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]

Blues!
Dior Be Dior (bonus photo of the back because the silver pocket is so fun), Hermes Dalvy, and Hermes Vibrato Picotin
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I purchased the Goyard Plumete last year, but haven’t had time to add it to the group photo.
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Fabulous! Dalvy twinz and your Pico is the piece that made me interested in vibrato!
SILVER POCKET!?! outstanding.
Looking forward to seeing the Plumete in action.

 

[Cookiefiend]

Fabulous! Dalvy twinz and your Pico is the piece that made me interested in vibrato!
SILVER POCKET!?! outstanding.
Looking forward to seeing the Plumete in action.

That silver pocket is outstanding - @dcooney4 made a comment about it that still makes me giggle.
She said 'It's business in the front and a party on the back'

Love being your twin with the Dalvy, hope you'll find a V Pico too.... I'm still looking for the pink!
(I think @Cordeliere has one!)

 

[880]

Very proud to say that I rehomed a bunch of things that weren’t working
(a dear friend loves to wear vintage and takes them off my hands)

Re the red and green Donald brooks windwpane with fringe, I had a coat, a jacket, and a skirt.
And I kept the coat


ETA: I’ve been wearing my 35 Victoria bags lately, and it makes me so happy to shop my closet. Normally I wear the etoupe one, but in the heavy rain, I wear ebene. The leather is fabulous, and they hold a ton, including my French lesson textbooks. DH wears his evelyne sellier which holds up pretty well in wet weather too. Here, with his Norwegian Rain raincoat and Edward green boots. Ebene was very popular around 2008, along with blue jean and vert anise. I think Hermes is bringing dark bittersweet brown back for fall 2024. What was old is now new again. Lol

 

[Cookiefiend]

Very proud to say that I rehomed a bunch of things that weren’t working
(a dear friend loves to wear vintage and takes them off my hands)

Re the red and green Donald brooks windwpane with fringe, I had a coat, a jacket, and a skirt.
And I kept the coat
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That’s fantastic - hooray!!

 

[cecchetti]

Very proud to say that I rehomed a bunch of things that weren’t working
(a dear friend loves to wear vintage and takes them off my hands)

Re the red and green Donald brooks windwpane with fringe, I had a coat, a jacket, and a skirt.
And I kept the coat
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Well done-it’s always a nice feeling to have a clear out at the end of the season, and you’ve made your dear friend very happy as well!❤️

 

[dcooney4]

Very proud to say that I rehomed a bunch of things that weren’t working
(a dear friend loves to wear vintage and takes them off my hands)

Re the red and green Donald brooks windwpane with fringe, I had a coat, a jacket, and a skirt.
And I kept the coat
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ETA: I’ve been wearing my 35 Victoria bags lately, and it makes me so happy to shop my closet. Normally I wear the etoupe one, but in the heavy rain, I wear ebene. The leather is fabulous, and they hold a ton, including my French lesson textbooks. DH wears his evelyne sellier which holds up pretty well in wet weather too. Here, with his Norwegian Rain raincoat and Edward green boots. Ebene was very popular around 2008, along with blue jean and vert anise. I think Hermes is bringing dark bittersweet brown back for fall 2024. What was old is now new again. Lol

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Well done! I love making friends happy and clearing clutter at the same time.

 

[More 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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Thank you @Sibelle!
These colours evoke calm and tranquil watercolours for me, very pretty!

@880 congratulations on the decluttering and rediscovering your Victoria!

 

[880]

Thank you @More bags ; @cecchetti ; @dcooney4 ; @Cookiefiend

It does feel good

 

[Jktgal]

Couple of weeks late for the purple week but was using this a few days ago and thought the purple is captured-ish. It usually looks burgundy in photos. Loro Piana bag, can't recall the name. I don't use it often because I generally commute and need a shoulder strap, but had a very easy day so off we went.

 

[dcooney4]

Couple of weeks late for the purple week but was using this a few days ago and thought the purple is captured-ish. It usually looks burgundy in photos. Loro Piana bag, can't recall the name. I don't use it often because I generally commute and need a shoulder strap, but had a very easy day so off we went.


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Gorgeous color!

 

[dcooney4]

I was looking at this bag today. I didn’t purchase it but still thinking on it. It is not a brand that will sell well if I get tired of it. What colors would you wear with this ?

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Very proud to say that I rehomed a bunch of things that weren’t working
(a dear friend loves to wear vintage and takes them off my hands)

Re the red and green Donald brooks windwpane with fringe, I had a coat, a jacket, and a skirt.
And I kept the coat
View attachment 5961336

ETA: I’ve been wearing my 35 Victoria bags lately, and it makes me so happy to shop my closet. Normally I wear the etoupe one, but in the heavy rain, I wear ebene. The leather is fabulous, and they hold a ton, including my French lesson textbooks. DH wears his evelyne sellier which holds up pretty well in wet weather too. Here, with his Norwegian Rain raincoat and Edward green boots. Ebene was very popular around 2008, along with blue jean and vert anise. I think Hermes is bringing dark bittersweet brown back for fall 2024. What was old is now new again. Lol

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Congratulations on the wardrobe purge!

I´ve been doing about the same over the last few weeks- very drastically- and it feels kind of liberating.

About half of all my things will stay behind. I had no idea I owned so many clothes, vintage bags, shoes...

With no chance to take everything with me I sorted through it all. What does actually fit me? What do I really like to wear? What has become shabby? What has bad karma?

Today I took 6 huge blue Ikea bags of coats to the storage. Coats I like, but haven´t worn in a while. A green 70ies with leopard collar almost broke my heart. I remember so vividly buying it. It was so pretty that I actually always saved it for "best" and "best" never happened. Now it´s so much too big on me that it looks frumpy...

All my good bags are packed up in boxes. I hope they will survive without damage as I couldn´t fuss too much. Dustbags are like bodybags. The content loses its identity and you can simply tetris them...

Hopefully everything will go well with the transport. It´s due next Friday. Until then I must make sure to schlepp all my stuff out of my room (where I´ve been holding on to all of my boxes just to be sure they are safe) into the downstairs for easier pick up. On the other end my dear older son will be waiting and making sure to find a way to put it all into my far too small apartment.

March 22nd is our day to leave here for good.

 

[880]

Congratulations on the wardrobe purge!

I´ve been doing about the same over the last few weeks- very drastically- and it feels kind of liberating.

About half of all my things will stay behind. I had no idea I owned so many clothes, vintage bags, shoes...

With no chance to take everything with me I sorted through it all. What does actually fit me? What do I really like to wear? What has become shabby? What has bad karma?

Today I took 6 huge blue Ikea bags of coats to the storage. Coats I like, but haven´t worn in a while. A green 70ies with leopard collar almost broke my heart. I remember so vividly buying it. It was so pretty that I actually always saved it for "best" and "best" never happened. Now it´s so much too big on me that it looks frumpy...

All my good bags are packed up in boxes. I hope they will survive without damage as I couldn´t fuss too much. Dustbags are like bodybags. The content loses its identity and you can simply tetris them...

Hopefully everything will go well with the transport. It´s due next Friday. Until then I must make sure to schlepp all my stuff out of my room (where I´ve been holding on to all of my boxes just to be sure they are safe) into the downstairs for easier pick up. On the other end my dear older son will be waiting and making sure to find a way to put it all into my far too small apartment.

March 22nd is our day to leave here for good.

It is liberating.I am excited for your next adventure. Please remember we are all here for you!

I am fortunate in that I have a dear friend who adores vintage and is happy to take my items. She is taller, with longer legs, and many of the pieces look better on her. She also plans stuff out to her friends, so I know that my items will be enjoyed and have adventures of their own.

Hugs

 

[cowgirlsboots]

It is liberating.I am excited for your next adventure. Please remember we are all here for you!

I am fortunate in that I have a dear friend who adores vintage and is happy to take my items. She is taller, with longer legs, and many of the pieces look better on her. She also plans stuff out to her friends, so I know that my items will be enjoyed and have adventures of their own.

Hugs

I wished I knew anybody to pass some of my things on to. Who knows whether they will ever come out of storage again.

 

[DME]

I wished I knew anybody to pass some of my things on to. Who knows whether they will ever come out of storage again.

You’ll get there. Everything is probably overwhelming for you right now. Take a deep breath (or two or five) and take things one day at a time.