The bad/random stuff – an odd glove; ticket stub from rugby on Sat; very old bus tickets; spare button for some unknown garment; supermarket receipt; Sweet wrapper (oops); chewing gum (and wrappers); and a very old battered sachet of Lemsip.

See ya

-Lunchbox
-Apple (wouldn’t fit in lunchbox)
-Radio with headphones (one ear bud missing its cover, owee..)
-Style Mag from Sunday Times to read on journey up.
-MP4 player to keep me sane on train journey home (Friday Night Lights FTW!!)
-DVD box set of NCIS (for work colleague)
-Lip colour (not a stick not a gloss, not sure what I’d call it…more of a cream!) from Pure Luxe minerals
-Granny shopper style bag – will be getting apples and bananas from Moore Street later on so need something to tote them around in!
-Mobile
-Keys
-Umbrella – because on the days I don’t bring it…bla bla bla…
-Gloves

Some mornings I’d have more make up in the bag but today I just could not be arsed….was going to apply mascara in work so just slapped on some mineral foundation and eyeshadow and out the door.

I would love a “compartmentalised” bag

- Wallet
- Keys
- Swipe-card
- Phone
- A Fopp records bag, containing a couple of souvenirs from St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, and a bag-pipe frdige magnet that plays “Scotland the Brave“. Very wrong.
- One and two half packets of tissues
- Zoton fastabs
- The remnants of a pack of echinacea
- The remnants of a pack of Disprin Extra Strength
- A pack of Lockets
- Vicks inhaler
- A lighter/bottle opener
- Two half packs of chewing gum
- Desert Essence Lip Rescue
- Fat Face “Fat Lip Balm”
- Digital camera
- 2009 pocket diary
- Edinburgh guide book
- Molskine notebook & map of Edinburgh
- Spiral reporter’s notebook
- Notepaper from Cork International Airport Hotel
- A Domo button badge
- Four Edinburgh postcards (unposted)
- A ticket to Holyrood Palace
- A leaflet from Urban Angel
- A European Commission in Ireland pen
- A LUAS Standard Fare Notice & copy appeal
- About fourteen various different receipts
- A crumpled business card of mine
- An Aer Lingus boarding pass
- The information leaflet from a Vicks Vapo-Rub
- A flyer for Instal 09
- A pamphlet from Women in Black Scotland
- My watch
- A hair bobbin
- Four euro and thirty cent
- The little bit of paper from a fortune cookie (“To be eighty years young is more cheerful and hopeful than forty years old. Lucky numbers 13, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31.”)
- One U.S. cent

Jebus H. Christ, that’s a lot of crap..

i think its time to clean out my bag!

Wallet (FULL of rubbish, receipts, loyality cards, lazer card, student card, driving licence, prescription, 10 euro note and 5.67 in change)
Umbrella
Pashmina
Gloves
A4 pad
Folder full of college notes
2 blue pens
1 black pen
1 pencil
pack of leads for said pencil
2 pink highlighters
1 yellow highlighter
2 USB memory sticks
Phone
MP3 player
Bottle of water
Make up bag (bronzer, powder, powder brush, concealor, eyeshadow,eyeshadow brushes x3, eyeliner, mascara)
Hand cream
Vaseline (Rose one)
Vaseline (blue one)
Lip gloss x 2
2 earrings (not matching)
Bus ticket
Tampons
Pill case (panadol, motilium, clarytin)
Packet of tissues
tonnes of used tissues (so gross!!)
2 bottles of nail polish
Nail file
Hundreds of hair grips

Oh dear!!

Purse
Umbrella
Gloves
Hat
Panadol
Ipod
4 pens and 1 pencil
Refill Pad
Body Shop Cocount Lip Butter
Benefit lipstick – Rushhour
Mac Concealer
Rimmel Lip Liner
Moschino Perfume
Phone
Hairbrush
Glasses and Cath Kidtson Glasses Case (so cute)
Bottle of Water
2 Batteries
1 receipt

It could be a lot worse. For a lengthy period last year, I used to carry around a full size bottle of hairspray.