Yikes on the Lyme disease msbelle. You ticks better leave her alone!!!!

I buy probably one bag a year and that feels ridiculous to me.

Who are those women that are making up for me?

raises hand

But I buy most of them for cheap from thrift stores or eBay. And then epoxy sparkly bats or skull cameos to them.

I hope it's not Lyme, msbelle. It doesn't sound like Lyme, frankly - usually you get a ring-rash around the bite, not swelling. And you usually have to have the tick in for a long time to get Lyme. Was the bite somewhere you wouldn't have noticed a tick for 12 hours?

I don't really own a purse. Still. At pushing 35. I do have a regular tote bag, now, but it's canvas and green and pink and purple polka dots.

I do look at purses occasionally, but nothing that's been fashionable in the last 3-4 years has been interesting to me. I want plain and structured and old-fashioned, not buckles and ruching and hobo bags. Now, if somebody gave me a crocodile Kelly bag, I wouldn't say no.

I just can't deal with changing bags, so I only carry the one on a regular basis. And the current one is from Target, and perfectly meets my needs, so I guess I'm driving a Kia or something.

One of my favorite purses is a novelty and was a gift. It's a pair of 501 Levis. All the pockets and belt loops are there and it is hella convenient.

My grandmother made me one of those out of my old jeans! When I was little. It was AWESOME. I still have the pillow I made out of the leg(s), but the purse is gone.

I let it take a 30 minute nap, and it started again; but it ran down its charge again within 10 minutes.

Alternator?

I do have a ring rash. the red area has gotten bigger, not really swollen. Where this is there is NO WAY a tick was there for 12 hours.

I bought red and green purses a few years ago and when I wasn't overwhelmed with life I would switch out purses and actually make use of ones that match, but now I mostly carry a black one with white edging.

Alternator?

Oh, I hadn't thought of that one. Alas! More things on a car I am not qualified to fix myself. But I can look all smartastic when I interrogate the actual mechanics in the morning.

Re purses: leather always matches, preferably black leather. At least, I think so. No one looking at me would consider me a reliable source of fashion advice.

Ick. I hope you're clean, msbelle. Was that what you were scaring Mac about?

I have a small black leather backpack that replaced a small black leather backpack. And the disproportionately expensive pewter satin Coach evening bag.

Allyson has a purse I want to steal. Contents she can keep. I want the outside prettiness.

Robin linked to a bag a ways back that I vaguely remember might have enough pockets to work better than my current bag. I hate fishing for stuff, even though my bag is small and the zipper runs around three of the four sides.

Jewelry that might as well be made for me. I love that aesthetic.

And this dress is made of win.

If this came in pink, I...nah, but almost!

Cool pants. No way I spend that much money on pants (uh, well, unless they're jeans), but they are cool.

This would need a hell of a lot of boning to not look like crap. Even mannequin looks slouchy and droopy.

Aw, man. I hope you don't have Lyme, but if you do, it responds quickly to treatment.

I don't carry a purse everyday. I have a satchel to carry all my crap in. It's larger than I really need for everyday, but it works for work. It needs some serious washing and leather spa-day, I think. When I don't want to lug that around (99% of the non-work time,) I have a sparse collection to chose from. There's the monster black rectangular one I use for flights-because I could fit a couple books, cd player, water bottle, wallet, etc. Except I think I can now use the smaller slingy black purse now that I have an ipod. That's the one I carry if I need more than a wallet. Just the wallet (and keys and sunglasses) I have a small boat shaped black bag. Target-faux-coach, I think. Sense a color theme?

When I lived abroad, I carried a 5x7ish embroidered pouch (color!) to fit my passport, visa and metropass holder, a skinny wallet and a vice. I later upgraded to a leather one about the same size (from the same place I got the satchel. Man, I doubt you could find that quality of goods now for what I paid back then-$150 total.)

And that's all I have. And I don't travel with more than one if I can avoid it.

Which is why I've needed to borrow one of Kat's cute bags when I visited last.