I started my blog TEN years ago!! I find that hard to believe and yet it feels like only yesterday when I decided it would be easier to just write about what was going on in my life and have a place where my family could stop by. Over the last decade this blog has morphed and changed and I know it will continue to do that, as I have changed so has my blog. To celebrate my decade of blogging I’ll be running some giveaways to say thank you for stopping by.
My purse (or wallet if you’re reading this from across the pond) broke the other week. It was like a death in the family! I’d had this purse for almost 7 years and it was old and faded but all my stuff fit and I knew where everything was, including the marble I always carry around with me for good luck- if I have it I haven’t lost my marbles! My old purse fit like a pair of gloves or comfy shoes.
A purse is a pretty personal thing isn’t is? Well for me it is. I have some small ones I use for nights out like a lot of folks I think. Off I went to find a new purse and WOWZER are there some ugly purses out there! Sorry but there are! Also how can you manage with only 6 card slots? Am I a weirdo who needs at least double that but without the purse looking like carry-on luggage?
I bought a lot of purses and returned them. I’d bring them home, transfer all you cards to the new purse then realise there weren’t enough card slots (only did that once!) & if there were that I couldn’t actually close the blooming thing- bad design!
I finally found the PERFECT purse!
The Dune Kandice Foldover purse. It’s a slim purse and it comes w/ a removable card holder so you don’t have to pull out all the cards every time you use your purse. I’m put all the cards I need to carry around with me but don’t use regularly. In the actual purse itself there are 6 card slots.
I loved it so much I bought 2 and am giving one away!
Here’s your chance to win your very own Dune Kandice Foldover purse!
To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is comment on this post telling me what’s the oddest thing you carry around in your purse. Then complete the Gleam competition widget (bonus entries are available)
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Entry is open to UK adults age 18+. One winner will be chosen at random from all eligible entries after the closing date of 10/8/2016. No cash alternative. Winner will be contacted on Twitter.
My son’s tooth!
haha yes that is a little weird 🙂
A can of baked beans! haha, don’t ask 😛
a little troll from when I was little
A dinosaur for my 2 year old Grandson
I always have some squashed old sweets, not good I know!
My nail glue
My front tooth, someone accidently elbowed me in the mouth and my tooth fell out, so i put it in my purse hoping some how it can be put back in
A stone to remind me I had lost a stone in weight!
A Chinese coin- a reminder of my very happy period out there…maybe not as odd as some…
my sons hair from when he had his first haircut
Weirdest thing was my cats furball medicine, which sadly leaked one day, and smelled rank, bag had to be thrown away.
The key from a tin of corned beef, I use it if I haven’t got a pound coin when I need a trolley at our local supermarket
a squashed Jaffa cake, can’t even tell you how messy that was 🙁
a squashed up sweet
An egg slicer, for salads at work 🙂
An arrangement of odd socks that belong to my son!! Haha 🙂
My tooth! It fell out after a little accident and I had to pop it in my purse in the hope they could put it back but they couldn’t!
My baby’s tooth.
sachet of tomato ketchup
Sweet and sour sauce
worming tablets for my puppies fab giveaway thankyou
A four leaf clover that my four year old son gave me for good luck when I had leumaemia. He’s 20 now so it clearly worked! I laminated the leaf to preserve it but unfortunately its still disintegrated over time and is no longer recognisable and actually looks quite weird!
Moths ha ha
1 dollar, my sister gave me it, and i just seemed to transfer it from one purse to another.
ear plugs!
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve carried around in your purse? . . . . mentally going through my weird items . . . . a tub of jam probably wins
My retainers – I don’t think it’s odd, but everyone else seems to find it very strange.
A white feather 🙂
Some hormone rooting powder satchets (for plants) in little white bags. My Dad asked me to get him from our local garden centre. I put them in my purse and just completely forgot about them! I even took my purse through customs in Spain without realising…luckily I wasn’t searched – I shiver now just thinking about it 😉
I usually have loads of fruit shoot lids in my bag from my son’s drinks.
Squashed sweet that stuck to the bag xxx
I have my sons first lock of hair still in mine….
my daughters teeth when they fell out
A bag of dog treats!
A children’s toy when the child in question wasn’t mine x
A urine sample that I forgot to dispose of! Lol x
poop bags for my dog lol
A coaster from a nightclub – it was boiling and I was using it as a fan
A used chewing gum in a piece of paper haha. Couldn’t find a bin!
a belly button clip from my daughter
Sugar sachets I used to collect, thankfully they didn’t break !
My mums front door key and she passed away 14 years ago!
My crown that fell out
A tin of tuna
A Lego man belonging to my son
A flower that my niece gave me on a day out
False teeth
my babys hospital id band
Dog poo bags, maybe not weird but essential!
I am so boring! I only keep money in my purse…….when I’ve got any !!!!! 🙂
My babies foreskin after his circumcision
An oven-shrunk crisp packet of my favourite crisps that the youngest made for me in an arts and crafts place, it’s about the size of a credit card, I love it but it’s pretty weird to some I suppose!
A sim key for my iphone
Dog Biscuts & one flipflop
A miniature plastic motorbike from a kinder egg
I have one of my nans broaches in my purse as a reminder of her always makes me smile when I am getting my change out ??
Sachets of sauce when going to the seaside for fish and chips
a glass four leaved clover that my mum gave to me
Vitamin pills
A screwdriver
A small dog biscuit in case I meet a friendly dog on my journey!
nail clippers
There’s always some half eaten snack in my bag, just in case I get peckish.
A sachet of peppermint tea for when I get stressed.
My daughters belly button clip from when she was born :-/
My Nail ,I wear fale nails and mine fell off so I put in my purse has was going to stick it back on
A cucumber from my parents garden lol
Always carry salt!
A tooth thread. 🙂
My engagement ring….I’ve been meaning to get it resized for ages but forgot about it so has been in my purse for over 6 months now lol!
Ok not to sound morbid as its really not supposed to be but my dad died in an accident when my mum was 8mnths pregnant with me back in 1985, I always keep one of the old newspaper clippings of his accident in the back of my purse. It’s odd I know!!
A dead snail that my son insisted on bringing home.
I still have a Mummy handbag, with hair bobbles, plasters, loads of tissues, paper and pens etc. And my daughter has left home years ago! Can’t get out of the habit!
Packs of sugar
I don’t have a purse but my dad always carries his lucky stone around with him.
a bottle of Tabasco
Ear plugs left from BTCC and Ignition Festival 😀
Stones – my daughters like collecting them when we’re out and about
A tooth once
Flowers, my daughter used to like picking them when she was little .x
A feather I found day after my daughter became an angel.x
i dont own a purse, would love one
boys pants!
A bottle of lactulose for my daughter, the bottle then burst on the bus on the way home and everything including me smelt sickly sweet and I couldn’t believe how sticky the stuff was 🙁 There was only one thing that could be done with the bag and that was to bin it!!! 🙁
Definitely has to be the kids teeth! Why do they always seem to fall out when your out and about somewhere.
My front crown, it fell out and I needed to keep it safe.
A dog biscuit! It may come in useful one day 🙂
Badges – I’ve currently got my daughter’s Primary 1 badges for her ballet and tap dancing in my purse. It’s the safest place for them till I sow them to her dance bag.
A white feather
Three different sizes of plasters… just in case!
Sachets of ketchup 🙂
my youngest sons grommet from his ear!
Of course I’ve got all sorts of rubbish in my bag/purse. I carry a Cornish Piskie in my purse to bring me good luck and hopefully magic me some money
a small compass that my nephew gave to me x
an acorn
A Gecko lizard when we lived overseas. Boy they are fast and they are sneaky.
A key from an old keyboard it has always given me luck.
Pieces of elastoplast – you’d be surprised the number of pieces I’ve given to people when they needed it (and the kids got through a loto when they were small!).
Salt & Pepper from Mcdonalds x
My childrens baby hair
pork crackling from a carvery that I decided to take home for the dog :/
A filling! haha. It was the first time one fell out and I wanted to show my dentist and partner. Felt like a bullet!
A bicycle pump.
A plaster, I always have tucked in with the notes, you never know
Salt, I collect it everywhere can be useful at times. Thanks
Salt, I collect it everywhere, it can be useful though thanks
My baby kitten once!! To be fair my purse was more like a clutch bag at the time ???? love this purse BTW its stunning. Thanks for the chance to win it ????
I must be very boring, I’ve never put anything weird in my purse lol – just money and cards.
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a dead scarab beetle… found after I got back from holiday!!!
A Betty Boot Shopkins which my Granddaughter gave me.
The weirdest thing that i have ever carried around in my purse was my son’s tooth, it wobbled out when he was playing football so i put it in my purse so that it would be safe for him to put under his pillow for the tooth fairy 🙂
Urine sample bottle. I took it to hospital for a routine check up but due to a doctor’s strike I just did bloods and didn’t see the consultant. A couple of days later it was still there
A cat poo! I hadn’t realised what my naughty cat had done!
When we were in the South of France with my parents…..I was a bout 18 Dad decided we all should go out to dinner to his favourite restaurant. So 15 of us went. Now I like my meat very well done but my steak kept coming back raw to the point that my chips had blood for gravy. After the 3rd time of sending back and a different one coming back out I got my friend to talk to my dad and shoved the steak into my purse. I then cleared off to the next table and ate pizza with a load of soldiers. Next morning I remembered the steak so went to take it out but couldn’t find it! It turns out it was not my purse but my friends mwahahaha Not sure this counts but a fun story.
haha this is the best story EVER!
A sticky sweet that my son has spit out because he did not like no bin around so had to stick in my purse
I carry two shiny pebbles given to me by my nephew. I’ll keep them there forever x
My wife carries a few plasters
Ive always had a US$ in my purse, since i went there
A tampon. Which doesn’t sound so “weird” but haven’t had to use one for a few years now. Oh and a poop bag (for the dog – even in my “I don’t take that handbag out when I walk the dog” handbag) lol.
A sachet of tomato sauce from the kfc………
A old roman coin
a false finger nail
A tooth crown -it fell off over the frozen chips in Tescos
Sugar as it reminded me of a very special someone who had moved away to a a different country! 🙂
A old sausage from from a meal out lol. Still haven’t taken it out lol ????????
Kinder egg toys
The weirdest thing I’ve carried around in my purse is a flower
a tomato seed which was stuck in my tooth for weeks … i had moaned that much i kept it to show people the size of it hahah!
An allen key – for about 3 years. Have no idea what it’s for. Still won’t throw it away though!
Sugar satchet
a ring pull from a pop can that my husband gave me when we first met and told me that one day i’d be his wife x
Receipts from Xmas 2010 – 2015 – like I’m gonna return anything now lol
Oh my it has to be my hair. Due to am attack it was cut short but I kept a thin bit to remember the length it used to be. A few months ago my purse was stolen when I took my kids out for the day and I am most upset about the hair. It rem to me of who I was before the attack.
My positive pregnancy test has been in my purse since I took it 28 weeks ago. After 6 years of trying to conceive I still find it hard to believe its finally happened.
My daughters tooth, I had to hide it somewhere!
My fiancé’s toe nail. Don’t ask. Ewwww.
cotton buds 🙂
Wasn’t on purpose but my daughter keeps sticking left over squashed raisins in my bag. Oh and weeds – she keeps picking weeds and putting them in my handbag 😛
False Eyelashes