My Handbag Essentials
Now that both my children are in school I have high hopes of ditching my mumsy bags for something smaller, chic and lighter. I now dream of sashaying away with a delicate clutch or tiny tote. In reality I don’t know how well this will work because I still have a pile of things I consider my handbag essentials and take them wherever I go.
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So what is in my must have handbag list?
In order of priority into my bag would go:
- My wallet, rammed full of far too much change and old receipts. It’s very old now and looks tatty with the stickers youngest kindly decorated them with, but it is roomy and means I can delay sorting those receipts out.
- Then I always have my phone. Loving my new one especially as I’ve treated myself to a new case from my designs on redbubble. I bought a extra tough one as I cracked my last phone about halfway through my contract and I hated it for a year.
- A hair clip or a bunch of hair ties. Long hair needs to be tamed.
- Sunglasses.
- Lip balm
- A pen.
- A new addition but I do love it is my aromatherapy de-stress balm. Prefect to unwind and I use it as an alternative to perfume.
In reality though. Despite ditching the pram bags a long time a go. I am still lugging around my kids junk. So my bag often more closely resembles this. All my essentials with the addition of snacks, drinks, toys and tissues.
What’s inside the planner pack?
Created using my hand painted water colour design entitled ‘Blue Summer’ this planner has a page for everything.
Including:
Daily planner
Weekly schedule
Travel planner
Work schedule
Fitness planner
Weekly chores
It has to be my iphone!
Im the same, but it has to be my samsung
My handbag essentials is tissues or wet wipes.
You need them this time of year
Tissues
Tissues – never leave home without them
You need them this time of year
My phone I’m afraid!
I know, but it’s on my list to!
Lip balm
Yes it on my list to!
wet wipes, you never know when you might need them
They are so handy.
My partner always carries tissues never goes anywhere without them
Always handy
A packet of mints.
I can’t have sweets in mine. I just end up eating them all
My debit card and Phone
Good choices
My hairbrush
I’m trying to wean myself off my hairbrush and embrace my curls at the moment
A colorful lipgloss is my handbag must have
Good choice
Mine is my kindle, as I always like to have something on hand to read.
mine is my phone x
A couple of essentials is cash and/or debit card, cell phone, and a cardigan.
I think its my vaseline for my lips.
I never leave the house without my diary and phone x
wet wipes, you never know when you might need them
My mobile phone or purse! 🙂
A good book to read!
Very handy if you’ve got hanging around to do
Tissues
Yes, they are always handy
my makeup bag
I don’t have a big enough bag!
tissues or hand sanitiser!
Especially this time of year
I never leave the house without a sachet of antisepetic wipes.
Good idea
My hairbrush, but my handbag looks very much like yours, taken over by the kid’s stuff
Nightmare!
Has to be a book – wherever I’m going, just in case I’m waiting, as I get impatient xx
Good idea
My phone, and I always have some £1 coin for parking and to use in a trolley
Yes, I never seem to have the right parking money
Tissues
My handbag essentials are mobile phone, purse, keys, brush and wet wipes
I admire your thoughts about a more sensible sized bag, somehow never worked for me when my two started school! Love the wallet, very stylish. My handbag essentials are purse and cards, phone, comb, tissues and sunglasses in the summer.
I’m slowly getting the children stuff removed from my bag. It might have all gone by the time they’re teenagers!
Phone, purse & small makeup bag with basics
It’s all you need
Lip balm, always comes in handy
vaseline for my lips! nothing worse than dry and cracked lips so i have to have this with me at all times!!
That’s a lovely wallet you’re giving away. As for my handbag essentials – a wallet, iPhone, house keys, sunglasses, hand cream, and some crystals. 😉
What are the crystals for?
I always have my E45 cream for my dry skin, plasters and tissues for kids
Sunglasses. I am very light sensitive!
My purse
You always find a charger in my handbag, everything is powered by these nowadays!!
its got to be my lip balm, my lips get so dry all year round, I never go out without it.
Migraine medicine
My Lippy
Mobile, tissues and water bottle
My purse
Tissues x
fab giveaway thankyou , fingers crossed x
Good luck
I always carry lots of essentials – but especially tissues
I think I need to add a de-stressbalm, what a fab idea! Thank you so much for being part of the #ABloggingGoodTime Link Up
It is amazing!
I purposefully have a small handbag so I can’t chuck loads of junk in it but then this usually means I end up taking a back pack as well so I can’t wain really!
thanks for linking to #ablogginggoodtime
Lol.
I always make sure I have a pen and paper
My essential would be my phone. I have exactly the same problem! I’m currently shopping around for a better bag solution, but I now realise how much a more practical purse would help! Mine holds a couple of cards, some cash and that’s about it..
Since I got a new camera, my Canon bridge is my essential to take in my handbag.
My kids wear hearings so I never go anywhere without spare batteries otherwise they stop working at the most inconvenient times!
a travel toothbrush and toothpaste
Cigs, lighter, really bad habit I know
Wet wipes for my 6 year olds sticky hands 🙈
Mine has to be my Diary, pen & phone
My handbag essentials are purse, lipstick, phone and the book I’m currently reading
My phone.
Torch – an essential – and of course, keys.
My purse
my phone and a book
It has to be my phone
lipstick
My handbag essential is wet wipes, I have 3 young children so can’t go anywhere without them
Definitely wet wipes, even though my daughter is 7, I’m never without them.
My Phone, I just don’t like to be without it now!
mine has got to be my phone, although at this time of year i also cant leave the house without lip balm and tissues.
mine has got to be my phone but at this time of year i cant leave the house without tissues and lipbalm
My phone, I am not sure I could get by without it!
My purse and some tissues.
wallet, phone, and wet wipes (I have a baby lol)
Definitely my phone as everything is on there, kind of scary how much its part of our lives now!.
My bag is always full but have to have lip balm with me
My wallet
My handbag essential is hand gel, you never know when you are going to need it!
Tissues, phone and purse
I have to have my inhaler and hand cream x
Hand cream and lip balm x
Wipes,phone and purse
Carmex Lip balm…my little miracle pot!
hand gel I take it everywhere because you never know when you will need it
Definitely money or cash card , can’t get far these days without it
my husbands cash lol, I never leave home without my phone or purse x
My handbag essential has to be my purse! I could never leave home without it!
My partners handbag essential is lip balms. Thanks for the competition.
I always take a lip balm with me in my handbag – couldn’t live without it!
tissues and handwipes
A lady attached to it!
My phone couldn’t live without it x
A purse or wallet for money & cards
Wet wipes but all sorts of other things my lipstick is a must and my meds
My lip gloss!
Always have my lipgloss….and compact mirror