Don’t you wish someone would figure out how to design a purse so that you could always find just what you needed when you needed it. Things would never get lost under the wallet, the check book, the makeup case, the Kleenex, the gum, the extra lipstick, the coupons . . . What we need is a purse that could read our minds. A telepathic purse. Yeah. You’d think Cell Phone and it would rise above all the other stuff and float into your hand.
It seems that no matter how many times I organize, whatever I’m looking for is always on the bottom, or has disappeared completely into that black hole known as “the bottom of the bag.”
The thing I can’t find most often is a pen, which is annoying enough, but when you’re a writer, it can really be a disaster. Take today for example. I’m standing in the aisle at Staples considering buying an extra ink cartridge when WHAM!!! I have a fantastic idea.
As we all know, fantastic ideas don’t last long before they disappear into mental region comparable to the bottom of the bag. I quickly reached into my purse for pen and paper to capture it before it got away. Now normally the first thing I do when I buy a new hand bag is sew a piece of elastic in it to clip all my pens and pencils to. That way I can always find them when a great idea strikes.
But hey, it’s the holidays and I saw this cute purse in between two crazy deadlines, not to mention all the parties and the soccer dinner and . . . I bought it. I didn’t get around to sewing in my pencil holder.
Big Mistake.
So there I am with probably the best idea ever, surrounded by shelves of pens and paper and I’m frantically pulling things out of my purse, looking for that elusive writing instrument.
A clerk walks up and says, “Can I help you?” And poof! Simultaneously, I find my pen and lose my idea.
The first thing I did when I got home was sew in my elastic.
Now I’m ready in case my great idea comes back. Maybe someday if I’m really lucky, I’ll find it on the bottom of my purse.
Anybody have some purse organization tips?
The best advice I can give, because it worked for me, is to downsize. I used to have a bigger purse and it gave me room to put stuff that I didn’t need on top of the stuff I did need, so I was always having problems finding stuff. Now I have a smaller purse, big enough for the most important stuff, and voila, problem solved.
I am with Stacy the smaller purse is the way to go. I still lose stuff at the bottom, but it is a lot faster and easier to find in the long run. When my kids were littler, I had the bigger purse, now it is all about me and I have a tendancy to be a pack rat so the smaller purse is much better.
I’m in agreement with Stacy and Patty… smaller is better, when it comes to purses. For me, a lot of the organization comes from cleaning my purse out on a regular basis so that all at junk doesn’t collect and make it harder to find what I’m looking for.
I have a fairly large purse, that has 4 zippered compartments to it. One has just my wallet, and money in. The others have things that I need (or think I might need
) but it works good for me. Although when I take out my wallet, things have a tendancy to shift……. 
Sorry I have no suggestions, as I never put my stuff in the same place. But I have a strange purse thing — I had change in the change section of my wallet and I could feel there was change behind that area but no holes or spaces to figure how it got there. So I had to cut a hole in the lining to get to that unobtainable change. Very strange!