What’s in my bag: the toddler years
August 27th, 2010Back in 2007 I posted this entry. I thought of it a couple of months ago when a flickr friend posted the insanely minimal contents of her own bag, and started daydreaming all over again about the polaroids-of-everything-in-women’s-bags project. I thought about how the contents of my own bag have evolved from Childless City Person to Country Mom. And looking through the comments on that post: Kelly no longer has braces and accessories, Jenn has also added babythings to her bag, so has Virginia, Kathy’s Leo has grown out of one of the allergies that required an epi pen, Jess has more kids and we never farkle anymore, Maggie has added two little girls’ things to her bag, godmama-Kelly has another kid (and another on the way) and no longer requires a map of New Jersey…
This also reminds me that last week I washed Hazel’s ergo carrier for the first time since we moved home. I don’t use it daily anymore – it mostly just rides around in our car waiting for my arms to be overloaded with packages going into the post office or something – and when I emptied the pocket there were a whole bunch of TTC transfers from the weeks before we left Toronto. I had to give myself a little “get a grip” peptalk before I threw them in the trash.
Anyway – here is my bag nowadays. An Etsy birthday bag – thanks Claire! I can fit tons of junk in it!
- changing pad, wetbag, cloth dipe, disposable dipe, wipes
- mini-magnadoodle
- little cloth case full of notebooks, drawing utensils, and stickers
- Hazel’s water bottle
- keys
- tiny cow
- Clif bar
- pouch of business cards
- 3 pens
- 3 lip products
- wee pot of lotion
- wallet
- zippy pouch full of painkillers, bandaids, dental floss, tiny sunscreen, hair things for both of us, etc.
- camera
- phone
- gum
- measuring tape (H kitchen plans and dimensions are in my phone – still hunting for some things I need)
- knitting
- moleskine planner
I usually also have: more Hazel snacks, a playsilk or two, a sunhat and sunglasses if we’ll be outside, and a bunch of receipts and gum wrappers and junk that I just happen to have cleaned out this week.
I usually do not have: that much child entertainment, but were in a restaurant the night before, and I only carry my knitting if I’m out and am going to be hanging out somewhere for awhile (we went to Angie’s after eating out).
Sorry about the formatting of that old post. Something happened in a server crash or transfer a few years ago. Every few weeks when I can’t sleep I’ll sit for half an hour or forty minutes and slowly go through tidying them up one at a time. It’s very satisfying when I’m feeling frazzled :)
Now YOU!
August 27th, 2010 at 10:37 am
If you want to, there’s a Moleskine group on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wiyb/pool/
Thanks,
Andrea
August 27th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Oh man. I have no idea how you carry all that stuff around without killing your shoulder! I try and keep my bag as light as possible. Wallet. Keys. Sunglasses (in the warm months). Phone. Chapstick. Pens. Bobby pins. Miscellaneous receipts that inevitably end up collecting at the bottom. I also carry a water bottle around most always – but rarely in my purse.
August 27th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Not only am I braces-free, but I’ve also paid off my car since then! Weeeee!
August 27th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
oh man…what a junk heap of a purse i have. here goes…
–wallet & contents
–2 balls of yarn
–bottle of random pills…looks like its some excedrin migraine, ibuprofen, prenatal vitamins, and zyrtec
–cana’s wallet
–all kinds of paper crap…kids sunday school papers, some legal papers of dustins, missionary newsletters,appt reminders
–bible
–many pens
–hand lotion
–gum
–some dollar bills and pennies
–SIM card from old phone
–keys
–flashlight
–rubber band
–barette
–baby spoon
–latex gloves
–can wrapper thing
–lighter
–zoo passes
–eye drops
–smashed/melted snickers
–water bottle
August 27th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
i’ll play in a little bit, when no one is asleep on my lap!
but i’m laughing because of the large empty tupperware (what?! i walked everywhere then. why would i have that?) and ONE dirty sock. the other one is probably at the playground in jersey city. i found a lot of those ONE socks today, sorting through clothes for the fall. apparently i’ve kept them for years, hoping the mate would reappear. i’m so hopeful!
August 28th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Oh how this brings back memories – and my youngest is only 3. It’s amazing how your bag reflects the current time in you life – once bottles and diapers then graduating to sippy cups and pull-ups. Now it sun screen and pony tail holders. Thanks for a wonderful post!
August 28th, 2010 at 9:36 am
I have the wrapper of that same exact Clif bar in my purse! Cool blog post about my office too.
It’s still so weird to me to see you IRL and recognize your STUFF from the internet!
August 29th, 2010 at 1:40 am
Even the contents of your bag is stylish! I have too much crap to list. I like the idea of your project though, is there a flickr group for this? You should start one, I’d join up. It really is an interesting peek into the life of a woman.
August 29th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
my turn:
-wallet
-diapers
-wipes
-changing pad
-extra set of pants/shirt for lily…just in case
-floss
-hair things
-bible
-paper clip
-pen
-rubber keys
that’s not so bad.
jess, why haven’t you eaten that snickers??
August 29th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Sounds like it must be time for another one if you ask me!
August 30th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I’m playing this time…
-necklace a friend asked me to fix
-wallet
-blood pressure meds
-misc. tylenol, ibuprofen, vitamin c, assortment
-tattoo goo
-headphones
-BlackJack gum
-sample of Lever 2000
-id badge for work
-3 lipgloss
-5 bandaids
-2 pens
-2 usb drives
-clove gum
-3 books of matches and two lighters (no cigarettes!!!! I quit today!!)
-one postcard
-two bills that need my attention this week
-checkbook
-phone
-keys
-coupons
-flight info for october
-and at the bottom, 2.36 in change, and three fortunes (i actually remember when I got each)
guess that’s not too bad, at least it made me clean out the purse!!
August 31st, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I submitted a huge comment…but it’s not here. Oh well.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:32 am
i did the same thing. i submitted my purse contents list and it did not make the cut.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:36 am
i attended a bridal shower a month or so ago, i almost won the prize for the most things carried in a purse. (someone had the audacity to have two more batteries than i did.) but on my behalf, we had just come back from a visiting my brother in texas. i have ALWAYS carried alot of things in my purse, ocd~always wanting to be prepared for anything~ is a lot of it, i guess. here it goes:
-toast w/butter, to eat b’fast at work-1% hersheys choco milk-tervis tumbler, / lid, unsweet teaw/sweet-n-low-search and rescue id & lanyard-hand held garmin from search and rescue exercise yesterday
-keys to my car-wallet with dr lic, insurance info, list of meds, i.c.e./please call a priest info, debit card, martin’s card (gro store at amanda’s), couple of dollars & change-straw wrapper-wet ones-tissues
-book w/gecco bookmark & daisy bookmark-cell phone-change purse: business cards, discount cards, library card, etc-keys-linen handkerchief-jewelery bag with rosary & finger rosary-hawaii keyring w/store discount cards & whistle-wv keyring w/one key-poker keyring w/one key-checkbook-recipe for potatoe salad from a bridal shower-aarp membership form (can’t believe that came in the mail to me)
-address for memorial donation-book list of books to purchase for grandbabies-tape measure
-cosmetic bag: floss pics, meds, tide stick, 2 chapsticks, handwriten paper with meaningful quotes, wet ones singles, boogie wipes, perfume, 2 lipglosses, 4 lipsticks, lipliner, sharpener
-in purse pocket #1: 2 hand sanitizers, lotion, back scratcher, fingernail kit, 5 pens, 1 pencil, gas receipt
-in purse pocket #2: classmate address, crystal light drink mix, papers from dr, memo pad, purse holder
….and to think i cleaned out my purse saturday night……….
September 4th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Okay, here’s me:
2 sunhats (one for each kid)
1 TTC transfer that I can’t through out
2 lipsticks
1 chapstick
1 Hearing Aid container
1 empty small container for back-up in case I can’t find the Hearing Aid container
1 mini-moleskin in pistachio green
1 mini address book in red
2 snackbags for the kids
Wallet
iPhone
Knitting
Keys
Pen
A tiny moose from Ikea
A butterfly softie
Diapers and a change pad
A pack of wipes
Kleenex
Umbrella
Holy Mary Poppins!