[LMB] Handbags

[Tzivia Adler]

snipping everyone's list of pockets/handbags...

it seems that what most women carry in handbags (pocketbooks) is what most 
men carry in their pockets (lack of pockets in girly clothes being an old 
rant of mine) and what my dad used to haul around in his fancy leather 
business briefcase.  its a combination of personal, medical, and 
professional.

there was a few years that the main requirement of my pocketbook was that 
the opening on top be big enough to carry my college lit book.  why waste 
train-ride time?

these days it has to be big enough for my spiral notebook and my teaching 
stuff.  most of my personal stuff - a pen, a piece of paper big enough for 
scribbling ideas, my medical cards, some cash (heh, note order of 
importance) is in a pencil case my kids don't want anymore.  when i need to 
swap from 'big tote' to 'little tote' on non school days, that's the main 
thing to transfer,  the rest is business or clutter.

bus card and coins for the inevitable person needing change of a dollar go 
in the tiny side pocket of the pocketbook, transfer to coat pocket not wise 
bec. my favorite warm coat has tiny pockets, and there's a good chance stuff 
will fall out :(

ziviya, wisting after the deep pockets in my son's coat