As we left, probably sensing my disappointment, my mother bought me a small pink plastic purse imprinted with an image of the skyscraper.

Melissa Young, 9, had her money in a handy, see-through heart-shaped plastic purse.

"I've got some money," she said, and her hand came out clutching a small red plastic purse in the shape of a heart.

A black plastic purse was propped up by the fence.

Elaine has talismans, like the blue cat's eye marble that she keeps in a shiny red plastic purse.

She carried an orange plastic purse full of M&M's - for the new friends she hoped to make at school.

A red plastic purse on a brass chain.

Bring a clear plastic purse for personal items and lots of quarters for the vending machines.

Over one pale arm was a white plastic purse.

Another was open on the bed, half filled, and beside it was a white plastic purse.