I’ve always hated carrying stuff. I like to keep my arms free for impromptu dance performances and hugging people so I’ve always found handbags to be super annoying. This is one of the reasons why I love winter so much – I get to wear coats that are full of pockets and I don’t have to carry a handbag for at least three months.
I recently downsized my wallet (absolute game changer) and I’ve had no fewer than 5 different people pull their teeny tiny wallets out of their bags and show me how they ditched their huge purses in favour of slim lined card holders . I’m so proud. The next step is to downsizing the handbag. It’s a big step but I have total faith in you. Here’s how to do it…
1. Keep your wallet small
I used to be the queen of giant wallets but since I downsized, I wonder what the hell I was carrying around all that time. Follow these steps for downsizing your wallet. Big wallets will take up half the space in a small to medium sized handbag and it’s just not necessary.
2. Get a foldable water bottle
I admit it, they aren’t pretty but they’re extremely convenient. I don’t want to be lugging around one of those heavy and super fancy glass water bottles with a charcoal stick in it all the time. I always carry a Platypus soft bottle
3. 1 x lip balm and 1 x lipstick
Before I become Hand Bag Aware (it’s a thing, trust me) I could easily accrue a good dozen lip products in one bag and only ever use one or two of them. I now limit myself to one moisturiser product and one colour product. That’s it. I don’t carry any other make up in my bag and I never need to.
4. Stop carrying around a whole pharmacy
Again I used to be one of those people who had boxes of medication, tampons, pads, band aids and other such crap in my bag that I would use once a year if that, until the products become so beat up and worn that I had to throw them out. I now carry just two panadol and two ibuprofen in my handbag.
5. Only have every day items stored in there
I used to have notebooks, pens, diaries, journals and other such bullshit in my handbag that I never, ever used. It’s pretty silly to carry around things that you might need but rarely use. I used to have a sewing kit in my bag for ten years that I never used and then the one day I actually needed it, it got taken off me at the airport. So I bought a tiny sewing kit from the supermarket for like $3 and that was a much better solution than carry around an item that I needed to use once in a decade. Unless you’re travelling to the depths of the desert, you’ll be able to buy most of the things you’re carting around unnecessarily when you need them.
Tell me… what’s in your handbag? List ever item and I’ll tell you whether or not you need it. Go!
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