I have also had handbag related thefts, My handbag was taken from the car in the seconds it took me to dump a bag of clothes in a charity shop door. Half an hour later the thief rang me at home pretending, very credibly, to be from the
He told me how a man had been arrested trying to use my cash card in the bank. But then he began, very gently to ask me for numbers - bank account number and sort code. As soon as he did that the bells started sounding off and I told him I never gave numbers to anyone on the phone, not even the police. He told me that was very wise and could I come down to the station with the information!!!!!
Instead I rang the police. They traced the call, but inevitably it was from a public call box.
I also had my purse picked out of my handbag on a crowded bus.
As Susiewong65 says the most inconvenient thing is not the loss of money and cards but the loss of diaries, in my case my filofax, which had my life in it. names and addresses, business cards, membership cards, library tickets, details of repairmen and workmen I used, my basic shopping list, all my life was in that filofax and it was the loss of that, that caused the biggest problem.