Women are handbag hoarders

Women may have as many as 63 different objects cluttering their handbags according to Kleenex.

Other than the usual items such as purses and keys, research revealed that women were also cluttering their bags with the weird and wonderful including screwdrivers and car CD players.

Despite the potential in these two items, 92 per cent of the objects women hoarded in their handbags were not seen as being useful.

Usual suspects in bags included purse, keys, phone, pack of tissues, pen and notebook – all of which featured higher than make-up.

We had a quick empty of some of our bags to see what we were hoarding.

Editor – Jen

Purse
Keys
One battered and war wounded Sony Ericsson
Hair band
Milton’s antibacterial hand wash
Loose Oyster card
Assortment of Biros
Eco lips mint lip salve
Cash point receipt
Paracetamol

Reporter –  Sarge

One pencil
£20 in loose change
2 x tickets to the tobacco factory theatre
3 x lucky coins
Keys
Diary
Packet of empty Smarties
Asda receipt
Leaflets about keeping tropical fish
Tape measure
Another empty Smarties packet
Mobile phone
Biro
Scissors
Kids gloves
Paper clip
2p, 1p, 5p coins
1 loose chocolate
2 loose Smarties
Wilkinson receipt
Receipt for glue
Used tissue
Another empty Smarties tube
Full Smarties tube
Green and orange non-toxic crayons