Lighten Your Load

Challenge:
1. Put the purse you carry around every day and put it on a scale and weigh it.* Scary, huh?

2. Take out the stuff you need to carry when you are shopping (cell phone, keys, ID, credit card) and weigh it. See where I am going with this?

3. Buy a SMALL wallet: one that will hold money and credit cards and ID's. Even Target sells them and they are adequate for your needs.

4. Knit a tube about 16" in diameter by about 8" high. Seam the bottom and run a drawstring of some sort throught the top. Make a little lining.

5. Put your cell phone, keys, LITTLE wallet in it. I'll even allow a tube of lip balm.

6. Weigh it and compare it with that first number*

7. Carry THIS purse in the store instead and note that your shoulders will probably stop hurting.

8. What? You can't live without all the stuff in your big bag? Fine. Put the big bag in the trunk of your car or under your desk at work. Carry the little bag with you. Your "security blanket bag" is within reach but not hanging on your shoulder.

9. Enjoy the freedom.