2022 Resolution: Shopping my own bag and SLG collection. Anyone else?

[Katinahat]

2 Aug - brand showcase: A-F
4 Sept - brand showcase: G-L
11 Sept - brand showcase: M-R
18 Sept - brand showcase: S-Z
25 Sept - totes
2 Oct - satchels
9 Oct - crossbodies inc WOCS
16 Oct - shoulder bags
23 Oct - bucket bags
30 Oct - clutches
6 Nov - backpacks
13 Nov - bags that don’t count
20 Nov - pairing bags with shoes
27 Nov - pairing bags with other accessories
4 Dec - bag storage
11 Dec - SLGs
18 Dec - charms

Challenges:
Sept - bags in different locations
Oct - Halloween: wear orange or black bags
Nov - International Merlot Day: wear wine coloured bags or pair bags with wine.
Dec - use the bag.

 

[whateve]

When you reach a certain age, I am convinced every dentist recommends invisalyn!

i neglected to punctuate. I meant my medical specialist does laser, Botox, and vollure filler. My point in including this was to recommend a specialist who was expert in many different solutions but who doesn’t push any aggressively. Apologies

My dentist hasn't but she did recommend a mouthguard, and we were wondering what the difference between invisalyn and a mouthguard is other than the obvious that a mouthguard is supposed to fit your teeth the way they are and the invisalyn is supposed to be slightly off to force your teeth into new alignment. When I got my mouthguard, it hurt terribly and I think it did force me teeth into new alignment. It doesn't hurt as much now.

 

[880]

My dentist hasn't but she did recommend a mouthguard, and we were wondering what the difference between invisalyn and a mouthguard is other than the obvious that a mouthguard is supposed to fit your teeth the way they are and the invisalyn is supposed to be slightly off to force your teeth into new alignment. When I got my mouthguard, it hurt terribly and I think it did force me teeth into new alignment. It doesn't hurt as much now.

I think this is exactly it, +1 with @whateve . My dentist recommended a mouth guard (I grind my teeth apparently) and then said I needed invisalyne, so the mouth guard was kind of forgotten, IDK. My teeth look better (though my iPhone doesn’t recognize me), but who knows when it will be over. It’s like getting to Kafka‘s castle or waiting for Godot

@Katinahat , wow that is expensive. I would not do it for that amount either.

@DME, my dentist swears he doesn’t make all that much on the procedure

@papertiger, are VCA price hikes higher than cartier? Fingers crossed you can get the top item on your list! Cannot wait to see!

 

[papertiger]

I think this is exactly it, +1 with @whateve . My dentist recommended a mouth guard (I grind my teeth apparently) and then said I needed invisalyne, so the mouth guard was kind of forgotten, IDK. My teeth look better (though my iPhone doesn’t recognize me), but who knows when it will be over. It’s like getting to Kafka‘s castle or waiting for Godot

@Katinahat , wow that is expensive. I would not do it for that amount either.

@DME, my dentist swears he doesn’t make all that much on the procedure

@papertiger, are VCA price hikes higher than cartier? Fingers crossed you can get the top item on your list! Cannot wait to see!

VC A will be higher overall but also more variable.

 

[Bag peace]

I tried to call Asprey at least 4 times about the red case. I couldn't get through They've had a massive overhaul of the company lately, it feels like a ship without a captain. I have my SA's contact details but I think he may have changed phones when they moved. I tried the main new phone number 1. CS 2. Retail staff & 3 Accounts. No luck.

I wonder if that's to do with the bank holiday? Are they swamped preparing for it?
That doesn't excuse them not being reachable, though.
Hope you love whatever you end up getting, jewelry or bag.

Thank you for the update!

Thank you for the support!

For anyone that remembers, I bought a happy bag from a small Dutch designer named frrry a while back. I loved the bag so much that I just bought a second one (with different colour/leather combinations). Here it is! You probably can’t even tell the difference between my first happy bag and second one since they are all so similar

Love! Your happy bags are such a brilliant expression of personality! Wear them in good health.

Also, as you mention them being very similar, I don't see that myself as the colours and position of patches makes them quite distinct. Then again, I do have a couple of doubles in my own collection and think it's a good thing, especially when a bag is unique, perfectly your style, or generally hard to find.
Here's my Halston crossbody clutch. I loved it so much, I immediately bought another. At the time, these were the only colours available ('brick red' suede and 'wildberry' smooth leather). They're painfully similar to each other- and I don't wear a lot of pinks/reds generally- yet I still say it's the best decision I made. The company had already gone out of business when I got these, and all these years later, I still smile when I carry these bags. So imo, doubles can be a great thing, and your happy bag is definitely special enough to have a double of.

 

[DME]

I think this is exactly it, +1 with @whateve . My dentist recommended a mouth guard (I grind my teeth apparently) and then said I needed invisalyne, so the mouth guard was kind of forgotten, IDK. My teeth look better (though my iPhone doesn’t recognize me), but who knows when it will be over. It’s like getting to Kafka‘s castle or waiting for Godot

@Katinahat , wow that is expensive. I would not do it for that amount either.

@DME, my dentist swears he doesn’t make all that much on the procedure

@papertiger, are VCA price hikes higher than cartier? Fingers crossed you can get the top item on your list! Cannot wait to see!

Interesting! At the rate the new dentist is hyping them, I figured it must be a cash cow. The old dentist rarely recommended anything. He always commented on how Crest WhiteStrips worked so well for me that there was no need to suggest professional whitening. So I just figured this was a money grab.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Yeah, my dentist offhandedly mentioned Invialign for my bottom teeth that got crowded by impacted wisdom teeth after my braces came off. I said no, never got mentioned again. Maybe because they can offer that product while braces have to be done by an orthodontist?

 

[JenJBS]

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

 

[JenJBS]

Our dear @ElainePG had a great idea a while ago.

This might be an interesting theme for one of our months: Do you have a (reasonably) affordable, under-the-radar bag that was an incredibly useful purchase? Show us a photo, and tell us why.

Since tomorrow starts the last Color Week should we use this question for the rest of May starting May 8, or wait and use it for the entire month of June?

 

[A bottle of Red]

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

Congratulations! Wishing you much success in the new job!

 

[JenJBS]

Congratulations! Wishing you much success in the new job!

Thank you!

 

[Cordeliere]

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

Yea!!!. So happy for you! Initial purse selection requires a lot of consideration. Start immediately. After you get the purse nailed down, then there is the outfit to choose.

I always loved resigning from jobs. Not a lot of work to do. Come in late. Leave early. What are they going to do? Fire you? Everyone says really nice things to you that they never said the whole time you worked there. Everybody wants to take you to lunch. It is a great time. Relax and enjoy your last two weeks. You will need the rest because the first six weeks of a new job are exhausting.

 

[Bag peace]

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

Congratulations!
Purse, outfit, perfume, shoes...it all gets decided now! Part of the excitement of a new place, new people, new tasks and hopefully a fantastic new chapter!

Do we get to know what bag you've picked or will you make us wait until the big day?

I always loved resigning from jobs. Not a lot of work to do. Come in late. Leave early. What are they going to do? Fire you? Everyone says really nice things to you that they never said the whole time you worked there. Everybody wants to take you to lunch. It is a great time. Relax and enjoy your last two weeks.

I feel cheated! Every resignation I've ever made has been the opposite of that. Come in early, leave late, complete anything pending, handover to the appropriate people, plus nobody wants to lunch with you because they're angry you're moving on...
I think working in hyper-competitive environments might have done that.

 

[papertiger]

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

Congratulations

Tell you 'friend' , it's OK, but only online browsing and window shopping - for research purposes naturally

 

[880]

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

Congratulations! I am so happy for you!
of course two weeks is not too early !

 

[Katinahat]

Just catching up to this thread. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks at work and I’m completely burnt out! I just booked an all-inclusive trip to Punta Cana with friends for end of June and I’m so excited! I initially wanted to go to Europe in June, but we started searching for flights too late and now everything is so expensive. Europe will have to wait till the fall.

@Cordeliere love all the travel posts! I feel like I’m right there in Israel right now reading about your travels.


That red briefcase is beautiful! Love your style. For me, I used to carry a Longchamp nylon tote with my laptop in it, plus a small wristlet. But the pandemic happened and then we started working from home. After offices reopened again, I realized that I really miss wearing my purses (especially since I didn’t get much opportunity to wear them during our long lockdowns), and so I ditched my Longchamp, bought a super lightweight laptop bag, and now wear my purses along with the laptop bag when going to the office. I definitely don’t count my laptop bag into my collection, not pretty enough haha
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Thank you for the update! I love hearing about all of your life updates outside of purses, and I consider all of you to be my friends so don’t worry about going “off-topic”! I’m so angry that there are people in this world who don’t even have an ounce of decency in them that they would mock someone for something they could not control. Like @Katinahat , I’m fortunate to live in a country where this kind of behaviour is illegal and employment law would take care of these people faster than they even realize what’s happening. This is a reflection of them and speaks volumes of their character. I feel sorry for them that they take enjoyment in someone else’s pain, what pitiful people.

Sorry to hear about your meeting with the surgeon. I hope that in time, new medical advancements will be developed and that there will soon be a procedure for you that’s both safe and yields the results that you want.

Hugs

Thank you for sharing this charity! I have not heard of them before but will read up about them to learn more about their impacts.

Happy belated birthday!! I’m sorry that your two weeks break was stressful. This is a beautiful bag, Longchamp leather goods and silk scarves are underrated!

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For anyone that remembers, I bought a happy bag from a small Dutch designer named frrry a while back. I loved the bag so much that I just bought a second one (with different colour/leather combinations). Here it is! You probably can’t even tell the difference between my first happy bag and second one since they are all so similar when I saw this bag, it immediately spoke to me and I joked to my colleague that if I were ever reborn as a handbag, this would be it. It’s me in a handbag, so I just had to get another one after I bought my second one, the price increased by 60 euros so I guess I got a good deal too.

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Thank you @papertiger ! It’s from frrry:

frrry

Bags like you've never seen before, that simply make sense. For daily use and made to last. Leather design bags, in simple and original shapes. Strong and well thought out constructions, handmade in the Netherlands. Made of chrome-free leather in vibrant colours. Sustainable slow-fashion. Small...

www.frrry.com

My patchwork bag is from his Classics section. It’s out of stock now, but he can make one upon request for anyone who’s interested!

I also have the owl bag from him that @jblended was interested in earlier!

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Just acknowledging with appreciation how much back reading you did to catch up with the thread and to thank you for your various helpful and supportive comments to other members and me. Love both your colourful bags and your owl. A fun designer!

I prefer Kipling bags too, but wondering sometimes if they look too casual/sloppy. Does this look like an old lady bag?

No, sometimes an easy carry nylon bag is better for the task or situation at hand. For example, I dog walk with nylon KS rarely leather.

I think this is exactly it, +1 with @whateve . My dentist recommended a mouth guard (I grind my teeth apparently) and then said I needed invisalyne, so the mouth guard was kind of forgotten, IDK. My teeth look better (though my iPhone doesn’t recognize me), but who knows when it will be over. It’s like getting to Kafka‘s castle or waiting for Godot

@Katinahat , wow that is expensive. I would not do it for that amount either.

@DME, my dentist swears he doesn’t make all that much on the procedure

@papertiger, are VCA price hikes higher than cartier? Fingers crossed you can get the top item on your list! Cannot wait to see!

That price was for all 4 of us and DD1 needed a lot because of her jaw - an underbite. The rest of us needed less but still expensive. We are lucky to live somewhere children here free dentistry and any essential orthodontist work.

I wonder if that's to do with the bank holiday? Are they swamped preparing for it?
That doesn't excuse them not being reachable, though.
Hope you love whatever you end up getting, jewelry or bag.


Thank you for the support!

Love! Your happy bags are such a brilliant expression of personality! Wear them in good health.

Also, as you mention them being very similar, I don't see that myself as the colours and position of patches makes them quite distinct. Then again, I do have a couple of doubles in my own collection and think it's a good thing, especially when a bag is unique, perfectly your style, or generally hard to find.
Here's my Halston crossbody clutch. I loved it so much, I immediately bought another. At the time, these were the only colours available ('brick red' suede and 'wildberry' smooth leather). They're painfully similar to each other- and I don't wear a lot of pinks/reds generally- yet I still say it's the best decision I made. The company had already gone out of business when I got these, and all these years later, I still smile when I carry these bags. So imo, doubles can be a great thing, and your happy bag is definitely special enough to have a double of.

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I agree! I definitely think it’s fine to have bags in the same style but different colours! These are lovely and quite different really. I have 3 Alexa's and two Lily’s.

Got offered the job I wanted today! Turned in Two Week Notice/Resignation Letter to my current job. Getting 'promoted' from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant!

Is two weeks too early to start deciding on my purse for the first day of the new job? Asking for a friend...

Congratulations! Wonderful news. Now is definitely fine. Shopping own collection if possible but this might allow a gift to self for new role. Oops - enabling!

Our dear @ElainePG had a great idea a while ago.

This might be an interesting theme for one of our months: Do you have a (reasonably) affordable, under-the-radar bag that was an incredibly useful purchase? Show us a photo, and tell us why.

Since tomorrow starts the last Color Week should we use this question for the rest of May starting May 8, or wait and use it for the entire month of June?

I agree this is a good topic.

Yea!!!. So happy for you! Initial purse selection requires a lot of consideration. Start immediately. After you get the purse nailed down, then there is the outfit to choose.

I always loved resigning from jobs. Not a lot of work to do. Come in late. Leave early. What are they going to do? Fire you? Everyone says really nice things to you that they never said the whole time you worked there. Everybody wants to take you to lunch. It is a great time. Relax and enjoy your last two weeks. You will need the rest because the first six weeks of a new job are exhausting.

Congratulations!
Purse, outfit, perfume, shoes...it all gets decided now! Part of the excitement of a new place, new people, new tasks and hopefully a fantastic new chapter!

Do we get to know what bag you've picked or will you make us wait until the big day?



I feel cheated! Every resignation I've ever made has been the opposite of that. Come in early, leave late, complete anything pending, handover to the appropriate people, plus nobody wants to lunch with you because they're angry you're moving on...
I think working in hyper-competitive environments might have done that.

I wish @Cordeliere! I’m like @jblended on working my notice being awful. Leaving my last job, they’d initially indicated they’d let me out my notice period and reduce it to 2 months. In the end I was held for 6 months. Both new and old employees had a fight over me which was flattering but the whole situation was not good. Some of the senior management at my old employers became quite bitter so I really wasn’t treated well. They tried to get me to do major tasks that weren’t ever done until much later in the year and I refused. I wasn’t doing 12 months work in 6 months when they had two people lined up to replace my one role already both of whom were internal and could have started sooner. I was so over it by the time I left and slopped off after 13 years with hardly any recognition. Fortunately, two of the managers spoke up for me and were very kind. One arranged a last minute gift and afternoon tea when it became clear no one else would. I’m friends with them to this day despite leaving nearly 10 years ago. I’ve learned as much about successful leadership from bad leaders than good - if not more!!