it down a bit, so the list is about half as big as it was two weeks ago.
– My wallet, includes checkbook, pen, DL, student Express Card, SS card, ATM card (1), Credit card (1), library cards (2), $12.87, Car Inusurance card, HS student ID (expired)
– My key chain, includes my car key, my car door opener, house key, key to my Uncle’s house, key to Mom’s car, door opener for Mom’s car
– My smart phone (ZTE)
– My old flip phone (Motorola)
– Kindel that only reads books, in zipper case.
– Garage Door Opener
– HP35S scientific calculator, in slip-case
– Sony MP3 player with rubber sleeve and head-phones (wrapped around it)
– Thick spiral notebook
– Print-out of my class schedule
– Paper Mate pencil with big eraser
– partial pad of pink post-its (brokein into 2 smaller pads)
– Zip-lock bag containing: chapstick, Nyx Mega Shine Lip Gloss – Clear, Nyx Mega Shine Lip Gloss – Pink Frost, Chanel No 5 Eau de Toilette
– Tube of Kiss-My-Face moisturizer/sunscreen
– Secret Fresh-Effects solid deodorant.
– Compact – Milani Face Powder – Golden, with powder puff
– Sunglasses in hard case
– Thumb drive
– My Diva Cup
– back-up OB tampon in zip-lock bag
– Lint brush
– zip-lock bag with 3 Clean and Clear Oil Cleaning pads (blue), 7 bobby pins, and Sally Hanson No More Mistakes Touch-up pen
– Pink Bow soft elastic hair scrunchie
– Black plain soft elatic hair scrunchie
– Travel sewing kit, includes 18 threads, scissors, threading tool, thimble, 3 safety pins, 3 needles 5 buttons.
– Hair brush (Wigo boars hair)
– pink tangle teezer detangling brush
– Barrel Hair claw
– Intelligent Nutrients travel size Detangler spray
– Blackish Keranique Anti-breakage Detangling Comb
– Travel kleenex box, about half full
– 3 zip-lock bags for stuff like used kleenexes when i can’t find a trash can.
– Sharpie brand magic marker
– manicure kit, includes tweezers, scissors, nail clipper, file, and a cuticle tool
– plastic kiddie scissors
3 paper clips
– folding kife, red with plus sign on it, with knife, scissors and file
– bic cigarette lighter, I don’t smoke but you never know when you need fire
– 1/2 roll of wint-o-green lifesavers
– zip-lock bag with mini-tootpaste and pink and blue kid’s shamu tooth brush, 5 q-tips, 3 flossers, 1 emory board
– Shoo-Fly Hornet and Wasp Killer Spray can
– Lysol “To Go” travel size disinfectant spray
– A pair of simple 3-band short wedge walking shoes (often swapped with my heels)
– 2 cloth hankerchiefs
– Target receipt
– Ulta receipt
– Taco Bell receipt
– Mega Millions Ticket (I didn’t win.)
I know with my smart-phone I could dump the mp3 player, kindle, and my old phone. But, the battery drains quicker when you use it for all that stuff, plus the screen saver drives me nuts when reading. I still have money on the old phone, so I keep it for emergencies.
I got rid of the make-up I hardly ever touch, a lot of old reciepts, two movie ticket stubs, the March 2014 Glamour magazine, god only knows how many pens, some notes from last semester, crumbs, two dead bugs, and some business cards. (I have all those numbers in my phone now.)
Oh my god… the situation is awful.
1 lipstick
1 bepantol (I use it with lipstick)
cellphone
wallet
discount ticket from outback steakhouse
my glasses’s box
empty contraceptive pack (actually there’s one capsule in it – which scares me)
a hair clip (with hair)
eye drops
receipts
hairbrush
makeup bag (5 eyeliners, blush, 2 mascaras, lipstick, powder)
ginger & peppermint pills
epipen
2 diff chapsticks
the naked bee orange blossom hand lotion
a packet of biofreeze
wallet
note from my dad for a tree nursery
This is my “work bag” so if it seems ridiculously over packed that is because it is
A wallet
IPhone with ear buds
L’Occitane hand cream
1 small makeup bag with a lip gloss that gets “messy” so needs its own space
1 medium makeup bag with daily essentials
1 large makeup bag that holds the other two plus band aides, a bottle of perfume, and thumb drives
2 agendas (one home one work)
8 pens
Office Keys
Home Keys
An umbrella
A case for my glasses
At least 5 different types of “feminine products”
Random post it notes
Greek yogurt
Sliced almonds in a sandwich bag
Strawberries in a sandwich bag
A metal spoon
2 bottles of water
Oh and loose change and crumbs for sure
I don’t know why this is so fun.
Mini pepper spray (I live in South Africa)
Burts Bees chap stick and hand salve
Random, mini lotion I took from a hotel I stayed in
My planner
My blog-ideas journal
Wallet
Grocery list
Passport (randomly – I don’t normally carry this around)
Small umbrella
My bible
A mint from a restaurant
Sunglasses and case
Lint roller
Make up bag
(yeah, I have a big purse…)
This is fun (: Love it!
– wallet
– a light read
– cellphone
– a lipstick
– metro card
– a pen
– keys
– lip balm
– Finally, and always, a small package of candy
haha funny:)
2 cellphones-work & personal
notebook & a pen
powerbank
cables for my phones
phone charger
ipod
2 earphones
a tin of loccitane shea butter
a tube of loccitane hand cream
handsanitizer
tissue packs
wet tissues
empty mason jar(i brought greek yogurt to work)
empty on the go cereal box
metal spoon
ice breakers
kitkatbars
flat lindt choco bear
mints
umbrella
wallet
car & house keys
office keys
pack of cream crackers
surgical masks(hazy weather)
water bottle
glasses
eyedrop
contact lens case
nail cliper
pad
seriously….
I love the illustration because I ACTUALLY have had like a single ear plug in there, and I hate those US magazine “what’s in your bag” stories because they’re bags are always so put together and I remember that mine is full of receipts and nickels ;)
Also had a real metal fork.
Wallet
Dr. Pepper Chapstick
Keys
Ear Buds
Phone
USB to iphone5 cable
A pair of ouchie earrings
Some old Select Service Bus Receipts
*I have a pretty small purse!
LOVED this graphic and died laughing!
Tissues
1 lipbalm
3 lipsticks
two pens
loose receipts
7 hair bands
mini altoids
hand sanitizer
1 pantyliner
empty pack of gum
Aside from all the receipts, crumbs, and hair bands, the strangest thing I have is a wooden egg shaker and a kazoo. Because really, you never know when you may need such things!
red wallet
blue checkbook
letter from Jenny Craig
Kleenex tissue package (I just threw away the used one)
lipstick case with 3 lipsticks, 1 lip balm, fingernail clippers, breath strips, cuticle oil
mary kay hand lotion
bottle of pain reliever
sunglasses
electronic fob for my car
keys
roll of nickels (I was going to exchange it for bills at work yesterday)
3 pens
emery board
fingernail file
a bunch of business cards
and last but not least, Stimudents
Oh god I’m literally scared to inventory, so that means I probably should:
Work ID tag
7 loose Ricola lozenges
Wallet
Keys
Sunglasses in case
Travel coffee mug
Wool beanie
Trusty Mason-Pearson hairbrush
Bumble and bumble dry shampoo
Black reusable shopping bag
Plastic bag with (non)Latex gloves (it’s an RN thing)
Container of Tums leftover from pregnancy
2 tubes of aquaphor
L’Occitane hand cream
3 panty liners
1 glasses cleaner wipey thing
1 nail file
1 bottle of Prevacid
1 bottle of hand sanitizer
1 bottle of tylenol
1 Benadryl
5 Sudafed
3 band-aids (unused)
Feb 22 edition of The Economist
Notebook w/ to-do lists
Other (cuter) notebook with nothing in it so far
Earbuds
Checkbook
1 Luna bar
1 extremely large rubber band
(This is getting embarrassing…)
Earrings I just bought on Friday and forgot about
Trident gum
2 nursing pads in their little wrappers
1 pen
1 Fresh sugar lip gloss
And another nail file.
I’m a total hermit crab. And it’s a very big purse.
Ipsy Bag that came in the mail today
Check in an envelope
Tube of Neutorgena Hand Cream
Package of Sniff tissues
Pair of gear earrings
Small popcketknife
Large wallet/checkbook cover
Bag with: perfume sample, 11 safety pins, 3tubes of lip balm, advil, mints, Germ-X wipes, tiny Glide anti-chafe & a tin of Rosebud lip balm.
an assortment of pens, pencils, and sharpies
wallet
lip balm
tissues
tampons
fuel receipt from kroger
where’d you go, bernadette?
Tissues (clean & used…), a lip balm, a lipstick, hand cream, my daily planner, a pen, a bottle of water, metro card, toiletry bag (tampons, sanitary napkins, mirror, mini tooth brush & paste, painkillers, antihistamines, band aids and wet wipes), sunnies, eyeglasses, an umbrella, loose money, hair tie, chewing gum, bills, a sugar packet, earbuds, iPhone, keys and (in theory) my wallet.
In my purse, which weighs a ton…
-20oz bottle of seltzer water
-wallet
-small notebook
-iphone
-2 sets of headphones
-4 pens
-keys
-hand cream
-gloves
-old tissues
-makeup bag with 2 chapstick, tampon, mascara, travel perfume
-SmarTrip (for Metro)
-key ring with all key tags on it (cvs, gym, grocery store, dry cleaner, library card, etc.)
It’s time for some spring cleaning :)
wallet, phone, keys, sunglasses
4 unidentified pills
2 used tissues
nasal spray
2 chapstick
earbuds
metal spoon (obviously from work because it doesnt match my one at home)
1 leaky pen
Pistol
Mango (yes, a whole mango)
Empty mint tin
Bag of Numi honey bush tea
New lipstick
Old lipstick
Random crumbs and receipts
Copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Banana (yes, more fruit)
Nail polish, blue, to be precise
Travel toothbrush but no toothpaste
Coupon for free coffee (yeah!)
Feminine pad, of course
2 inhalers, an epi pen, and Zyrtec
Brush
And finally… A shoe. Just one.
Pistol
Mango (yes, a whole mango)
Empty mint tin
Bag of Numi honey bush tea
New lipstick
Old lipstick
Random crumbs and receipts
Copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Banana (yes, more fruit)
Nail polish, blue, to be precise
Travel toothbrush but no toothpaste
Coupon for free coffee (yeah!)
Feminine pad, of course
2 inhalers, an epi pen, and Zyrtec
Brush
And finally… A shoe. Just one.
my wallet
keys on a knitted strawberry keychain
a small eco bag
a small red planner
another small notebook
a pen
an orange highlighter
the empty envelope of my phone bill
atm receipts
a pamphlet for egyptian magic cream and a phone plan
3 7-11 receipts
candy wrappers
makeup kit
a small pouch for phone chargers
mascarra
a bottle of cologne
a shawl
sunglasses
and oh, a flashlight :)
I love this post. I always read those magazine articles and ask, “Why don’t I have any of those things in my purse?”
diaper/wipes
Minnie Mouse toy
empty squeeze applesauce
empty box of raisins
toddler hat
tons of scattered raisins
random papers
a used wipe (that I wiped my daughters nose with at some point)
fork and spoon
tampons
pens
headphones, iphone, wallet, EOS lip balm, Revlon lip butter in a hideous red shade, a book of stamps, gas station receipts, tampons of assorted absorbencies, crayons, a toddler-sized spoon, and a plane ticket from a flight I took in October!
an entire fruit basket. seriously: grapes, orange, apple
leather gloves
wallet
tissues
old receipt
keys
toothpaste and brush
kindle
burts bee lip balm in pomegranate
cough drops (and i don’t have a cold)
cold medicine (see disclaimer above)
old badge holder
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A whole bunch of receipts. For some reason I keep putting the receipts I’m given into my purse, and never taking them out!
Love this!
interesting post
my bag has tons of napkins from cafes, 3 lipstick palettes/mirrors, & fallen out nail stones haha
Hmmm… Cath kiston pouch with 4 (?!) lipsticks, train tickets, bobby pins, receipt for my college book…
Aluminum water bottle, cell phone, keys, bathing suit for aqua aerobics, towel and sunglasses!
Wallet
Keys
Wipes (for my 6 month old)
Lipstick
2 tinted chapsticks
Bobby pins
A hair elastic
A movie ticket stub
Hand sanitizer
Headphones
Backup mophie case
Sunglasses
A few receipts
Purse holder thing that sits on top of a table
Albertson’s monopoly game pieces that I need to throw away
Program from Young Women Recognition Night
Right now I have an anatomy and physiology textbook, my computer, a pink ring binder with various notes in it, pens + pencils, hard drive, wallet, first aid kit, several lip balms, lip gloss, roll on perfume, water bottle and a bottle of coral pink nail polish. Few, thats a bit isn’t it.
its,
an umbrella
my wallet
spectacles
hands free
two combs
lipstick
lip balm
eyeliner
a cologne
a perfume
a bottle of water,
a small pocket mirror,
Paracetamol n migraine medicine,
few hacks toffees, a tictac,
keys
a hair band
well that’s it :)
its,
an umbrella
my wallet
spectacles
hands free
two combs
lipstick
lip balm
eyeliner
a cologne
a perfume
a bottle of water,
a small pocket mirror,
Paracetamol n migraine medicine,
few hacks toffees, a tictac,
keys
a hair band
well that’s it :)
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its,
an umbrella
my wallet
spectacles
hands free
two combs
lipstick
lip balm
eyeliner
a cologne
a perfume
a bottle of water,
a small pocket mirror,
Paracetamol n migraine medicine,
few hacks toffees, a tictac,
keys
a hair band
well that’s it :)
a pen, aveda lip balm, gogo squeeze applesauce (for the 2 year old I nanny), my iphone – shattered front and back, an apple, a small jar of trail mix i made last week, a small blue and white striped notebook my brother bought for me in brooklyn, a letter i’ve been meaning to send my boyfriend in Chicago, essential lavender oil, and hopefully my wallet.
so fun!
xo