The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

If you want money to spend on pleasurable wants and needs
never put your new purse on the floor because you will never have
any money to spend.

Submitter comment: I went to see my great grandmother in the south one summer
when I was nine year old. A few days before I was going to leave
for home she took me shopping. While at the shopping center my
grandmother purchased me a new purse. When we returned home I
placed the shopping bags on the floor. She quickly picked up the
shopping bags and sat them on the sofa and said, "Sweetheart,
never place a new purse on the floor; you will never have any
money."

Where learned: ALABAMA ; Linden

Date learned: 00-00-1979