Does your handbag weight more than a small child? It doesn’t have to. Hoarding is usually the problem, but if you have a tray to empty the contents onto each evening it makes it easy to transfer a streamlined set of basics into the new one. Be wary of always carrying a huge farthingale of a handbag with most of your worldly goods inside, because it will be do damage to your back in the medium term. Here is a handbag checklist of the basics that you will need, and it is sensible to keep as near to this as possible rather than adding too many extra things:
- Purse with at least £10-£20, a debit card and a credit card (only to act as emergency alternative payment if your debit card doesn’t work)
- Driving licence or other photo ID
- Mobile phone
- House and car keys
- Train or bus pass
- Pocket pack of tissues
- Tampons and/or panty liner
- Dose of paracetemol
- Plaster
- Safety pin
- Spare pair of neutral tights
- Small brush or comb
- Small umbrella
- Pen
- A spare five pound note and one pound coin (emergency parking or supermarket trollies)
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