2024 Resolution: Shopping my own Bag and SLG Collection

[Sparkletastic]

December Activities and Challenges - pick and choose as you please.

I. 2024 Year In Review Reflection
(Thanks @Vintage Leather)

Utilize these thought starters to evaluate your collection, your usage patterns and your lessons learned in 2024.
• What is your most useful purse?
• What is your best purchase of the year?
• We’ve all had a lot of lifestyle changes this year - how has it affected your style?
• What is the one thing we’ve learned this year that you want to take into the next?

II. Setting 2025 Goals
Take this month to consider what you want to do with your handbag collection, wardrobe or even your beautiful life in 2025. Share these thoughts in January when we start the 2026 Shopping Your Closet thread.

III. End of year optional challenges

• Holiday colors: December has many holidays celebrated across the world - red & green, brown & gold, blue & white and more! Pick the holiday that you want to honor and wear / show off your bags in those traditional colors.

• End with a bang: As we come to the last part of the year, wear the last bag you’ve purchased at least 3 times this month.

@Vlad please pin this to the top of our thread.

 

[momasaurus]

Thanks, everyone, for liking and commenting on my red bags.
Pinks - have a dark and a light Calvi - everyone knows what they look like, LOL.
Yellow - nothing
Purple - nothing

 

[dcooney4]

I can’t wait to wear it! I should reserve buying during travels only. But…I’m easily tempted by good deals - usually online.

Me too!

 

[DME]

So pretty! It'll go with everything too, congratulations

Thank you! As you might recall, a goal for the last two years has been to redo my jewelry. I got rid of most of my fashion jewelry pieces (except for Hermes and Tiffany, although I did sell a bunch of Tiffany silver pieces I bought two decades ago since I wasn’t wearing them anymore) and took in old fine jewelry pieces I wasn’t wearing to sell for the gold (many of them were things my mom gave me after she and my dad divorced and I have never worn). I thinned my collection quite a bit with the intention of using any money made toward a few select pieces that are versatile and go with my wardrobe. Although I don’t see much mention of it on tPF, I love LAGOS and fell for this pink ceramic the moment I saw it, although I sat on the purchase for almost a week to make sure I really wanted to add it. DD took the photo for me and I kept revisiting it over the week, plus tried on an other bracelet from the collection that a different store near me had in stock to make sure I got the one that would work best for me.

 

[More bags]

My blue bags,

2017

• Louis Vuitton Bleu Nuit Alma Vernis PM
• Marc by Marc Jacobs Electric Stage Blue Natasha
• Chanel 16A Navy Sheepskin Mademoiselle Vintage Flap

2024

• Hermes So Kelly Eclat 22 Bleu Saphir/Bleu Izmir Taurillon Clemence

 

[dcooney4]

Blue is my favorite color!

 

[whateve]

Blue is my favorite color!

Me too! I've been obsessed with your red and blue Tory Burch ever since you got it. Now I have regrets I let it pass me by.

 

[Sibelle]

@More bags & @dcooney4 you have very beautiful blue bags !

My "blue" bags are all turquoise - my favorite color. I got a bit obsessed with the faded blue color from Coach last year and got 2 bags. I absolutely love my turquoise NeoNoe BB which was a store exclusive and also could not pass on the tote from Aspinal of London.

 

[whateve]

@More bags & @dcooney4 you have very beautiful blue bags !

My "blue" bags are all turquoise - my favorite color. I got a bit obsessed with the faded blue color from Coach last year and got 2 bags. I absolutely love my turquoise NeoNoe BB which was a store exclusive and also could not pass on the tote from Aspinal of London.

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I love these colors too! Twins on the Cassie.

 

[dcooney4]

@More bags & @dcooney4 you have very beautiful blue bags !

My "blue" bags are all turquoise - my favorite color. I got a bit obsessed with the faded blue color from Coach last year and got 2 bags. I absolutely love my turquoise NeoNoe BB which was a store exclusive and also could not pass on the tote from Aspinal of London.

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That faded blue color is gorgeous! I somehow missed those . All the bags are beautiful.

 

[FizzyWater]

February

• Bags in/out 0/0
• Scarves in/out 2/0
  • purple twilly
  • black planifleurs
• Clothes in/out 3/0
  • prada flats
  • cape
  • black blouse
• Other in
  • necklace
  • brooch
• Physical books read
  • Secret Lives of Colour
  • Shortest History of Germany

My scarf purchase from January was lost in the mail, so I should adjust my numbers eventually.

I dropped off a lot of items at the local resale shop and then promptly bought jewelry, etc.

Mostly I’ve been carrying stuff in my pockets, only carrying my laptop around in various colors of Longchamp shoppers.

I read 2 physical books (seriously I need to control the tottering stacks, so Kindle books don’t count):
Secret Lives of Colour: Easy to pick up and put down with a page or two of information on each color. As always, I thoroughly disagree about colors (“how is that yellow? is clearly green!”) which makes me doubt my own reality.
Shortest history of Germany: Was hoping for a potted history - was informative until the last 30 pages/20 years, which were weird and wrong and then made me doubt the previous 200.

 

[essiedub]

@More bags & @dcooney4 you have very beautiful blue bags !

My "blue" bags are all turquoise - my favorite color. I got a bit obsessed with the faded blue color from Coach last year and got 2 bags. I absolutely love my turquoise NeoNoe BB which was a store exclusive and also could not pass on the tote from Aspinal of London.

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Really pretty sea foam greens and blues!

I really like what Coach has been doing.

On the Aspinal tote, those “button holes” (I know there’s a name for it but can’t recall) - are they to be disengaged to fit a newspaper? They used to have that feature on briefcases. Yeah, I still read a paper newspaper (though the news is just depressing, but that’s another topic)

 

[Sibelle]

Really pretty sea foam greens and blues!

I really like what Coach has been doing.

On the Aspinal tote, those “button holes” (I know there’s a name for it but can’t recall) - are they to be disengaged to fit a newspaper? They used to have that feature on briefcases. Yeah, I still read a paper newspaper (though the news is just depressing, but that’s another topic)

Thank you! Yes I think Coach is on top of their game recently. Love many of their new bags & colors!

These applications on the Aspinal tote are decoration only. You cannot use / detach them. And yes the news have been very depressing for the past 4 years. I try to avoid the news as much as possible .

 

[msd_bags]

@More bags & @dcooney4 you have very beautiful blue bags !

My "blue" bags are all turquoise - my favorite color. I got a bit obsessed with the faded blue color from Coach last year and got 2 bags. I absolutely love my turquoise NeoNoe BB which was a store exclusive and also could not pass on the tote from Aspinal of London.

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Wow!!! These are all very beautiful!

 

[Cookiefiend]

I just got back from a 1 week vacation in Japan. Naturally (lol!), I came home with bags that add to my tally for February.

Bags in : 3 (1 Loewe preloved; 1 Longchamp net bag and 1 Lululemon nylon belt bag) all bought in Japan
Bags out: 0
Scarf : 1 H scarf from Japan

As you may have noticed, traveling is a dangerous thing for my wallet!

Here is the Loewe bag I bought. It’s pink! Right for last week’s color showcase. Anybody here knows the model name?
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ohmygosh - I love this! So cute!

Blue is my favorite color!

These are lovely - what is the one in the top row, far right (with the ring)?

@More bags & @dcooney4 you have very beautiful blue bags !

My "blue" bags are all turquoise - my favorite color. I got a bit obsessed with the faded blue color from Coach last year and got 2 bags. I absolutely love my turquoise NeoNoe BB which was a store exclusive and also could not pass on the tote from Aspinal of London.

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Gorgeous colors!

February

• Bags in/out 0/0
• Scarves in/out 2/0
  • purple twilly
  • black planifleurs
• Clothes in/out 3/0
  • prada flats
  • cape
  • black blouse
• Other in
  • necklace
  • brooch
• Physical books read
  • Secret Lives of Colour
  • Shortest History of Germany

My scarf purchase from January was lost in the mail, so I should adjust my numbers eventually.

I dropped off a lot of items at the local resale shop and then promptly bought jewelry, etc.

Mostly I’ve been carrying stuff in my pockets, only carrying my laptop around in various colors of Longchamp shoppers.

I read 2 physical books (seriously I need to control the tottering stacks, so Kindle books don’t count):
Secret Lives of Colour: Easy to pick up and put down with a page or two of information on each color. As always, I thoroughly disagree about colors (“how is that yellow? is clearly green!”) which makes me doubt my own reality.
Shortest history of Germany: Was hoping for a potted history - was informative until the last 30 pages/20 years, which were weird and wrong and then made me doubt the previous 200.

Great stats Fizzy! I'm so sorry your scarf has been lost - it may show up unexpectedly (I hope)!
I also have several tottering stacks of actual books, and a goal this year is to reduce the sheer number of them by - good golly - reading them!
(which means I have started 3 of them and have managed to scatter them around the house just in case I find myself sitting near one )

 

[Cookiefiend]

Blues!
Dior Be Dior (bonus photo of the back because the silver pocket is so fun), Hermes Dalvy, and Hermes Vibrato Picotin


I purchased the Goyard Plumete last year, but haven’t had time to add it to the group photo.