Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Mum's bag!

Mum used to be a backpack-girl, but since me and Irene were born, she's become a bag-woman, and always carries her cheap black bag that she bought at the market some years ago. Despite mum's reputation of being ordinate and practical, these good characteristics never seem to have extended themselves to her bag, which is known to be the final destination for a lot of rubbish -sometimes mum even suspects it to be the famous black hole as things that enter it never come out again!! But approximately once a year, mum challanges nature and re-organizes her bag. Last time was when Irene was born, when she found amongst others half a kilo of small stones that she had collected for her niece -and forgotten all about, and thus had carried all over the place together with her two toddlers! Today mum decided that it was time to re-organize the bag again, and as I know that you have often wondered what might be in that big black affair that mum carries over her shoulder and always seems to be about to explode, this blog has the pleasure to announce that it has got the exclusivity to the publication of the list of her bag's contents.
1 wallet, 1 set of car-keyes, 1 set house-keyes, 2 pair of sunglasses + 2 sunglas-cases (all separate), 3 lip-balsams, 1 hair elastic, 1 pen, 1 umbrella, 1 multiusable shopping bag, 4 lady towels, 1 pair mittens (the winter being over since...well..ehemm), 5 packets of tissues, 1 loose tissue (so far so good, you may think...but let's continue): 3 nappies (all of a usable size), 1 packet of wipes, 1 pair of Oscar's pants, 1 pair of Oscar's socks, one pair of Oscar's trousers, one pair of Irene's t-shirt, 1 pair of Irene's trousers, 3 sunhats, 1 sunblock cream, 1 afterbite-stick, 2 bubble-soap boxes, 2 tennis-balls, 1 packet of biscuits, 1 empty packet of biscuits, 1 hot-chocolate recipe, 1 packet chewing gum, 1 empty packet of chewing gum, many loose pieces of chewing gum, wrigley flash chewing gum, 1 packet mint, 1 packet throat lozenges, bottle of water (ok ok, most of these things are needed when you've got small kids, but it's not over yet): 1 drawing of the apartment, 1 list of size of picture frames needed, 7 receipts from supermarkets (loose), 1 medical prescription, 2 USB-keyes, 1 shopping-memo, 3 used train-tickets, 2 Bergamo's white night program, 1 Bergamo's carnival program, 1 touristic brochure, 1 furniture offer, 1 memo from kindergarten, 1 drawing by Oscar, 3 business cards, 2 tickets to the zoo, 1 ticket to an amusement park, 1 map of an amusement park, 2 tickets to outdoor cinema, 1 lid of a yougurt box (sic!). Sometimes there is also a digital-reflex camera but then mum is forced to take out the umbrella and the multiuseable shopping bag.
Maybe mum should just buy a smaller bag...!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Það er ótrúlegt sem kemur upp úr þessum töskum. Því nota ég bara vasana, þá er minna pláss fyrir óþarfa en myndi kannski ekki henta þér!

Allegri all'aperto said...

Já spurning um að mamma fari að nota vasana...en hún þyrfti bara svo rosalega stóra vasa...!