i buy a new wallet every 4-5 months id say. i pretty much only switch wallets when switching into my new one...i don't baby them. just my bags. that's not to say i throw them on a dirty bathroom floor and treat them like crud, i just don't worry as much as i do about my bags.
How often do you buy new wallets? Do you baby them?
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My last Louis Vuitton wallet (well, french purse) lasted almost 11 years and I used it every day. I kid you not. In fact, when it finally was time to get a new one, I bought the same exact style and still managed to sell the old one on eBay for about $100.
WOW. now that is one value-retainer! i can think of some stock investments that wouldn't been been so sound!
hmm, have i stumbled on the latest greatest rationalizer for our respective DH/SOs??
Yup - that's exactly the kind of use i'm talking about - just the frequency of handling it and worrying like 'oh do i have too much moisturizer on my hands or did i just handle the inky newspaper' - stuff like that i would avoid with bags at all costs, but it's just not feasible sometimes with wallets when you're holding up a line to pay your bus fare
I'm just way too lazy to switch out a wallet frequently. I'm also not too into matching my wallet to my bag. I have 2 Coach wallets that I have had for a long time. I have been using the same zip around sig stripe Coach wallet for about 9 months now! I have another Coach leather checkbook wallet that I really like too.
Wallets are to be used, not babied. You are in and out of a wallet 20 times a day, so you might as well treat yourself to something fabulous that you love. I have a LV Monogram French Purse, and I will use it until it falls apart. Because I like the way it looks, and it is well made, it is always a pleasure to use. Yes, it is expensive, but it amortizes nicely when you consider you get AT LEAST 5 years out of it, if not more. I don't switch wallets, because that really is too much trouble. I also have the same attitude about my beautiful handbags: use and enjoy them; not baby them.
Life is too short.
Life is too short.
That is totally awesome! That's cost per wear for you!
I buy wallets as I see them. Can reasonably say 3 a year. I'm learning to change out wallets as I have many of them. I do not baby them at all. I don't baby anything, I kid you not. I don't believe in treating my bag like another person.
i don't tuck mine in at night or sing them lullabies
BUT i had a really bad scare with my first designer bag (a HH Suki) where 1 day after receiving it, i discovered dark black ink transfer from my jeans all over the back side of the bag. i envisioned the 300$ i paid slide down the drain. i seriously almost cried to the SA at LunaBoston. i ended up getting it almost entirely out. but since then i try to be more aware of things like that, and how dirty my hands are etc.
Bought one there too a few years ago, loved the wallet(style) but didnt like the fact that I had to glue it back together after e few months.. I guess you get what you pay for 50$ doesnt go far.
