I did a post like this back in 2008, but unfortunately, I lost the image in that post when I moved from Blogger to WordPress. [Read that post here]. At that time, my bag used to be so heavy that it was hurting my shoulder. These days, it’s not the case, but I thought to still do a post about the contents of my bag. Speaking of bags, I always prefer a bag with more room, even if I don’t fill it up. I’m not the girl who would buy one of those little box clutches that would only fit a lip balm. I prefer big bags.
A while ago, I called myself being trendy and decided to buy a little clutch. Error! I was so frustrated that I could not fit everything I wanted in the bag. If you read my old post about the contents of my bag, you’d notice that I like carrying a lot. I’m impressed that I don’t have so much this time, although some things have disappeared due to technology. For example, I have no need for an mp3 player, a daily planner, or a notebook because I do all these on my phone now.
So for now, I intend to buy big clutches and evening bags. All that being said, this is what’s currently in my bag, and the bag in the picture is what I’m currently carrying. I love bags, but if I had to pick one, I’d pick shoes over bags. You most likely wouldn’t wear the same shoe everyday for a week, but I would carry the same bag for a week. Two weeks sef.
1. Make up bag: I cannot confirm or deny that this is useful. I guess it is … kind of. It contains three L’Oreal lip glosses, a mirror, some hair bands, a nail cutter, safety pins, and a tweezer. Of the three glosses, I only use the pink one.
2. Fossil wallet: This wallet is sooo old. I was actually using a newer one just about two weeks ago. But I didn’t like that one, so I literally transferred back to this old one (which I hadn’t used in over two years).
3. My bag: Love that it’s flat and has those zippers on the side.
4. Lotion: It’s Vanilla Rum from Bath & Body Works. It’s seasonal. Bought it around Christmas (I bought two and this is the second one). Love the smell.
5. Flossers: Dentek flossers in a cute handy dandy thingy to hold them.
6. Sunglasses: These sunglasses made it so hard to take this picture! Because they’re mirror lens, I kept seeing my reflection in them, and I was only wearing a t-shirt and underwear! Which kin attempted embarrassment be that?
7. Lip glosses and lipstick: My lip glosses (the blue one is the Baby Lips from Maybelline, which I blogged about here), and next to the Baby Lips is one of the Lancome lipsticks I have.
8. Kleenex tissue: I always like to have tissue handy. It comes in especially handy on Sundays. I always cry in church. The Pastor always speaks like God told him something about me.
9. Hand sanitizer: Vanilla hand sanitizer from Avon.
10. My cell phone: Badly in need of an upgrade. Waiting for Samsung to come out with the Samsung Galaxy Note IV. It’s gonna have a yellow case. I’ve made up my mind. Yes, I know I don’t even know what the phone will look like, but I have to plan.
11. Work cell: *yawn*
12. Highlighter and pens: I write a lot and sometimes I like to highlight what I write. Next to my highlighter is my favorite pen in the world (Pilot G2 pen), and I will buy the boldest version. Next to the Pilot G2 pen is the other pen – the one I lend to people. They can keep it if they want, but I won’t share my Pilot! Oh, I also use the other pen to sign checks. My mommy said to never use gel pens on my check.
13. Keys: Self explanatory.
14. USB cable: This is for charging my phone. What I need to do is invest in a portable charger cause it’s not like there’s a computer next to me all the time to charge my phone.
15. Coin purse: Self explanatory.
16. Lighter: No, I don’s smoke. Some months ago, it was all over the news about a family that went up to some mountain after a huge snow storm. Somehow, their truck overturned (surprise, surprise) and they were trapped, but they were able to make a fire and keep warm. So while I do not EVER plan on going out during a snow storm for the sake of looking at snow, I still carry my lighter.
What’s in your bag?
Giftnneka says
Oh Vera! I always lol whenever I’m reading your posts. Which is really good and the more reason why I keep coming back… I notice that we both have those baby lip gloss by Maybelline..lol. Now to answer the question of what’s in my bag.. I always carry my hand sanitizer, my shower cap(bought from a beauty store in Lanham) which is good for the rains in Nigeria… I have stopped carrying my wallet,. That thing can be burdensome. I tend to sweat a lot on my feet so I carry Avon foot cream in place of your own hand lotion… I have two inner pockets where I keep my naira notes neatly, and the other reserved for my other phones(You know the drill, naija way). I still don’t have the grace to leave all of my notes to technology as in all of them copied to my phone, so I carry a note book, WHICH I get to replace whenever I get a newer notebook. lol
Vera Ezimora says
GiftNneka, you’re smarter than me for not totally relying on technology for your notes cause that’s what I’ve done and when my phone recently died (after I had already published this post), I lost all my notes along with it 🙁
Vera Ezimora says
Oh, and I’m glad you’re always lol! Woooooooooooooooooooooot!