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Post by Siren on Nov 29, 2006 19:54:23 GMT -6
As its title implies, this thread is about you, and the answers you give (or not) to random nosy questions.
First one: what's the weirdest thing in your wallet / purse / etc ?
In mine: well, there are a few things..
coupla pairs of dice a Swiss army knife ear plugs (for concerts)
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Post by mabd on Nov 29, 2006 21:25:16 GMT -6
First one: what's the weirdest thing in your wallet / purse / etc ? No purse. Wallet: 19 library cards, 2 phone cards usable only in Greece, map of the tube, and a Victorian coin. Maeve
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Post by xenavirgin on Nov 30, 2006 6:47:05 GMT -6
Hmm. Weirdest thing in my wallet at the moment? Not a lot that's weird, but I do have entrance tickets from half a dozen monuments in Egypt including the tomb of Nefertari and Karnak temple. Now weirdest thing I ever kept in my wallet. Hmmm My oath of fealty to HM Queen Elizabeth II which I swore aged 10 (1977 the year of her Silver Jubilee), in front of my framed picture of her in her coronation robes and crown. "I promise to be your leige woman of life, limb, and earthly worship. And unto you shall be true and faithful so help me God and all His Saints." Paraphrase from an oath of fealty sworn to Queen Elizabeth I. Now that's weird. XV
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Post by Phalon on Nov 30, 2006 11:55:14 GMT -6
Oooo, fun thread, and very interesting stuff you all carry around.
Me? Not so interesting. In the wallet...the usual stuff - not enough money.
The Mom Purse? Lots in there; it weighs a ton. I couldn't begin to tell all the weird stuff in there; I haven't dug down to the bottom in quite a while. It's packed full though, and I walk lopsided, it weighing me down like I'm carrying around a bunch of rocks. Which I am. That I know - my purse is full of rocks, and has been since my first child has been able to walk. We walk - they collect rocks and give them to Mom to carry.
No wonder my back hurts.
<edited to fix typos, which made it hard for even me to understand what I was saying>
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Post by katina2nd on Dec 1, 2006 7:13:53 GMT -6
I ain't tellin', ya can't make me tell so don't even try. ;D
Well to be truthful I don't carry a wallet [ or a purse just in case anyones wondering ] I just stuff whatever little money I have, along with other odds and ends, in my pockets, and I don't think there's anything particularly weird in there, or at least not that I know of.
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Post by Siren on Dec 2, 2006 8:59:21 GMT -6
What an interesting group of people in here.
Maeve, which of those 19 library cards is from the most specialized/obscure/smallest/most remotely-located library? Is the victorian coin a good luck piece?
XV, that oath is really beautiful. Would even serve as a wedding vow. My sister would kill to have visited those tombs with you!
Your ticket stubs reminds me of the OU women's basketball ticket stub I've carried for years. It's from the OU/Tennessee game in 2003 (they kicked the crap out of us), and features a photo from OU's point guard from around 2001, Sunny Hardeman. I thought she was a cool player back in the day, and wanted an autograph from her, so I stuck it in my wallet in the hope that I'd see her at an OU game sometime. That was in 2003. In 2005, we went to Stillwater to watch the Sooners play their in-state rival, OSU, where Sunny's little sister was a point guard (but somehow not as cool as her big sis). After the game, we were in the lobby, and I spotted Sunny. Pulled out my always-in-my-purse Sharpie pen, and approached her. When I pulled out that ticket stub and asked for an autograph, she looked so surprised. Then her face just lit up, "Sure, I'd be happy to sign it for you!" And I think she really was. Sunny was never the star at OU, though she was a hard-working player. I think it made her even happier to give the autograph than it made me, getting it.
The Mom Purse. You're right, Gams, it's an occupational hazard. Before we started carrying purses, we asked our mom to carry all the treasures we came across. But there's payback in the end. When my back starts hurting, I clean out my purse, and am amazed at the stuff I've accumulated.
"I just stuff whatever little money I have, along with other odds and ends, in my pockets..." Yes, kat, but it's those little "odds and ends" that are so telling. Here's another little weird one from my coin purse - a fragment, maybe a half inch long, from a plastic worm fishing lure. It's from fishing at my elderly uncle's pond a year ago. As he was baiting a hook, he pulled that fragment loose and cast it aside. Like Gabrielle might, I took it and kept it as a momento. I have a spent lead slug in my coin purse, too, from some target-shooting I did with my dad. The piece of firewood that was our target is in my bedroom.
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Post by fallenangel on Dec 2, 2006 9:19:31 GMT -6
I carry a card that has the serenity prayer on it.
God, grant me the Serenity To accept the things I cannot change... Courage to change the things I can, And Wisdom to know the difference. AMEN
I put the card in there when I got the wallet and its been there ever since.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 2, 2006 9:44:44 GMT -6
This topic is starting to remind me of that credit card commercial...”What’s in your wallet?” I must confess to being a sentimental pack rat. And it’s nice to know I’m not the only one. Though when the things in my wallet become too much to carry around I usually transfer them to my “men’s toes” box. (mementos)
Quick list of the contents of my wallet:
Debit Card Wharehouse Club Shopping card (Costco Lovingly referred to as the $200 club) AAA road service card (Cause god knows, in another life I was a serial hit and run killer and have always had bad luck with my cars breaking down in the middle of nowhere.) Two college ID’s (reminders to never stop learning something) Insurance Card (cause I’m a klutz) Library Card Voter Registration Card (been in my wallet since I was 18) Id card from my very first bank account Two Drivers Licenses (One of which is suspended, reminders to slow down) Several of my personal business Cards Harrah’s Rewards card (my dad was a gambler and insisted I get one. Don’t think I’ve used it since he died.) VIP card from a local Club (Gets me in the door no cover and cheap drinks) 5 grocery store cards 2 $2 bills given to me by my grandmother A card with my name and what it means in Gaelic Piece of paper with my name written out in Hebrew Receipts for my last three speeding tickets Buy ten get one free Orange Julius card And last but not least my security card for where I work
And I just realized I have absolutely no money in my wallet....thank god I get paid soon.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 4, 2006 0:29:03 GMT -6
Wow - you guys are very sentimental, carrying all those tokens in your wallets. My desk is like that; every nook crammed full of stuff that I can't bear to part with. But I travel light. Except for the rocks.
And the drug store. Headache? Upset Stomach? Heartburn? Torn nail, sunburn, protection from the sun, pms, cut, infected cut, burning eyes, hair diseaster? Call me; whatever ails you, I'll fix it. It'll just take me a minute.....hmmmm, I know it's in here somewhere.
<rummage, rummage>
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 6, 2006 16:52:56 GMT -6
Siren? Ear plugs for concerts? I would sit right under the speakers if I could. You can't hear yourself talk in my car either for the loudness, but I do try to turn the volume down a bit when I drive up next to some old broad so she won't think I am crazy and especially when I drive up beside a youngster so he won't throw up seeing me (an old broad) listening to the Gap band cranked up. OOPs. the mind wandered a bit as I got sidetracked with all your interesting things in your purse. And does any woman like carrying those dang things? ? What a pain ! Like Phalon, when the kids are young, you have everything they own crammed in one and the hubby always says, Why is your purse so HEAVY? " My response used to be, cuz I am carrying half your %^&*(_& in here too!! Ok, back to the real world of what is in my purse. since we are divulging. I like to change my purse once in a while so I minimize the old gum wrappers, coins and receipts and transfer them to the one I am not using, until it gets so full I clean it out and go file the receipts and then have a clean one to switch to again. I usually have one peppermint candy given to me by the roller skating cuties at Sonic when I stop in there to get a drink. Then there is the change at the bottom, ALWAYS, because I hate to put it in my wallet, but when I need some I have to stand for 1/2 an hour digging it out to pay the clerk. Who cares, I just stood in line waiting for the bozo's to cash in their lottery tickets. GO DO THAT SOMEWHERE ELSE.. i AM TRYING TO BUY A CANDY BAR!! (that I don't need) OK...next is the wallet with the regular junk.. and no money hardly ever. Who needs the real stuff when you can whip out the debit card? But I refuse to use that much and having no cash prevents me from buying anything.. Then there is eye drops..cuz I stay up so late and drive so much during the day..boo hoo. AND there are about 30 different shades of pink lipstick that I finally had to transfer to a cosmetic bag that I now keep in my car (except in the summer) because I love to put on lipstick all day long. It is like painting to me..ha.
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 6, 2006 23:11:54 GMT -6
Hey does anybody mind that I go on and on and on and on in these posts? Don't tell me.. It is like..I haven't been here in a while and then you can't shut me up and why is it all of you witty and humurous people out there have these great one liners and I go on and on for paragraph after paragraph. Oh shut-up and go to bed!
How about we also mention what we have in the trunks of our car!!!!!!! Yippee.. and I am mentioning this as a means to get my butt in gear to clean it out. Now that I have told everyone I hope to be held accountable ..since it has been in there for two weeks. I have a trash bag of my daughter's old Barbie dolls, clothes, shoes, etc. Then there is the trash bag full of a miniature Cabbage patch dolls, house, furniture, etc. And there is a bag of Legos. I got the toys out of my sister's basement and need to put them in the attic here, but what a haul! Maybe they present the same issue as the dishes in the sink that I need to wash. If you can push it off til the next day.. sounds good to me!
Also in my trunk is all my work stuff in a file box, old cardboard I might need to put between paintings if I move them from the gallery, a bucket of all my car washing stuff, my gym clothes, an empty box of tissues and about 30 bottles of water. And that is all folks!
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 6, 2006 23:28:44 GMT -6
Hey does anybody mind that I go on and on and on and on in these posts? I for one would have to say ......nope don't mind a bit. Looks as though you have been learning the art of whoosh language from the master..... Phalon? What have you been teaching her?
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Post by mabd on Dec 7, 2006 10:49:40 GMT -6
Maeve, which of those 19 library cards is from the most specialized/obscure/smallest/most remotely-located library? Is the victorian coin a good luck piece? Most remote? None are very obscure, remote, or overly specialized. Most fun? The Folger in DC, where any book produced after 1800 is deemed to be modern, and that all books acquired after 1974 still do not have accession numbers. But everything stops at 2:30pm each day for tea. What a trip. The Victorian coin is there to remind me that, though the English monarch reigns but does not rule, it was Vicky's personal elite troops that led the occupation forces in Ireland -- this time around. FWIW, Ireland is the only nation in Europe still under military occupation. At least I don't carry mugger's money any more. Maeve
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Post by xenavirgin on Dec 7, 2006 12:09:16 GMT -6
My trunk??? Oh you mean the boot! heh that was one of the English words that really confused me when I first got here. Ok. in my Lady Wife Jane's car (I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other so I don't drive) in the trunk is... or is it are?.... one bottle of antifreeze a hubcap that came off 18 months ago and she still hasn't fixed both our tallit bags a copy of the Tanakh Jane's collapsable bike and an assortment of rubbish such as empty water bottles, crisp packets (all smokey bacon so I'm not the culprit) twiglet packets and Red Bull cans. what am I gonna do with that girl? XV
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Post by lolapunk on Dec 7, 2006 13:11:16 GMT -6
This is a hoot... Once upon a time when asked this question I responded that having a purse would be weird. Alas, I have joined the purse nation, even though it sits on a shelf virtually all the time. In it is lipstick (Borghese's Poetico - marvelous color), powder and mirror, hair clip, the bar receipt from the last night I used it, a kleenex (unused) and the silica gel pack that came with the purse. Oh look, it reminds me I should not eat this gel pack. Beautiful purse, I'm going to break it out again soon.
I am a pocket girl in general though, not even a wallet. License and debit card (minus the debit card that I recently lost), sometimes a bullet chapstick and cash. It's my dresser where the real treasures are, as I empty my pockets there each night - an overflowing bowl of change, kleenexes, movie and concert ticket stubs, card receipts, hair ties, phone numbers and business cards, free drink coins, ugh, it's a mess. Oh, I do have a coin good for a free service at a whorehouse in Wyoming, Hog something or other. I rather treasure that one.
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 7, 2006 21:17:52 GMT -6
I do love this thread!!!.. as I feel like a peeping Tom or something.. looking in everyone's purses and trunks. And who isn't a little bit nosey? Xenavirgin.. what is a tallit bag? Maeve ..what is muggers money? Lolapunk..ain't this fun? What color is that Borghese lipstick? sounds expensive. And is that part of the family that the guy on the newest Bachelor show belongs to? I do love my lipstick but I am a cheap lipstick girl since I love to buy so many and I always have the slightest difference in shades but all are natural pinks, to rosey pinks to coral pinks.. etc. If I didn't have a purse I would be lost, since I have to "girlie" myself up a couple times a day even though I only brush my hair twice..ha.. just throw the head over and voila! Ok getting of track now. ... sorry
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Post by lolapunk on Dec 8, 2006 1:51:02 GMT -6
I must make a quick comment to leafsoup - perhaps we should start up lipstick thread? I rarely wear it anymore but I have many and I've never paid for one.
There was a time when friends saw it as a novelty, a bit of an inside joke, that I had a thing for lipstick so they started giving me a tube whenever we'd meet. Didn't bother me that they chuckled as they handed it over, especially since they had a penchant for the finer things in life. I have quite a collection now and I prize it. In fact, I heart it. Can't do the pinks and corals with my skin tone, it's more evening shades of plums and bronzes. But I only wear it at night and everyone knows evening lipsticks are different from day shades. *cough* So yes, the Poetico from Borghese is, in fact, a bronzy plum.
And why do I think Phalon is wondering who the heck I am right about now? I'm finding my girly side, Phalon, don't scoff.
Back to our regularly scheduled topic of purses and wallets...
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Post by xenavirgin on Dec 8, 2006 7:28:52 GMT -6
Lipstick.. ewwwwwwwwwww. The only time lipstick has been on my face is when I've dressed up as a clown. Oh and Leafsoup a Tallit is a Jewish prayer shawl, and therefor the bag you keep it in is, you guessed it, a Tallit bag. Jane and I are Liberal Jews so even though we're women we wear tallit and kippot (the skull cap) for services. XV
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 8, 2006 9:41:23 GMT -6
No way! Very cool!
Happy almost Chaunuka!!!
Dang hope I spelled that right...
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Post by mabd on Dec 8, 2006 13:08:39 GMT -6
I do love this thread!!!.. as I feel like a peeping Tom or something.. looking in everyone's purses and trunks. Maeve ..what is muggers money? Hi Leaf, I've missed seeing your posts. Glad you're back! Mugger's money is money one carries in obvious places and in an amount calculated to satisfy a mugger. Usually around $30US. One's "for real" money is hidden. I used to carry much more, but gave that up. When the boys were, um boys, I had a purse. Little leaguers don't like protective cups. When the youngest finished playing, he'd had me his cup. Into the purse. Realized one day that, whilst searching for a pen to write a check, and talking to people in the checkout line at Wal-mart, I had his cup in my hand and was waving it about. Best of all, no-one thought this was odd. (Course, no-one ever asks for IDs on checks either.) In my trunk: socket set, cheater bar, basic tools, metric box wrenches, red-liner, power steering fluid, misc. fuses, funnels, rags, repair manual (written in English but with an American-English glossary), various bulbs, an oil filter, glow worms, various relays, a mess of tiny lights cause my dash light doesn't work, and a fleece blanket. In STP's trunk, it is about the same, except her Xena is the rolling pantry: kitty litter, pepsi, water, cat food, snack food, etc. Plus an pretty good assortment of odd, often needed bits of work stuff. She also generally carries the small charger/compressor cause her glow plugs are iffy. Oh, and a silver basketball. (?) It is true you can get a million miles on a diesel Benz (these are both 1985 Turbo Diesels), get better mpg, and pollute less. But the electrical systems sucks. Thankfully, I'm past the days of carrying protective cups and such. Maeve
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 8, 2006 18:50:28 GMT -6
Hi, Thanks for all the explanations and I guess since we live in different parts of "everywhere" some things I just don't get, but I do appreciate the 'splainin of them And of course I have to mention the lipstick thing AGAIN.. and FREE lipstick..ooh how much fun! I guess my pinks are really more to the plummy shade too. Heck they are all over the place, but nothing that really screams..hey I am wearing some brilliant shade of hotpink and you can see my lips coming before I get there. Anyway..I have always loved lips anyway..and always notice them, especially like Kevin Costner's lips..yum.. Get a grip girl!!!!!!! Thanks for the hello Maeve and you sound like someone after my own heart with all that car junk in your trunk..! I didn't really get into mentioning my leather cleaner and the rest for I feared I would bore you all to death anyway as you began to read about the Barbie stuff.. Oh well..and Mugger's money..can't imagine that ..actually having to be aware..I think it would have served you just to keep the "cup" in there all the time and when someone approached you ..whip it out and start screaming like a psycho! Bet Phalon didn't think we would all get off track with her purse thread..but I guess I am the one that wanted to nose around in other areas.. Oooh we should talk about kitchen drawers which can hold a host of scary things that aren't supposed to be in the kitchen. Yikes!
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Post by battleon on Dec 9, 2006 9:38:20 GMT -6
You for got to ask your nosey question..
What's in my wallet?
Lets see...hmmmmm...75 cents in change, piece of gum, a mint, some receipts form when i went shopping last week, 10 dollars, Credit cards, My insurance card, my dental card..
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Post by Phalon on Dec 9, 2006 19:29:55 GMT -6
Scoff at you, Lola? Surely not. Just imagining what color hat would exactly match that shade of dusty plum.
I don't do lipstick; I've haven't dug deep enough in my girliness for that. Lip balm though, I have tubes, sticks, and squeezy containers of it...all in my purse, of course. (Oh, and I bought a new one for myself, from Santa, this year. Red weathered leather, stitched in a swirly floral design. Good thing Santa and I have the same taste in purses). Burt's Bee's is the best balm. It comes in shades, so I guess I'm partially finding my girly lips. Rhubarb is my favorite; I have three sticks of it.
Hhmmm...in my trunk at all times: my roller skis, poles and helmet. A change of work clothes, usually one for each season, because I forget to take the previous season's out. Boots. And extra pair of shoes and gloves. Dozens of water bottles; half of them empty. A few plastic sheets of trunk liners; the kind you get from nurseries to keep the dirt off your trunk carpet, which I rarely use, but keep them in there so Hubs thinks I at least make an attempt to keep my car clean. A spare tire, the treads painted with florescent orange glow-in-the-dark paint from LX's road kill Halloween costume.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 9, 2006 19:30:44 GMT -6
Oh, and Leafsoup - Siren started this thread, not myself. Thanks, Siren - it's a fun one.
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Post by Siren on Dec 10, 2006 10:22:11 GMT -6
Y'all have made this a fun thread. Thanks for sharing!
I've never been a lipstick girl. Have never found a shade I like - too red, too orange, too dark, etc. But I keep trying. On the rare occasion that I get all dolled up, I feel half-dressed without lipstick.
Leafsoup - an athletic cup in your purse? I name you winner and defending champion of the "what's in your purse" revelations, in the category, "Most Unusual Item". LOL!
Lola, you're right, for folks who carry their treasures in their pockets, the spot where they empty their pockets daily - an ashtray, cup, etc - is often full of great finds. Your chip good for a free "servicing" at the cathouse is hilarious. Love that!
In my trunk (back of the SUV), there's a wheeled, collapsible box with a handle (the keenest, handiest thing I've bought lately - so in love with it) I use for promotions work, containing: a roll of raffle tickets and a little fishbowl to draw them from, various prizes, like caps, t-shirts, etc, those little rubber bracelets of various colors, scissors, banners, tape. Those are probably the most unusual items in my car. But give me time - I haven't had the car that long.
That's a good question, guys - what's in the trunk (boot) of your car, or the back of your pickup truck?
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Post by fallenangel on Dec 10, 2006 12:53:26 GMT -6
In the back of my truck nothing but a 4 way lug wrench. Inside my truck in my cubby hole is chapstick,rolaids,tylenol,my purse/wallet,2 shopping cards,receipts,2 packages of crackers,change,a comb,3 pens,a pair of sunglasses,and a paper clip. Also carry a bag of tools that stays in the floor of my truck.
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 10, 2006 14:36:21 GMT -6
The athletic cup was in Maeve's purse at Walmart.. geminy cricket I am getting lost, but thanks Siren for starting this funny thread. I did clean out the Barbie's, the doll house junk and the comforter bag full of Beanie Babies. If men only realized we women have to keep all the junk for everyone and I just can't bring myself to throw away my "life", my children's toys that someday they are not going to forgive me for..if I throw it away. But now it is out ..waiting to be stuffed in the attic...and that is a place none of us want to go. I did however always want an attic that was so big I could play house in it and find the most valuable old toy that someone left long ago.
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Post by Siren on Dec 14, 2006 9:43:21 GMT -6
"I did however always want an attic that was so big I could play house in it and find the most valuable old toy that someone left long ago." When I was a kid, I read a book along those lines, leafsoup. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
How about a new category? Here's one just for fun. Who has your dream job?
Mine: OU women's basketball assistant coach Jan Ross pro basketball player/sports commentator Stacey Dales Ellen Degeneres
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 14, 2006 16:52:33 GMT -6
Dream job? I see myself in a great studio with brick on one wall to look cozy with a fireplace, nicely painted walls - shades of warm taupe/tan to show off artwork, a concrete floor that I glazed with more warm colors and great jazz music loud but not too loud and I am painting and people are coming off a busy street to chat, listen to music and talk about art and buy it!! Dream moment.. on stage dancing in the play ..the chorus line... "One, singular sensation.." Or winning the lottery!!
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Post by Phalon on Dec 17, 2006 8:11:54 GMT -6
Because you've been practicing so diligently....here, Leafsoup - ready, aim, fire!
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