Thank you everybody, this is very helpful.
I can see that Harriet's Tote & Indiana's Purse both are a couple inches bigger than the purse I'm using. Indiana's straps are a little longer than mine.
Noticed that her pockets are inside her purse. That would work except I like to have one pocket on the outside to keep my cell phone. Easier to get to when it rings. Remember, DH and I are still running our business through all this so there are more than the usual amounts of phone calls.
I looked at organizer purses type things like Nancy suggests, and found them to be lacking in pockets for loose things such as cough drops and tums and a lipstick. I carry the cough drops and tums for DH & I (my acid reflux & his allergies - very necessary). 2 checkbooks is also inconvenient and there are usually only slots for 1 in organizer purses, etc. Hmm, time to get rid of the one account maybe.
Indiana, I saw all of those organizers in Office Depot last week. Covey had one 5&8 size or a little larger that actually came with detachable shoulder strap, though very expensive. Being the middle of the year, that limited what I could find to begin with. I also noticed most of them came in a couple variations, the same inside with more or less expensive covers. Leather was always more than nylon or vinyl.
I ended up with Meade 4x6 monthly calendar, 2-year, and a 5x8 diary which I put the tabs into. That one seems to take up too much space in my purse. It has an elastic strap, 1 pocket in back cover which the calendar is too thick for. So I find having 2 seperate "books" for things inconvenient, flipping to another page would be much easier.
Thinking I need to go back to office supply, get a new organizer, get a bigger tote, smaller wallet, close one bank account. And a few years back either Sunny or DMom gave me a small organizer I used for a while and wish I still had...sheesh!
And by the time I get all this straightened out, DMiL will be settled somewhere and this will all be easier - hopefully - but who knows.
Oh, 1 thing I do that's very helpful to me is I have my keys on a clip type ring and I clip them each time to the outside of my purse, my straps are attached to small metal rings. That keeps them from falling down somewhere into the bottom of the purse. I also carry inside a spare set of house/car keys and a spare set of DH's truck/trailer keys incase of emergency there.