Where do you keep your purse?

[kgalas]

I'm in a redecorating mode and want to redo my laundry room/mudroom. I have a 24" space between the basement door and the bathroom door where I currently have a storage bench where I keep my 3 dds' backpacks out of sight and a shelf with knobs higher up where we hang miscellaneous stuff. The bench has seen better days. I usually put my purse on top of the shelf-it's out of the girls' reach, etc. I want to keep the space as neat as possible since it's only 7.5'x8' and serves a multitude of purposes-entry into the house, etc. Any ideas for storage? I was thinking of something like this:

http://shopping.aol.com/white-finished-laundry-hamper-with-interior-bag/718530758

I could store the backpacks in it. Do you think the shelf above it is still a good idea or should I get a small cabinet like this:

http://www.homedecorators.com/P/French_Country_31W_Anywhere_Cabinet/420/

Where do you ladies keep your purses, backpacks, etc.?

 

[spyrosmom]

Wherever I toss it when I get home The front table, the sofa table, my dresser, the kitchen table (ewww, I know, purses are germy - I was the table and move the purse before using). It doesn't have a home. DS backpack hangs on his closet doorknob when school's in.

Nan

 

[PhyllisG]

We have a big open kitchen, dining, living space--loft like--and my purse just hangs off one of the dining chairs. I put everything else away except for that.

 

[jimmie48]

believe it or not, I keep mine in my car. Stupid I know, but I never have to look for it that way.

 

[Alana_as]

LOL! I'm the same at spyrosmom! I toss mine either on the counter, kitchen table, kitchen chair, sofas, computer desk, seriously, it's everywhere!

 

[JeanneMarie]

believe it or not, I keep mine in my car. Stupid I know, but I never have to look for it that way.

I do the same thing with the one I am currently using. Why is this stupid? My car is locked inside the garage.

The other purses that I'm not using have a couple of shelves in my bedroom closet.

 

[JT]

My purse is always with me besides my bed or in my office. When I leave for an event and take only a portion of it out, I hide it in my dirty clothes hamper or in a closet.

 

[JannR]

I have a hall tree inside the garage door. I hang it there.
I am one of those nuts that never leaves my handbag touch the floor - ever.

 

[hokypoky]

On a related note ...

My purse is not leather, so when I go to the grocery store I swipe the bottom of it with one of those Clorox wipes at the same time I wipe the handle of the shopping cart.

 

[serene_46]

Klaudia, I like the hamper idea with the shelf above it.
As far as purses go, the one I use hangs on one of the knobs on my inversion table in my bedroom. I use my inversion table everyday, so it is not a piece of exrcise equipment that serves as a clothes hanger LOL. It is in a very convenient spot for me to "grab and go"

Brenda in Indiana

 

[banslug]

I have my laundry room right inside the garage/house door. Behind the door in that room, I have 2 decorative hooks where my boys hang their backpacks each day during the school year. I hang my purse on one of their hooks...ALWAYS. I need to know exactly where my purse is at anytime I need it so it's nice to have a HOME for it.....plus it's out of sight in my kitchen and living rooms.

I like the laundry bin you posted. I am a DEclutter freak and really need to keep clutter at a minimum and for the clutter that I just can't avoid, it needs to be hidden in something like that bin.

Gayle

 

[patchworkpenguin]

We have two love seats in our living room. One we use to sit on the other we use as a desk/dumping ground. Library books, mail, etc go on this couch along with my purse, so they are in plain sight and I can find them.

If I'm leaving home and my purse is staying, I"ll put it on a shelf in the top of the LR closet.

 

[kgalas]

Thanks everyone! I think I'm going to get that hamper.

Gayle, we walk right into our laundry room too and DH is a neat freak-his idea of decompressing after work is to swiffer! We have jackets that we use daily on over the door hooks-and even that bugs me! I wish the room was big enough for those mudroom lockers so we could each have our own. Sigh. Maybe one day.