My life has clutter

Maybe you haven't come across the blog post before titled "Whats in my purse?" or "take a look at my bag"...etc. If you have, you might understand this blog post. If you haven't let me explain what it is, basically the blogger takes a picture of everything in their purse, numbers each item and lists the items. Here's the thing, they have maybe 3-4 items, they never have any junk, nothing is random, and there isn't any trash. Is that even realistic, or am I just a really cluttered person? No, it's not realistic, because I know people and we all carry a purse that ends up being a black hole for a bunch of random crap. I would be lying to myself and everyone around if I only showed the clean parts of my purse, just like some bloggers only show the "perfect" side of their lives. I'm not going to link any examples because I'm not here to bash any specific bloggers, I'm just saying let's be real! If you're a clean freak you'll probably hate this post and want to come knock down my door and teach me how to organize my purse, and if you're like me you'll enjoy seeing that someone else has the same type of purse you do, or worse! Before I start though, have you ever seen that episode of FRIENDS when Ross asks Phoebe for some gum and she pulls out a bunch of random stuff to try and get to it? It's right here if you want to watch it, but that's pretty much like my purse.

 Remember my last post when I said "grab a cup of coffee and come laugh with me about how I'm not perfect and neither is anyone else?" This is one of those times. Got your coffee? Lets go!

Let's start with the random stuff, we'll get to the normal stuff later. Here we have 15 different items, some you might find in your purse and some you might find in your junk drawer.

1- Just loads of mail and receipts. Every time I go to the store and they ask "would you like the receipt with you or in the bag?" I say "I'll take it" and what I really mean is...."I'll take it, and hoard it along with every other receipt I'll never need and throw it in the trash about a month or two from now when I actually can't find anything in my purse because of all the receipts or when I decide to clean my purse.

2- A spoon, because who doesn't have a plastic utensil in their purse? Probably a lot of people, but I'm not one of them. If i'm hungry and I go buy something at a drive thru and they don't give me a utensil to eat it with? I was already hungry, I ordered food, you didn't give me anything to eat it with so now i'm HANGRY. I also like to be able to just grab a bag of oatmeal on my way to work and not have to worry about having utensils there at work. Whatever, it's a spoon... in my purse... and I forgot it was there until I did this post.

3- Sunglasses. NORMAL. Thank goodness

4- Emergen-C drink mix, I was sick a month ago and carried a few of these in my purse, turns out I had one left. Who knew?

5- An empty gum case. What says lazy more than this? You guys I'm just laughing at myself, mostly because I'm sharing all of this with you and because it's probably not the first time that it's happened. Also, I did find a bunch of gum sticks at the bottom of my purse along with some loose coins so maybe that's why I'm hoarding an empty gum case. Who knows...

6- A full gum case. NORMAL. Two normal things so far, whew!

7- A necklace, I don't like to wear jewelry for long amounts of time and I end up taking them off after awhile and they just end up in my purse along with everything else, literally.

8- A pad of paper with a bunch of SUV makes & models I was looking at when I was car shopping, and a pen. That's not abnormal...

9- T-Swifts new album, my hubby bought me this for me before my surgery in January and after we bought it, we jammed out to it in the truck and then I realized after I downloaded it to my iTunes I literally have no use for it. Until recently when I switched back to my 96' Camry and it doesn't have a way for me to hook up my phone and listen to tunes so I carry T Swift with me anywhere I go.

10 AND 11- Because these two items are just too small to have their own numbers, if you look closely one of those is an empty wrapper from a mint I got at a restaurant, trash again.. and a hair tie because the other day I didn't have one, so I put one in there for next time.

12- How about that bag of pills? Okay it's just ibuprofen for the headaches I always get, but never have anything for. I actually just started carrying those around, and now I don't get headaches go figure...

13- Car salesman business cards that I got while car shopping at the end of April, I'll probably never use them again... so, trash.

14- Pills again? No no no- it's a medication for nausea. It's cool though, I pop them like mints (not exceeding the daily amount obviously) and I'm not even pregnant, I have to have these on me all the time and it is especially useful for long car rides or airplane rides.

15- The one and only beautiful key to my (Moms old) 96' Toyota Camry that I've been driving since I sold my SUV on a whim one day. I didn't think it'd sell that fast, turns out I was wrong.

Now we have my wallet, which I wasn't about to dissect for you & my Maurices handbook from when I got hired almost a month ago, but it's got a lot of useful stuff in it.

This one I'm not really sure how it happened but I have one chapstick (that I actually use), two lipsticks and three lip glosses. The hot pink one on the far right? I don't even think that's mine... okay so it is,  I like pink lip gloss but it doesn't smell like bubble gum (gag) so don't judge me for being 26 years old and carrying around something a five year old might have. 

Then there's the "discrete" bag of "stuff for the mensies." I really hate when I'm not prepared, and then I have to ask all the other girls in our office that awkward question if they're carrying a "you know" and they come back with "I haven't had a period in ten years" or "I just used my last one" or my favorite, "I use pads do you want one of those?" So it's just better to be prepared, shove one of those in my pocket or up my sleeve and discreetly go to the bathroom without the entire office knowing about my visit from Aunt Flo.

So there you have it, the real and raw pictures of what's in my purse. There's probably an unwritten rule that if you're going to do a "whats in your purse" blog post, clean out your purse first and don't show the realistic side of it. I might have some of you laughing, and some of you who are embarrassed for me but whatever, that's me in a bag....see what I did there? Let's go back to the spoon for a second because you might think this is the most random thing in my purse, and it is now but it isn't the most random thing I've ever had in there...

I'm going to tell you a story that one of my friends will never let me live down, some people laugh and some people are disgusted, but it's hilarious. In high school my friend & I had just left my house and we were on our way to school, my friend was looking for chapstick and she goes "what the hell do you have a cheeseburger in here for?" she said (I'm taking her word because I don't remember) I replied with "I knew I had another one but I didn't know where I put it!" Yep. Most random thing ever found in my purse was a cheeseburger. I don't remember why, apparently I always had food though. It could've been from a drunk night or something else who knows, but it was in there. Also, I stand corrected, she just text me to let me know that it was a double cheeseburger. Keep in mind this was like 10+ years ago...just sayin.

I hope this post made you laugh, but just for my own sanity- what's the most random thing you've ever found in your purse? Can you beat a double cheeseburger? I hope so! ;)