2021 Resolution: Shopping my own bag and SLG collection. Any one else?

[Sparkletastic]

NOVEMBER ACTIVITIES

1. Bags by Brand Showcase!

Each week, share photos of your bags from the specified brands. Choose a posed “beauty” shot or get your bags out and about in action shots!

We highlight 3 brands per week: 2 premier and 1 contemporary in alphabetical order as listed on tPF. Any brands not listed are showcased in our last week. Brands change to the next set each Sunday.

Our first brand week starts now - Sunday, Oct 31. Please share photos of bags from these brands:

• Bottega Venetta
• Burberry
• Alexander Wang

Tip: Grab your photos from last year in the 2020 resolution thread. Search your user name and the brand to find your photos.

2. Special Stories
Thanks @Claudia Herzog for the suggestion

Wear a bag that has a backstory involving a person, place, or opportunity for which you feel grateful.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Actually, butterflies are believed to be psychopomps; sacred to Psyche, queen of the Dead and Spring. Those cheerful, bright happy colorful beings guide the deserving lost to their reward.

So, Angels of Death, but not goth ones.

That’s really neat! I didn’t know that! A new appreciation for butterflies.

 

[whateve]

On Poshmark, you cannot set offer parameters, so you often get them for as much as 50% of your reasonable and researched listing price. Mercari only allows official offers of 25% off or less, but I get messages with 40-50% off. If I jacked up my prices or did not look to make sure my price is within market value and competitive, I would understand lowballs. But I do the research. If I wanted to sell it for 59% of what I am asking and lose money, I would list it at that price. I am willing to consider an offer of 20% or less, but that’s it.

I automatically list on Posh for more than I want as I don't think anyone has ever paid the asking price.

 

[baghabitz34]

I am joining this thread a little late, but have thoroughly enjoyed reading all your goals for 2021. We will be moving sometime this year and in preparation I am looking at my closet and reevaluating much of what I own. I don't want to pack and move more than I need to, and it would feel good to settle into our new home with a more streamlined wardrobe and bag collection.

My goals are:

1. Wear what I buy. This might sound simple, but it forces me to stop shopping for my fantasy lifestyle and shop for the lifestyle I have now. I have kids, don't work outside the home, and have a pretty casual style. Thanks to Covid, we don't go out to events at all (though I know that will change one day). I need to spend more on things that I will wear/use regularly and stop spending money on beautiful thing that will just sit in my closet.

2. Take care of bags that need some love. I have at least two vintage bags that I won't carry/sell/give away until they get some minor repairs. Its time to take care of them and either use them or pass them on to someone who will.

3. Let go of the pieces that don't serve me anymore. I have some lovely things that just don't suit my current lifestyle, and it's time to honest about whether or not I will use them in the future.

Welcome to the thread! Great goals!

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

My funny way of pricing my bags (or anything) is I choose the lowest number that would still motivate me to gladly part with my item. I consider where else the money would be used and the joy those purposes would bring my family and if all that seems greater to me than the joy that the item I'm selling brings us.... Then that's it's price. Any lower and I'm not open up selling. Of course I do check how much similar items have gone for lately if I suspect the market price is higher than my lowest acceptable sales price. Then I might jack up the price to market price.

 

[JenJBS]

I've been so bad this year... But found this for $65 on YOOX. I've wanted a circle bag for several months. Wanted the Ferragamo round Studio bag, but it was well over $1000, even on sale. So I feel good about getting my circle bag for only $65 - even if Rebecca Minkoff isn't in the same league as Ferragamo for quality - I still love RM! And my wallet really, really loves RM prices!

 

[BowieFan1971]

I've been so bad this year... But found this for $65 on YOOX. I've wanted a circle bag for several months. Wanted the Ferragamo round Studio bag, but it was well over $1000, even on sale. So I feel good about getting my circle bag for only $65 - even if Rebecca Minkoff isn't in the same league as Ferragamo for quality - I still love RM! And my wallet really, really loves RM prices!

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Portland Leather Goods had new circle bags for $49 and $69 in a range of yummy colors...and black

 

[JenJBS]

Portland Leather Goods had new circle bags for $49 and $69 in a range of yummy colors...and black

I did look at those - having seen your posts, and other people's. I prefer not to have that outside pocket. Just my personal preference, that I don't love outside pockets on bags. Otherwise I'd have probably gotten a couple of the Portland Leather bags. Their colors are extraordinary!

 

[BowieFan1971]

I did look at those - having seen your posts, and other people's. I prefer not to have that outside pocket. Just my personal preference, that I don't love outside pockets on bags. Otherwise I'd have probably gotten a couple of the Portland Leather bags. Their colors are extraordinary!

Yes, they are!!!!

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Ditto. It doesn't cost anything to ask and it's not required to respond. Once in awhile I'm shocked and my offer gets accepted & I get to celebrate a real bargain! Considering that every few months a package just gets lost forever and I never see the item or the money ever again, it balances things out if a few times a year I also get a jaw dropping low price! But I would never get such deals if I never made low offers. Of course I'm not offering half price or anything, I'm offering usually 60% as my opening negotiation move. Then again I'm the daughter and granddaughter of a long line of Persian bazaar salesmen so I live to wheel and deal and negotiate; I think it's fun.
Clearly I'm in the minority in this group but I was born with bargain hunting blood. I live for buying low and selling high to buy more lows!!

There´s nothing wrong with: "Come on, play ball with me!" when there´s the opportunity to make an offer. I always do it in a playful way, never expecting my first offer to be accepted and always write a nice text.
I love a bargain and when a seller plays price-ball with me I do play, too, giving them the chance to have a bargain, too.

 

[Purses & Perfumes]

I've been so bad this year... But found this for $65 on YOOX. I've wanted a circle bag for several months. Wanted the Ferragamo round Studio bag, but it was well over $1000, even on sale. So I feel good about getting my circle bag for only $65 - even if Rebecca Minkoff isn't in the same league as Ferragamo for quality - I still love RM! And my wallet really, really loves RM prices!

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Congrats on your purchase! I love circle bags.

So jelous of all of you living in places where you can expect vaccines to be available in the short term...

It doesn't look like it will be available any time soon where I am.

@jblended, I like the blue painted version of your butterfly bag.

Books read - I finished Great Expectations and then watched the 1946 film. The book was better. I've started Sense and Sensibility.

I often prefer the book version to the film version for many of my favorite books. I haven't read any books in a while....maybe I'll look around and find something light and humorous for this weekend. Maybe something by P.G. Wodehouse. I still love the feel of an actual book and have never tried audio books or other versions.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

I used to be a “saver”...I would buy something nice because it was beautiful or fantastic quality and a great buy, then never wear or use it because I was saving it for some occasion or because I didn’t want to ruin it. With changes in weight, I have given away beautiful things I have never worn but now cannot because they no longer fit me. A waste on so many levels! Well, I stopped doing that. Things like bags and clothes are made to be worn, used, not sit in a drawer or closet. So now I use my nice things. I could afford to get it without debt and I deserve to have done nice things, so I deserve to use them.

I´m still very much a "saver", but am actively fighting against this mindset: Dior New Lock and YSL vintage leopard coat for the trip to the grocery store today.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

I automatically list on Posh for more than I want as I don't think anyone has ever paid the asking price.

That´s what I do on the classifieds, too. Everybody wants to play price-ball, so listing an item for what I really have to have for it does not make sense.

 

[sherrylynn]

Actually, butterflies are believed to be psychopomps; sacred to Psyche, queen of the Dead and Spring. Those cheerful, bright happy colorful beings guide the deserving lost to their reward.

So, Angels of Death, but not goth ones.

I love learning things like this! So interesting.
Thanks for sharing
Oh, and I'm never going to be able to look at butterflies the same way!

 

[Jereni]

I've been so bad this year... But found this for $65 on YOOX. I've wanted a circle bag for several months. Wanted the Ferragamo round Studio bag, but it was well over $1000, even on sale. So I feel good about getting my circle bag for only $65 - even if Rebecca Minkoff isn't in the same league as Ferragamo for quality - I still love RM! And my wallet really, really loves RM prices!

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Cute! I’ve been wanting a circle bag also. Haven’t found the right one yet.
This is not quite a circle bag but reminds me of the look. Might order this.

 

[BowieFan1971]

I´m still very much a "saver", but am actively fighting against this mindset: Dior New Lock and YSL vintage leopard coat for the trip to the grocery store today.

I love it!!! Wish I had gotten to see it!