Reese

It really depends on the person. I don't care for REALLY close friends to look in my wallet, but I won't look in anyone purse or wallet unless they're like "grab that blue paper out of my purse" or something similar. Otherwise I wouldn't dare look.

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Kush

If i ever asked for some money from my mum, she'd always tell me to go in her purse. Now, i could easily take way more than i need, but i was always to scared. So, i guess it's fear more than respect that keeps me out of my girlfriend's stuff.

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wry1

I stay out of purses, but for strictly metaphysical reasons.....personally, I am convinced that the laws of time, space and gravity do not apply inside a woman's purse.

You doubt me? Think about it....watch a woman empty the crap out of her purse when she's desperately got to find something. She'll pull out stuff for a good 5-10 minutes, and at some point around the 2-minute mark you'll find yourself asking the question: "Where did all this shit come from???"

The bigger the handbag, the greater the effect. And those shoulder-bags? You can pull a Volvo out of one of those!

So no, I don't go into purses....you never know what might be in there! A bear trap, maybe?

....Or maybe the bear.

Nefir

wry1, I commend you. Great minds think alike.

Life has taught me that a woman's "purse" (or to use a better term, her "shoulder-mounted luggage") is just a three-dimensional projection of higher-order dimensions that we men are unable to see. I know this because womens' purses always seem heavier than their size suggests, and are always bigger on the inside than on the outside. As a security mechanism, they seem to contain alternate pockets of reality, depending on the gender of the person fumbling through it - ie: a man is likely to not find whatever it is he was asked to find, and instead will run into other purses, a library of books, an antique cast-iron knitting machine, a family of small vicious animals, or the decaying bones of other unfortunate men foolish enough to journey within.

Life has taught me to stay the hell out, ESPECIALLY when they ask you to get something - its a trap!

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m0ntyblack

I don't like going through women's purses, but if told to, I'll do it. One of my dearest friends has me go through her purse all the time, I think primarily because she is lazy. Not that I blame her, it usually takes me 15 - 20 minutes to try to find what she sent me searching for in the first place.

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I could care less if say my child or husband got into my purse to look for gum or something. Big whoop. And if a friend asks for something and it is more convenient for them, I will let them into my purse. Nothing to hide. Gotta have tampons, like almost every woman!
My mother-in-law, however, is so against it. It's wierd.

moonstrucksoul

my wife, doesn't care, as she has just posted. but i guess the same rules would apply to my wallet and the cash inside of it, if she did care.

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eotlemac

umm...i dont understand ...how am i supposed to get money if i stay out of ladies purses?? jobs are for sissys, lol

to get seroius, i dont live with my mom and i am ugly so i dont have a girl
i dont have to deal with purses ever

oldtimer

Mephisto, I don't think he's talking about his wife. For that matter, I take it he's not even married. Honestly, I do have the same doubts and fears when a woman nears my wallet. She could take my money and/or credit cards. Just because their good and innocent on the outside doesn't necessarily mean they don't have an ulterior motive. I sound like a cop now.

Anyway, a word to the wise, unless it's your wife don't let any woman into your wallet without your supervision. Same goes for luggage, duffel bag, briefcase, etc. Not that guys have that many carry-ons to start with.

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tdoc

The landfill with straps, personally I try to stay out of my wife's. Except if she makes me look for her checkbook and is too tired to get it herself.

viejo gringo

I go into nener-never land only when I need a check out of the check book and she is not home or is sound asleep....

It is damn amasing what a woman can hold in a purse. we are flying out to the Rose bowl parade, and I can't wait to see what she has in there--(besides my camara, binoculars, water, meds. and my flask)


and"--he almost struggels bring it to me"---hell yes he would---those things weight a ton with all that stuff in there...

HockeyGuy

Nope, I don't go near the purse. Even if it's a 'can you please get the *iinsert item* for me.' Just something i never go near, i suppose i see it as a real personal space.

slant eyes

my then g/f and i used to carry around each other's wallet/purse all the time. we felt it was no big deal. we had nothing to hide and we trusted each other. granted we never snooped through it, we just got what was needed and closed it. female friends look through my wallet all the time and it's fine with me. my then g/f used to have a bad habit of leaving shit all over the house when she came over, so rather than wakin up at 5 am lookin for her keys, i would just find them the night before and place them in her purse, next to the bed for her to find the next morning.

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loganmule

I prefer not to go there, even when expressly asked to do so...just don't want to get blamed for anything

taliendo

In referencing Pulp Fiction, if I'm comfortable enough to give a woman a foot massage, then I'm comfortable in going through her purse when she asks me.

I have no inhibitions with this, but then again, I'll also discuss her menstrual period, if she wants. Guys are weird about the girl stuff - they complain that they'll never figure the other sex out, and yet they never really try. . .

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Steffi

I don't think I would care if my bf were to go through my purse. I don't have anything to hide in there, so I don't think it's a big deal. But just because I feel this way, that doesn't mean everyone else should feel this way.

GakFace

Don't I need a reason or something? Like to grab keys or something? I mean.. people don't just go through my wallet for no reason.

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orphen

I would never do it. but i never found that it was taboo'd thing to look into someone's purse because my mother never cared. but once agian, i personally wouldn't do it

rockogre

I read this a time or two before I felt compelled to add my 2 cents. I have always thought of womens purses as extremely private and somewhat dangerous. I would never look through a womens purse on my own, and I don't like to when asked to. I just bring the purse and the owner can go through it.

Lord knows what might be in there. Sharp things, smelly things, coloring things, secret things, embarassing things, her boyfriends phone number, plans for after I'm dead, nothing I want to see.

Raising three girls, my wife could pull out an amazing assortment of objects needed by small children and later teenage girls, and young women. I assume she passed on her secret knowledge of bags and purses to them as they seem to have their own amazing assortment of stuff.

My billfold is sacred, my space, not for public viewing, and I extend this same status to a purse. Only in the direst need and with witness's will I go into a womans purse.

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forecheck

I don't like my wife or daughter looking into my wallet because I have everything placed in its spot.

I can tell at a glance that I have all my credit cards. A little paranoid about leaving one behind.

So no I don't think they would steal from me. But I make sure that they don't move anything out of its spot...

dragon2fire

i stay out of a womans purse

even if asked to get something out of it

ratbastid

It's funny, I've really never thought about it, but the fact is there's no way I'd go into lurkette's purse without being sent for something.

Given that I no longer carry a wallet anymore (money clips rule), I don't feel like I have the same sort of sacred space of my own... Not that I miss it.

On the other hand, it feels pretty weird to have somebody else operating my Palm Pilot....

Not_You

I consider my wallet to be sacredly private. I get very nervous when other people go through it, even if there is nothing incriminating in it.

I also stay out of my girl's purse because she has so much crap in there I can never find anything.

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