Back to topic I'm going to come back to ban island soon, I've recently bought 2 new MM SLGs, 2 Etsy mini crossbodies, 2 used MMs from lovely TPFers, and 2 custom bags from Laurel Dasso two months ago that I'll get in July when I'm stateside. That's 6-8 bags in 2018 that I'll have by the 4th of July, most in the next couple weeks, and my number goal for the whole year was 3-5 so I've already exceeded that at the halfway mark of the year.
However I've sent off 6 bags (also to lovely TPFers) and most of these were paid for by the funds from those sales so I'm not sure how to count things because I had planned on purchasing 3-5 bags in 2018 in new money and so far I haven't bought any bags with new money and my closet is not getting more cluttered (actually less because I've been selling big bags and buying little bags to adapt to my changing needs 6.)
But the point of my plan from December to have 90 day bans with brief reprieves in between to order a bag in spring, for summer, for my autumn birthday, for Black Friday; was to spend little mental energy on plotting bag purchases, not quite so much about the money since my comfort zone for purchases in my sloppy mommy life living in a country with really messy,muddy,rainy autumns and springs and klutZ like tendencies is under$500 so I don't stress carrying my bags since they don't cost thousands. My two year old yesterday wiped her tomato sauce face on an upholstered chair and it could have easily been a leather bag, the twirp, my bags are usually hanging at her face level, so I gotta keep it low key. Plus I like variety and I'd rather have 5 contemporary bags than 1 premiere.
Anyway.... I think I'll say that I bought one bag for spring and the rest was churn that broke the spirit of my ban but whatever. I'll start now to go another 90 days and then think about one new birthday bag with new money and I've pretty much churned out bags I want gone at this point so I'm not going to end up with new PayPal burning a hole in my pocket anymore so I'm just going to try to stop thinking about bags I could buy. I'm done. Spring wardrobe refresh was borderline but it's done and I was anyway going to be off ban in spring for a week and it lasted a month instead but whatever. Moving on. I have 2-4 more allowed pure purchases for the rest of 2018 and I'll try to keep it at the lower end of that and only if I'm absolutely in love with a bag and only for birthday and Christmas when I'm between 90 day ban stints.
Whew. Okay thanks for letting me say this stuff out loud.
However I've sent off 6 bags (also to lovely TPFers) and most of these were paid for by the funds from those sales so I'm not sure how to count things because I had planned on purchasing 3-5 bags in 2018 in new money and so far I haven't bought any bags with new money and my closet is not getting more cluttered (actually less because I've been selling big bags and buying little bags to adapt to my changing needs 6.)
But the point of my plan from December to have 90 day bans with brief reprieves in between to order a bag in spring, for summer, for my autumn birthday, for Black Friday; was to spend little mental energy on plotting bag purchases, not quite so much about the money since my comfort zone for purchases in my sloppy mommy life living in a country with really messy,muddy,rainy autumns and springs and klutZ like tendencies is under$500 so I don't stress carrying my bags since they don't cost thousands. My two year old yesterday wiped her tomato sauce face on an upholstered chair and it could have easily been a leather bag, the twirp, my bags are usually hanging at her face level, so I gotta keep it low key. Plus I like variety and I'd rather have 5 contemporary bags than 1 premiere.
Anyway.... I think I'll say that I bought one bag for spring and the rest was churn that broke the spirit of my ban but whatever. I'll start now to go another 90 days and then think about one new birthday bag with new money and I've pretty much churned out bags I want gone at this point so I'm not going to end up with new PayPal burning a hole in my pocket anymore so I'm just going to try to stop thinking about bags I could buy. I'm done. Spring wardrobe refresh was borderline but it's done and I was anyway going to be off ban in spring for a week and it lasted a month instead but whatever. Moving on. I have 2-4 more allowed pure purchases for the rest of 2018 and I'll try to keep it at the lower end of that and only if I'm absolutely in love with a bag and only for birthday and Christmas when I'm between 90 day ban stints.
Whew. Okay thanks for letting me say this stuff out loud.
I have my eye on a couple of things but I’m pretty bag content. However, I did decide to sell the one bag I own about which I’m meh. 
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Should arrive today...)
