What's in a Purse?

This blog post is dedicated to Heather, who several years ago encouraged me to begin the journey of purging my house of all those special things that I couldn't stand to part with! Oh she started small, with just one magazine rack but eventually our entire house was purged....no room or closet was left undone!

But this Christmas she tackled another 'sacred' place.....my purse!! For Christmas from Heather and Matt I received this classy number seen above, brown and sleek, along with the challenge to see if I could actually pare down all the 'necessary things' I crammed into my other purses!

Well here it is Heather! I did it!!!(and that really should be accompanied by Aidan's "I Did It!!" Dance which is priceless and very enthusiastic). When I finally got up the nerve to see if I could use the purse without making it look like a 9-month-pregnant woman about to give birth, I did it!

The only items that went into my new sleek brown purse were my blackberry, wallet, 1 pen, glasses cleaner and cloth, kleenex, hand lotion, lip gloss, and Mary Kay Compact complete with lipstick, eye colors and blush! I was all set.

What wasn't in this purse that spent the day at home in the old one was:
**8 other pens(yes 8!!)
**my camera
**my photo album with pictures of my family
**another lip gloss
**another lip stick and lip liner
**two old thank you cards

**a make up case full of advil, oil control blotting tissues, two more glass cleaning cloths, bandaids, another hand lotion, dental floss and toothpicks

I know! Quite ridiculous. But you just never know what a gal might need when she is at work all day! Fortunately, I didn't need anything more than what I had in my fancy new purse! Thanks Heather! I did it! :-)