So I carry a purse. My current purse is cat-shaped. It has a tail. It's about 7" across for no reason other than that that's how big the $5 cat purse on etsy happened to be.
I personally tend to go through a purse in about 9 months. By that time, the snaps, seams, zips, whatever, are coming apart. So about once a year I find myself wandering the aisles of the nearby Target, Fred Meyer, whatever, in search of something to put my stuff in on my way to work.
My purse carries:
- My keys
- My debit cards, insurance cards, etc.
- My phone
- My ultracompact camera
- Any random receipts forced on me by stores that I haven't thrown away yet.
Personally, I find this takes maybe 6"x4"x4". The purses I find at the stores are usually MonstrousxHugexGigantic. So I find myself wandering the aisles wondering why there's never anything sensible.
I can understand that mothers of young children may want and or need the giganto bags, but the rest of us? Really? I just don't get it. What do you put in there? Is it your overnight bag? I thought for a bit that maybe I could shove my iPad into some of them, but they're not really shaped right for it.
Does anyone else have this problem? For those of you that buy the monster bags, don't your backs hurt from carrying them? Has anyone found a source of sensibly sized bags that seem durable?
*baffled*