2017 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?

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essiedub said:
Holy guacamole...another blue bag. Heaven help me! I Like this north south style ksuromax



Nice tassels! I think it adds so much to a bag. Who makes these? I think i am allowed these ..is this considered an SLG? Even if it were, did i commit to an SLG ban?
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I don't count the charms against my SLG and bag ban lol. [emoji12]

I got the red tassel from Target! [emoji4] the black tassels are the draw string.
 
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essiedub said:
Well sparlkletastic I have to admit...i am no help. I can barely be of help to myself..hence here I am on the discipline thread. So ..well..um.. hang in there. (Psst...Did you find something really pretty? :noworry:)
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LOL! Thanks for the encouragement!! And, of course I found some pretty things before I wrestled myself away from the sites. :doh:

Honestly, the only thing that stopped my madness was reminding myself I don't want any more "random buy" bags. They always end up being regret bags. The bag I just sold was one of those. :sad: And, I told myself to wait til the US Memorial Day sales in May. I can probably find one of the workhorses I need and scratch the "I want something pretty" itch.
 
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Sparkletastic said:
I have a bad case of the "wants" today. I've been puttering around my usual online shopping haunts with nothing resembling good intentions. :-s This is pretty stupid. I adore my collection and have a plan to carefully add bags to fill my few remaining gaps.

What makes it even kookier for me to have bag cravings is that this year isn't about handbags for me. My 2017 wardrobe focuses are 1) adding to and upgrading my clothing 2) adding three more pieces of fine jewelry to my collection. This is not the year of handbags.:doh:

So I'm fighting the craving. I dragged myself off the shopping sites and touched / looked at my bags to remind myself how happy I am with what I have. Then I rooted around in my closet and storage area for more things to list and sell. :sad: I'm hoping this will cool my jets a bit.

Have any of you ever awakened with an out of the blue "I wanna buy something pretty for me" mood? Please help me stay on hard pause. :panic:I welcome all thoughts and suggestions!
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I get in that mood when I've reached a certain stress level. I hate it. l don't really have great ideas since I have the same problem...lol. I do notice with myself is that if I plan to drive to get something nice and I wait too long to leave the house, I end up not going. It's kind of a good thing...lol. The online purchase is hard. I have to really distract myself. It does help me when I go in my closet. I reorganized a few months ago. It's like heaven even if my bags are in there dustbags. I look around, pair up bags and slgs planning for the next day or something.

I've got nothing but a cheer of encouragement... We can do this! :)
 
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papertiger said:
I took my Chloe Bay shopping as planned today (Photo tomorrow I hope when PhotoBucket may be working again).

Thoughts I had:
1. Not as heavy as I remember;
2. Wow, I used to carry big bags;
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I still have my Chloe bags. I thought the same with weight and size. I had medium sized Chloe's but now it's so much space for what I carry. Today, I carried my Dior Panarea tote. It was funny looking inside my bag. My things all laid flat next to each other and nothing on top of them. The bag was 90% empty...lol! I could not fill it even when I tried.
 
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bakeacookie said:
$100 is my price threshold. A bag has to be worth over $100 for me to put the effort into selling.

That's why a lot of my cheaper bags and SLGs ended up being given away. The effort in selling just wasn't worth it, the joy someone had in receiving something special was. [emoji4]
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Sparkletastic said:
4 of the 6 "purgatory" bags I've sold so far this year yielded me under $100 each after commissions. I'm still selling them because I find they add up quickly to meaningful money towards a bag I want. So I'll sell just about anything. I figure the buyer pays shipping so why not?

And selling items keeps me busy so I can't hunt things I don't need. Plus is reminds me of past poor decisions making me more determined to buy correctly in the future.
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ms p said:
I used to sell only but the hassle and low price return gets on my nerve. For me I know I don't need the extra money from selling. As such if I know of someone who's using a beat up bag and is not one to spend on bag/ financially more tight I'll give my euc/eeuc bag to her (if she accept my offer of course). Bag that are in good but used looking condition I prefer to donate. The above applies to bag<$100+-
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msd_bags said:
I think my threshold here is $30. Shipping costs me roughly $6-$10 equivalent. I had some bags gotten pre-loved that were not really in the best of conditions. I didn't want to list and describe the flaws and then risk having the buyer say this or that was not mentioned (though really I tend to rate and state very good when really it is in excellent condition, something like that). So I just gifted the bags to "appropriate" recipients. By appropriate I mean I have assessed that that person will not mind the flaws of the bag. And sometimes, I would just underprice a bag to a friend, something like a give away price. And just recently, I offered payment in several installments to a young colleague, the bag is almost $200.

I think I agree with Sparkle that little amounts add up. Getting something back also lessens the guilt in buying new bags.
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vink said:
Um.... this is hard to tell since monetary value also depends on many factor. I'd say if the bag is value more than 2 pairs of sneakers, I'd probably bother selling it. Otherwise, I'd just give it away. But I've been known to give away things more expensive than that just because. I guess it depends on the receiver, too.
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Thanks so much for the insights. I'm going to continue to decide if I have any bag that is truly worth posting for sale online. What I may do is try to sell them to friends and family or keep them until a family member has a garage sale this summer and sell them there. It won't be for much money, but almost none of the bags are any brand that I think people would pay for.

vink said:
Have you ever go through your old diary or journals and find something new about yourself? Or do you keep a diary or journal at all?
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Yep. I write down my purse or purses of the day as part of my daily planner. I find it very useful to go back through and figure out what I am actually carrying bag-wise, as compared to what I thought that I would carry.

Annabel Lee said:
This is tough, and I guess it depends on your circumstances. In an ideal world, I would list everything--money is money, and why not get some of my money back on the things I don't want any more? In reality, though, I find it a real pain to take a bunch of photos, take measurements, note any flaws, write a listing and go through the whole process of putting something up for sale. It's really time-consuming, and time is a commodity I just don't have. So while I list some things for sale, still, most of it just goes to my local consignment store. I don't get nearly the money for my stuff that I could if I sold them myself, but it also saves me a ton of hassle.
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This is it. I used to sell rarely online, but found it to be such a hassle. I stopped selling myself and sold through an online consignment shop, but I don't have any more bags that I want to sell that are from brands that would be accepted on the online shop I used to use. I'm thinking that I should just sell or give away those bags to friends and family who would really enjoy them and garage sale the rest of them.
 
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Annabel Lee said:
Once the new-bag love has faded, do you think this will keep you from wanting to carry this bag?


Somewhere out there is a person who would carry that bag. it could be kinda cool-looking . . .



Did carrying it make you want to put it back in rotation?


Whew!

@dcooney4, I love the rooster![
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It's a bit worn on the handles but I guess I would - especially if I dressed more casually
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