Moving on from the handbag thread....

Heck, I've never thought to take my handbag to bed. It hangs on a chair in the kitchen. DH puts his wallet in the drawer of his bedside table so he's obviously got more sense.

Years ago when I was zonked out on painkillers for sciatica and shingles I left the back door wide open and my purse on the kitchen table. When I got up the next morning I found my Rhodesian Ridgeback laid across the back door mat, obviously guarding the establishment. The two Jack Russells and the cat were curled up in her basket!

It's never entered my head to take my bag upstairs!

But as I too have notepad and pen, spare glasses, kindle, nail file, tissues, pile of books (also on the floor), spare cushion for propping up of kindle and self, torch in case of powercut, water, eyemask, watch and various other things at my bedside I really think taking any more stuff upstairs would be excessive.

Aren't we all well-organised!

I take my handbag containing all the paraphernalia previously enumerated! Kindle is usually upstairs already - under my pillow!

My kindle is in handbag for when ever I can sneak a page or two throughout the day.

I have a notepad and pen in my top bedside drawer too shysal I wake up quite a bit during the night worrying about something or other and find it really helps to make a scribbled note while it's fresh. Mind you I sometimes get up and wonder what the hell I have written!

I always take my handbag, with keys, purse and phone. Usually I take DH with me but sometimes he follows later .
My kindle lives on the bedside table.

A cup of Camomile tea and anything else that lives upstairs but for some reason is downstairs. Purdy is still confined to the sitting room and kitchen and usually leaps into the warm spot where I have been sitting but no doubt before long will be upstairs too.

Just my mobile phone and two Chillows from the fridge! The handbag lives in the cupboard under the stairs.
In the bedside drawer I have library book, spare glasses, a back scratcher, and notepad and pencil in case of inspiration during the night.

And Dh usually asking where his phone and glasses are!

I take two pots of dry cat food, a renal one for Toyah who has kidney problems and a normal one for the other three. I know I will be mugged several times during the night. I can't shut the bedroom door as they will rip up the carpet.

No at the bottom of the bed jane and the kindle is in the handbag.

I never take my handbag up to bed with me and tend to leave it in the hallway, much to DH's annoyance, who says someone could hook it out through the letterbox. I doubt that very much as my "handbag" is huge and weighs a ton, being full of the usual crap stuff. I do take my phone, a glass of lemon and lime flavored water (no other will do) and whatever book I happen to be reading at the time (or my kindle) although admittedly don't often get around to reading it.

Does your handbag actually sleep with you, Glass?

I've already taken the water glass upstairs well before I go to bed, and fill it from the bathroom tap!

Oh I forgot the water it dilutes the glass of wine I have had with my tea

Heavens, it makes me seem rather lax, especially as I'm on my own during the week.

It's only in the last month or so that I have remembered to actually lock the front door!

My handbag, purse and phone are all left downstairs in the kitchen.

Digby! He is carried up to reflect his status as senior cat, but plonked rather unceremoniously on the bed. Oliver Sprout toddles along behind under his own steam.

Other than that, just a glass of water.

I take all those things as well, glass, plus a cup of tea!