What's in Your Wallet?

Sometimes I find the strangest things in my purse.  That comes with being a mom.


When I was childless I used to find lots of make up, a mirror, breath mints, and money.

These days I find 1/2 eaten chicken nuggets, snot rags, Yoda, chewed gum, sucker sticks, hair bows, and hot wheels cars.


Very rarely do I find pens or money.


But occasionally I find a real treasure.  You see the Yahoos love to doodle and write notes.  And every once in a while some of their masterpieces will find their way into the bottom of my purse.  I love these things.  It gives me such insight into how they see the world. They draw pictures of the whole family or our house or the family on top of the house.  I always hate throwing them away because I know that I'm going to want to look back on them when the Yahoos up and leave me in a few years and I'm sitting in the dark corner of the room rocking back and forth being driven to madness by the deafening silence having hours of free time on my hand and no one to cook for and no one to teach and no shoes to find and no one to take to football practice and piano lessons.  And did I mention the silence?

Oh my, I am so sorry about that.  Sometimes I go off the deep end.

Now, back to me.  Oh, wait.  We never left me.  Anyway.....

So I love finding treasure in my purse.  It's like putting your winter coat on for the first time of the season and finding money or unused gum in the pocket. 

So, I'm interested.  What are some of the strangest things we could find in your purse?  Or, for my more masculine readers - your wallet?

And as a reward for those much coveted comments I am giving away to a random winner my newest favorite guilty pleasure:

These things are manufactured right in Heaven.  They have this flavor out called Pumpkin Spice with Caramel Filling.  Good golly you will have to pull over if you are trying to eat these while you drive.  This is what I look like after I've eaten seven some.

only cuter.  And I usually don't wear my bib when I eat chocolate.

I know women often  have an unhealthy attachment to chocolate, but there is a good reason for it.

So, there you have it.  Give me your best story on unusual finds in your purse and you are registered to win a bag of Ghiradelli Squares (flavor subject to availability).  You have 24 hours.  GO!!