Yay for Knock Offs!!

My cheap knock off wallet and purse are something that needs to be gone through at least weekly to clear out all of the accumulated clutter. If you dug into my purse, you would find half of my wallets contents just thrown back in or fallen out due to the lack of being replaced properly.

My purse also usually contains evidence that I am a busy mom. I usually have an extra diaper and wipes, a binki, a Ziploc full of animal crackers or fishy crackers and maybe even a sippy cup! Currently there is a certificate for “Baby’s first haircut” with a little baggie of dark curls attached. It has also been colored on by a pen, like half the other contents of my purse.

In the back of my wallet you would find credit cards to all major retailers… so you would probably assume that I am in a lot of debt, when actually, thank goodness, all those cards are finally paid off. That’s why the cards are located in the back, still accessible, but never used. Why carry them? Just in case!

In the front main portion, you will find my checkbook; very few checks missing, only made out to a Katrina Bergeson once a month, every month for the same amount… mortgage. There you will find the well worn credit cards… the ones with a rotating balance. Two debit cards, cause I will inevitably leave one in a pocket to the pair of pants I wore the other day, so I keep a spare. There’s my health insurance card, car insurance card, and sometimes if I am lucky, I will have remembered to put my drivers license back in its rightful place. Stamp cards to what I call the “used bread store” aka, the day old bread store, a card for oil changes, children’s clothing stores, coffee stands.

Then the receipts… oh goodness what you would find!! Receipts for school tuition, books, daycare, clothes, shoes, groceries, and toys; the list could go on and on. I keep my receipts for everything until I am sure I will not be returning anything on it. I am the return queen!! My daughter makes it hard to shop, so I tend to just buy things and return them later. Half of my receipts have “return receipts” attached to them.

I think that the contents of my wallet and purse taken all together indicate that I am a very busy, hectic, sometimes disorganized mom. Every other week you go into my purse and it is spotless, clear of clutter and excess garbage. Taken separately, you could assume many things, like I stated earlier, it looks like I could be in a lot of debt. By my stamp card to coffee stands one would assume I drink coffee… which in fact I don’t; I love hot chocolates and Italian sodas.

If someone judged me by the contents of my purse I believe they would miss and misinterpret a lot about me. Sometimes I look disorganized because I work full time with some part time work on the side. As you all now know I have a daughter who depends on me for everything since she is still only 19months. I obviously am also in school. Needless to say I have little time to organize some parts of my life very often. My daughter and my family mean the world to me, but I don’t have any pictures of them in there. I don’t feel like that means that I think of them or brag about them any less. The contents of my purse are just going to tell you what I have hand my hand in at some recent point in time.