How do you store your Chanel Handbags?

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#661
almostaddict said:
Hello ladies,

Is it ok to store chanel bags in a vault, like a gun vault in the house?
Do you think it will ruin the leather?

I hope to hear responses from you all.

Thank you!
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Hello almostaddict, I am not an expert and really cannot say if it will ruin the leather:/.. But I can tell you that I would never storage any of my bags in anything that is not what it came with. Dust bag and box or maybe just the dust bag. Sorry I can't help you more:(
 
#662
tutushopper said:
I don't have a gun vault...what do they look like? Do they have air circulating in there? Please make sure they don't get shot! Are they temperature controlled environments? I'm guessing they aren't like wine cellars. Those I know about.
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Lol! This response is hysterical. Sorry, I have nothing to offer other than that. Why would you want to store your Chanels in a gun vault?
 
#663
almostaddict said:
Hello ladies,

Is it ok to store chanel bags in a vault, like a gun vault in the house?
Do you think it will ruin the leather?

I hope to hear responses from you all.

Thank you!
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Okay, voice of absolutely no experience typing here, I did just look up on my lovely search engine, and holy cow, Charlton Heston had a ton load of guns! Back to topic, if yours is like some of the ones that I saw, they don't have air circulation, and leather needs to "breathe" so that might be a deterrent. On the other hand, most seemed to be moisture resistant, and that is a good thing. If you have the gigantic huge kind I saw (wow, those things are big with doors like bank vaults), they would fit, but would you want your bags to smell like guns/gun cleaning fluid/etc.? Again, the air circulation thing would be the main thing to me, but the smell part would be close behind, followed by the possibility of something leaking onto the bag and not even gonna go there about what happens if a stray bullet goes off!
 
#668
I was considering the same thing! I was going to get a big safe/vault and store my Chanels in there. But I must admit the no air circulation issue makes me kinda worry. I want my bags to breathe! I wonder if the leather would be damaged if there is no air circulation.
 
#669
queenbee11 said:
I was considering the same thing! I was going to get a big safe/vault and store my Chanels in there. But I must admit the no air circulation issue makes me kinda worry. I want my bags to breathe! I wonder if the leather would be damaged if there is no air circulation.
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I'm sure you could get one made with air holes for circulation (or maybe some models come that way). The ones I looked at online, some you can customize, some you can't. There were small ones, the size of a small lock box for documents, all the way up to standing one with many shelves and the bank vault type doors.
 
#670
Thank you ladies for all of you thoughts (some are funny! )..lol...anyway, here is the gun vault I was talking about..this is as tall as I am from the floor. It does not have any air circulation which was the thing I was worried about. And I have taken out my chanel after reafing you alls comments. I guess my lvs will be out of there too. I dontbhave very many bags..3 chanel and a few lvs in canvas. Attached is the pic.

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#671
It is a bad idea to store your Chanel's in a vault unless they are climate controlled as with out having the right humidity and temperature you can very easy dry out the leather. Case in point, the Chanel Suit worn by Jackie Kennedy the day JFK was killed is in a undisclosed location but in a climate control vault. So unless you really want to damage your bag then storing them in a vault is a good idea, You can keep them in a vault for a short time however (ak if you are on a cruise or vacation and not using the bag and just want to keep it in there for safe keeping then take it out when you are with it) shouldn't ruin the bag. But do not leave your bag in day in and day out.
 
#673
ms1234 said:
:-d lol!
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Silly me! Hey, I'd never seen one before lol! When I looked on google images, I saw some HUGE vaults, and some tiny ones. I still wouldn't want my Chanel bags next to bullets & guns & gun cleaning stuff! I did see some vaults that you could get that are climate controlled; those were the ones with doors like bank vaults have. If you had one of those, you would probably be safe to keep your bags in, but I would make super sure it had air circulating in it so the leather could breathe.

To the OP, I think you would be wise to not store your bags in the one you showed photos of. As another poster said, for a short time, they would be okay, like on a cruise, etc., but not for long term storage.
 
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