How to Pack An Evening Purse

Every girl knows about the horrors of transferring everything from a large, practical daytime purse to a small, oh-so-cute-but-unpractica night time purse. Here are some ways to pare down to the bare basics of what you will need to carry in your evening clutch for a formal event or night on the town!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Small Purse
• Your wallet
• Your makeup bag
• Breath mints or gum
• Cellphone
• Creativity

How to Pack An Evening Purse

1. From your wallet, take out your State ID or drivers license. This is a staple that you cannot go without.

2. Also remove two credit cards (one debit for quick cash, one credit for dire emergencies)

3. Remove your health insurance card, because in today's world you never know.

4. Remove at least $50.00 in cash, no coins.

5. From your makeup bag, remove your pressed powder compact.

6. Remove your favorite lip item. Substitute a tube of lipstick for lip-gloss and lip-liner.

7. Remove eye-drops or re-wetting drops for contact lens users

8. Lay out one stick or gum or two small breath mints.

9. Lay out your cellphone, absolutely vital.

10. Open your evening clutch or purse. Place your credit cards, health card, ID and folded $50.00 in the side pocket of the purse. If none is available, place at the back of the purse.

11. Next, in your lip-liner and lip-gloss at the bottom of the purse. Place your compact inside also.

12. Depending on the size of your cellphone, (PDA or regular), place it standing up in the purse, so that you can view the top of the phone flashing if someone is calling.

13. IF YOU HAVE ROOM: Drop in breath mints and eyedrops to the side of your cellphone. If not, borrow some!

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure you only take the basics with you: ID, phone, money and lipgloss if that is all the room that you have.
• Always have a backup purse in the same style and color
• Never overpack your evening purse, it WILL explode!

[kittie]

on 3/23/2008 Good article, but you forgot the comb/brush and the house/car keys!

[Ceile]

on 12/4/2007 Oh this is a wonderful article! Thank you! I especially like the added advice of the health card...you're right...one never knows.