Could ditching a massive purse change Jana Pruden’s neck – and life? She attempts it and finds that lightening one’s load isn’t always the answer
My mother’s purse, when I was a child, was not much smaller than a pillowcase. It was seemingly bottomless, a black hole encased in olive green leather and fashioned into a style I now know is sometimes called a bucket bag or, less flatteringly, a “feed sack.”I remember marvelling at how and why my mother carried so much. On the occasions I was sent to fetch her purse, I could barely lift it.
I carry my purse virtually every time I leave the house and when you think about lugging that amount of weight, it really does seem like a lot. Were all my friends carrying this much? I had no idea, so I started asking women what they had in their bags. “We are taught not to go into someone else’s purse without permission, because the purse is a private thing,” says Nikki Menn, curator of an exhibition of historic handbags opening in May at the Women’s Museum of California in San Diego. “So no one really talks about it, but it’s super interesting, because we all carry a purse.
But, as I considered each item in my bag, the only thing I found to eliminate was some cards and paper and one lipstick, barely enough to move the scale.All last week I intended to try going purse-less like my cousin and my friend Neda – “It changed my life, and you can quote me on that!” Neda enthused – but I chickened out every time I got to the door. What if I needed something in my bag?
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