What's in your purse - part 2!

If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a bit obsessed. I get onto something and won't let it go. On the other hand, I'm lazy. Like not cleaning the purse out until it is jammed full and there is simply no more room for anything!

We went to the movies (Rogue One) on Christmas Day. While we did have dinner at the theater in the restaurant (VIP Lounge which was our ONLY splurge during Christmas - no exchanging of gifts), I still managed to buy a bag of Twizzlers when the girl came around once we were seated.  Yes - I NEED a bag of Twizzlers which I promptly crammed into my purse and well - that was the last straw.  The purse was full and I had no choice but to empty it the next day.  

So - what do you have in your purse????

The purse is bursting!

I think Michael (Kors) would be appalled that I filled his beautiful purse with so much stuff.  But on the other hand, a good selling feature is "look at all that you can put in that purse!!"

There is the emergency food stash. OK - so it's candy and chocolate, but still - that's for emergencies!

Emergency food supplies

Ooops - more chocolate, some mail, and some gift cards

Am empty candy wrapper, a shopping list, and an expired parking permit

Not one, but THREE bottles of SierraSil that different people gave me, PLUS TWO bottles of Advil that I bought.  Yep - the box has another bottle in it!!!  You never know when you're going to need lots of drugs!  And I hardly ever take a pill!!!

Drugs

A wallet filled with receipts and other junk

Receipts shoved in the bottom

A fabric postcard, a notebook and a piece of paper with a phone number on it

Reusable bag and hand cream

Jewelry - note there is only ONE ear ring and yes - there is a bracelet in the Pandora bag

Writing instruments  - OH and a fork!!!

A loose dime, a key (to the house????), an empty plastic bag and the bag from Murphy's dog tag

An elastic band and the missing ear ring

In the pocket, I found a wad of cash and my car insurance and registration

TWO copies of expired insurance in the folder (plus the current one)

Nail file, MORE drugs, lip balm (all contained in that little black bag)

A pack of sewing machine needles - who knew!

Expired lotto tickets (from the wallet)

More stuff from the wallet - more cash, boarding pass from November, etc. 

I removed all the stuff that didn't need to be in the purse. I still have to deal with some of it, but lots went in the garbage or recycling or got put where it is supposed to hang out.

Purse looks pretty decent now

Remember that I weighed the purse when it was full of all that stuff????  Well let's weight it again.

1.53 KG.  I think it was 2.75 KG last time.  Yikes!!!!

The trick will be to clean it on a regular basis!!!!

On that note, I'm out of here!!!!


Ciao!!!

What's in your purse?

In case you're wondering, I did NOT get my project done for today.  Not even close. I've made this before and I had forgotten how fiddly the last part is and I wasn't in the mood last night to fiddle for hours.  No big deal, the deadline was my own.  I will work on the project over the next week and get it done - little by little!  

However, this has been a BIG learning tip for The Task Master.  In my book, I wrote - "finish project X".  That was it!!!   Grossly underestimating the number of steps and how long it was going to take. I set myself up for a major fail on this one!!!!   I needed to break it down into steps and then I could check them off and make me feel better about it rather than missing a potential deadline. 

Big lesson learned!!!!!  So I'm behind, but that's OK - I have FOUR consecutive days (yep - even Christmas day) where I can sew to my heart's content and I hope to make The Task Master happy. 

I must make myself a HUGE HUGE sign about Delusional Doability and POST it in The Task Master.  I'm my own worst enemy!!!  And not to worry - I'm not beating myself up - just learned a lesson.  Time to move on!

The good news was that I was able to finish my book last night!   Yep - the good guys prevailed, the bad guys all got thrown out of the helicopter!

Here is another area that needs a bit of tidying!  That would be my purse!  I didn't carry a purse for years. Then I splurged and bought this beautiful orange purse!  Yeah!   However, it has become a dumping ground and there are ALL kinds of stuff in it.  I don't have time to unpack the purse today. That will happen tomorrow. 

My overflowing purse

Just for curiosity sake, I weighed that purse.  Yikes!!!!

That says 2.575 Ks

That's a lot of crap!!!!!   I will remove everything that shouldn't be there.  Don't worry - I'll take a picture for you. And I'll reweigh the purse.  I bet it will be shocking what's in there!!!!

Now here's another question for you - about quilt labels.  Last night, I was asked if I had a baby quilt that DH could give to a work colleague who had had a baby.  As a matter of fact, I do have one.  The baby is a boy - the quilt is blue and yellow - perfect!    Now - how to label said quilt???   What do you do on a quilt like this????  There is zero personal connection and there is NO pattern.  I know exactly what I want to do - no time for it, but I'm ordering something for future quilts.

I'll reveal all that tomorrow.

Have a super, super day and don't forget - tell me what's in your purse?????

Ciao!