The cost of a stolen purse

apartment and mailbox locks and keys - $175

office locks and replacement keys for all staff - $268.50 (they didn't ask me to pay, but it still got spent)

Filofax  (combination daytimer and address book)- $77

birth certificate - $65 (includes rush courier charge because it was needed to get other pieces of ID)

Social Insurance Number card - $10

drivers license - $10

reading glasses - $40

case for reading glasses - $10

flash drive - $62

passport - $85

passport photos - $27 (had to be done twice, because the first set didn't meet specifications and the lunkhead who took them wouldn't redo or refund them, so I had to go somewhere else)

ID holder - $20

wallet - $4 (nice cheap colorful one from store in Chinatown -- good thing I don't go for expensive leather)

purse - $5 (on sale at discount store - again, good thing I don't buy Louis Vuitton or Coach)

subscription to ID alert service (in case the thief or someone he passed my stuff to tries to use it for identity theft) - $100

doohickey that you put on edge of table and hang your purse on in public places where it isn't accessible to thieves - $10

That's $690 it's cost me, not counting the $70 in cash that was in the purse, and the $268 my employer paid.  It would have been more, but it was a work cell phone in the purse, and my employer had a spare cell phone and SIM card from staff who have moved on, so it didn't cost them anything to replace that.  And then there were the several cubic assloads of time and effort and frustration to make it all happen.  Beyond reporting credit cards stolen, there was making the police report, visiting government offices, etc. etc.  There were six phone calls alone to doctor and drugstore to replace one prescription for asthma meds that was in the purse, and the two trips for passport photos, and on and on and on.

My purse got stolen on March 3.  I got my driver's licence in the mail yesterday and my passport should arrive by  April 28.  Then I will have pretty much everything replaced, except the intangibles and irreplaceables, like my time and peace of mind.