Please Clean Out Your Handbags

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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