I Just Love to Carry a Purse !!!

[erocse]

My wife and I had a laugh over this. I have always made fun of her, for carrying such a large purse. I mean she has everything in her purse. OMG her purse in heavy too !! Honestly I don't know how she does it , without putting her back out. 

     About a month ago I went out presenting female for the first time. I thought I should carry a purse (though I had virtually nothing to put in it). Since then I go out allot.  Gradually my purse has gotten full. Last night at the theater my wife asked me my if I had a toothpick.( for those pesky popcorn kernels) Yes I sure did, in my purse. I also had a bit of trouble getting used to a cute new pair of shoes, and did I have a band-aid, I sure did !!! In my purse. Coming up with exact change  is not a problem anymore, In fact I think I can take myself out to lunch with the change in the bottom of my purse.  Oh and I don't just use it when I go out . It is now my lifeline to everything important to me. E.g. Cell phone, glasses, makeup, etc.

    Hugs, Erocse

[rejennyrated]

Just don't do what I did years ago when I was a newly postop woman and go out late at night closing the self latching door behind you with your keys in your purse and your purse on the counter top in the kitchen!

I had to break into my own house!  and all the time I was doing it I was thinking, this is really going to take some explaining if someone calls the police... Fortunately no one did and I learned very quickly after that never to leave my purse out of my reach.

It's one of those inventions which is so useful that you have to wonder why men don't carry them too!

[cynthialee]

I have so much crap in my purse, I don't know how I survived as a male for so long.
I need everything I can fit into the thing.
I did forget it recently when we went out and I had just an awful time, everything I want or need is in that thing.

[Flam]

Well, i'm biologically female and i never used a purse in my entire life!
But my boyfriend... He have a bag, a notebook backpack that is almost a woman's purse  XD
His LIFE is in there! I don't know how he can carry all that heavy stuff with him everyday!  x..x
The only difference between his purse and a woman's one is in the contents... He don't carry makeup, but all sort of geek stuf, computer cables, calculator, stapler, ruler, RPG dices, Magic cards [from Magic the Gathering], sunglass, food, water, toothbrush, lot of papers and drawing stuff...
Neither my school's backpack have so many stuffs  x..x

[Janet_Girl]

I have a small purse, which has 4 pockets on the outside.  One is makeup, one is for cell phone, one for personal needs and one for whatever I need to carry at the time.

I also have it hang by my door so that I grab it as I am headed out the door.  This girl is never far from her world on her shoulder. 

[kyril]

I just don't know how anyone can stand dragging a bag around everywhere. It's always in the way...and if you keep it with you all the time it starts to fill up with so much crap.

But if you like it, more power to you I'd rather be able to take off running and climb a fence without getting caught than have a toothpick on demand, but I guess I can see how someone might choose the opposite.

[erocse]

Kyril,
   
    Off the subject. But I have a confession to make. When I first started posting on Susan's . I carelessly mistook you for a mtf. What's funny is I remember thinking, "that person should get a different avatar, cause they don't look the least bit feminine".

  Congrats on starting T. You already look good, I can only imagine what T is going to do.

    Hugs, Erocse

[Janet_Girl]

Yeah Erocse.  Kyril is definitely one of our sexy guys.   

[Victoria L.]

Yes, purses are amazing! I know that from the...single time I was brave enough to be out in public with one. Back when my friends pretended they supported me, but that's aside from the point. I wasn't even trying to pass and nobody even looked at me funny for carrying it around. It was really convenient for that one day. I bought it at our fair with my friends, so that was the time I was carrying it around. We went to a restaurant afterwards and I brought it in with me... With my friend, as well as two people that I wasn't even out to... of who I told the purse was for a girlfriend.  (I actually did have one at the time. lol)

Now I've made myself sad. But seriously, purses are great. I don't know why it's so socially unacceptable for guys to carry them around. Just seems really stupid to me.

[kyril]

aw, you ladies are sweet

[Lacey Lynne]

Yeah Erocse.  Kyril is definitely one of our sexy guys.   

Sexy AND smart ... That WAY rocks in my book!

Okay, where's the Star Trek medical technology when you want it?  I'd have Dr. McCoy give this beard of mine to Kyril!  It'll be a hoot to watch your excitement whenever your own starts coming in, man.  Heck, I'd give you this voice too. 

Incidentally, I'm finding "The Bag Trip" to be Awkward City.  Gonna take some time to get used to it.  In guy mode, you can just "run and gun."  Sometimes I get lazy and kind of miss that.  Am I at the lower end of somebody's purse spectrum somewhere?     

[Cindy]

Yeah Erocse.  Kyril is definitely one of our sexy guys.   

Total agree on that, You are a bit of a hunk, Kyril

I have to admit my main handbag is full of everything, it's a Country Road soft leather and I reckon it has more utilities than a Swiss Army knife .

But I also love buying handbags, I really have to stop myself, a new shop opened recently and I reckon there was about 20 bags I wanted.


Cindy

[Mrs Erocse]

Well I love hand bags as Erocse said. Kyril you look really good. But what makes you look best is how smart and kind you are. I am always impressed with your posts. 

[cynthialee]

I will participate in this derailed thread....
Kyril is hot.

[A]

Put simply, purses > all.

I still have to go out as a guy, yet I feel incomplete without one. I mean, how can you possibly go out and feel safe without pencils, paper, a (whoa wait I need the dictionary for that) nail file, an umbrella, advils, ...

Whenever I can I use one of those reusable grocery bags. Not as fashionable or as practical as a real one, but it sure gets me less stares ~.

[kyril]

aw, stop it, you're making me blush 

[Janet_Girl]

Get use to it there, Sexy.  We women like looking nice looking guys.

Janet wonders if she could get Kyril in her purse.

[rejennyrated]

Kyril

You would just LOVE my purse contents (well I call it a bag really)

Obviously it has things like phone, keys, money, spare undies, pads (I do sometimes need them), and business cards... BUT it also often holds, two screwdrivers, A pair of pliers, a pair of cutters, a small adjustable wrench, a multimeter, a portable soldering iron, a roll of insulation tape, a connection block, a USB flash drive with a complete linux install on it...

All jolly good GUY stuff! Very handy for fixing your mates car, PC or TV set!

[Rock_chick]

Janet wonders if she could get Kyril in her purse.

You can get some pretty huge handbags Janet

as for Bags...they're amazing, never leave the house without one. My current bag of choice is pretty utilitarian, but then that was kind of the point, because it's glued to my hip even in boy mode. I have to be careful, with laptop, Camera, lotions and potions, bottle of water and other associated crap it can weigh a tonne. Does anyone have any antigravity field generators I could borrow to lighten the load somewhat?

[cynthialee]

I think the most exotic item in my handbag is a magnessium match. It is a piece of magnessium and flint and a knife to shave the magnesium and strik the flint.