I’ve stolen the idea for this post from Ali. I’m hoping that the extradition to Canada to face her wrath will be too complicated and she’ll forgo prosecution.
So now that we’ve gotten the fact that I’m a thief out of the way, I’d like to show you the contents of my purse. You’ll be pleased to know that none of the contents of my purse were stolen.
C.O. Bigelow Lemon Hand Treatment (LOVE!), 2 tubes of C.O. Bigelow Mentha Lip Tint (I’ve already talked about my love of these), 2 tubes of Lip Smackers (flashback: 1987), 3 packages of peanut butter crackers, a USB cord, 100 calorie pack of Lorna Doone cookies (they’re FOR THE KIDS!), my name tag from Blissdom ‘08, small bottle of 50 SPF Coppertone, Jessie Baylin CD (LOVE her!), trash, crumbs (not pictured), my cell phone, a maxi pad, an old grocery list, 3 coupons that are worthless, Skip Hop diaper caddy, my wallet, {***GIFT CERTIFICATE TO BUILD A BEAR!!!!!!****}, USB flash drive, baby nail clippers, 1 Germ-X hand wipe, 2 Dentabursts, a going away card from her, All About Trains DVD (what? don’t you carry DVDs in your purse?), my business cards, the formula from Aveda to color my hair, a juice box, a box of raisins, spare contact case, contact lens solution.
One of these items is today’s Reader Appreciation Giveaway…
Can you guess which one?? I mean, it’s not {***OBVIOUS***} or anything.
Well just in case you need a little help…here’s one more HINT.
Have you all seen their new Christmas Moose (or is it Meese?)…Holly and Hal? SO cute.
To enter to win the $25 gift certificate to Build a Bear Workshop, leave a comment telling me whether your purse is as random as mine!
Comments will close at 7 AM, EST, November, 19, 2008.
Don’t forget you can still enter the nonny & boo $50 gift certificate giveaway until tomorrow morning! Who new that the timing of this giveaway would be so perfect in the light of the Motrin ad fiasco and babywearing mamas….
This contest is over, comments closed!! Thanks for playing!!
Elizabeth M.
November 17, 2008 at 7:17 am
Your purse is more random than mine is but I’ll bet you my purse is messier! (not that I’m proud of that or anything.)
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all things BD
November 17, 2008 at 7:36 am
Since my kids are older, I’ve pared my purse down to pretty much the essentials. The randomest thing I have in there is a small bible, whose type I can barely read. I’m getting old.
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Smoochiefrog
November 17, 2008 at 7:44 am
The contents of my purse used to be as random as yours. Then I downgraded to a smaller purse, and now it’s just the necessities.
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photomommy
November 17, 2008 at 7:45 am
You have no idea how random my purse is! You can find just about anything in there. From my small point and shoot camera, to spare change, candy, pens, lotion, etc.
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Cristina
November 17, 2008 at 7:47 am
My purse is awful! Everything I pull out of it is covered in something wet, soggy or sticky.
Mary
November 17, 2008 at 7:48 am
oh yeah, mine is random too! My purse is my work bag so it’s get everything and anything, minus the kitchen sink!
kelly
November 17, 2008 at 7:59 am
I only have a wallet, lipstick, gum & powder in my purse. I’m so boring! I like to travel light.
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angie
November 17, 2008 at 8:04 am
I have no purse. I leave my wallet in the car and throw everything in the diaper bag of a big canvas bag depending on where I’m going and if all three kids are going. I mean who really needs an extra bag to carry when I lug a suitcase everywhere I go.lol
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OHmommy
November 17, 2008 at 8:04 am
Nice. My purse looks much the same.
I wrote about lip smackers today too.
I totally remember all the awesome flavors. Takes me back to highschool.
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Sarah
November 17, 2008 at 8:16 am
I’m just glad to know that I’m not the only one with a purse with contents as random as that! Thank you!
Janine
November 17, 2008 at 8:36 am
My purse is all about grocery lists, snacks, pens, used tissues, more snacks, random pieces of paper, more snacks. Sometimes it holds my camera too even though it really shouldn’t.
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supermommy
November 17, 2008 at 8:40 am
I’ve got so much junk in my purse! From several tubes of antibacterial gel to toys to my textbook for tonight’s class. Along with about 50 other things.
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Gina
November 17, 2008 at 8:40 am
My purse is a total mess. Full of random things that I don’t need, but think I do. And all the garbage the kids hand me when we are out.
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Knot
November 17, 2008 at 8:43 am
Well, I don’t have a purse, but my kid loves BaB and I want to win for her. My purse, nope don’t have one, but I do have a backpack that has random stuff in it. Let’s see, guitar TABS to The Beatles “Blackbird”, a recipe for home made marshmallows, my shades and glasses an MP3 player as well as cords and thumb drives. A couple of books, one called “Jesus Loves Christians” and “X Saves The World”. Then there are the CD’s my wife asked me to rip and re-arrange for her class. A couple of CD’s I bought my wife – Toby Keith and Brad Paisley and even a copy of Donnie Darko on DVD. No food, no BC, no feminine hygiene.
ShallowGal
November 17, 2008 at 8:48 am
You not only stole this post, you stole my random purse.
I always say if my purse and I went on Lets Make a Deal, I would win (the part where Monty asks for random things and people pull them out f their purse.)
xoxo, SG
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Stephanie
November 17, 2008 at 8:57 am
My purse is pretty well organized – however, I haven’t had children yet, so I’m sure it will change in the future!
Moriah @ Please Pass the Salt
November 17, 2008 at 9:00 am
Hey we have the same wallet and phone. (Random, I know.) Also, I love your updated profile pic!
Yeah, that about looks like what I have in my purse. Except the receipts always spill everywhere.
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Drea @ Monkey Monkey Underpants
November 17, 2008 at 9:01 am
I have a HUGE mommy purse, and things kept getting lost in it until I organized it this week. I put similar things together in plastic bags so that I don’t have to dig through so much junk!
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Marinka
November 17, 2008 at 9:05 am
I have a small family living in mine!
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Shanna
November 17, 2008 at 9:08 am
My purse is just as random, I think it comes with the job of mommy!
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Donna
November 17, 2008 at 9:20 am
You inspired me to dig into my purse. So far I’ve found coins from three different countries, an expired ATM card, a used-up phone card, diapers, wipes, tissue, sanitizer, a safety pin, two hair clips (thanks! I was looking for those!) and my Chinese dictionary. Also, I discovered that my cell phone needs to be charged.
Oh, there’s more crap in there – but I think you get the idea. Just one more thing: where did all those crumbs come from? It’s not like I eat lunch in there.
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ragtopday
November 17, 2008 at 9:22 am
I do my level best not to carry a purse at all, because I can’t stand carrying something else! Wallet and keys go in jacket pockets usually. I’m like a man, really. But I’ll tell you my kids would FLIP for a BAB gift card!
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Heather~Domestic Extraordinaire
November 17, 2008 at 9:23 am
It depends on where I am going as to how random my purse is. Most of the time it is a large purse (which I love) with my wallet and other essentials. But if I am going to be gone all day I throw drinks and snacks and assorted other stuff in there. I try not to haul stuff around for the girls since they are 13 and 10, but sometimes they throw stuff in there when I am not looking.
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Burgh Baby
November 17, 2008 at 9:30 am
Your purse is certainly more random than mine, but only because I had to clean mine out to go to St. Louis a few weeks ago and shoved all the goopy crap, crayons, and kid stuff in my glove box. Where it still sits. Taunting me.
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ali
November 17, 2008 at 9:36 am
i’m thinking yours MAY be worse than mine.
maybe…
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Deanna
November 17, 2008 at 9:36 am
Considering I NEVER carried a purse before having my daughter, I think mine is pretty clean. I usually leave the diaper bag stocked in the car so I’m not dragging it around on small trips.
Wallet, cellphone, hair tie, a travel sized germ-x, a small pouch with two diapers and a sample of wipes, stick of sunblock, sometimes a box of raisins. The only thing that really clutters it up is receipts. For some dumb reason they get stuffed in there at the store and left, only to annoy me when I’m digging out my wallet at the next store.
Auburn Gal Always (Keri)
November 17, 2008 at 9:56 am
I actually cleaned out my purse last week, so it’s not quite as full as yours. But it’s still very random and full o’ junk.
For me to post pictures, I’d have to go to the garage and get mine out of the Pimped Out Mamamobile. Which I’m not doing, obviously, because I’m too lazy, obviously.
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Heather, Queen of Shake Shake
November 17, 2008 at 10:03 am
What? NO my purse isn’t a clutterbuck like yours! Mine is neat and organized and has only mature adult lip products in it.
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Robin M.
November 17, 2008 at 10:12 am
The contents of my purse sound similar to yours, except with the addition of Aleve, Advil and some sinus/allergy medicine… pain reliever any one?
Beth
November 17, 2008 at 10:19 am
I walk around with my cute coach purse, but the inside of it looks more like a diaper bag….I actually have a container of Gerber stage 2 peas inside my purse right now.
Ashley @ mrs007.com
November 17, 2008 at 10:19 am
Dude….I totally don’t need that gift card…but I want it! Can you say stocking stuffer?
Santa can always need a little help.
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robin forman
November 17, 2008 at 10:38 am
The purse that I carry is small, to avoid excess stuff, but what I do have in there tends to be random, as well. Especially because I travel with a three-year-old and a newborn… there are just things you might need at a moment’s notice!
becoming-mommy
November 17, 2008 at 10:41 am
My purse may be more random: Wallet, tissue pack, 2 diapers, sample of Desitin, wad of diaper coupons for a brand I don’t buy, keys, bag of ground Ghirardelli coffee, Burts Bees “raisin” lip shimmer, tampons, camera, mp3 player, Leatherman, trash, change, notepad, pens, 2 packs of gum, 3 guitar picks (I haven’t played in years, but they keep turning up), hand sanitizer, benedryl (childrens and adults) strips, saline nasal spray, sudafed, promethazine, ibuprofin, Ricola, Neosporin, Pooh bandaids, Dog eye medicine, homeopathic allergy drops, bag of Ritz bits, box of raisens, spoon & fork.
Jean@workingmomma247
November 17, 2008 at 10:41 am
My purse is pretty random..not quite as fascinating as yours but I don’t have babies that need fed or entertained. I don’t think my purse is big enough to hold that much random…thats what my van is for.
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Lynn
November 17, 2008 at 10:49 am
No purse, too hard to keep track of.
Lisa
November 17, 2008 at 10:50 am
I think yours beats mine in randomness, probably just because mine is smaller – I couldn’t fit that much stuff in it! I do have a few random teaspoons in mine. I think that’s the most random.
Mama DB
November 17, 2008 at 11:08 am
darn. I was so hoping for the maxi pad. *snicker*
Yeah, mine looks very much like this. Some of my stuff. A lot of the kids stuff. I discovered a package of crushed Ritz Crackers had come open in the bottom, thanks to your post. See? You do the public a service by blogging.
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Lori
November 17, 2008 at 11:10 am
My purse is just as random w/ lots of receipts. Why do I keep every receipt I get?
Lori´s lastest post..In a Funk
Jamie
November 17, 2008 at 11:38 am
Wait, purse? I’m supposed to carry one of those? I SO lose my membership card to the “Somewhat Organized Women” club…. whenever I carry a purse, I leave it somewhere. You should see my coat pockets, though. Totally random…. I believe there’s even a pair of socks in there
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Sticky
November 17, 2008 at 11:57 am
BC (before child) I had a tiny little purse that only held $, lipstick and maybe a pack of smokes…
Almost five years later I have a bag bigger than my laptop (which is NOT in there) that would lamost carry the kitchen sink…and some days I wouldn’t be too surprised to find it in there. You need something? I probably have it…
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T with Honey
November 17, 2008 at 12:03 pm
My purse isn’t anywhere near as random. Just lots of receipts I need to dispose of and the necessities.
But my work tote? That’s a completely different story.
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Maggie
November 17, 2008 at 12:30 pm
You have a lot of space in your purse! Not that I have room to talk…I have just as much crap in there, including: kelly clamps, a first aid kit, hotwheels cars, and about a million pens. But I think that the clamps are probably the most random thing I’ve got…
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Noob Mommy
November 17, 2008 at 12:31 pm
It’s funny that you had this post, because I JUST went through and threw out a bazillion receipts in my purse. It was horrendous…and now I can finally see the bottom of the purse again (ick crumbs!)
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Heidi
November 17, 2008 at 12:37 pm
ohhh I want to win a Build a Bear! Um, should I feel REALLY special that you still have my card in your purse, like you just can’t let me go. OR-do you just have a packrat problem? Either way, seriously unhealthy.
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Heidi
November 17, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Oh, forgot to tell you about my purse. The actual PURSE has a wallet, 2 pads, cell phone, and multiple coupons. Oh, that reminds me, I have a peppermint chocolate shake calling my name at Chick Fil A.
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andi
November 17, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Jennifer – Since your “Sweet Spot” post is closed to comments, can I tell you how much I loved it here? I’ve been trying to write something similar for the past several weeks, but haven’t been able to capture it as beautifully as you did. Thank you for that post. And thank goodness things are getting easier for the both of us (yay!)
Jen L.
November 17, 2008 at 12:49 pm
OH, my gosh! I want to steal this post! Can I, huh? PLEEEEEEEEASE? I’m totally doing this tomorrow. I’ll give you and Ali all the credit.
My purse is random, too. Mine currently contains, among other crazy things, a diaper, 3 pacifiers, 4 bottles of hand sanitizer(!), one sock (Mine…who knows), about 700 tampons, and about 30 Dulcolax pills which are all spilled out in the bottom.
I was lusting over the new Build A Bear stuff this weekend.
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Anglophile Football Fanatic
November 17, 2008 at 12:54 pm
It’s crazy giveaways day around the blogs. Love your purse. And, what’s wrong with Lip Smackers?
Comment Love is still broken. Urgh.
Mommy Daisy
November 17, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Ha ha, I KNOW my purse is that random. I love that I’m not the only one.
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Jess
November 17, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I’m in!
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