Turn out your pockets! (Not a donating thing)

In my purse right now...

*Asthma inhaler
*Cell phone
*Nintendo DS with headphones
*Chapstick, lip gloss, mascara, and a small mirror
An assortment of pens/pencils/Sharpies and... a dry-erase marker? What the heck?
A few very small and very adorable Japanese notebooks
Glasses case, with cleaning cloth for glasses/DS screens
Volumes six and seven of Loveless (a manga series)

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Oh dear...
Pockets of my coat:

Metal card holder for plastic money, library card, donation card, and a few notes of real money etc.
Plastic card sleeve for... ummm... three different bus/tram/ferry/rail cards. - Don't ask.
Loose change in the form of coins.
A rather mangled box of salmiak flavoured throat/breath pastills.
Fags
Lighter x2
Keyring on lanyard x2 work/home
Numerous old receipts, some looking like they've been through the washer a few times.
A forgotten muesli bar
Mobile phone
Eucaluptus and beeswax lip balm

ETA: Forgot the pink USB memory stick thing - serves double duty as mobile phone charm.
Ok, so I'm a pocket kind of girl, still working on that whole purse thing.

Wallet*:
2x Supermarket Loyalty Cards*
2x Debit Cards*
Waterstones book shop loyalty card*
Aftershave sampler card with handwritten note from other half*
Book of 12 (10 remaining) first class postage stamps*
Book of 4 (3 remaining) first class 'large' postage stamps*
Other loyalty cards as appropriate for trip
Library card when appropriate
Rail tickets:
16-25 Railcard
30 day regional season ticket
Leftover tickets from the past few weeks:
Cash:
£25 in notes
£3.20 in change (generally i remove any coins less than 20p in value every few days)
Keys*:
Home front door*
Home letter box*
Parents' front door*
Work cabinet*
iPhone*
Work ID

That's the normal for me :)

Jim

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2007: Spirit of Omega - 25k (FAIL)
2008: In Two Minds - 50k (WIN)
2009: On Four Wheels (in progress!)
shastrix.com

there's nothing in my pocket
but in my bag there are :

a wallet with a lot of points card, my ID card, a Crédit Card, around 15€ (~10$) in loose change
my subway pass
an Ipod touch with headphones
a cell phone Samsung SGH-S7330 with a japanese charm
a pocket deodorant
a book : "CLUB DEAD" from Charlaine Harris
my house kees
some medication (advil & spasfon)
some paper
a notebook and pen
a loooot of receipt tickets

and in the week I carry a small purse with make-up

Btw I'm women and an executive assistante.

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2008 > L'Incroyable Histoire de Rose Ellen Vertegrez [15K]
2009 > et la chimère prend vie [working title ?]

If I'm walking around without my purse you can usually expect to find:

*my cellphone in my back pocket
a grocery list or list of things to do/pick up in my other back pocket
maybe some change or, if you're lucky, a few bills in my side pockets.

If I'm carrying my purse, I've got:

*my cellphone again
maybe a bit of money, but not much
*my debit card, credit card, and a bunch of 'points' cards (airmiles and the like)
*a few pictures from my wedding
*a bunch of makeup (mascara, lipstick, lip gloss, eyeliner)
*breath mints
receipts for stuff that I want to make sure I keep the receipt for

If I'm at work, or out on an errand for work, it's a different ballgame:

*a mini day-organizer thing
*three different types of screwdrivers and a small adjustable wrench
*two or three different colored pens
*my pager
*a set of keys for the different tool cabinets and the like

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A Novel Journey: From Start to Finish
Toreshi's FanFiction
Toreshi's Original Fiction

I carry everything in the pockets of my coat.

*public transportation card for students
* lanyard with keys
* bicycle lamps (those 'click-on' things)
* receipts from everything (library, supermarket etc. once in a while I throw everything away)
Sometimes my wallet but usually that's in my bag.

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2006: Shintiwi (won - 105 k)
2007: Gij zult niet doden (won - 105k)
2008: Traditionalist (won - 62k )

Jumper pocket: tissue fluff and a shopping list
Jeans pocket: house keys, work keys, mp3 player, phone
Coat pocket: purse (some loose change, credit/debit cards, receipts, club memorship cards, shop loyalty cards, photo of me and sister), throat sweets, 3 biros, pencil, blank scrap paper, scrap paper with scribbled map/directions to various pubs/friends houses, glucose energy tablets, emergency sanitary towel in small case, lip gloss, eye liner, mirror.

[edit:] Have just double checked my coat and missed: cinema tickets, sweet wrappers, lighter (non-smoker, but used to have a lot of smoking friends. Most of them have since quit but the lighter has stayed in my pocket, forgotten), bus tickets, train tickets, young persons railway card, out of date student card, appointment card for a tattoo i got 2 years ago... I really need to go through them more regularly and clear out the junk...

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Forget diamonds, coffee is a girl's best friend!

You guys are absolutely phenomenal!! I love that we're representing so many different countries here; I hadn't considered the pockets of Wrimos abroad, which is my mistake. (Especially since we're pickpocketing in a big American city with plenty of travelers.)

Thanks! And keep 'em coming. :)

In my bag right now:
*House keys
*Mobile phone
**iPod (green Nano 3rd generation, and still working brilliantly after two years)
*Small pack of Tissues (very, VERY handy, haha)
*Change, for emergency food or bus ride
A paperback to read ('The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini.. brilliant so far)
Sunglasses (wishful thinking)
Pen and Paper (not necessarily for NaNo, but for anything I need to keep note of)
*Cards - library, debit, Waterstone's loyalty, 02 Top-up
Guitar plectrum (whenever I don't have one on me, there's always a guitar that wants me to play it. go figure.)

**I don't think I've ever left the house without my iPod and headphones, haha.

Seeing as I've been home for quite some time I don't have much, but usually in my pockets I have:
* iPod (8GB Red 3rd Generation Nano, One earphone cut off, the other falling apart)
* Wallet (Black leaher, full of receipts, debit card, cash, coins, id, library card. old cinema tickets, bus pass)
* Mobile Phone (out of date, black and white, Nokia 2100)
More Recent Cinema Ticket(s)
Pen
Food Wrappers
Gum Packet
Receipts
Stray Coins

Not very exciting, but true. :]

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Credit to gc-stock (http://gc-stock.deviantart.com/) & PCU-Stockage (http://pcu-stockage.deviantart.com/) for the images used in my Novel Cover.

I needed to clean out my bag anyway, so this was a good excuse to do it!
If you pickpocketed me, you would get... and you're welcome to most of this...
*Car key
*Purse containing credit/debit cards, bookstore/bottleshop/coffeeshop loyalty cards, two library cards, drivers license, quick reference phone number card, RACQ card, food label pocket pal with list of things I can't eat Medicare card, book of stamps and loose stamps, if you're lucky I have some Australian money - maybe a $50 note, if not, $20, $10, some $5's, maybe a handful of change, at the moment, some USD.
*A5 writing notebook
*black Jetstream pen
*red Jetstream pen
*blue pen
*emergency lighter (for when I'm lost in the bush >< I am not a smoker)
*assorted receipts (Lots of those!)
*LG TU550 cell
*Black fingerless gloves
*Polarised sunglasses
iPod classic with headphones
Nintendo DS with Pokemon Pearl
Wacom Bamboo pen that I forgot to take out
Supportive wrist brace
A box of Chicken Noodle cup of soup for when I'm lost in the bush more than a day
Emergency mini chocolate bar, squashed beyond recognition with all the paint rubbed off the label (I think it might be a mini Snickers)
My coffee mug from work (when it needs a wash)
Work keys
Pocket guide to Workers Compo
Medication: Panadol, Nurofen/ Nurofen Tension headache, Claratyne, Phenergan, sometimes an Epi-pen if I'm out on short trips otherwise its in an esky (mostly allergy medicine)
Index cards for some odd reason.
...
Ew, what a lot of junk.

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I carry a lot of crap, so this is going to get a little long. Heh. In my handbag at any one time...

+ Wallet, containing the following:
Visa Debit card
Membership cards for the following stores and entities: Civic Video, Video Ezy, Dymocks, Cine Buzz, Priceline, Katies, Millers, Rockmans, Crossroads, Woolworths Rewards and City Chic
Medicare card
RTA photo ID card
Hanson.net fanclub membership card
Collection of old train tickets
ATM receipts
$5.95 in coins
$35 in notes
Frequent flyer cards: Velocity Rewards and Qantas
Half-fare concession card
Health Care Card
Jobseeker ID card
Target Time Saver card
Expired volunteer discount card from work
Showlink ticket for last year's Sydney Royal Easter Show
The photo I had taken with Taylor Hanson at the M&G I attended in Sydney, on May 28 2005
+ iPod and earphones
+ Hairbrush
+ Mobile phone - a Motorola MOTOKRZR K1 flip phone
+ Can of Impulse body mist (Illusions)
+ My emergency fund
+ Three pens (two black, one blue)
+ Small spiral-bound notebook with a purple cover
+ 100g jar of Bloom French lavender body butter
+ Packets of Panadol and Nurofen (and Claratyne when I've remembered to buy it)
+ Stick of Softlips Gelato lip balm (Citrus Crush flavour)
+ My house keys, on a Hanson spinner keyring (that also has a mini Eiffel Tower, my name on a mini New York state number plate, and a metal Bad Girl tag hanging off it)
+ M&M's
+ Digital camera - a Kodak EasyShare C340 Zoom
+ A couple of pads, for when it's that time of the month and I've been caught unawares

On days that I go to volunteering, I add:
+ Two bottles of orange juice
+ Box of microwaveable noodles
+ Tupperware container of homemade fruit salad
+ Either a chocolate muffin bar or a Rice Bubbles LCM bar

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In my purse (I currently don't have pockets):

*Change purse, with about $1.50 in change, and a few coins from another country that I need to go add to my coin collection
*Penlight
*Sketchpad and pencil (doubles as a notebook)
*Bottle of hand sanitizer with a broken lid
*Thumb-sized green Swiss Army knife
*Tissues
*Silver hairbrush
*Purple mini-Sharpie
*Two or three ballpoint pens
*Chapstick, usually strawberry
*Money, varied amounts
*Certain....other things
Menu from Steak n' Shake, with "Harry Potter Fans Forever" written on the back (???)
Three ripped-in-half playing cards (nine of clubs, eight of diamonds, black joker)
Recipits and business cards from various places
Library card (usually in my backpack, but not today)

Well. That was....interesting. O_o

*Wallet (cash, credit card, student ID, driver's license, insurance cards, frequent flier card, and whatever receipts and tickets I may have from the last week or so)
*keys (flashlight, Borders Rewards card, school keychains)
*cell phone
*pencil (mechanical)
*eraser
*chapstick
*writing notebook (a tiny one, to jot down any ideas I have while out)
*hand towel (to avoid paper towel usage in restrooms - a habit I picked up in Japan)
*coffee can lid (being FTM transgendered and not having had surgery down there, I use it as my stand-to-pee. Too much information? Sorry.)
origami

Origami's the only one I'll often but not always have in my pockets. The rest I have every time I step outside of my room. I don't usually have much else in my pockets; anything new usually goes in my messenger bag, which I use for school.

In my school bag:
writing notebooks x3 (*two for quotes, one specifically for NaNo)
*planner
*pencil case
*Japanese good luck charm (this one's for victory)
water bottle
whatever books and binders I used in my last class
A special K bar? o.0 ~munch~
fliers from my mailbox (from school, i.e. about study abroad, ring ceremony, etc.)

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~toujours~la~douleur~
~je~suis~la~douleur~

Oh boy.

Currently nothing in my pockets because I'm wearing pajama pants but just emptied my purse:
-*glasses case with glasses and sunglass clip-ons
-*glasses repair/cleaning kit with cleaning fluid, a cloth, and a tiny screwdriver
-*tissues
-checkbook (which I haven't used in forever just haven't put it away yet)
-*hand sanitizer container which I put sunscreen in over the summer for when I went to an amusement park
-*cough drops
-*scotch tape
-4 quarters, 2 dimes, 2 nickels, and 2 pennies- (yep I'm a college student)
-*blistex
-gum wrappers
-my last pay stub
-deposit slip from the bank
-*mini flashlight
-Weis receipt (grocery store) for one gallon of milk
-*a purple pen
-spare batteries for my camera
-*health insurance info written on the back of my campus map - parents didn't have an extra card when I moved to college over 2 years ago
-*various cards: check card, credit card, driver's license, Rita's Cool Card, library card, AAA card, Red Cross blood donor card, first aid/CPR certification cards, reminder card for a dentist appt in Nov, one of those little inspirational cards with poetry/sayings I got at a suicide memorial service last month
-*feminine neccesities
-*house keys with various grocery store bonus cards, a heart-shaped keychain with a picture of my cat on one side and the horse I used to ride on the other, arrowhead keychain, 2 libary cards for the libraries at home, L.A. Fitness membership card (cancelled my membership in August), and a see you at the pole card with a Bible verse on it that I got in HS
-*a little pamphlet that goes over basic first aid/CPR steps

whew.

Also a couple things which would normally be in my purse, backpack, or pocket but are currently on my desk:
-*cell phone, Palm Centro (got it for free, I'd never pay $300+ for a phone)
-*school ID which gets me into my apartment, lets me check out books at the library, etc..
-*car keys with mailbox key on the same ring

usually I have my MP3 player and camera on me as well, I think they're currently in my backpack

I won't even go there with my backpack, which is almost always with me as well.

I'm one of those people who tends to have everything you could possibly ever need or think you need or maybe even want on me. Except pain meds, because I generally don't take them. I also don't clean out my purse or get rid of stuff I don't need very often. Surprisingly, I was never a Girl Scout.

What is in my jeans pockets when I leave the house:

*Swiss Army knife in right pocket.
*Lighter in right pocket.
Keys with mp3 player(currently a glorified flash drive), flashlight, Smith's cards, and various charms in left pocket.
*Comb in left pocket.
Random change or pieces of metal.

What is in my backpack:

*Note books/composition books.
Graph paper.
*Pens and pencils.
A deck of cards
*Feminine products.
*Address book/day planner, containing all the addresses,emails, and phone numbers of the people I care about, as well as many inspirational quotes.
*My dice bag(2d4, 10d6, 1d8, 4d10,5d12, and 4d20), for gaming.
Godawful amounts of random thins that will likely never leave, including random papers, and I think some jelly beans.
Glasses case containing cigarette stubs and matches.
*FAA Airman's Information Manual 1986, for light reading.

I'm a bit boring; sorry.

Edit: Friend of mine offered this up:

"Keys: Cars, motorcycles, house, friends/family houses, both jobs.
Wallet with driver's card, library card, debit and credit cards, school ID, pictures of family, $47 in ones
Cigarettes(Luckies)
2 lighters
Three pens
$.57
Blank slips of paper
Guitar picks"

-Walltet (credit card, driver's license, twenty bucks, student ID, some receipts)*
-Glowsticks on shoe lace (for the art of Glowsticking/Glowstringing!)
-Medications (including advil)
-Ipod with headphones*
-Keys (apartment, car, parent's house, mailbox, garage door, other keys I don't know)
-Cellphone*
-Nanowrimo post-its (incase the urge strikes!)*
-Pen*
-Checkbook*
-loose change
-My Brazilian flag <3~~ speaking, I need to take that out.
-Kodak snap camera*

=o That's about it.

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2008 - Somewhere Down the Crazy River - 50,088
2009 - The Autobiography of an Imaginary Friend

I'm surprised there aren't more of you that travel light out there! But that's ok. For research purposes, all you pack mules are proffering fantastic bits!

Douleur, I think the Japan-inspired hand towel idea is wicked clever, as is the coffee can lid! I never thought about the logistics of being FTM.

Pocket, isn't that the way it always goes when you don't have something on hand? Thanks for the new word, too! (Plectrum, that is)

DoomPixie, an appointment card from two years ago? I think we all have that kind of stuff stocked away somewhere. :)

ReiKnight, you mentioned being "lost in the bush" twice. I think that means you're an outdoorsy, camping type, but not 100% sure. Glad we could help clean out your bag! :)

Mistress Aeryn and Appaloosa05, I think you're the only two that combats nature's monthly call; nobody else listed pads yet! Also surprise we haven't had somebody pull out a condom or amyl nitrate... or something. O:)

IlFantasma, it's going to take me a minute to figure you out by your list :)

Superb answers, everyone! Noticing a lot of *'s, didn't realize so many people were that habitual. I fly by the seat of my pants, so only carry the necessities and then whatever extras are needed for that particular day.

Also, I'm liking the couple of sentimental items listed, like jimternet's aftershave card and Toreshi's wedding photos.

Favorite Item Shout Out: Hanson.net Fan Club Membership Card.
I had no idea they were still around! (anybody else have a favorite item they see listed?)

Thanks again everyone! And keep 'em coming! :)

Left pocket: wallet containing cash, credit and debit cards, driver's license, dozens of crumpled receipts (for tax deductions), business cards (my own and those I received recently), membership cards (health insurance, car service). Lint.
Right pocket: house and office keys, bicycle keys. Lint.
Inside pocket: iPhone.

What's in my purse...

Usually my wallet and iPod are in there, but they're in my school bag right now.
*A change purse
A single sock (no idea how it got there)
*A bunch of note cards for writing
*A small notebook for writing
A memo pad with the information for my last babysitting job
A brochure for the Writers Festival that happened a while ago
*Lots of various lipglosses and lip balms
*Prowrap (third most important thing in there, after teh iPod and wallet)
Lifesavers (tropical flavoured!)
*Rockets
*a few various pens
*A hairband thingie
*A stress ball type thing
A cherry sucker
A roll of scotch tape

In my wallet: (all this stuff is usually in there)
A emergancy contact card
A Best Buy rewards card
My ID card from Disney World
A Girl Guides ID card from when I was a Girl Guide
A picture of me
6 bus tickets
Fourty something dollars in various bills and change

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Nano 2008: Cross My Heart and Hope To Die WON
Nano 2009: We Are the Fallen

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Let's just say that it's better than spending $2 on one from the vending machine in the ladies'. ;)

Oh yes, they're still around. I've been a fan for almost 12 and a half years (in November, as it happens). :) Wouldn't trade it for anything.

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O_O Rockets? Oh heavens. And it's *'ed! Ermm. We should be, uhh, friends. Yes! Because friends don't shoot friends with rockets. :)

Although I'm willing to bet I've got the wrong kind of rocket in mind. Any clarification for that one?

*Wallet (some cash; some old money, D-Mark; a photo of my deceased dog; an anouncement of the birth of my first love's daughter, yeah I'm weird; lots of phone numbers and assorted scribblings; a McDonald's rub it ticket dating from the '06 Football WM, heck missed a free Burger; a photo of my ex-work colleagues; Driver's Licence, ID card and a condom that most likely pre-dates several Football WMs by now)
*Key Wallet (Home Key, Car Key)
*Tempo (paper tissue)

That's all, though you might find my bankcard occasionally in there as well.

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What you call smarties (not to be confused with what smarties are in this corner of the world) are sold under the brandname rockets in Canada.

This may take a while:

Trouser Pockets

Nothing

Coat Pockets

*Small purse containing:

*Between £2-£4 in change

Possibly a £5 note

*My most recent train tickets, at least one of which will have expired at any given time

*At least four receipts; sometimes as many as eight

*A pair of foam earplugs

A packet of fruit Polos
*Between one and three ballpoint pens, at least one of which will not work
*Enough old shopping lists to make a handful of confetti, if the character was inclined to do so
*Some fluff
Probably a loose copper coin or two

Briefcase

I rarely take out anything more casual than a briefcase, and if I do it'll be a special occasion with occasion-specific stuff. Since the briefcase contains the stuff I normally carry, I'll list it here:

A wallet containing:

*Between £5 and £25 in notes

*Between 20p and £5 in change

*Around six receipts

*My address to enable the wallet to be returned (though this character probably wouldn't do that...)

*A EHIC (European Health Insurance) card

*A phone card listing my phone number (but not holding any money or credit in itself, nor enabling access to any)

*Eight loyalty cards (one of which doesn't work - they are for two supermarkets, a milkshake takeaway, a restaurant, a bookshop, a shopping mall, an electronics shop and a pharmacist)

*One business card

*A debit card

*A blood donor card

*Four student/library cards (two of which are current and valid)

*Two dedicated library cards

*A small book of stamps

A sweet wrapper (must clear that out!)

*A PDA with headphones and converter
One or two books of discount vouchers
*At least one folder full of paper
A copy of the Big Issue
*At least one novel (Nightwings by Robert Silverberg)
*A First Aid manual
*Balliere's Nursing Dictionary
Some more books depending on what I'm reading at the moment
*A cool bag
A lunch box in said cool bag
*A briefcase strap
*A pack of sanitary towels
A student diary
A pack of ballpoint pens
*A pack of glitter pens
A Chocolate Orange (limited edition Popping Candy flavour)
A bar of mint chocolate
*A USB stick
A passport (on the frequent occasions I expect to use it for official purposes)
Frequently, a National Record of Achievement (a big folder full of certificates and CVs designed to impress potential employers)

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Percussus resurgio

NaNoWriMo History: 2008 - Keldostri Acaleros (Won - 53129 words)

Lol, I ment the candy rockets. I think people in the US call them Smarties.

Although I wish I had a purse big enough to carry around actual rockets :P

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Nano 2008: Cross My Heart and Hope To Die WON
Nano 2009: We Are the Fallen

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If the contents of your pockets aren't very interesting, then mine are down right dull.

*Lint
*Squished-up wrappers
*Chapstick
Money, kept in an untidy wad

As I have several pocketbooks, that I rotate according to my moods, the essentials remain the same: a notebook for dreams and thoughts; a notebook for mundane items, i.e., to-do lists, a nude lip gloss, an emergency Little Man/Little Miss book to read with my daughter on the train, a lollipop, and always, always always a recipe book or Food magazine of some kind for spontaneous salivation and rapid-fire cravings. Bang. into the supermarket I go armed.

I rarely keep things in my pockets, because I'm a bit compulsive about what I keep in them (I like the same number of items in each of my pockets...) but in my purse, there is currently:

*wallet with debit/credit cards, $17 cash, library card, driver's license, health insurance card, auto insurance card, school ID
*sharpie (orange!)
*pack of post-its (purple!)
*three pens
peppermints
*lanyard with car keys
*keychain with apartment/mailbox key
*keyring with store discount cards, portable USB drive (4 gig)
receipts from various places
*campus map
*chapstick
*gum
*lipstick
*checkbook
most recent electric bill
*compact mirror
book
key to my friend's house
*travel bottle of ibuprofen
travel bottle of antacids
hair scrunchie
*cell phone
2 rechargeable AA batteries
*lanyard with spare car and apartment key (when you lock yourself out of either, you're grateful you keep the spare in your purse...)

I have more stuff in there than I realized. o.o

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-Maggie, Tallahassee ML

Smile! ^_^

Great Idea!

In my backpack:

*Wallet: absolutly no cash because I ride the bus. in Baltimore.
It includes: Borders reward card, library card, ID, school ID, gift card, Utrecht rewards (yes, I am an art student) debit card, misc receipts, and an old piece of gum (??)
*Cell phone, usually silent
*A tube of lipstick
My iPod
A mixtape I am giving to someone
A book (Mediations in an Emergency)
My Camera
A scarf just incase I get cold
Tylenol, for those times of the month (tmi, I know)