What's in your wallet... err, on your dresser?

I was cleaning off my husband’s dresser because I was trying to locate something and here’s what I found instead. And he thinks I’m a clutter-collector?

·      2 manuals from the new spa control

·      5 gift certificates (I’m going shopping)

·      Frank Sinatra cd

·      Reader’s Digest

·      some miscellaneous piece to something

·      rubber band

·      paperclips

·      sunscreen

·      bazillion used golf score cards (maybe looking at these helps improve your game?)

·      receipts from mostly Home Depot, out the yang yang

·      various papers

·      a mouse pad

·      2 bandaids

·      3 foreign coins

·      13 cents in change (I was hoping for the big bucks – you know, finders keepers…)

·      pencils from the golf course (maybe he can take these back and get a discount because they wouldn’t have to re-order for awhile)

·      5 reading glasses (he’s always asking, have you seen my glasses – well, look under all the stuff on your dresser buddy!)

·      10 packs of Dentyne Ice

·      1 watch

·      17 plastic collar thingys

·      baseball cap

·      3 golf tags

·      5 floss toothpicks

·      2 cigar cutters

·      4 pens

·      2 markers

·      7 golf tees

·      9 golf markers

·      4 golf divit removers

·      2 books of matches

·      1 lighter

·      2 pocket knives

·      zipper pull

·      2 fancy name tags

·      cloth for cleaning eye glasses (for the eye glasses he can’t find)

·      13 business cards from misc people

·      24 business cards of his own

I'm pretty sure he has me beat compared to what was in my purse. So, what’s on your dresser?

What’s in Your Purse/Pocket?

Dear Mom,

If you were alive, I’d have you dump out your purse so I could see what’s in it. 

Writer and critique friend, Sioux shared some food for thought by asking what would one of the characters in my story (that the group has graciously agreed to read in its entirety) have in her pocket or purse?

For starters, I decided to dump out the contents of my purse and take a look. I had downsized to a smaller purse so I wouldn’t be carrying around unneeded, extra things. The bigger the purse, the more one stuffs into it, right? And even in the downsized purse I was surprised to find so much. Here’s my list:

·      checkbook

·      mini composition notebook

·      3 pens (I sighed with relief because one time I didn't have a single pen in my purse!)

·      cell phone

·      pack of Bubblemint gum (my favorite)

·      tiny bottle of lotion (from recent visit at the Dermatologist)

·      tiny tube of lotion (from same visit)

·      car faub

·      2 gift cards (from hubby)

·      a coupon  (hair salon)

·      3 bandaids (which I’ve discovered I’m allergic to)

·      cash/coins (usually I have no cash, and just noticed the 2012 penny)

·      small wallet (when you have a small purse, you carry small things)

·      2 lip glosses

·      panty liner

·      fingernail file

·      scandisk usb thingy

·      tissues

·      dental floss

·      3 chewed pieces of gum wrapped in gum wrapper

·      appointment card with list on back

·      6 loose gum wrappers

·      2 bobby pins

·      receipt from restaurant

·      hand santizer

If I were to take a peek in my pockets, I’m sure I’d find a tissue and chapstick. I’ll confess, I’m a chapstick/tissue addict. I'm not sure what all of this says about me.

Now I’d like you to dump out your purse or pockets and share with me what is in there.

Please. 

I’m curious is all, and well… it might help me with my story. If I use some item from your purse, I’ll make sure to mention you in the acknowledgements. How's that for a bribe?

I may want to disqualify my older sister because whatever you might need—anything—and you ask her, she’ll pull it out of her purse. I kid you not. 

She’d be a winner on that one game show, The Price is Right. Every now and then the host of the show would call out to the audience asking for some odd item found in a purse and they'd get some money. “Who has a blue screwdriver in the shape of a bird in their purse?” I’d see my sister jump up, “I do! I do!”

Oh, and in case you're wondering what that pink thing is pinned on my purse... a vagina pin, made by my daughter, Rita to support her sister, Jessica and her nonprofit organization, AlphaWom. But the pins became a hit for women diagnosed with cervical cancer too... thanks to Shelley!

So what’s in your wallet/purse/pocket?