Pursenalized, just for me
Posted by Isabel on May 15th, 2007. Filed under: I Rock.Back when The King and I were dating and flying back and forth all the time, I spent a lot of time in airports. On one particular occasion, the plane was late and full and blah, blah, blah, there were a lot of unhappy customers. A flight attendant got on over the PA system and tried to make people feel better. He told jokes and talked in funny voices.
We weren’t buying it.
About this time he started to give away free travel vouchers. But not to just anyone. No, he had to make clever little games out of it. None of which applied to me. Until about the third one.
“I’ll give a free round trip ticket anywhere in the U.S. to the first person who can produce the most lipsticks from her purse!”
Oh, this was a good one, made just for me. And I would have won if I hadn’t specifically taken all of mine out of my purse for this trip.
I think back on my failure to win all the time. I feel like I now need to be prepared to win this challenge at any given moment. I need to have all my lipsticks in one place.
Because, come on, you just never know when you may be given a free plane ticket for the number of lipsticks you’re carrying around.
In honor of my failure to win (and in honor of my new camera) I present you with my purse and its current contents:
Notice how small my lovely purse is? Yes it’s too small to fit my iPod, but it’s not too small to fit TEN LIPGLOSSES! (Okay, one is only a lip liner. But that counts. Right?)
(Annotated version at over at Flickr.)
So tell me, if you were at the airport today, would you be able to beat me and win the challenge?
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Play along. Go ahead and post pictures of what’s inside your purse. And then let us know. The interweb is nosy like that. (At least I am.)
May 15th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
…and again, with your hording. First the quilts, now this! You definitely have me beat on the lip product collection occupying your purse. I think I have 2 lip glosses.
Oh, and very clever title.
May 15th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Ok I’m going to put my pic of flickr right now. And you know what? I could totally rival you in the lipstick department… except I just switched to my smaller Coach purse on Sunday. If I was still using my large hobo you would find a large magenta mac makeup case filled with nothing but lip products. Like 20. No joke. And I don’t even wear lipstick but maybe 10% of the time. I’m a loony toon.
May 15th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I have that SAME PURSE. Good taste…
I am totally going to do this if that’s okay!
May 15th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
What’s under the address book? Looks to me like a day calendar with a frigging KITTY on it. Am I right?
May 15th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
We would tie. I have a tendency to just slowly add to the lipgloss-apalooza in my purse. Like I don’t already have seven shades of pink in there. Nope, I need this particular shade of pink for this outfit!
And if Hollow Squirrel is right about your calendar, I’m going to fall off my chair laughing.
May 15th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Love the purse!! Fantastic! Also, I may have to confess that I don’t actually wear lipstick, lipgloss and very rarely lip liner. I’m a chapstick type of girl, but only if the chapstick doesn’t have any color, or any stickiness, or any shine. However, I will post the contents of my purse soon…. so you can all see the tremendous mess located inside my bag.
May 15th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Wow, I would never win this game. This is pretty much still what I’m hauling around.
May 15th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I just got the greatest work bag from Target, and I have to show it off!!
May 15th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
You definitely got me beat in the lip gloss department, but I bet I have more random crap, like reciepts, papers, and just CRAP, than you!
Also, what’s with the extra keychain with no key on it? If I can remember I will take a picture of all the crap in my purse tonight and post tomorry! Me camera is at home and I can’t email from my cell phone. Suckage!
May 15th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I totally wouldn’t be able to beat you. If it came down to who had the most pictures in their purse, I’d probably be able to beat anyone, haha! I’ll totally do this one for tomorrow’s post!
May 15th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Nice bag.
You’d think that since I don’t wear makeup, I’d have an uncluttered purse. You’d be wrong. (I do have that same carmex chapstick and clinque lip gloss… tell me it’s the free sample that they were giving away during bonus time last year? Because then OMG! We’re twins!)
I’ll take a picture tonight…
May 15th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Well. Isabel. Just you wait until I get home and get to the camera. I got more shit than your grandma’s mega purse. Oh, I can’t wait.
I am just going to list right now my goodies.
1. Work badge
2. pack of greeting cards
3. Not one but two pairs of sunglasses. A girl has to be prepared.
4. Not one but two tampons. Yes, my period was last week, but again, a girl has to be prepared.
5. A green gimungo wallet which includes check book.
6. 2 packs of gum
7. 4 lip glosses
8. One pearl braclet
9. two hair piggies
10. mirror
11. cell phone
12. keys
13. Wal-mart and TJ Maxx reciepts
14. one clear button (what? where is this from?)
15. one random penny in the bottom
16. random luggage key
17. one orange early rise (generic crystal light)
18. countless random crumbies.
The saddest part is the fact that I have a really big purse so this morning I pulled a bag from Wal-Mart out of my purse that contained toothpaste, toothbrush, shaving cream and Better Homes and Garden magazine. Oh, I should just start carrying my smallest luggage on rolling wheels.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
This is awesome! I’m totally doing one when I get home tonight
May 15th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
You win on lipstick, but on fuzz balls and crumpled gum wrappers? I would be flying first class until Paris Hilton gets out of jail:
http://annenahm.com/?p=93
May 16th, 2007 at 12:46 am
I posted mine over at my blog. It was fun! Thanks for the great post idea!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:42 am
I’m doing this right now.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:16 am
I have no idea how to fix my blog feed? Any ideas?
May 16th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I wish I had my camera here with me. I may have to do this tomorrow! Fun!
And no – I owuld not have beat you.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Lipstick and I don’t get along very well. When I do wear it, it often fades after I take my first sip of water, and I always forget to reapply. Plus, I usually stick to pale pinks and other colors that match the color of my lips. I have one red color that I like, but I’m only brave enough to pull it out for fancy evening affairs.
On a non-cosmetic note, I think you and my sister have the same Coach purse! She got hers when trading in a set of china dishes she received for her wedding. And when I say one set, I mean ONE set – one plate, one bowl, etc. And she never even asked for china in the first place! Her husband gave his blessing to go for the Coach, and go for it she did. I’m still jealous. The most I’ve ever spent on a purse is twenty dollars.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Better late than never, I have posted purse contents: http://flickr.com/photos/rhirhi/500866645/
May 16th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
I have been meaning to post the contents of my purse for ages!! I am secretly waiting until I upgrade to the Coach bag I’ve been hankering for.
Unfortunately, my purse only contains Chapstick + sunscreen and one measly Clinique lip gloss.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
NIIIIIICE. Bummer about the losing of the plane ticket one.
I have a feeling I’ve done this before..
http://alyndabear.typepad.com/ramblings/2006/11/me_run_out_of_b.html
There it is! I hope it doesn’t go all stretchy, because I can’t squint well enough to use html yet.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I miss purses. Right now I’m all diaper bag. I hate it!
I could have won the Who-has-the-Most-Garbage-in-her-Purse Contest!
May 16th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I have no camera on me, so can’t post pictures, but here is what’s in my purse:
Carmex
A tiny Shakespeare tin of aspirin
checkbook
pen
A little lovely tin cigarette holder that holds my ID and bank cards
Probably 30 combo cards/membership cards to grocery stores, coffee shops, etc (in my purse’s one pocket)
My work badge and bus pass if I’m not wearing them
Extra bus tickets
Some receipts and change are usually floating in there too.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I did it! Fun!
May 17th, 2007 at 3:54 am
I think I have only six lip products in my purse at the moment, so I would not beat you in that particular challenge. If I could round up ALL my lip products, from all my bags and all areas of my house and my desk at work, however? Then I would be a contender. I’m sure of it.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I use chapstick brand chapstick. You would probably shun me if we met.
The contents of my purse, however, are varied and facinating. Just no lip stuff.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
All my shit is posted! Ah, the truth is now known.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Man, what a neat little tidy purse you have, which a bunch of lip gloss! I don’t even want to admit what I have in my bag. I’m too scared.