Shopping cart organizer

A shopping cart organizer securable to a conventional shopping cart of the type having transverse handle and a forwardly spaced apart frame member, said organizer comprising:

• (a) a substantially rigid desk panel having a first upper surface and a second opposite generally coplanar bottom surface, said upper surface including means thereon for securement of writing materials;
• (b) a receptacle having a front and rear, said receptacle being hingedly secured to said first panel means and defining a compartment therein for reception of materials;
• (c) hanger means hingedly secured to said desk panel, said hanger means including hook means adapted to engage said frame member;
• (d) fastener means on the bottom surface of the desk panel adapted to secure said panel to said cart handle;
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• (e) having a first use position with said desk panel disposed in a generally horizontal position partially supported by said cart handle, for use as a desk and providing access to said writing materials, with said fastener means engaged about said handle and said hanger means engaging said frame member at a location adjacent the rear of said receptacle with said receptacle suspended in a generally vertical position, with the top of said receptacle substantially at the elevation of said deck panel, for providing easy access to the compartment therein and having a second folded position with the desk panel and receptacle juxtapositioned whereby the organizer may be inserted in a handbag or carried separately as a purse.