2020 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?

[Stratford]

Thanks, I'm determined to come up with something...

You can get precut white felt from Amazon (like 8 1/2” x 11” or larger). I have used that to keep bags from touching. I am working on my closet and storage ideas currently. I used to try and do it all at once, but now I do 20 - 30 minutes a day. I literally set a timer. Then I dont get overwhelmed. What I have found is that after a few days a new idea will occur to me about rearranging something and all of the sudden I find new “space”.

Anyone else play closet Tetris on a regular basis?

 

[muchstuff]

You can get precut white felt from Amazon (like 8 1/2” x 11” or larger). I have used that to keep bags from touching. I am working on my closet and storage ideas currently. I used to try and do it all at once, but now I do 20 - 30 minutes a day. I literally set a timer. Then I dont get overwhelmed. What I have found is that after a few days a new idea will occur to me about rearranging something and all of the sudden I find new “space”.

Anyone else play closet Tetris on a regular basis?

Great idea!

 

[Katinahat]

You can get precut white felt from Amazon (like 8 1/2” x 11” or larger). I have used that to keep bags from touching. I am working on my closet and storage ideas currently. I used to try and do it all at once, but now I do 20 - 30 minutes a day. I literally set a timer. Then I dont get overwhelmed. What I have found is that after a few days a new idea will occur to me about rearranging something and all of the sudden I find new “space”.

Anyone else play closet Tetris on a regular basis?

Great game comparison! Was playing exactly this last week to get my new bag to fit in my cupboard when I wasn’t carrying it!

 

[ElainePG]

I was picked up a little summer crossbody at the outlets. It is light blue and will work wonderfully with my summer wardrobe. I will pull it out in blue week. I checked it out against my summer clothes and it will work perfectly. Now it is tucked away till we are no longer freezing here.

It sounds pretty! I look forward to seeing it.

 

[ElainePG]

It's an oldie, but they have resurrected it just now for spring, with changes. It's more like an Evelyne now. The strap is longer. There is also a version with fringe. But the classic oldies are available on eBay very reasonably. Some fun colors. Lots of variety in leather (epsom / courchevel is very lightweight and sturdy, if not particularly cuddly). I can see you in a trim! (31). Also MOST have zip tops, but some don't. There seems to have been a lot of variety in details!

I don't need a zipper to close the top of the bag (I live in a boringly safe place, and don't take public transport because there's hardly any). I need an inside zip pocket on the back wall of the bag, to hold my keys & pen so that they don't fall to the bottom.
I went to the obvious reseller sites, and you're right, there are a LOT available at good prices! The 31 seemed like the best size for me, but I didn't know what leather would be good. I've heard of Epsom, but I've never heard of courchevel. I don't need to cuddle with my bag, LOL!

 

[ElainePG]

It's still a beautiful bag! Do you think that you could find a solid color strap that would make you reach for the bag more?

I hadn't thought of that. What color do you think would work? The dark green is so hard to match! And if I try black or brown, I'm just worried that it will look peculiar. I'm open to ideas!

 

[essiedub]

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Just so luscious! Can you show interior?

 

[ohmisseevee]

I have not been doing a great job with SLGs this month - I've been playing around with different bag organization methods and haven't quite settled on a single method, since some bags necessitate a different arrangement. Currently I'm trying Stashio after reading about it in this forum, with a combination of that and other small SLGs.
Bags: 0 in, 0 out
SLGs: 6 in, 0 out
Usage stats:

Coach Pluto Wristlet (1 day), Polene Numero Un Mini (2 days), Samantha Vega Bijoux Tote (1 day), Laflore Bobobark (4 days), YSL Mini Lou (4 days), Massaccesi Juliet Midi (4 days), Massaccesi Victoria Midi (14 days)

Purple was definitely the winner this month at 18 days of use! Black was next at 8 days, followed by reds (3 days) and lastly yellow at 1 day.

I was able to successfully migrate to a compact wallet and a couple of card holders (one with business cards, the other for miscellaneous loyalty and gift cards) - surprisingly, the wallet was from a new brand to me, Deadly Ponies. It met all of my requirements (full leather interior and exterior, coin pouch with flap closure, zip closure for the wallet, bill pocket wide enough for unfolded bills, 3+ card slots, and not too fat when it has cards/bills/coins/etc inside) and while the leather isn't as luxurious as my Celine long zip and as the LV Victorine I hope to get eventually, but it is certainly one of the most compact of the options I have looked at and it was a great value at less than US$150.

The other SLGs I indulged in are from the new Coach × Disney collection - two round coin purses (Thumper and Aristocats), one wristlet (Pluto), and one coin purse/accessory pouch (101 Dalmatians). I'm also counting a card holder that came free with my Coach purchase - it's got a cute turnlock closure and has the leather flower motif that I like!

Only one of those purchases was intended as a gift, but the others are so delightful and I definitely intend to use them or rotate through them ... I can't imagine being able to zero out my SLGs by the end of the year. That goal might end up being a wash!

Pictured below - my new Pluto wristlet

 

[lynne_ross]

I've been MIA because I was on my first work trip during my first week back to work this week! It felt great to be productive again but the loss of sleep from being on the road, pumping at inopportune times (like in my seat on the plane, which I only dared to do once), not being with my daughter, was all tiring. Just caught up on everything here and love seeing the pictures of your beautiful bags!!

I may have picked up a bag this week that my sister was offered... She liked it but didn't love it and it'll go to either my Mom or me, or we'll share. It's a Birkin 25 Gris Perle chèvre, Rouge H interior, brushed gold hardware. It was a mistake special order bag that was placed incorrectly for another client, so it was offered to my sister! It's lovely. Not a color I would have ordered, but the shade of gray is so beautiful. I spotted a mini Roulis that I love and asked my store to bring it in for me. Now, I am going to think of one or two bags I'd like to rehome. I'm not in the mood to grow my collection by much these days. Just in and out.

Oh so lucky - I loooove Gris perle!

Glad your first week went well! I breastfeed so many times on planes travelling with my kids. People are understanding.

 

[ElainePG]

I didn't keep track of how many books I read but it was probably 3 or 4. It typically takes me a a week to 10 days to finish a 300-400 page book. My library books were due yesterday but there was one I hadn't finished. I had already renewed it the maximum number of times. I asked at the library if they would check it back in and then check it back out to me, but they said they aren't allowed to do that. They told me to just keep it until I was done. They've gotten rid of fines so nothing really happens until you are overdue 45 days - then they charge you the cost of the book. I feel like an outlaw, keeping an overdue book!

I know exactly what you mean!

 

[ElainePG]

It´s so thoughtless and unnecessary to pack carelessly. Items might get damaged and even if they don´t- this bag at least came in a very sturdy box- the buyer will have no pleasure in unwrapping.

Each and every little item I sell will be wrapped in tissue paper, sometimes with a bow and well padded. I love to receive nice parcels so I send them out, too.

The worst and most frustrating package I ever got was for a YSL Tom ford Rive Gauche bag from around 2001. I had bought it on ebay for 65 Euro from some house clearance people. It arrived in a dirty destroyed box held together with sticky tape and inside was wrapped into a dusty green bin liner. The bag is the real thing and beautiful, but it took me a while to overcome the frustration of the packing. It felt so wrong!

That's just terrible.

 

[ElainePG]

You can get precut white felt from Amazon (like 8 1/2” x 11” or larger). I have used that to keep bags from touching. I am working on my closet and storage ideas currently. I used to try and do it all at once, but now I do 20 - 30 minutes a day. I literally set a timer. Then I dont get overwhelmed. What I have found is that after a few days a new idea will occur to me about rearranging something and all of the sudden I find new “space”.

Anyone else play closet Tetris on a regular basis?

Meeeeeee!!!!!!

(Also in kitchen drawers, desk drawers, the fridge, and… most recently… both medicine cabinets.)

 

[Vintage Leather]

I was thinking about what Cowgirlboots said about if purchasing a grail counts against your monthly totals which made me think a lot about my wishlists and my grails and what I am shopping for.

For me, purchasing a grail doesn’t count. Defining a bag as a grail, however, is a recent sin.

I’m simplifying in order to reduce my mental load. I don’t want to think about stuff, I don’t want to worry about things.
I have enough items on my to do list, and enough people that I’m caring for - bags are work these days. And getting rid of stuff? I want to know my bags and jewelry are going to a good home, so rehoming is work too.

But those grail bags ... I keep hunting for them.

I use shopping - especially vintage shopping - as a displacement activity when I'm stressed, and I'll buy when a rare item I've hunted for a number of years comes up.

Are bags are worth worrying over? I wonder about my collector's mindset - devoting such a large mental load to what I don't have rather than what I do. The idea that something can be a grail. But one of my grail bags just came up - for triple retail, and on a month when I'm already overcommitted to school expenses for the Knight. I know it's stupid, and I'm not buying it. But I'm putting it on a watch list.

I haven't stopped collection and shopping and hunting, but I might need to work on that. Because I take on the mental burden when I decide to buy the bag, the sin comes then. Does that make sense?

 

[ElainePG]

I have not been doing a great job with SLGs this month - I've been playing around with different bag organization methods and haven't quite settled on a single method, since some bags necessitate a different arrangement. Currently I'm trying Stashio after reading about it in this forum, with a combination of that and other small SLGs.
Bags: 0 in, 0 out
SLGs: 6 in, 0 out
Usage stats:
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Coach Pluto Wristlet (1 day), Polene Numero Un Mini (2 days), Samantha Vega Bijoux Tote (1 day), Laflore Bobobark (4 days), YSL Mini Lou (4 days), Massaccesi Juliet Midi (4 days), Massaccesi Victoria Midi (14 days)

Purple was definitely the winner this month at 18 days of use! Black was next at 8 days, followed by reds (3 days) and lastly yellow at 1 day.

I was able to successfully migrate to a compact wallet and a couple of card holders (one with business cards, the other for miscellaneous loyalty and gift cards) - surprisingly, the wallet was from a new brand to me, Deadly Ponies. It met all of my requirements (full leather interior and exterior, coin pouch with flap closure, zip closure for the wallet, bill pocket wide enough for unfolded bills, 3+ card slots, and not too fat when it has cards/bills/coins/etc inside) and while the leather isn't as luxurious as my Celine long zip and as the LV Victorine I hope to get eventually, but it is certainly one of the most compact of the options I have looked at and it was a great value at less than US$150.

The other SLGs I indulged in are from the new Coach × Disney collection - two round coin purses (Thumper and Aristocats), one wristlet (Pluto), and one coin purse/accessory pouch (101 Dalmatians). I'm also counting a card holder that came free with my Coach purchase - it's got a cute turnlock closure and has the leather flower motif that I like!

Only one of those purchases was intended as a gift, but the others are so delightful and I definitely intend to use them or rotate through them ... I can't imagine being able to zero out my SLGs by the end of the year. That goal might end up being a wash!

Pictured below - my new Pluto wristlet

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That pluto wristlet is adorable!

ETA: Aaaaaaaaand… it's sold out!

 

[More bags]

Unless the angels in this forum who are capable of resisting the urge of frustration related shopping I caved in.... The bag arrived today: a 2007 dior "lovely" model. Hopefully this will finally be the one that gets used on a daily base. It´s nice, but no stunner and no collector´s piece.
I love the Dior charm on the front!
We are still in the bonding process as I have to overcome the frustration of having received it lined in hair. It must have last been used for a hairdressing appointment and lots of the clippings fell into it and got caught in the crease behind the lids of the exterior pockets. It looks a bit greyish in the photo due to the flash. In reality it´s deep black and almost like new.
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I tried to put my things into it and am happy with the capacity. The huge wallet fits without any problems and there´s room for more.

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Congratulations, this looks like a great bag. Ewww, I agree with you, the hair trimmings is icky. Perhaps you can use a lint brush with the sticky tape roller to try and remove some of the previous owner’s belongings?