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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nBritish department store John Lewis claims the average British woman totes \u00A31,209.99 (a little less than $2,000 US) around on her arm every day\u2014not including a phone. Inside this imaginary pur$$$e, women carry an iPad mini, a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses, a scarf from Somerset by Alice Temperley and \u00A3198 worth of beauty products. So, basically, exactly what Kate Middleton is carrying at any given moment. (Reminder: Kate Middleton is a PRINCESS.)I'm sorry, are we factoring in the two billion dollars the Queen's Corgis have wrapped up in their chic little pawbags, because that figure seems ridiculously high. Real talk, I just dumped out the contents of my ($29 Target) purse and found two pencils, three pens, a notepad, 4 bobby pins with bits of chocolate stuck to them, half a Luna bar covered in pencil shavings, an iPhone, a wallet from Target carrying $17.28 in cash and about $6,000 worth of credit card debt, and various medications and drugs. Actually, when you factor in my debt, I'm carrying around about negative $4,500 in my bag. (Or maybe baggage is a more correct term?)Granted, John Lewis came up with that figure after \"analyzing\" their best-selling products and compiling a list of \"handbag essentials\", so it's all pretty much bullshit. But I have to know \u2014 are they mostly right or am I mostly right? Do I need to take my money out of the stock market and put it directly into my handbag? Or is this just an indication of the ever widening gap between the haves and the have nots? Maybe some of us\u2014the majority of us\u2014carry old gum wads covered in purse gunk and the elite few are hoarding multiple iPads, gold bricks, and birth control made out of diamonds? Get it, Scrooge McDuck.Follow Laura on Twitter.  Images via Getty"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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