Five Things in Your Purse that Can Make You Richer

You see women at the mall weighed down with handbags slung over their shoulder while trying to balance car keys and packages. You see women lug around clutches in one hand and baby strollers in the other. Everywhere we go, our purses go too. Purses are our daily luggage, our security blankets, crammed full of stuff we think we might need in an emergency away from home. And most of us haven’t really taken a good look at what we’ve got packed away in the bottom of our bags in months, maybe years.

As gas prices rise, and the economy tightens, now might be a good time to search through our purses, handbags, wallets and pocketbooks to find some gems we may have unwittingly let go to waste. Here’s a list of five things you might find in your purse that could make you richer.

1.Unopened Cosmetics.
We’ve all had a well-meaning friend or relative give us cosmetics that we knew instantly, we were never going to use. My mother-in-law thinks my skin tone is about three shades darker than it really is, and periodically buys me make-up that I just can’t wear. Recently, she gave me a compact facial-powder which I dumped in my purse after giving her polite thanks for her thoughtfulness, and then proceed to forget all about. Imagine my surprise when I was browsing Ebay one day, and found that exact same facial-powder selling for 15 bucks. Go through your purse and collect all of the unopened cosmetics that you know you’ll never use, take a few snapshots of them with your digial camera, and throw them up on Ebay. You’ll make a few bucks that you can squirrel away for a rainy day, and declutter your purse in the process.