If you’re anything like me, your closet is never big enough for all of the fashion you own. Up and down the walls, there are western style accessories, cowgirl-style boots, wholesale handbags and all other sorts of apparel that I have amassed over the years. Every once in a while, I start to clean up my way-too-small closet so that I can find the western handbags and accessories that I’m looking for the first time through! However, a recent story has me alarmed this morning, citing that a lot of women never clean out their handbags!
I’ve written about handbag care and cleanliness before, but a shocking number of women apparently don’t take care of their handbags at all. According to The Mail Online:
“…most of us have no idea what else is hidden away – 68 per cent of women never empty out their handbags. A survey of UK women…revealed that most of us carry around the usual suspects: make-up, a mobile phone and a purse. Eighty per cent of women carried these essentials as well as keys, a hair brush, tissues, painkillers, a mirror and an umbrella.”
One item cited by the story was quite surprising – two percent of the women surveyed kept leftover food in their handbags. The 500 women asked about their handbags overwhelmingly never checked their handbags at all – by a whopping 70 – 30 margin. The list of items that were most found in handbags were generally normal though:
- 27 per cent carry hair straighteners
- 24 per cent always have spare underwear on them
- 12 per cent of bags had some sort of good luck charm
- seven per cent held Christmas cracker gifts or cuddly toys
However, I wonder why some women treat their handbags so poorly. Please make sure that you clean out your western style handbags as often as you can – they are too nice to ruin!
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