...according to my husband.
Really, he is not asking that YOU carry anything in your purse. You two don't know each other. If he came up to you and asked if any of these items were in your purse, you'd probably hit him over the head with it, scream "THIEF!!" and, well, things would just get ugly at that point.
So, this is really a list of items he thinks that I should carry in my purse all the time. He often asks me, "Do you have ___?" to which I always reply "No". I mean, I sometimes have whatever it is he is looking for but most of the time I don't.
Don't even get me started on the things my children think I should have in my purse. "Mommy, do you have any water boons?" My 3-year-old is obsessed with water balloons and probably thinks I should carry them in my change purse. Also, my sons would also like to see an endless supply of snacks stuffed between the sunglasses and the lady goods. Maybe even a bike.
But, my husband would like to see my purse stocked at ALL TIMES with the following critical items:
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| GUM (Source: Sodahead) |
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| TYLENOL/ASPIRIN (via Dr. Pinna) |
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| KLEENEX (Source: Kleenex) |
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| PEN (Source: Ebates) |
At this moment in time, I have a pen (that probably doesn't work) and some gum (that is probably no longer in it's wrapper and may have some purse dust all over it). No medicine. No Kleenex.
Women, what about you? Do you have all of these things in your purse? Men, anything to say?
Oh! Before I go I wanted to show you what I was thinking of getting my husband for Christmas. Shhhh! I want it to be a surprise...
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| A MAN purse like Hugh Jackman's! He can stuff it with all the pens, Kleenex, aspirin and gum he wants! |
32 comments:
I'll skip the manbag, but, may I say, Hugh Jackman totally rocks it?
My husband is constantly shocked that I don't carry tissue in my purse "like other women".
I do have pens though. Good to stab someone in the neck with if they keep asking me for Kleenex.
(Just joking about the stabbing. Sort of.)
Actually... yeah... I do have all four of those in my purse at the moment. Though, the pen is a total fluke. I accidentally stole it from the coffee stand. :)
HA! I carry all the above in my purse with the exceptions of water boons!
See this is why husbands get away with simple wallets they have us to carry everything else for them!
Love the man purse idea, let us know how that goes over!! Ha!
purse? what's that? i'm relegated to wallet-in-diaper bag these days. but i have 3 of the 4 items on your list in that bag at all times. i usually don't have kleenex, but i'd offer a baby wipe instead..
Well, I don't have a husband, but I do always have gum, a pen, hand sanitizer and chapstick in my purse. Always.
But if you're my grandma, you take the big purse so you can take all the "free" condiments and silverware from restaurants. You know, because you never know when you'll need 300 ketchup packets or a spork.
I have weened myself off gum - now it's mints. But yes, I have those things, and then some.
I got my hubs a man purse a few years ago - and it actually worked... for a while. Then, he gave up. Ugh.
I have a pen. But I bet you don't also have a business card for laser hair removal, a fruit roll up and 10 pieces of little kid jewelry.
hugh jackman can carry a tampon for all i care, he is so cuuuuuute!!
i carry many many things in my purse, all of which i am loathe to give out. after all, i carry that stuff in there for ME. if you want: painkillers, breathmint, tissues, lotion, tampon, sugar, lactaid pills, carry your own damn purse!
the stuff in my bag is for ME. that's why it's MY purse. MINE.
and no, since we're on the subject: i'm not going to put YOUR phone, purchase, receipts, etc in MY purse. it's heavy enough as it is.
oops. sorry i went off.
My husband once asked me if I had duct tape in my purse. Well, the very idea! Ok, but it was just a small roll...
I do! I do! I have all of those things in my purse! *waves hand frantically in air*
Do I win free Pepto-Bismol for that answer? Betcha got THAT in your purse.
I am so with you on this one! My husband wants me to carry his sunglasses in my purse, and same as you, do I have a pen, tissue, or aspirin???
I carry a bottle of Pepto in my purse, at all times. Sob.
I'm pretty sure I carry most of that on any given day.
My never leave home without stash also includes chapstick, a small pocket knife and toooooooo many keys.
With my husband it's nail clippers on my key chain. He has a key chain why can't he carry them. Oh, because they're too bulky if he adds to his keys.
And I have none of those things in my purse.
I don't have any of those things in my purse. I went to write out my daughter's preschool tuition check the other day and I pulled out a crayon. I might have a few stray cheerios, a lipstick with no top, a few My Little Ponies, a thousand receipts and really, really brown banana.
I'm still laughing about the purse dust on your unwrapped gum. What an incredibly funny person you are, Kelley. I do hope you get your husband a purse of his own. Maybe we should all follow suit and do likewise for our husbands. Mine is always wanting me to get rid of my purse (handbag), but I keep asking where I'd keep all the essentials I lug around in it.
My husband always assumes I have everything in my purse. Nuclear Reactor? I probably have it...
@Annabelle: pocketknife? are you related to my mother??
i used to (key word USED TO) carry scissors and mace until it kept getting me strip searched at the airport. and this was BEFORE 9/11.
haha too funny. I'm definitely guilty of asking the girlfriend to carry some aleve. She carries gum on her own.
As for the Hugh Jackman man purse. That is a satchel. No wait. That is a man purse.
I don't have Kleenex, but I do have dental floss, scissors, pepper spray (on my key chain, it wouldn't do me any good buried in the bottom of a bag), and a flash light. That's what I can recall off the top of my head. Oh, and a journal. But probably not any pens.
2/4 for me- pen and Kleenex- though it might be a used one
I have all of those in all my purses combined, but never in one purse at the same time. It's kind of how I have all my brain cells in my head, but on one or two are active at any given time.
Guys will never carry a purse. That is why they are always losing their things. And also, asking me for Chapstick.
Get him the "murse"... Get me Hugh Jackman. I've been reeeeeeally good this year ;)
I have a few guy friends that carry a "backpack" and yet, have NO BOOKS in it. What do they have? My friend Robert had socks, dunno know if clean or dirty, condoms, (for reals) wallet, pen, keys, breath mints, cologne. When I called him out for not having any books he just shushed me. :)
I have all of those things. I check every day to make certain I have all of those things. How sad am I?
Oh! and cherry chapstick - have to have that.
How does HJ make that man-bag look so hot?? We'd laugh our butts off if we saw a regular dude sporting one of those.
I will carry those items on a long trip, but I bought him a messenger bag and he's quite welcome to carry his own crap on a daily basis.
For awhile when we were first married, I kept buying smaller and smaller bags until he figured out that I was not a pack mule.
Next time he asks for a tissue hand him a tampoon and see how he uses it.
--Hugh Jackman is Hot...even with a man bag. Whew.
I have the kleenex & lots of pens.
And I always have a tablet, lipstick, & cell phone.
Xxx Kiss
Let's see.
I have breath mints, Dramamine, tampons and an eye liner...
Which I suppose places me just to the left of perfect.
lol not a lot of North American's
carry a man purse, but I currently
have a pen and some gum in my bag.
I do however have kleenex during the
winter time though :)
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