Usually I'll stalk a bag for months or at least weeks, but tell me about the bags you bought 24 hours or less after first seeing them. Success and horror stories welcome!
I ask because I just bought this beauty -
Bleecker Daily Shoulder Bag in leather. I had NO IDEA this existed before last night. But it's perfect for what I need - a pretty, but flat purse I can carry when I go on that cross-country trip next week. I needed something to carry my essentials in that was bigger than a swingpack or the tiny-wallets-with-straps that some of the smaller purses are. Usually I am fine with Mini Tanners, but packing one in a suitcase is a bit of a pain, since I don't want it to lose its shape. But this will hold my wallet and phone and medicines and ipod and basically everything I keep on my person because I am paranoid about people breaking into cars and hotel rooms. (Paranoia has worked really well for me in the past.)
And it's FLAT. Going right on top, simple as pie! Because we'll be in different hotels each night and I'll have to repack and repack and ugh I am tired already.
I probably should have gone over to the store and tried it out first, but it's a holiday weekend and it's snowing and they didn't have black in stock and if I ordered online I could use PayPal and now it seems e bates is a bad word and man I hope it gets here before I leave on Saturday.
I hope it works for me, I'm a tad worried about how thin that strap is and how it will look with things actually in it.
But! The only other bag I remember buying on impulse was this beauty on the right -
Legacy Haley in Bright Coral. Saw her on FOS last summer and just went for it. When she came in I LOVED her - something about that bright coral. I usually hate orange, but this was so vivid and seemed to have some kind of hot pink tone? Of course, once you put it next to other bags it looks orange but on its own she was such a gorgeous color. I loved wearing her with a dress and sandals - such a great summer bag!
But alas, once I got a Bright Coral Mini Tanner I stopped carrying Haley, and now she is going to live with my aunt as a present. (A fake orange MK with studs was pressed upon her by another relative and fell apart soon after, so I'm replacing it. It will be a fun work bag for her.)
So! Tell me about your impulse purchases. Did you live happily ever after with them, or did they go back?
I ask because I just bought this beauty -
Bleecker Daily Shoulder Bag in leather. I had NO IDEA this existed before last night. But it's perfect for what I need - a pretty, but flat purse I can carry when I go on that cross-country trip next week. I needed something to carry my essentials in that was bigger than a swingpack or the tiny-wallets-with-straps that some of the smaller purses are. Usually I am fine with Mini Tanners, but packing one in a suitcase is a bit of a pain, since I don't want it to lose its shape. But this will hold my wallet and phone and medicines and ipod and basically everything I keep on my person because I am paranoid about people breaking into cars and hotel rooms. (Paranoia has worked really well for me in the past.)
And it's FLAT. Going right on top, simple as pie! Because we'll be in different hotels each night and I'll have to repack and repack and ugh I am tired already.
I probably should have gone over to the store and tried it out first, but it's a holiday weekend and it's snowing and they didn't have black in stock and if I ordered online I could use PayPal and now it seems e bates is a bad word and man I hope it gets here before I leave on Saturday.
I hope it works for me, I'm a tad worried about how thin that strap is and how it will look with things actually in it.
But! The only other bag I remember buying on impulse was this beauty on the right -
Legacy Haley in Bright Coral. Saw her on FOS last summer and just went for it. When she came in I LOVED her - something about that bright coral. I usually hate orange, but this was so vivid and seemed to have some kind of hot pink tone? Of course, once you put it next to other bags it looks orange but on its own she was such a gorgeous color. I loved wearing her with a dress and sandals - such a great summer bag!
But alas, once I got a Bright Coral Mini Tanner I stopped carrying Haley, and now she is going to live with my aunt as a present. (A fake orange MK with studs was pressed upon her by another relative and fell apart soon after, so I'm replacing it. It will be a fun work bag for her.)
So! Tell me about your impulse purchases. Did you live happily ever after with them, or did they go back?
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