Do you have any weird bag behavior?

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MJDaisy

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This thread was kind of inspired by sex and the city and the "weird single behavior" on there. Also by the bathroom and purse thread, because some behavior(including mine!) in there people (aka non-tpfers) would just think is weird.

So anyway, do you have anything that you do with your bags that people think is ODD? Saturday night I went to my friend's house to hang out and I had my BRAND new botkier crosby satchel with me (it literally had been delivered to me about 3 hours before). She has a pool, so i didn't want it near the pool. I asked her if i could put it in her bedroom. she looked at me funny and asked if she could put it in her kitchen (right by the doors to the backyard/pool). i said, no, i want it in your room. she thought i was nuts and asked why and i said "i don't want people in your kitchen to spill food on it". she said "you are seriously so purse weird"....it got me thinking though....i guess i am:shame:

so what is your WEIRD BAG BEHAVIOR?
 
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When I first get a bag, I have to open it in the bathroom. I will seriously leave it boxed up until I have the time to go in my bathroom. I then have to view myself holding the bag in EVERY mirror of my house to make sure it doesn't look bad from any angle.

I'm sure I have more weird behavior but that is all I can think of for now.
 
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I don't EVER set my bag down in public - ground, floor, table, bench. The only exception I've made is a chair or booth in a restaurant. Even if it is uncomfortable, I will rather sit with my bag on my lap than let it get dirty.

This was also the case with cheap bags when I was younger. I just can't do it.
 
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I'm with you, couturequeen! I have always been that way because I was always taught to care for my things... but more so now that I have more expensive bags. :yes: Besides that, there was a study done not long ago about how the bottom of womens handbags can harbor all kinds of bacteria and icky stuff. I think Oprah had a segment on it as well. It will blow your mind to hear what some women's purses have because they don't think twice about placing them on public floors (even worse-public bathroom floors), restaurant tables, etc. Yuck! :sick: Leather bags are not as bad as other material bags but they can all carry them.

couturequeen said:
I don't EVER set my bag down in public - ground, floor, table, bench. The only exception I've made is a chair or booth in a restaurant. Even if it is uncomfortable, I will rather sit with my bag on my lap than let it get dirty.

This was also the case with cheap bags when I was younger. I just can't do it.
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#8
If I leave my study door open to let the dog come and go (and my bag is on the sofa) whenever I leave my study, my bag has to come with me from room to room. This is due to my paranoid fear of somebody slipping in the back way into my study, wandering around the house and stealing my bag!
 
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^^This isn't so weird. Last summer we had a rash of theft in our neighborhood from thieves entering homes via open garage doors. They knew women typically leave their purses near the entry to the garage and they would walk in, snatch them and run. I stopped using my usual bag dropping point next to the refrigerator when that was happening...and always made doubly sure the garage doors were closed.
 
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My grandmother had a strongly held belief that you never gift someone a purse or wallet without putting some money into it first. It was something she always did whether giving us new bags or one from her own amazing vintage collection. I never ever thought of it as weird though, just some endering superstition she held on to, probably from her own childhood. (I have the last bag she ever gave me stored away with other keepsakes with the money still in the pocket.) :heart::heart:
 
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I groom my bag. Any time I have time to kill I'll go over it, petting it, smoothing it, looking all over for stray scratches to rub out and areas where it might need a little conditioning soon, straightening tassels, checking the handles, inspecting the stitching, etc. I'm sure I look like a crazy monkey grooming its neighbor when I do it.

Also a card-carrying member of the purse-sniffers club. I also hug my bags when no one's looking.
 
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