2019 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?

[christinemliu]

Speaking of packing up and moving to a new city, what would you take with you if you had to fit your bag collection into the back of your car (not a U-Haul haha), or even into two luggages for a plane ride? Could you downsize, and if you could, what's keeping you from getting rid of all the bags you'd leave behind now?

I would nest my bags as much as possible, like matryoshkas, to maximize space haha! SLGs would fill in crevices. I think if I did this, I could fit almost everything...but if I couldn't, most of my Massaccesis would be packed first (hoping his Kickstarter campaign that just launched is successful!), then Henri Bendel (since HB has closed), and the rest in order of sentimentality haha...

For the most part I sell or give away what I don't use; some bags like totes I could downsize but even cheap ones are becoming increasingly useful as cities charge for grocery bags and kids needing more stuff to log around for various activities...

 

[Cookiefiend]

Usually I pick my outfit and then choose my bag. This month I am going to challenge myself by picking what bag I want to wear and then creating outfits to go with the bags. Now that I have a few bags that are not just neutral I am going to have some fun with them. Are you giving yourself any challenges this month?

That sounds like a great challenge - I might join you because I do the same thing. That might encourage me to carry some of the bags that I rarely use - like my green alligator bag.
I think I'll also the 'Bring Your CPW Down' and carry those with a high CPW to work on bringing it down.

 

[dcooney4]

Speaking of packing up and moving to a new city, what would you take with you if you had to fit your bag collection into the back of your car (not a U-Haul haha), or even into two luggages for a plane ride? Could you downsize, and if you could, what's keeping you from getting rid of all the bags you'd leave behind now?

I would some how strap them all to the top on my car if need be. None get left behind.

 

[dcooney4]

Sold a bag that I loved but never wore at the consignment shop today. It was one of my LV. Sad to see it go but happy to get the funds. Also ordered one more micro sutton today before I found out about the LV. I have found that little Mz to be the easiest grab and go bag for me.

 

[Miss_Dawn]

Hello everyone

Sorry to be MIA. I’m lurking and liking

I’m currently on holiday so I’m missing all of my bags. The only bags with me are my Longchamp pliage and Diorever WOC. Here are some pictures.

I’m not really doing any of the challenges; since I got my YSL Envelope all of my rotation attempts have failed. I love it, and it’s all I carry for the work week. I’m hoping I get bored of it soon and start to rotate, but right now it would be too hard to fight it

 

[Sparkletastic]

April stats:

• 1 bag out
• No bags or SLG’s in (I’m not interested in anything right now.)
• 4 handbags and several items of jewelry to sell
• Every household / furniture / office item I listed went super quickly! Whoop!

I’m continuing to review everything we own to exit everything that can/should go. If it doubt, it’s going out. Nothing extra. Nothing sub-optimized.

What I’ve already listed will stay listed for now. But, going forward, I’ve decided to donate / gift anything worth $500 or less. I used to have some measure of fun selling - it was almost a hobby. But, I’m sooooooo over that now.

 

[Sparkletastic]

Speaking of packing up and moving to a new city, what would you take with you if you had to fit your bag collection into the back of your car (not a U-Haul haha), or even into two luggages for a plane ride? Could you downsize, and if you could, what's keeping you from getting rid of all the bags you'd leave behind now?

I’ve done this multiple times. I take all my bags. If I wanted then before, I’ll want the in my new city.

I have an SUV - all my bags plus would fit (even in their boxes) in my car. So, when moving across country we take our valuables, (paperwork, jewelry, bags, etc.) in our cars and meet our other belongings at our new home. One time we made a mini road trip out of it. The other times we drove straight through.

When we arrive to our new home, our stuff (and any extra cars) come a day or so later.

 

[ElainePG]

You and I seems to be built similarly - I’m really tall though!
Did you do any of the ‘exercises’ in Brenda’s book to help you kind of determine your style? I found that very interesting - and it came out very similarly to one I had done previously. My style came out to be - well I’ll just take a picture from my notes.
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I do like soft and warm, neutral, elegant or chic clothing. I wear my scarves for a pop of color.
I was already keeping a Pinterest page with clothes and styles I like - here’s an example:
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And this one is almost exact what I’m wearing today, except that my purse is yellow.
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I'm the opposite of you and @dcooney4 in terms of height... I just barely make it to 5 feet when I go to my doctor's office for a physical. So I look for clothes that give me a long line, instead of radically different colors on the top and the bottom, which would cut me right in half.

When I did my style words (following the exercises in Brenda's book) they came out to be classic, understated, tasteful, elegant. I've been living with these words for a couple of months, and they still feel right to me. They've helped me as I've shopped for some new pieces: every time I see something, I bump it up against these four words, and if it doesn't match, I put it back on the rack. This has saved me a lot of time and $$$!

The other thing I did recently was to have a color analysis. I'm old enough to remember doing this back in the late 1980s, when the book "Color Me Beautiful" came out, and at that time I was told that I was a "winter" and that I should wear black (NOT grey!), white (NOT cream!) and plenty of jewel tones. Welllllll, that was a long time ago, and my dark brown hair is now various shades of grey. So off I went to have it done again, and... surprise!... black and white are OUT, grey and cream are IN, and jewel tones are doing me no favors. Teal blue and forest green are my friends, but cobalt and sapphire are out the door. What's most interesting about all this is that I've found I agree with her. When I swap out my black cardigan for a navy or charcoal one, and put a cream-grey-and navy scarf around my neck, I won't say I look 20 years younger, but I do look much more rested.

 

[ElainePG]

This is what I had but I am not sure they are me. I think it is more the feeling I wanted to give then how I feel.

I think these are great words! Do they feel like the image you want to project? Because I think that's what she means by "style words."

 

[ElainePG]

I'm going to shop my own closet as much as I can this summer. I've accumulated way more clothes than I need. The only things I might buy are a few dresses or skirts. I haven't worn a dress in ages.

I'd love to find a couple of dresses, also, but everything I look at on line looks much too young for me. Maybe because I'm mostly seeing floral prints. I probably need to look in different places!

 

[ElainePG]

April stats
bags in 0
bags out 0
slgs in 2 (not received yet)
slgs out 7

I'm a little mad at myself because I bought an SLG today on ebay just to use up my ebay bucks. I didn't need it but it was cheap.

7 SLGs out is good, though!

 

[msd_bags]

Hello everyone

Sorry to be MIA. I’m lurking and liking

I’m currently on holiday so I’m missing all of my bags. The only bags with me are my Longchamp pliage and Diorever WOC. Here are some pictures.

I’m not really doing any of the challenges; since I got my YSL Envelope all of my rotation attempts have failed. I love it, and it’s all I carry for the work week. I’m hoping I get bored of it soon and start to rotate, but right now it would be too hard to fight it

I always enjoy your travel photos!!

I myself was in Singapore from Sunday to Wednesday. It was a business trip so schedule was a bit tight, but of course I did squeeze some shopping time! Add to this that we were staying at a hotel in Orchard Road. Our hotel was a few steps aways from shopping malls. I brought my Mulberry Leighton for my official functions while I used my BV Pillow for going around the city after official duties.

Btw, I posted about my bag temptation here. Well, I did not buy the Braun Buffel bag after all. But I did get a nylon Longchamp to scratch the itch!

 

[msd_bags]

Oh, and I bought a Laduree charm at the inflight duty free store.

 

[ElainePG]

Oh, and I bought a Laduree charm at the inflight duty free store.
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Love the charm... so cute! Pretty color combo.

 

[dcooney4]

Hello everyone

Sorry to be MIA. I’m lurking and liking

I’m currently on holiday so I’m missing all of my bags. The only bags with me are my Longchamp pliage and Diorever WOC. Here are some pictures.

I’m not really doing any of the challenges; since I got my YSL Envelope all of my rotation attempts have failed. I love it, and it’s all I carry for the work week. I’m hoping I get bored of it soon and start to rotate, but right now it would be too hard to fight it

Love these photo's . Your challenge is to stay in those two bags as long as possible. lol Have a wonderful time.