Average handbag weighs same as 15-month-old toddler

Published: 8:00AM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

Men were some-more expected than women to lift their house house pet dog around in a bag Photo: ALAMY

Researchers asked 5,000 people what they carried around with them and used their responses to work out that the normal bag weighs 10.5 kilograms (23lbs).

A mobile phone was the majority renouned object with 85 per cent of women and 43 per cent of men observant they kept a phone in their bag.

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Keys, pens, tissues, headache tablets, nipping gum, MP3 players, mouth balm, a counterpart and deodorant were additionally necessary equipment to lift around, according to most of those questioned.

Some people even pronounced they customarily carried a toothbrush, condoms, a bottle opener and a sewing kit.

One in twenty men (6 per cent) lift gangling underwear, twice the series of women who pack an additional span of knickers in their handbag.

Men were additionally some-more expected than women to lift their house house pet dog around in a bag. One in twenty men (5 per cent) pronounced they had a dog carrier, compared with only one in each 100 women (1 per cent).

The What"s In My Handbag? survey, commissioned by WindSetlers Gel Capsules, found fifteen per cent of women and 10 per cent of men customarily lift an indigestion remedy.

5,000 people were surveyed online by OnePoll in January.