But not a spoonful of sugar.

In light of a frustrating trip to CVS last week, I cleaned out my purse today. Not my wallet...my whole purse. Every little pocket. (And I love little pockets.) There was the usual: wallet, pen, keys, mints. However, in addition to the things you're generally supposed to have in a purse as large as mine, here's a partial list of what I found. 

• a bird finger puppet
• coins from Brazil, Norway, Bulgaria*, Canada, and a German euro**
• a seashell
• a Tinkerbell charm which I believe fell off a keychain some years ago
• notes I wrote after seeing a psychic
• three coffee sleeves (Starbucks, Tim Horton's, Biggby)
• two separate bets made with friends..."Amanda, you keep this because you won't lose it" YOU ARE CORRECT
• a stray ribbon
• a playing card from when I lived in Ireland
• a diamond ring party favor
• an allen wrench
• a temporary tattoo from the Peter Pan bus line
• a fortune telling fish
• a venn diagram that Twin drew for me at the bar one night ***(see below for reproduction)
• a coupon for a free pretzel from the mall (!!)
• a shocking number of hair pins and safety pins and paperclips and band-aids and one of those coffee cup stoppers
• five (FIVE) different lip products
• ZERO CVS CARDS

I'll let you decide what all THAT says about me as human being/future hoarder/Mary Poppins-Little Mermaid hybrid. Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? 

I removed the ribbon, which will likely end up being the only damn item on the list I'll wish I had. 

Except that CVS card. I'll definitely keep wanting that. Sigh. 

*Yeah, Bulgaria is working on adopting the euro...so I won't even be able to use it. 
**Also, I haven't even been to most of those countries.

***figure A