I've reached the 'purse too heavy' point again.

I normally use a wristlet, small cross body purse, or wallet. All I need is my ID cards, credit cards, lipgloss, compact and cash. I even have a teeny tiny pocket wallet that holds my ID and credit cards and sometimes that's all I carry. I do have a couple of purses that can hold water bottles, snacks and other miscellaneous items for when we go on a day trip somewhere. So it's a pocket wallet inside a wristlet inside a purse. And none of my purses are as big as the diaper bag I used to haul around!

I have just resigned myself to the fact that I am a big purse girl!! Sometimes you just have to give up even when you don't want too. :-)

Diane

Just so, minimal ... or I get antsy 

Slim billfold-type credit card holder (no store cards)
Small makeup size bag (band-aids, meds, hair ties, eye drops)
Key ring (3 keys, Photon light)
Phone
Lip balm

That's it 

I have just about everything but the kitchen sink in my purse. Granted, it's a larger purse, but I have a bunch of kids and am always on the go, so it's necessary.

Let's see, strange things currently in my purse: diapers (unused), candy, rejected bits of pb crackers waiting to be thrown out, tissues used to wipe mouth, plastic baby spoon, dd lip balm, novel, the list could go on for days.

I bow down to you small purse toting peas. I haven't been able to do that in over a decade.

haha. Not long ago, I cleaned out a purse (and changed purses), I found some lottery tickets I hadn't checked, and won $20! Worth checking your purses, ladies!!

I just emptied the change in the bottom of my purse in one of the machines at the grocery store- $62.50!!!! I can't get over how light it feels, and why I was dragging that around for so long!!

The weirdest thing I have ever found in my purse (that I remember) was popcorn. I'm guessing it happened at the movie theatre, but not sure how it got in there. I always set my purse on the seat beside me 

I don't carry one. I have a caribiner clip for my keys that goes on my belt loops in the store and a Vera clutch wallet thing that holds my cards and phone. I only wear a small sling bag when I'm riding my motorcycle.
I remember my mothers purse being so damn heavy as a kid. She had no less then $17 in change in it at any given time!! Lol! Along with every conceivable thing she may need from now til Jesus comes in there......it was like an archeological dinosaur dig when she'd clean it out.....

I also end up with a random assortment of tiny cars, trains, crayons and food bits I pull out of my purse when cleaning it out. Once when I cleaned out my purse I found SEVEN tubes of lipstick, almost all identical shades. Apparently I couldn't find my favorite color, so I kept buying it (or something like it).

Even if I try to buy a tiny purse, it gets stuffed to overflowing. I've tried the wallets and wristlets, but they get so stuffed. DH and DS call it my bowling bag because it feels like there could be a bowling ball in it.

Right now the weird things would be a pair of gloves and those little shoe store socks. Shoes are my second best favorite behind purses, so every purse I have has a pair of those socks in there in case I need to try on shoes. There's also always some sort of food in there. I don't eat meals during the day, just snacks, so I'll have a granola bar, a bag of nuts or a package of pb and crackers - last week when looking for something in this purse, I did find several mushy hershey kisses in Christmas flavor. I think they were candy cane.

Then I have a couple of purses that DH and DS call my "Movie Bag", because sometimes I (cue the pea pile on) sneak our own snacks into the movies.

I laughed out loud at this!  Love that you called your DH "rascal"-- that's just too cute! It sounds like you had many happy times with him.

Now I'm going to spend my day looking for opportunities to use the word rascal.

I don't do purses. I keep my phone,license, and debit card in a phone/wallet type thing. It works for me. I have a file drawer at work for personal items like make-up, Tylenol, etc. That way I don't have to lug stuff with me every day.

I found a 'right for me sized purse' at the beginning of the summer. What it fits, just perfectly (putting everything in like a jigsaw puzzle); make up bag (lipstick, first aid stuff, sanitary stuff); glasses case; reading book; bottle of water; purse (ok you call it wallet); pack of tissues; deodorant; perfume; hairbrush; mobile phone; pen and small notepad.

Unfortunately it's a coral red colour and I only have a couple of outfits that it matches, so at least once a week I have to change things out and put them all into another bag instead.

The other things most likely to find their way into the bottom would be chocolate wrappers.

Ok well I qualify that, I do have more outfits it matches (it's one of my fave colours to wear) but only a couple of the outfits are suitable for work.

Actually I feel that I pack my purse quite light now. When the kids were little I was an everything but the kitchen sink type of mum!