This year my family has decided to avoid the usual online petitions and donations of gold coins that disappear into the purses of NGOs.
Lister points out that, in rural areas, getting in the car and driving to Bath or Bristol may not be an option, as fuel prices rise and pressure on household purses increases; meanwhile theatres in the smaller towns, such as the Merlin in Frome, have been hammered by Somerset's cuts and are clinging on to life.
Some Marc by Marc Jacobs products – purses, T-shirts, lip balm – retail for less than £20.
But there are exceptions, and cases have set precedents permitting warrantless searches of purses, briefcases, address books and pagers, where incoming messages might overwrite earlier ones.
How much did you say?Trunks were just a taster of the catalogue of wares rapidly being expanded by Mr Racamier: handbags, purses, belts, wallets.
No one can outdo Chinese companies when it comes to adapting advanced technologies to the purses and preferences of 1.3 billion Chinese consumers.
All are ways to reach the minds and purses of customers.
As these workers head towards retirement it is unclear who will take their place.What keeps Mr Scervino awake at night also troubles firms making the leather belts, bags and purses for which Florence is famous, and whose production gives work to around 12,000 people in and around the city.
He shows me Indian pashminas in bright colours and patterns; hand-crafted Egyptian jewellery boxes with mosaic patterns; lanterns, oil lamps and hand-made wall hangings of elephants from Burma; masks, purses and statues of camels from Vietnam.Like many Asian immigrants, Abu Bakr came to the Emirates to make money to send to his family, who still live in India.
That requires recourse if necessary to taxpayers, but Germany has blocked efforts to make this possible at the euro-area level; instead banks will have to rely upon the public purses in their home countries.
Now a young Japanese company is hoping that an idea to transform Internet-accessible mobile phones into electronic purses will meet with more success.
