When I was on a plane an older woman sat down next to me, hugging her purse rather tight. After a few deep breaths in and out she let loose a little. I kept to my own business until I heard this awful sucking and spitting noise off to my right. I looked in her direction and saw that she took out her little lipstick case with a mirror and was flushing her gaping teeth with her own spit. I couldn't believe my eyes or ears. Who on earth would make such a fuss. The irony occurred when the man behind her cleared his throat and she got the most disgusted look on her face, as if she was about to die because he did so.

That is not the point of my blog at all. The thing I have never been able to find a happy medium with is a purse. It is either too small, and I have too much stuff to put in it. The small ones start to look bulgy and like a waste basket. Or, in the other case, it is too large and i never have enough stuff to put in it. So, what do people put in purses. I know that if and when I make that step into purse-dome I will have a little lipstick case with mirror, but other than that, what should a purse carry?

The other problem I run into is how to match a purse to an outfit...I found, when I did carry a purse that I felt uncomfortable when I would clash with it....how do you solve something like this. I know that someday my back pocket will be too little for all the little things I put in it and that day I will find a purse.