“My son wants to marry me,” says Clark, and in her purse is the blue, gizillion-carat toy store ring to prove it. “I never carried Kleenex before I had a baby.” We’re willing to bet you wouldn’t have found a Spider-Man action figure in there a few years back either – which incidentally is on its way back to the drycleaner where three-year-old Hamish lifted it from.

So, what’s in there …?

- A bus transfer.

- A shopping list: shiitake mushrooms, chili, green beans.

- Williams Lake and Ucluelet lapel pins.

- Collar stays from her husband’s shirt saved from demise at the drycleaner.

- A Japanese punk rock CD.

- Laura Mercier terra cotta lip liner and tea rose lipstick.

- A Taiwanese good luck charm.

- A Blackberry and cell phone.