2024 Resolution: Shopping my own Bag and SLG Collection

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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.
 
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papertiger said:
My blue baby from last Monday (always photographs on the grey-side)

It's such a pleasure to use, probably my most carried BTH. DH is in Scotland so I went to the Chanel exhibition with a friend in the morning, then lunch. Then shopping, Valentino and Gucci. I bought a leather skirt in Valentino which was a spontaneous purchase (not my usual habit) but the leather was so nice I'm afraid I couldn't resist. I explored the new Gucci but didn't buy anything as my SA was away and I like to go through him. Then I went to see High and Low:John Galliano film at a preview (I wrote about it in another thread). By the time I got home it was 1.30am due to train irregularities. Took all Tuesday to recover LOL.




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Obviously I have other blue bags but you've seen them all for many years.
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Your bag is lovely. I am so glad you got out and had some fun.
 
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cowgirlsboots said:
You aren´t nosy! No problem. I started talking about it on here...

No, it hasn´t been planned for long. There was a dramamtic situation last month in which I suddenly knew without the slightest doubt, that it was high time to leave this relationship of 16 years and this house and town and go back home to the city I grew up and where my older children still live.
I still have an apartment there and a job I can return to.
From this moment on every memory, every sign, I always chose to disregard/ ignore started resurfacing and showing me how toxic this relationship has been for far too long and that there is no future for it.

My prams will have to stay here in the big storage house that still is mine, but of course with me leaving and him already using over half of it for his cars and stuff totally out of my control. I simply have to say good bey to my wonderful big collection and hope that maybe he will one day do the museum we always planned to do... no chance to take several hundred prams... I still have the memories.



Thank you so much!
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I'm sorry. It's always a tough decision to make despite all the red flags. I remember separating from a toxic relationship of 5 years and feeling miserable about it but knowing that it was for the best. It still took me a while to get over my emotional attachments and to be fully free, but at the end of the day, it worked out and I learned and grew from it.

Hope the move goes smoothly and I'm glad you have a place to stay and be near your children.
 
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dcooney4 said:
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 ?
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I love this color. It goes with almost everything: white, black, taupe, beige, chestnut, light or dark gray, navy, burgundy, blue tones, and any florals or prints. . . :)
 
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cowgirlsboots said:
You aren´t nosy! No problem. I started talking about it on here...

No, it hasn´t been planned for long. There was a dramamtic situation last month in which I suddenly knew without the slightest doubt, that it was high time to leave this relationship of 16 years and this house and town and go back home to the city I grew up and where my older children still live.
I still have an apartment there and a job I can return to.
From this moment on every memory, every sign, I always chose to disregard/ ignore started resurfacing and showing me how toxic this relationship has been for far too long and that there is no future for it.

My prams will have to stay here in the big storage house that still is mine, but of course with me leaving and him already using over half of it for his cars and stuff totally out of my control. I simply have to say good bey to my wonderful big collection and hope that maybe he will one day do the museum we always planned to do... no chance to take several hundred prams... I still have the memories.



Thank you so much!
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:hugs:
 
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dcooney4 said:
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 ?
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All the earthy colours in the cooler months, more muted or softer colours in the Summer.

I think I am personally less into black with sides of olive, moss and sages, but I love them with greys, taupes, grey-blues, dusky-grape, ranges of yellows and oranges, particularly mustards and apricot for harmony, all shades of peaches, pinks and aqua. If you want to go for more work appropriate, I suggest camel, taupe, grey, some navy or marine blue. For sunshine fun go for amber, turquoise, rose or amethyst.
 
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lill_canele said:
I'm sorry. It's always a tough decision to make despite all the red flags. I remember separating from a toxic relationship of 5 years and feeling miserable about it but knowing that it was for the best. It still took me a while to get over my emotional attachments and to be fully free, but at the end of the day, it worked out and I learned and grew from it.

Hope the move goes smoothly and I'm glad you have a place to stay and be near your children.
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Thank you for your good wishes and for sharing your story!
I think meanwhile I am at the stage where all attachments are severed. A week of cold war effectively erased every single seemingly good experience during the last 16 years. Counting the days and fighting paranoia of possible sabotages yet to come.
All I want is OUT!
 
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