Price per wear
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Stylebook keeps track of it.
Thanks! I have to wait till I get a new phone. I have absolutely no room on mine.
Never calculated this.
Never will.
Wtf does "wear" entail?
Using 2 hours or more? Touching with bare hands in a boat? If lipstick matches both shoes & bag in restaurant?
If bag can be used 4 times before reselling on ebay?
Holy crap.
Life's confusing enough for those of us with small brains.
Why ask me to build a daring financial scheme around stuff holding my tissues & keys?
Thanks for making me smile (again) with one of your posts!
I don't keep track of this either. While I understand the concept, and get upset with myself if I buy a bag that doesn't end up getting used, there are so many more things that go into the question of whether a bag is "worth it," like having that perfect special occasion bag, even if those occasions don't happen too often, or just loving the bag and being happy to own it and use it when you want to. If I expect my Chanels to end up with the same cost per wear number as my Longchamps, I'm just setting myself up for disappointment.
For me, knowing cpw encourages me to carry it more. Before I kept my premier bags on the shelf, but once I started tracking the cpw, I realized I wasn't getting my money's worth out of them. It's one thing to buy something for special occasions, I don't wear my dresses and fancy jewelry often. But I bought these bags with the intention to wear, wearing these bags to lower the cpw is encouraging and affirms I bought the right bag.
If I see a large cpw, either this bag was for a special occasion or the wrong bag. It's a tool to analyze my wardrobe.
If I see a large cpw, either this bag was for a special occasion or the wrong bag. It's a tool to analyze my wardrobe.
Thanks for your kind words.
A good point, that "wear" varies with type of bag. And that every decision needn't look efficient on a spreadsheet to be okay.
Rather than getting upset with myself, I blame the bag--obviously, IT was WRONG to be useless.
Frees me from "justification train," to replace what isn't working quickly. And to enjoy what does.
Hm. I'm really bad with numbers. They make my head dizzy. Also, I'm way too lazy to create excel sheets to keep track on how often I wear my bags. So no, I don't calculate cost per wear.
Exactly.
"Find 'x'?"---well, right there, on the algebra page! Can't they see letter x, near that graph?!
There are answers even brilliant mathematicians miss. Which we dizzy ones find.
That makes sense. I have a general idea of which of my bags gets the most use, I'm just too lazy to track it formally! It's interesting that the stylebook app has encouraged you to wear certain bags -- I just grab whatever is going to work for that day.
Thanks for your kind words.
A good point, that "wear" varies with type of bag. And that every decision needn't look efficient on a spreadsheet to be okay.
Rather than getting upset with myself, I blame the bag--obviously, IT was WRONG to be useless.
Frees me from "justification train," to replace what isn't working quickly. And to enjoy what does.
Getting upset with myself probably sounds harsher than I mean it. With some bags, it WAS the bag's fault!
Sometimes you have to wear a bag for a while to realize that the structure isn't right, or the closure is fussy, or shoulder strap slips off or isn't comfortable. I do blame myself for a couple of big purchases, though, because I wasn't being realistic about my life when I bought them. For example, thinking I could use my Chanel Reissue 227 as an everyday bag was not realistic. I almost always carry a bottle of water, which does not fit in that bag! So I do wear the bag, but a whole lot less than my original intention. It's more of an out to dinner bag now. Lesson learned!
Never calculated this.
Never will.
Wtf does "wear" entail?
Using 2 hours or more? Touching with bare hands in a boat? If lipstick matches both shoes & bag in restaurant?
If bag can be used 4 times before reselling on ebay?
Holy crap.
Life's confusing enough for those of us with small brains.
Why ask me to build a daring financial scheme around stuff holding my tissues & keys?
Agreed
I think it's a good idea if it makes people use the bags they have more but if you have them, you have them, so why worry?
I've no guilt about buying bags and I don't have to justify them to myself "you can only have that if you wear it 4 times a week!" that would be awful.
In fact, if I worried about cost per wear before I bought a bag or had to justify a purchase like that (I mean seriously, not just for a fun thread) I would be worried I should be buying anything new at all.
I think my Lumi Supermarket is down to 1,50 € per wear and all my Le Pliage are under 1 €. Roseau is currently at 73 €, this I must fix ASAP because I love this bag!
Higher end - Mulberry Antony is at around 5 E per wear (bought for 350 €, new to me Ledbury at 50 € per wear (bought for 285 € and Tillie is currently at 150 €. Yeah, 150. Crazy. :weird:
Higher end - Mulberry Antony is at around 5 E per wear (bought for 350 €
, new to me Ledbury at 50 € per wear (bought for 285 € and Tillie is currently at 150 €. Yeah, 150. Crazy. :weird:
Price per wear is a good way to determine if you're getting your money's worth out of a purchase, but $6 seems really arbitrary. I think you're better off setting your own numbers that you're happy with. If you value designer bags, surely carrying a designer bag is 'worth' more to you than a non-branded bag? So wouldn't a higher cost per wear for an expensive bag be ok if the experience of carrying such a bag is more valuable than $6?
Cost of the item divided by the number of times you've worn it.
I keep track on my Stylebook app, others use excel.
Stylebook app? Info, please? Link?
http://www.stylebookapp.com/
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Basically my virtual closet. Several of us have threads on our virtual closet in the wardrobe section.
Ah, thank you, m'dear. This is why I didn't know about it - self-employed computer geek here wears crap clothes and carries designer bags, abso nothing to style -http://www.stylebookapp.com/
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Basically my virtual closet. Several of us have threads on our virtual closet in the wardrobe section.
Only you can determine what the figure is your comfortable with, i would imagine that figure was chosen because it would be comparable to say a specialty hot drink and/or a few coffees a day.
I think the whole concept of CPW just helps people gauge on how much this item is costing them after the initial outlay and whether that works for them is completely personal.