2020 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?
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Here’s the bag I shopped from my closet today, LV Dora.
This is me too! Lately I try to not go in the store rather than come out empty handed.
Two bags out so far this month. One had been sitting around for a very long time. Happy it finally went.
I recently sold an item that has been sitting in my closet for a while. I managed to get precisely what I paid for it back. It feels good and much lighter.
I don't have too many goals when it comes to my handbags. I want to keep them at a minimum but I am allowed to purchase items to collect (Louis Vuitton LEs for example). I also need to keep remembering that I shouldn't normalise spending so much money on a handbag or accessories. I adore fashion but to normalise that excessive spending is unhealthy and unrealistic. The Purse Forum is a great place but it can also be really enabling. I almost ran out to purchase another item until reality hit me: that I cannot purchase it without feeling financially guilty. It was hard to say no to myself but I have self control. A full savings account is better than any handbag.
Proud of you!!!! It is hard! Keep up the good work
@tenKrat I love your gorgeous red Dora! 
@Cookiefiend Contributing to the line up of red bags, I shopped my closet and today I carried my red Chanel Reissue 226.
@Cookiefiend Contributing to the line up of red bags, I shopped my closet and today I carried my red Chanel Reissue 226.
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Thank you! So far, so good, though I have been tempted a couple of times. I'm planning a trip in March to an area with a lot of great shopping, so now I'm actually going to make it no extra spending in January AND February. Eeek.
I love all of this so much. Great analysis on all your stats, and I love the guiding principles you put forth.
I apologize in advance to thread members if I'm incorrect, but I believe we've posted book recommendation here from time to time.
I certainly have benefited from this, and I think other thread members have as well… yes? No? What do we all think? If we're reading, we can't be shopping, right?
I'm going to look for "The Good Lord Bird."
I'll be shopping for books, haha. Count me among those who love book recommendations!
Yay! That's terrific news, Elaine!It is… thank you for asking. The concussion symptoms are very nearly all gone.
I saw my doctor on Friday, and she was amazed at how quickly I've healed. She also cleared me to drive!!!
Same! I'd rather keep the cash. I also could never do a nothing-in challenge for long. I can (and need to) be choosy about a new purchase, but odds are that there will be one.
I do think it's easy to keep an inflated idea of a bag's worth in mind, and I'm definitely guilty of this. I have to remind myself that even when I used something gently or infrequently, what I paid is not what it's worth. But there are some brands that just do not hold their value for resale, and that's a real shame.
Blazers and coats are a major weakness of mine as well! I think I'm also about at capacity on those, but I'm not ready to admit it yet.
@tenKrat I love your gorgeous red Dora!
@Cookiefiend Contributing to the line up of red bags, I shopped my closet and today I carried my red Chanel Reissue 226.
Gorgeous!! I have red bag envy right now.
I recently let go of five bags that had literally been sitting in my closet for at least several years, because the styles just didn't suit my wardrobe and I simply never reached for them. I think part of the problem, too, was that I didn't have an easy way to transfer my belongings from one bag to another - all of my little items, chapstick and random papers/receipts and so on, would just be stuffed haphazardly in whatever pockets my bag had - and that has definitely changed as of last year, as I now have a small collection of lovely SLGs that are helping with organizing in my handbags.
But I am glad I let go of them. Two of them went to a friend who re-gifted to her mom and her brother's girlfriend, and the other four went to another friend and her family. To me, the bags are more valuable gone because they free up closet space, but also because I know they will enjoy more use with someone else.
One of those bags was a (giant) Gucci canvas shopper tote with an included thick shoulder/messenger strap. My friend (who is a teacher, and has great need of large bags as a result) was SO happy to receive it. It almost made my heart burst to see her joy, as a fellow lover of beautiful bags.
I definitely have a problem with buying stuff on vacation. For me, it's like having a little memento of my trip with me once I'm back home. My most recent case was a Celine Nano Belt Bag that I purchased when I was on my solo trip to Switzerland - I took a quick detour/trip to visit friends in Milan, and on my last day there just strolled around a Rinascente shopping center looking at beautiful luxury handbags, and just couldn't resist the siren call (I had fallen in love with the bag during an earlier trip to Italy, when I walked away with only a beautiful continental zip wallet).
I do have to admit that it's such a beautiful bag. I love using it and I also remember the great lengths I went to in order to get my VAT refund!
Thank you!
Ooo - gorgeous leather! I'm not familiar with this style - it looks very interesting!
Congratulations!!
What a beauty!@tenKrat I love your gorgeous red Dora!
@Cookiefiend Contributing to the line up of red bags, I shopped my closet and today I carried my red Chanel Reissue 226.
Congratulations! 5 bags out is huge, and how wonderful it is to have given a bag to a friend who was so happy to receive it.Gorgeous!! I have red bag envy right now.
I recently let go of five bags that had literally been sitting in my closet for at least several years, because the styles just didn't suit my wardrobe and I simply never reached for them. I think part of the problem, too, was that I didn't have an easy way to transfer my belongings from one bag to another - all of my little items, chapstick and random papers/receipts and so on, would just be stuffed haphazardly in whatever pockets my bag had - and that has definitely changed as of last year, as I now have a small collection of lovely SLGs that are helping with organizing in my handbags.
But I am glad I let go of them. Two of them went to a friend who re-gifted to her mom and her brother's girlfriend, and the other four went to another friend and her family. To me, the bags are more valuable gone because they free up closet space, but also because I know they will enjoy more use with someone else.
One of those bags was a (giant) Gucci canvas shopper tote with an included thick shoulder/messenger strap. My friend (who is a teacher, and has great need of large bags as a result) was SO happy to receive it. It almost made my heart burst to see her joy, as a fellow lover of beautiful bags.
I definitely have a problem with buying stuff on vacation. For me, it's like having a little memento of my trip with me once I'm back home. My most recent case was a Celine Nano Belt Bag that I purchased when I was on my solo trip to Switzerland - I took a quick detour/trip to visit friends in Milan, and on my last day there just strolled around a Rinascente shopping center looking at beautiful luxury handbags, and just couldn't resist the siren call (I had fallen in love with the bag during an earlier trip to Italy, when I walked away with only a beautiful continental zip wallet).
I do have to admit that it's such a beautiful bag. I love using it and I also remember the great lengths I went to in order to get my VAT refund!
Thanks Msd. Nice to be back. I gotta try to keep up cause we know how fast this group moves.Nice to ‘see’ you back Missie!
I know right? I don’t even know how to wear jeans if not with a blazer
It is not a work thing for me. Or not only, because it’s true I would not be without one at the office. But I started wearing blazers as a teenager. I remember my first one perfectly. A Daniel Hechter madras print in blues and greens that I wore with surfer t-shirts and Levis 501s... They have been my uniform since, even through that dark period at the end of the 90s when no one even slightly fashionable wore them until Stella McCartney came to the rescue.
If I go shopping, for trousers, or a shirt, or underwear, whatever... somehow I come back with a blazer. It is all I see in the shops. It is some sort of condition...
A Great blazer is a wardrobe staple and it’s so hard not to buy everyone you see. I love to wear with jeans a blouse and pumps. I am currently eyeing a tan Balmain blazer but I’m trying to stay focused on my jewelry goals. I’m going to Vegas this weekend so I hopefully don’t get distracted. I plan to go to VCA as I need to try on the 4 motif bracelet that I have on list for my birthday.