Insurance news
Handbag heartache for one in five British women
10 January, 2007
Every year, a considerable amount of women lose their handbag or have it stolen, with one in ten saying that they have had to take action in order to prevent an opportunist thief grabbing it.
Research has also shown that one in five of women carry around a designer bag containing roughly £33 of cash, with the total sum of the average bag’s contents adding up to a massive £300. Nine out of ten women use their handbag to carry house and car keys.
Welsh women carry the most expensive bags in the country with the contents averaging out at £337, followed by Londoners at £325 and women in the North East who carry an average of £308 worth of contents.
As more people carry expensive items such as MP3 players and the latest phones, the value of someone’s handbag has shot up.
Mark Bishop, a spokesman for Cornhill Direct comments: “Losing or having your bag stolen can be extremely stressful and it also leaves you open to identity theft. Try not to carry around important documents and take sensible precautions to minimise the risk of theft, particularly in bars and restaurants.”
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