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.

 

[dcooney4]

Lucky you! Congratulations!
I keep wanting a bag, some bag, can´t even tell which one exactly and it drives me mad.
The only one I´m quite sure about wanting is on a classifieds site and the seller is totall unresponsive. I guess this means the bag is not meant for me. Still when I can´t get it, I feel I need it... Silly!

I think we have all been there.

 

[FizzyWater]

Good Luck!
Now to hope UPS works properly! I hate UPS. Our driver is a nuissance and when I do not lurk at the window and run out to meet him the moment he arrives he will just drive away, again... "no doorbell". Exactly. But all the other couriers know what to do. This man doesn´t and I have explained it to him many times.

Someone compromised my credit card, so a new one was sent to my US address. The forwarder there doesn't send international mail signature required, so I had them send it to my friend in California, who paid for (and I will pay her back for) signature required. I haven't left the apartment since Sunday. Today my bf goes out to take the recycling, and there's the UPS note. They didn't even ring the bell, and they left it at a nearby convenience store. I hate UPS so, so much.

 

[BowieFan1971]

That is SO very wrong!!!!!

 

[whateve]

Even prime doesn´t work quickly here anymore...

Once the pandemic hit, even with prime, things were taking over a week, sometimes a month. It's gotten closer to normal now. Nothing is next day, but is usually within 3 days.

 

[whateve]

Someone compromised my credit card, so a new one was sent to my US address. The forwarder there doesn't send international mail signature required, so I had them send it to my friend in California, who paid for (and I will pay her back for) signature required. I haven't left the apartment since Sunday. Today my bf goes out to take the recycling, and there's the UPS note. They didn't even ring the bell, and they left it at a nearby convenience store. I hate UPS so, so much.

UPS is good here. I've heard of some drivers who sign the item themselves so they don't have to wait for a signature but that never happened to me. Once I sent a package to a buyer, signature required, but she was never home to sign so they ended up returning the package to me; they wouldn't even let me change the address to her work so it would be able to be delivered.

The other day I was waiting for a prescription that was sent USPS. Tracking said it was delivered on Friday and I was panicked because I couldn't call the pharmacy until Monday. It was delivered on Saturday. Obviously the carrier scanned it as delivered before it was actually done.

 

[FizzyWater]

Card retrieved, huzzah!

I do think about purses, really. I decided to give away a small light gray bag as I never wear it. As I was pulling it out, I found my long-lost-and-long-replaced passport, and a map of Barcelona. Hmm. Barcelona was in 2014...

I do want a small light gray bag (just not that one, clearly!) so I've been hunting rather obsessively. After hours of looking at purses, I decided I really want a "wedding" version of my "funeral" purse, the Lola by Hobo Intl. It's a 20-year old purse, and not luxury at all, but functional, structured so slightly formal, tucks unobtrusively under my arm and has no logos. And I personally think it's really pretty. (Image from Amazon - ooh, it came in plum!)


Of course, it never sold here, so I may break down and buy a few from Ebay US, and possibly repaint to the color(s) I want. If so, I'll need handholding, probably.

On the other end of the cost spectrum, Hermes came out with a Calvi with an integrated coin purse, which makes it the perfect tiny wallet, and there's one left on the German site. In Rouge H. For $400 Euros, which is completely ridiculous, especially given my rainbow of normal Calvis.

 

[SakuraSakura]

If anybody is curious about my groom cles it was just posted on Fashionphile. Come take a peek!

https://www.fashionphile.com/p/louis-vuitton-monogram-groom-key-pouch-717041

I'm doing... okay. I hope everyone is staying COVID free.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Someone compromised my credit card, so a new one was sent to my US address. The forwarder there doesn't send international mail signature required, so I had them send it to my friend in California, who paid for (and I will pay her back for) signature required. I haven't left the apartment since Sunday. Today my bf goes out to take the recycling, and there's the UPS note. They didn't even ring the bell, and they left it at a nearby convenience store. I hate UPS so, so much.

Typical UPS... I hope you filed a complaint!

 

[cowgirlsboots]

I bought a scarf...

When it first arrived (VC, direct shipping) I was disappointed. It was crumpled and looked dirty. After a wash- ignoring the "dryclean only" tag- and pressing it looks really nice.

It was cheap, but still I do not understand why a professional seller does send something out that really needs a wash and pressing.

Shipping by DHL express from France was very quick.

 

[mariliz11]

I bought a scarf...

When it first arrived (VC, direct shipping) I was disappointed. It was crumpled and looked dirty. After a wash- ignoring the "dryclean only" tag- and pressing it looks really nice.

It was cheap, but still I do not understand why a professional seller does send something out that really needs a wash and pressing.

Shipping by DHL express from France was very quick.

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Nice scarf! And I agree, I bought once one as well that just needed a dry cleaning and after I did it looked as new. At least for the items I sold on VC I always made sure they were cleaned and cared for before shipping off, it’s a simple gesture between fellow shoppers!

 

[BowieFan1971]

I bought a scarf...

When it first arrived (VC, direct shipping) I was disappointed. It was crumpled and looked dirty. After a wash- ignoring the "dryclean only" tag- and pressing it looks really nice.

It was cheap, but still I do not understand why a professional seller does send something out that really needs a wash and pressing.

Shipping by DHL express from France was very quick.

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VC says in their selling instructions that items need to be clean. Who wants someone’s dirt on them?

 

[whateve]

I bought a scarf...

When it first arrived (VC, direct shipping) I was disappointed. It was crumpled and looked dirty. After a wash- ignoring the "dryclean only" tag- and pressing it looks really nice.

It was cheap, but still I do not understand why a professional seller does send something out that really needs a wash and pressing.

Shipping by DHL express from France was very quick.

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I don't understand that either. I can understand not washing something that is supposed to be dry clean only, but I would spot clean and press. I've wrapped scarves carefully with lots of tissue but I don't know if they still look pressed by the time they are received. Once I shipped some clothing but I explained in the listing that it would arrive wrinkled as the cheapest way to ship was to basically shrink wrap it so it would fit in a flat rate envelope.

The scarf is very pretty! The upside is that you usually get these items cheaper due to the seller's poor presentation.

 

[whateve]

I've shown my other multi-colored bags recently, but here are two more that are truly multi-colored.
Brighton and Coach Kaffe Fassett

 

[Jereni]

I've shown my other multi-colored bags recently, but here are two more that are truly multi-colored.
Brighton and Coach Kaffe Fassett
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Nice! That bowling bag style one is fun!

 

[Jereni]

I don’t think I have multi-color bags that I haven’t shared as part of a color week. But wanted to share another recent acquisition, which is the Valextra Iside in Oyster.

LOVING this bag. It’s funny, because I am also going thru a phase of wanting smoosh soft leather bags, and yet I love this. It is so classy and cures me of needing a Kelly.