Go ahead, empty out your bag and see what you got in there! You might just find your long lost collection of Garbage Pail Kids! Submit your answers here. Thanks for playing...

Catherine from Montpellier/ France

In my Vuitton Noe green and red bag, I have : My Vuitton green organizer always-with-me more than full with inside many pictures of my two little ones Alienor and Artus, DH in person and mum, dogs, me at 1 year old, a Vuitton Damier purse full of credit cards and cards from shops ( fidelity, I don't know if it exists outside of France ! ), Korloff's pink leather pocket book with passport, driving license, little memories of my father, little jewel from my first love !! And so on.. Dupont pen, kleenex, Dior lipstick and Dior lip's pen, Lancome blush, The Different Company perfume Osmanthus, Volkswagen keys, Gucci sunglasses, small Legos, cell phone, Carrefour receipt, Sephora receipt, I think that's all ! Sometimes there is MORE !!! ( Sorry for my english ! )

Gemma , England

In my bag...Quiksilver bag by the way! :D anyway... um . body spray,cosmetics,keys, purse,mobile phoooone,calculator(this is my school bag :D), geometry set, lunch box,folder, school books, rubbish, crisp packet, oooo homework on b. shigley !!!, um thats about it !

Luz:

lipstick, tampons, business cards, pens, more pens, make up, napkins, 1/2 sugar free gum, change, wallet, a leadership article my friend Ann gave me, two rebate checks and cell phone.

Amy P.

My newest bag is quilted kate spade noel, and contains cell phone, palm pilot, sunglasses and case, tape measure, tin of rosebud strawberry lip balm, coach change purse, checkbook, id, credit card pen, hairbrush, aspirin, gum, mac twig lipstick, and half a dozen packets of emergen c. All my essentials, give or take a few!

Erica: San Diego, CA.

I haven’t done this in such a long time. I figured it was about time to figure out what I have been hiding away! Here it goes!

+ wallet (cute little cassette looking thing) + mirror + 2 spools of thread + cell phone + love spell spray from Victoria’s Secret + pin cushion + one pink ninja + 2 mechanical pencils + 2 Micron ink pens + 1 ball point pen + clinique lipgloss +2 thimbles + keys + paycheck +checkbook + and my favorite thing yet, scissors!

Bianca

I know its sad but my wallet cellphone and lip balm!!!

Jennifer, San Francisco:

so, inside my small black Gucci which has a spot of concealer on the bottom *gasp*, i have... an Ikea receipt, CA lotto ticket (gotta try, right?), a turquoise envelope that i scribbled on, Burt's beeswax lip balm, three different lip glosses, a rosary, eclipse mints, lychee flavored hard candy, two bobby pins, a Claritin pill, cellphone, pocket mirror, coin purse with $2.75 in coins, credit cards, CA id, a few "buy 9 get the 10th one free" cafe cards, best buy gift card, hair tie, a pink 'dr. grip' gel pen, and my car/house keys. wow, all that fit in my purse???

Sally Smith, San Diego, CA.
In my handbag:
One check to be cashed, a black beaded change pouch, lip gloss, cell phone, two different shaped metal cigarette containers-one converted to a card (credit, debit, I.D., free burrito, etc.) holder and the other to a cash holder, an o.b. tampon, a b.shigley hot pink little bird wallet containing my hot pink business cards, my film receipts, and my key ring which has a pair of scissors, 3 keys, a N.Y. subway token, a plastic ring, a Virgin Mary metal and a Saint Christopher metal.
That's it!
Sally Smith
SallyBee .cutting edge classics.
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Jessica from Beaverton, Oregon
Hmmm...a good excuse to clean out my purse. Wallet, old work schedule with directions to friend's townhouse on it, an old note to a co-worker from our boss regarding a meeting, another old work schedule, a grocery receipt, a gift certificate for $20 worth of chocolates from Van Duyns from July 2003, current work schedule, extra name tag for said work, Starbucks cinnamon after coffee gum, postcard for a fashion show I attended last week in Portland's Pearl district ( it was awesome), see-through orange makeup bag (containing: 4 lip glosses, 3 lip liners, 2 lip sticks, 2 lip balms, 1 pressed powder, blotting sheets, and a sample tube of Clarins Mat Express.), 3 half claw clips, sunglasses, Panda Express receipt, list of Estee Lauder cosmetics my aunt uses so I can find her comparable in Lancôme (whom I work for), hair tie, Bic pen, my business cards, keys, a smashed Nutri-grain bar, Target receipt, gum wrappers, Victoria's Secret Angels Card, Bon-Macy's card, a (new) Band-Aid, dental plan card, hair clip, Chase credit card, a pill box containing muscle relaxers and a vitamin, Subway stamps, a business card for a freelance makeup artist I hope to work with, LnT receipts, VIP services card to a stylist, employee id card, Pier 1 gift cards, LnT gift card. Sheesh.

Emma
Tampons, hairbrush, gum, mobile phone, pen

Jennifer
PACK OF WINSTON LIGHTS, POCKET SIZE TISSUES, WHITE LEATHER JOURNAL, MAC PRESSED POWDER, HANDMADE VINYL CHANGE PURSE BY BECKY CROUSE, NAIL FILE(PINK), BLACK SUNGLASSES, SMALL LOCK WITH KEYS FOR THE GYM, HOUSE KEYS WITH ASSORTED CHARMS, TAMPONS JUST INCASE?, LANCOME LIPSTIX "GERANIUM", BLUE PAPERMATE PEN, A FLYER FOR ONE NATION FRENCH KISS VALENTINE'S BALL AT WHISTLE STOP, ELIZABETH ARDEN BLACK EYELINER, ESTEE LAUDER LIP LINER IN SPICE, SPRINT CELL PHONE, NOTES ON CARS FOR SALE, NOTES ON CAR INSURANCE, NOTES ON APATRMENTS FOR RENT, AND NOTES ON AMERICAN CREW CLASS COMING UP THIS WEEKEND. WOW! THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF!

Vanessa (my BFFIC) from Colorado

This is a bag carried by a mother of three boys so it has 3 hot wheels, a mini plastic snake, a package of fruit snacks, gold fish cracker crumbs, an extra pacifier, 2 diapers and wipes, my wallet full of happy meal receipts, keys, lip gloss, and of course a picture of my three beautiful boys.

Kimberly from Tampa Florida

my own hand bag, I made......
1. Extra sugar free gum, 2. pens highlighters,3.my cheap wallet that holds NOTHING!!!! 4. Bottle of Speed Stack (must let go of the ephedra products :-( ) and finally chocolate crumbs from my mini snickers

Quynh from Los Angeles, Ca:
Being a girl rocks! We get to carry these cute little purses stuffed w/ fun crap that we totally forgot we had!

My purse: A Coach (Mercer collection) purse that's brown w/ black leather trim.
Inside:
1. Pen
2. Cell phone
3. Assorted business cards
4. Louis Vuitton wallet (monogram leather)w/typical wallet stuff 5. The body shop lip pallete (Buttered rum, cranberry cooler, sugar&spice, and frosted ice) 6. Mountain ocean lip trip spf 15 7. Buddhist meditation bracelet (carnelian stones) 8. checkbook 10. cash and change 11. A little mirror 12. Neutrogena clear lipgloss 13. Avon clear lipliner 14. Pencils 15. hard candy wrappers 16. a silver earring that my boyfriend bought me at a little artisan shop in coldsprings, ny (but I lost the other one) :-( 17. paperclip 18. a very little origami butterfly that my friend made for me 19. tampons 20. Yves rocher lipstick in rose foudre 21. a mini reese's peanut cup 22. Sanrio bonus cards for the beverly center 23. paper receipts

Unknown:
Large fendi shopper bag:
Dkny wallet which has pictures,recipts,train tickets,credit cards,a skin care voucher, £30 pounds cash
carmex lip balm brought in new york that ive had for about two years
keys
phone
maybelline blackest black mascara
small pink heart mirror compact
mim bottle of perfume
nail file
parker ball pint pen!

Bonnie, Sydney Australia
In my work laptop bag:
Silver Cross pen, gift from old flame
IPAQ to keep up with emails
Small tub of Origins Grapefruit Souffle moisturizer
Vodafone live! cellphone (I would die without my phone)
Casio Exlim Camera (we do a video diary everyday at work)
Work security swipe card
Keys that envitably tangle up with my phones handfree
Tissues
Oroton leather wallet ($50 and assorted credit cards)
Minidisc player and mic, which I use for interviews, and minidiscs
Laptop
Red earth lipstick
Hairbrush
USB disk key
Covergirl Compact

I actually have neat little sections in my laptop bag that I organize everything into every morning, but inevitably during the day everything shifts into one big mess!

Harlow-Lee, Canada
my wallet filled with photos
three lipglosses (two caboodles lipshines in celeb and boy-o-meter, and one marykateandashley (hate those girls but i got the gloss for my birthday) lip gloss in maybe)
loose change
a cheapo eyeshadow goop that i got in a surprise bag
a twenty dollar bill
Glimmer Babe shimmer lotion
a small bottle of shimmer spray hair gel
a hairbrush
some ponytail holders
another wallet with two cents in it
my good luck necklace
and my my portable cd player

tanya larson, placerville, CA :
make-up, mirror, candy, a bunch of bottle caps, necklaces, bracelets, and rings.
karen, london, england:
pink and red orla kiely bag
chandelier antoni&alison clip purse with cash & cards
marimekko clip purse with nascent organic lip saver, comme des garcons
sherbet solid scent in rhubarb, jurlique calendula cream, fresh lip gloss in
iris, mimco clips
black moleskin diary & address book
phone
an empty deery-lou coin purse
hello kitty wallet with photo's in
black muji pencil case with lamy fountain pen, purple ink cartridges, hello
kitty pencil
origins peace of mind gumballs

Chica Celeste en San Diego tiene:
a crappy cellular (which never gets service), a wallet, car keys, John Frieda (frizz-ease) Secret Weapon, one hair stick, Ms.Manicure (emery boards a to-go), lipsticks, a wooden pen, a paycheck stub, an "Old School" DVD, and last but not least a mini lint roller remover (every interior designers must!) I hope to transfer all this to my very first b.shigley bag that I will be adopting!
Erica from San Diego:
Not a whole lot for my norm, but here I go...two rolls of used up slide film, bottle of Rapture by Victoria Secret, dayplanner (which is actually just my show planner), direction's to a party, my business cards, two peppermints, NYX brush on gloss, Lip SMacker watermelon lip gloss, lancome nude 5 lipstick, ???(it rubbed off the label...grrr), fire lip liner, white pleather wrist band, keys, DVS keychain & a Savier skate key/bottle opener and a whole 78 cnets. { -_- } -erica-

Jen from Denver:
In my fun new Diesel bag I have a black MAC makeup case/wallet that has Burt's Beeswax Lip Balm, 3 MAC lip products: clear Lipglass, Plum Dandy Lipstick, Sheena lipglass, $0, 47 cents, breath strip thingys. In the rest of the purse I have a digital camera, sunglasses, checkbook, 3 tampons, 2 highlighters, 5 black sharpies (thick and thin-I'm an art director, need to draw a lot), Nokia cell phone, keys, a brush, post-it with note from my boyfriend, OPI Marquis d'Mauve nail polish with, and the new issue of Teen Vogue (even thought I'm way out of teens).

Brandi from San Diego:
In my Gris Gris bag, I've got: 1 Deery-Lou the Cheerful Fawn wallet with drivers license, library card, fake ID I made from 2nd grade, a couple of business cards, a check, and one receipt from the post office. I've also got a black cosmetic bag with 3 lipglosses in them (2 are MAC in the colors greed and underage and one is Bonnie Bell Lipsmacker in Vanilla Frosting), 1 barrette that Jide's mom gave me for Christmas in France, a piece of gum that looks like it's been through the washer, a tiny little turquoise mirror from the Hello Kitty Store, and 2 tampons. Also... my cell phone, a little tin with a band-aid that looks like it's been through the washer and 2 pens, and a Choco cat photo holder that holds pictures of my family, my BFFIC (Best Friend Forever in Colorado) from when we were freshmen in high school, this really cute friendship cards that you give to your friends and they fill them out and give back to you, these photo booth pictures of Jide and I that we took from the airport in Lyon, France, and last but not least, 2 computer discs.

Buffy from oakland:
keys, cell phone, 2 eyeglass cases (one for prescription and other for prescription sunglasses), a small tube of calendula handcream, NARS lipstick in shanghai express red, tube of hemp lipstick in red earth, lipbalm, OB tampons, suppenkuche matches, 2 airline ticket stubs, a silver embossed biz card holder, nailclippers, checkbook, scribbled note for a CD I want to buy: "In the Mood" by the Charlie Miller Orchestra- circa 1944, directions to "Dining Divas" dinner party happening tonight, and last but not least, my red & gold chinese satin wallet.

Morgan San Diego, California
in my red leather monsac i have a checkbook, wallet, cell phone, keys, random notes to myself, make-up bag...that's all:-)

Laura Wisconsin
In my bag, i have my wallet, my cell phone, my keys, my checkbook, a pen and a clipping from a YM magazine--in it, a guy reader writes "help, i don't know if i am circumsized" and the writers of the magazine explain how he can tell if he has been "clipped" or not.

Caroline's Bag...
Theres loose euro change, 2 rechargable batteries, disk man with Goo Goo Dolls, bag for HMV, old crinkly bus ticket, comb, biro, pencil, pair of glasses, old cinema ticket, old bit of stuffing paper found in shoes, another biro, some lip gloss, bottle of water, four single-helping packets of sugar, purse, mobile, chewing gum, another 20c, keys.

Jessica Illinois
in my b shigley bag i have glasses, 4 different kinds of lip gloss's, a wallet, hand lotion, notes from my boyfriend, pens, nail polish, gum, cell phone, compact, keys, small bottle of hair spray and thats all.

Lee Ann
stack of unpaid bills, cell phone, bottle of aspirin, bottle of correction fluid, pepper spray on a chain, nail file, small bag of jewelry I often change, brown flowered cloth makeup bag with $48 and a handful of change, 3 empty prescription bottles I have been too lazy to refill, 2 3-1/2 floppy disks with all kinds of personal stuff on them (i.e.-photos, scanned letters, my resume, etc.) small calculator, checkbook, stack of credit cards and store discount cards, my ss card and license, hand mirror, address book, 2 pens, small pair of child's scissors, Breath Savers pack, 1/2 roll Hall's cherry throat drops, car and house keys, 2 packets Splenda sweetner.

Betsy- Denver
Black Cole Haan Boring Work Purse-
1 set of keys, most of which I am unaware of what they open
1 tampon
1 cell phone
pink sunglasses- my favorite
1 big black wallet with $2 in it
Stila illuminating powder foundation (the best stuff on earth!)
Stila lip gloss quad #2
Burt's Bees Lip Balm
Copy of my wedding registry from Crate and Barrel
A bazillion business cards from wedding type people
Gum
Dirty Girl lotion
Rubber Bands with pink fuzzy things on them (think Britney Spears Baby One
More Time video)
Vicodin (its legit... i swear)
Birth Control Pills

Tannya, Akron Ohio:
Yee-Gods. And here I thought I'd cleaned it out not long ago. Wallet with plastic, ID and stamps but no cash, hairbrush, pocket knife, toothbrush and little bity toothpaste (carried since morning sickness struck at church 8 years ago), handcream sample size, comb, nail nippers, chapstick, one dose of DayQuil, worn out probably dry "moist" towelette, Big Red, a tube of gyne-lotrimin (it never starts when you're at home!), several "feminine products" (that never starts at home either!), day planner, check book with few checks left, deposit receipt to cover the checks that are no longer in the checkbook, my good check-writting pen, a note with a movie title for the next trip to Blockbuster, a list of things I was supposed to do last week, empty gum wrappers, a plastic bead bracelet my daughter made and a button from daughter's winter coat that I sent to Goodwill MONTHS ago. All this in a plane brown mommy-style, no-name shoulder bag with a lot of medium blue pen marks from the check writting pen.

Barbara, Denver:
Let's see. I have a tiny Polo Sport black purse. In it is my teeny-tiny black zippered wallet. My cutie-multi-colored perscription glasses to enable me to see things at a distance. My tiny coca-cola tin with my bobbi-pins in it and a swatch of dyed hair (I am an actress - had to test dye my hair for a play). Foundation, Face powder, A round rhinestone barrett. Certs spearmint mints. Strawberry Lipsmacker lipgloss. Sweet breath drops, mocha lip gloss, cough drop, lip liner, dark red lipstick, dark purple lipstick, one piece of cinnamin gum, and two moist towelettes.

Megan, Dallas: All crammed up in a very small but cosmopolitan
Francesco Biasia, I have: a very large brush (the kind only your
hairdresser has the ability to use with ease), a cell phone, a very
large wallet (taking up, and I'm not kidding, 75% of the minuscule room
available in the bag), my W-2 forms, one book of matches (you never
know), one security swipe card for work ( I can't believe I actually
remembered it today :-) , a feminine hygiene product, 4 lipsticks in
assorted brands and colors (again...you never know), 5 lip liners,
forty-two cents in random change, little paper receipts, and finally ( I
think others forgot to mention)....KEYS! I'm trying to minimize.

RUTH, LONDON:
My purse (which includes keys, cards, stamps, boyfriend's old University Union card - aaah doesn't he look sweet - millions of receipts), lots of old bus tickets, office swipe card, two mobile phones (one working), pens, mints, hairbrush, my last three month's payslips (yes I KNOW I should put them somewhere safe), fluffy black gloves my mum gave me, umbrella (this is London, after all), chequebook, one Marlboro Light (naughty), make-up bag (lipgloss, powder, sparkly pencil, fragrance testers and girlie essentials), a couple of polaroids of friends, a book on fashion merchandising, an old party invitation, one Nurofen pill. Sums up my life really! *grin*

Heather, Denver:
What's in my bag oh my god. Well the first thing I pull out it is of course grizzly bear spray. Yes
bear spray that will put a grizzly down. I am sure you have seen them running around the street's of Denver. Bubble gum from Halloween. Oh no my marriage license. Don't tell Wil I promise I will turn it in this week. Wedding date 9-23-00. Two day timers one from last year and one from this year. A list of wedding guests 115 people um just incase I need the list again when Wil finds out I have not turned in the license. Check book, lotion, chap stick, some pills?? Who know's what they are. Disposable camera from New Year's, plane ticket vouchers, cell phone, tons of change, paper clips, rubber bands, thank you notes for Christmas, bills, REI membership stuff, gum, a dug out oppps that is not mine, pens, pencils,key's and our new puppies dog tags. Well that's it and I am reading my list as I type and I hope no one I know reads this. Oh my god I am a freak.

NICOLE, Seattle:
My bag is a Village Tanner brown leather backpack that my big brother got me in NYC to make up for the fact that his lovely wife gave me a beautiful (but, o so not my style) briefcase thingy for my new job a few years ago. What's in it? 2 ballpoint pens (only one works), emergency "feminine protection",a crappy umbrella that's on its last leg, pages from the August 17th, 2000 issue of The Stranger, a local rag (I was getting out of my car with my doggie to go for a walk at the lake when I realized I didn't have any plastic bags for poop, so I figured I needed something...),1 bus schedule for the #7,1 almost empty tube of Clobetasol Propionate Cream (I have eczema), a nail clipper (the nail file is at home on the coffee table), squished pack of Zig-zags (no comment),a cheap-ass bottle-opener/key ring that we got at some little cafe downtown, the face to my car stereo, my checkbook wallet (we're not even going to go into what is actually in the wallet {that's a whole 'nother website!}. Suffice to say that I've had it since high school and I've never cleaned it out. I still have my driver's permit in it. Talk about big hair!),my wallet wallet (same story, although I haven't had it quite as long),Oral-B Satinfloss mint flavored dental floss (I have no idea!), 1 piece of sugarless Bubble Yum bubble gum ("Not for weight control"), original flavor

BRANDI, Denver:
film to be developed (possibly evidence to prove that i am the biggest nerd around), a disc with cousin pictures on it,bills (yuck),composition book to jot down ideas, poems, etc., my wallet with 2 check books, credit card, license, and grocery store card, daytimer, another little cosmetic bag with a mirror, lipliner, lipgloss, and lipstick, chapstick, a toystory bandaid, business cards, 3 pieces of gum, keys, a safety pin, and lotion, and last but not least, my cow fur sunglass holder.

CONSTANCE, Seattle:
Ok, so I have to start off with my current "bag" is a black & pink glitter Charlie's Angels single strap back-pack. It contains: 1 Novel - "The Furies" by Suzy McKee Charnas, 8 CDs, 1 sweater tag, Assorted receipts & trash, 1 empty tin Penguin Reds,1 full tin Penguin Reds, A TowerRecords giftcard, A cheesy day planner thingie from some company for a holiday promo, 1 pack BlackBlack gum (I'm quitting smoking),1/2 pack Japanese Ume Tsubu-Gum, Lots of empty gum wrappers, Keys, A little Hawaiian good luck thingie, Assorted forms of legal tender & identification - mostly plastic, and 1 paper clip

AMY, Steamboat Springs Colorado:
a big fat wallet 76 cents in coins, a really heavy bottle of Aveda lotion (???), Allure cream, a pair of fleece gloves, a bunch of loose papers, sugarless gum, a nail file, a pad of paper, two sunglasses bags, a toothbrush, a paper clip, a daytimer, a tampon, a checkbook, assorted pieces of tiny trash, a teeny hairbrush, a even teenier toothpaste, OK, OK, I admit I am the worst! I am a bag lady if there ever was one, five different kinds of lip stuff, five little lotion bottles,one mini sunscreen, some Penguin peppermints! a little mirror, a travel perfume,a cell phone, headset, a hair clip,ibuprofen, three pens, and eye drops.