The Quest!

Sometimes I have in my mind that looking for the perfect this or that is going to be easy, a piece of cake. After all, I'm not terribly picky in most areas, and I like to think I'm pretty easy going. (Hence the reason I still live in MA and haven't ditched Zack to finish out school on his own while I bask in the heat somewhere else!) But I have been on a quest for sometime for 2 things:
1. A new purse/baby bag. The bag I am now carrying is ugly and well ugly. I switched to this bag because I didn't need the huge diaper bag anymore now that Oliver is older, I just needed a bag for my mom size wallet, diaper, wipes, sippy cup, snacks, and a few toys. That sounds like a lot, but really the bag I have now regular purse size and usually it all fits. Anyway, it seems like it would be rather easy seeing as there are so many purses and bags out there. I have only a few criteria, but apparently they are the wrong criteria to snag me that perfect bag. My criteria are as follows: I just has to be big enough for the necessities, but not too big. And the second is that it must have a shoulder strap, meaning it has to go across my body- shoulder to opposite hip. This is because I don't want to have to hold it, place it in the cart where someone could easily steal it while I'm chasing down Oliver at the store, or be trying to keep the straps on my shoulder with it in my armpit (I already have a baby hanging on me, I don't need some foreign object in my arm pit) while looking at things all the while usually carrying an 18 month old. I also like the side bag because I can put in and get things out more easily. Oh, and it can't cost me an arm and a leg, we starving students after all. But apparently I am a dreamer. This bad doesn't exsist. Mostly I think the side strap thing is what is killing it. They aren't that popular I guess. But I have been looking for months now. Nothing. And this may be shocking, but I have only bought one purse in my entire life, and I like it, I still have it, but this......this is wearing me down. If this is what purse shopping is all about, count me out! I've seen a few ugly things, but I already have that. Anyway, if someone has a suggestion, please let me know.
Which brings me to quest #2:
The White Collared Shirt: Again, it seems like such a basic item, but I cannot find the right one. I just want a plain white button down collared shirt. My requirements are that it is some sort of cotton blend and that the material isn't see through as often white things are, and that you don't touch it and it instantly wrinkles. I can't find one. It's crazy. They are all either too see through, have crazy pockets in strange places, wrinkly, or they have a million pleats that I would have to iron endlessly.

I guess my question is, What has the world come to? I guess my quest continues.