How many bags do you purchase each year on average?
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Reasonable is relative!
Also depends on how long you have been collecting.
If you have the basic staples already a few trendy bags from your favorite houses each year are fun.
Building a solid collection can take time though and so the rule of thumb is to buy what you LOVE as long as it is in the budget. When push comes to shove they are bags, and they will be around next year too.
Handbags wise, (not including slg’s or clutches) in the last 12 months I have bought 6 lv, 4 Chanel and 2 Dior. I usually don’t buy that many though and unless something comes out that I must have, I should be doing a low buy 2020 from here on out. Probably 3 or 4 this year between all the different houses.
Also depends on how long you have been collecting.
If you have the basic staples already a few trendy bags from your favorite houses each year are fun.
Building a solid collection can take time though and so the rule of thumb is to buy what you LOVE as long as it is in the budget. When push comes to shove they are bags, and they will be around next year too.
Handbags wise, (not including slg’s or clutches) in the last 12 months I have bought 6 lv, 4 Chanel and 2 Dior. I usually don’t buy that many though and unless something comes out that I must have, I should be doing a low buy 2020 from here on out. Probably 3 or 4 this year between all the different houses.
Only when I find something I like ...one year 4 and the next zero....no rule
I like your style. I’m similar. At peak it was 5 (although 2 were gifts). Some years just 1.
Prob 4 max, one year 0. On average for the last 5 years, 1 bag but that was on purpose.
Let's look at my reasoning for going over my desired 1-per-year last year. I bought 3 in total, one new that was planned for and on a Wishlist for years, 1 vintage beauty in one of my favourite styles/leathers/colours that was a very good price and a new-to-me bag that is quite a rare example in very useful colours. I won't repeat 3 this year, perhaps 1.
My advice is don't buy too many, too fast.
Let's look at my reasoning for going over my desired 1-per-year last year. I bought 3 in total, one new that was planned for and on a Wishlist for years, 1 vintage beauty in one of my favourite styles/leathers/colours that was a very good price and a new-to-me bag that is quite a rare example in very useful colours. I won't repeat 3 this year, perhaps 1.
My advice is don't buy too many, too fast.
Usually two.
One for spring/summer
One for autumn/winter.
Right now I haven’t bought any for 2019 and 2020. Weird.
One for spring/summer
One for autumn/winter.
Right now I haven’t bought any for 2019 and 2020. Weird.
There is no 'reasonable number'. Buy as many as you want and can afford.
So far I've bought two in 2020. One was a bag I've wanted for some time, the other a complete impulse purchase. Both I love and use now almost exclusively.
In 2019, it was four in eight months and then I haven't bought anything for the remainder of the year and January this year.
So far I've bought two in 2020. One was a bag I've wanted for some time, the other a complete impulse purchase. Both I love and use now almost exclusively.
In 2019, it was four in eight months and then I haven't bought anything for the remainder of the year and January this year.
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None since 2017. I don't need anymore. I have all the styles that work for me covered. Despite that I like seeing what everyone else is buying because I love handbags!
I used to buy too many a year - anything that I like!
Now that I’m sort of content (plus I ran out of closet space), I have slowed down and became more picky and “purseposeful” as to which one to add next.
Now that I’m sort of content (plus I ran out of closet space), I have slowed down and became more picky and “purseposeful” as to which one to add next.
I have been trying to practice one in and one out. So if I bought four or five bags, four or five bags were sold or given away. You should ask yourself if you will really change out your bags enough to warrant having more than a certain number. I used to have a lot of closet trophies because I liked having them, but I wouldn't wear them as much as I should. So what is reasonable needs to be what is reasonable to you. Some people like to wear one bag until it dies, and some like to change their bags daily, which is exhausting to me, LOL.
Yes true change bag daily waste my time and sometimes forget some cards or important papers which is exhausting me also.. I think if I prefer practical light weight bag meduim or small size for daily use.. but in occasion I need to change.
"Reasonable" is relative, like another user said.
I've been "collecting" since 2010 and there's no pattern with me. Some years I bought 2-3 myself (and were gifted 1 or 2 by my hubby). Other years I didn't buy/get gifted a single purse or SLG and sold items.
I think I have a lot of my staples now though and I have a pretty good idea of what I will realistically use. I can now look at a bag and get a good idea of how often I would use it and what for and decide if that bag would be worth it for me in the Cost-Per-Wear department.
I've been "collecting" since 2010 and there's no pattern with me. Some years I bought 2-3 myself (and were gifted 1 or 2 by my hubby). Other years I didn't buy/get gifted a single purse or SLG and sold items.
I think I have a lot of my staples now though and I have a pretty good idea of what I will realistically use. I can now look at a bag and get a good idea of how often I would use it and what for and decide if that bag would be worth it for me in the Cost-Per-Wear department.