Do you carry a purse?

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I've recently started carrying a purse because I realized I don't have enough pockets. It's fairly expensive. so I keep a tight grip on it. I have the tendency to immediately lose anything I'm not holding or wearing.

The first day I ever carried a purse to school I left it on the bus. My mother thought that was funny, as did the kids at school the next day. I still remember how it felt creepy like weird plastic skin. I only had it because by about 15, I noticed that girls talked about them a lot and I figured people might stop making fun at me if I had one too.
So I don't know what is suspicious of aspies with bags? Could someone explain?
I have always preferred to have a small shoulder bag purse you can leave on and not think about at all. A bag is good for carrying money, passes,ids, keys and snacks. They are carried by a lot of guys too. I see them on the subway in the city.
My purse can get sticky from snack crumbs. So it's probably good to have an inside part that you can clean.
I like to call my purse a pocketbook. The word book makes it seem smarter to have one.
Anyway, I recently became very fascinated by looking at pocketbooks they sell on the internet. Some of them are really pretty. I saw one that looked like a giant flower that cost more than a thousand dollars! It seemed like some of the really expensive ones came in the nicest colors and looked special-- like turquoise green and sunshine yellow. I don't like boring colors much.
I would like to design one that has lots of pockets with zippers and velcro tabs inside. One of the pockets could be marked KEYS ONLY.That would be A big help for me!
I don't know what a swiss gas mask bag even looks like. I will google it now though....I'm guessing it has a square cross on it?

I just keep all my stuff in my pockets, and keep checking every now and again to make sure it's all there
I've tryed carrying a bag but it just gets in my way and for some reason I dont feel my stuff is as safe.
As someone else mentioned they dont know how to hold it properly, I have that problem too
I would however like to be able to carry a bag especially in the summer time, maybe I'll just get one to take out every now and again and with a bit of luck I'll gradually get used to it

I have a mini dickies polka dot backpack. It's pretty handy cos there's really no long straps to deal with and you never have to worry about it falling off your shoulders. I hang out with alot of gay people who are entirely against purses and they tease me about it, but I always say it's not a purse, it's a backpack! Works pretty well haha.

What brand do you purchase most? I tend to stick with Fossil as they can be found reasonably priced and have some quality to them.

I don't even own a purse. I carry a small man's wallet in one back pocket and my cell phone in the other. (My fake ass.) Keys and cash go in my front pocket, and I still have a spare pocket if I should need it.

I carry a purse but its a curse. (Cool rhyme!)

I'm always losing it - must be my karma but I've always found it.

My purse went MIA in Vegas last year and it was the longest 48 hours of my life before I located it.

I can't keep a purse organized - so all those little pockets don't help me because I just throw stuff back in after I find it. I am a total space case - and can't multi-task - so usually all the chaos involved with money transactions and airport security - are a nightmare for me.

I am very picky about fashion so I can't just carry any purse. It has to be "perfect" and it has to be a brand. I know - how awful! I'm not that way about shoes or clothes. I'm cheap and practical there. Although, I have a really cool Ecko faux snake skin bag that I love and it was, like $50! I need to find some more of his stuff.

So - its a hunt to find Kate Spade and Dooney & Bourke on ebay. (I would never pay retail!) And I could never go counterfeit because its illegal, immoral, but most of all, I'd know it was a fake.

Guys are so lucky to just have a wallet.

Yes, I never get how people can just keep their keys or something in their pocket and not carry a bag with them. I need to have a lot of things with me, else I just know I'll need something when I don't have it. Travelling light is so not me.

I carry a purse instead of a backpack cos I think it looks nicer, though a backpack might be more practical.

I never carry a purse. When I go out of the house I take as little as possible with me and I just put it in my pockets.

I'm not very lady-like at all.

I prefer backpacks.

A medium/large backpack if I go to school, or a small one just for wandering.

I carry a bag, but it's a canvas sports-type holdall. One of those tiny purses/handbags is useless to me. I like a large, robust bag that I can put big items in if necessary.

I carry a backpack for my books, as I'm a student. I also have a bag that is for art supplies, it's a pretty purple pinstriped one that carries a box of pens, a sketchbook, some paper fans (which I use as a canvas) and paints and paintbrushes as well as inks and pencils. For every day activities, I dislike carrying a purse, I consider them uncomfortable on the shoulders. I carry a small origami wallet, that is, a wallet made out of stiffened origami paper that is ingeniously folded to be like a wallet, no sewing required. It holds my passport, credit cards and money, and doesn't give me shoulder pain like a purse.
I guess I'm lucky that I don't wear make up, otherwise I might need more than just that origami wallet.

Yes, because I tend to bring a lot of stuff with me when I go out. Wallet, phone, keys, glasses case, mini first-aid kit, pocket knife, a snack etc...I never want to go somewhere & find I need something that I don't have. It's not a 'purse' though, as I thought purses were generally small? It's a bag that goes over one shoulder & crosses over the front of my body. Anything else I'd be worried about putting down & leaving it behind.

I have carried a purse for years and it has become a fairly particular thing with me. It is the only thing that helps me keep my act together when my husband isn't around to remind me of things. I have to have a bag that I can wear cross-body and I wear it the entire time I am out anywhere. This is good because it's very hard to steal or pickpocket. Also, it keeps my wallet (which is the long kind), cell phone, and keys in a secure location, by my right hand. If I make it a habit (and I have) to always put them back in the exact same spot as soon as I'm done using them, and always keep the purse on my hip, I can go out in public. Throw a wrench into that, say, switch me to a purse that I can't wear, and you get a situation like we had last year when we got stranded at the aquarium watching the navy blow up some bomb they mislayed on the beach (so the aquarium lady told me in a whisper) while my husband asked the police to escort him into the beach area so that he could unlock my car where my keys sat in the ignition...

I'd prefer a bag that's brown leather and looks sort of like an Indiana Jones travel satchel (how cool is that, wish I could find one) only with lots of little pockets. Something that looks like I'm on a safari. I can't believe the butt ugly purses I see on sale. Why in Bob's name would anyone in their right mind want to carry a handbag covered in homely-lookin' doo-dads? I'd sooner use a backpack, but of course, that means I can't have the pockets handy (and as I said, that's my personal road to humiliation and excruciatingly interesting anecdotes).

I just bought another one, because I felt that the old one didn't go with my new outfit - oh my god I'm turning into a woman!