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#616
I am just starting to get into this thread and :rofl: at the whole children-vs.-Birkin discussion. I have a seven-month-old daughter, so I think I've already made my choice!

Anyway, I got into Hermes because of their scarves, and for now that's all I collect...but I am slowly being sucked into bag-lust. I would like an Evelyne or a Gao someday. (Or, let's face it, probably both.) But I can't even think about buying one until DH graduates from law school and we're more financially secure. So for now I am drooling over everyone else's bags. :drool:

ShellTay said:
My main issues are 1)finding a genuine bag and 2)convincing my husband that I have not actually gone bats. He thinks only a complete idiot would pay that kind of money for a purse. Even the leather bags are nutso to him.
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DH thinks scarf prices are nuts (and also makes fun of me whenever I wear them...sigh). We are going to have to work up to bags very, very slowly.
 
#617
BlueGenes, I hear you. I will have student loans coming up on April 1st. Only I could get April Fool's Day as my start date. :)
Good luck with law school...a HAC would make a nice graduation present. :)

lux, when I think of what I spent on skincare, make-up, and other
things, I could've had a H wallet or Evelyne by now.

ShellTay, Luxwear is a great (and legit) reseller. I love going to her
site just to look at the bags. :)
There's a wonderful ref. section here which tells you all about
the styles of H bags and the leathers.

capulet, that's what I do. :) I do get joy from seeing other members H acquisitions. :) It's also a good way to learn about various leathers and colors as well. :)
 
#622
EthanJames08 said:
Eulalia! For the past 3 days ive had dreams of me carrying a Birkin. I told my dad and he said he will book me a Shrink! ha! Silly man doesnt understand.
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I got little sleep for two weeks thinking about the special order I'd be making next month for my HAC:

will my order get accepted?
how long will it take?
will I have enough money by the time it arrives?

boy, it made me nuts. but I'm OK now.

I'll make a more substantial contribution to this thread once I get my things organized.
 
#623
Oh god, and I thought I was going crazy- Had a dream that I walked into Hermes and purchased a gold birkin. I am obsessing clearly.
DH promised to purchase my first birkin so I am on the hunt. I will be going to George V and then Basel this summer so i plan to stop by. Meanwhile I am working on the relationship with my local SA.
 
#625
oh, i've been bad lately, guys.... :shame: you'll see what i mean in a few days...

out of curiosity, at what financial point do the rest of you think you can clear yourselves to buy a bag? do you just pay with a credit card and pay it off eventually? or do you make sure you have an equal amount of savings before you plunge (i.e., if you purchase a $10,000 bag, you have saved $20,000 in the bank). i felt like the latter option would have been reasonable, but i wasn't very patient. i only made it to the point until i knew i had enough cash to pay for a bag... or, um, bags :blushing: :shrugs: that i'd be able to pay my credit card in full... as well as have enough money for one year of law school tuition, and after all that, maybe only HALF of the value of my bag(s) in my savings account. luckily i don't have kids, am not saving yet for anybody else's college tuition, yada yada, so...

how about the rest of you?
 
#626
Yes, this is my plan. I don't want to be poor when I buy an Hermes bag. I don't want to feel sorry for myself. Naturally, what follows after the bag acquisition is buying a set of outfit that matches the bag, if I didn't have them to begin with. I want the financial dent to be as bearable as possible.

Then again, it's just me. I came from a relatively poor family and I don't want to experience poverty again.

It's OK if you already bought your bag. We'd be happy for you. :tup:


BlueGenes said:
oh, i've been bad lately, guys.... :shame: you'll see what i mean in a few days...

out of curiosity, at what financial point do the rest of you think you can clear yourselves to buy a bag? do you just pay with a credit card and pay it off eventually? or do you make sure you have an equal amount of savings before you plunge (i.e., if you purchase a $10,000 bag, you have saved $20,000 in the bank). i felt like the latter option would have been reasonable, but i wasn't very patient. i only made it to the point until i knew i had enough cash to pay for a bag... or, um, bags :blushing: :shrugs: that i'd be able to pay my credit card in full... as well as have enough money for one year of law school tuition, and after all that, maybe only HALF of the value of my bag(s) in my savings account. luckily i don't have kids, am not saving yet for anybody else's college tuition, yada yada, so...

how about the rest of you?
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#628
It's OK. As long as you don't get knee-deep in debt, you'll be fine. Just make your bags a motivation to study hard for your law school. :yes:

BlueGenes said:
Allan, you're SO much better than me. :tup: I'm feeling a little guilty about my warped priorities, but perhaps now I can ban myself from bag-shopping for the next 3 years! :push: :nogood:
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#629
I don't know if anyone of you in this thread has read the book, "How Proust Can Change Your Life" by Alain de Botton or the entire "In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust, but I think I can give an explanation to why my avatar is the great French novelist, Marcel Proust.

Waiting/saving for an Hermes bag is beneficial for the soul. I'll cut to the chase and quote directly from the book by de Botton. On page 180-181:

Proust demonstrates the benefits of delay in his thoughts in on the appreciation of clothes. Both Albertine and the Duchesse de Guermantes are interested in fashion. However, Albertine has very little money and the Duchesse owns half of France. The Duchesse's wardrobes are therefore overflowing, as soon as she sees something she wants she can send for the dressmaker and her desire is fulfilled as rapidly as hands can sew. Albertine on the other hand can hardly buy anything, and has to think at length before she does so. She spends hours studying clothes, dreaming of a particular coat or hat or dressing gown.

The result is that, though Albertine has far fewer clothes than the Duchesse, her understanding, appreciation and love of them is far greater:

Like every obstacle in the way of possessing something... poverty, more generous than opulence, gives women far more than the clothes they cannot afford to buy, the desire for those clothes, which creates a genuine, detailed, thorough knowledge of them.

It emphasizes the extent to which physical possession is only one component of appreciation. If the rich are fortunate enough to... buy a dress just after they have seen it in a catalogue, they are cursed because of the speed with which their wealth fulfills their desires. No sooner... have they seen a dress than it can be in their wardrobe. They therefore have no opportunity to suffer the interval between desire and gratification which the less privileged endure, and which, for all its apparent unpleasantness, has the incalculable benefit of allowing people to know and fall deeply in love with... hats [and] dressing gowns...
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Disclaimer: I don't have anything against women in this forum who acquires Birkins so fast it seems they're pulling it out of thin air. I'm friends with some of them. I just quoted de Botton above for our own consolation.
 
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