Organize Your Purse

I keep a plastic garbage bag tied up tightly in my purse just in case. Yesterday when I was out, the baby’s diaper leaked onto her skirt and I was able to throw it in the bag to bring home. I was so happy to have that bag! (You can buy my Lazy Organizing Bags here.)

Here is a list of things I keep in my purse organizer. Does it look like a mess? It’s better than a mess at the bottom of my purse! Since it’s see-through I can easily find anything I need. That’s nice for lazy people like me. If it takes me 3 seconds too long to find the nail clippers I might chew my cuticles till they bleed.

• Protein bar – When hunger strikes
• Advil – When I was too lazy to eat the protein bar and I got too hungry and now I have a headache.
• Plastic shopping bag – Bib, messy diaper bag, muddy shoe bag and various other repulsive things bag.
• Measuring tape – For when I’m in a stranger’s home and I compulsively start measuring her kitchen so I can once and for all order my kitchen island.
• Pocket Knife – For everything but self defense.
• Allergy pills – Yeesh! You have a couple pills in your purse and people start to think you’re a drug addict!
• Spare keys – For our house which we NEVER lock. We don’t live in a house locking kind of neighborhood. For Stranger’s truck. I don’t know what happened to my spare key but apparently I can only get a new one at the dealer.
• Pen – You should pretty much know what pens are for.
• Nail Clippers – Fending off the nervous, not nail, but cuticle biting. This isn't the strangest thing I do.
• Body Mist – Stinky sweaty gym Mom
• Band-Aids – More for the tears than for actual wounds.
• Chap stick – Arid Utah winters
• Comb and Hair elastics for the girls – Critical for that “let’s not look like home-schoolers in Mart-Mart today” objective.
• Dental Floss - I’ve never used it but I can’t part with it because you just never know when you’re going to have a flossing emergency.