Share Your Edited Bag Closet Journey......

[Nibb]

My house is small. And it’s not endowed with great storage. Stuff accumulates. Once again, I’m going through a process of divesting things....in addition to reducing my bag wardrobe.
On the bag front, instead of having my high of 4 styles in Barolo, I now have one. If I need a Barolo colored bag, I grab the only one I still have. This, I see as success.

This is continuing to be a very interesting thread. Barolo is a beautiful color, I can understand why you would want it in 4 styles. I too live in a small house, I understand how quickly the stuff can get out of control. My DH and I have a philosophy to buy less but buy the best we can afford. That works very well for us, we keep our stuff for years, cleaned and maintained, new large purchases sometimes may take us up to a year to decide. About six years ago when I started buying luxury bags I did not follow that rule, I would impulse buy, mostly because I like the way a bag looked on someone else, not me. The end of last year I had bags that I never carried and honestly didn’t really care for. I ended up trading them in at a reseller, over this past year I learned that all I really love are my BV bags, to me they are the equivalent of comfy jeans and fuzzy blankets. Lately I have been tweaking my collection and buying a few BV bags I have been lusting after, it has been very satisfying.

 

[bagnut1]

I would impulse buy, mostly because I like the way a bag looked on someone else, not me.

Me too - I have had a tendency to get caught up in liking a bag as a pretty object rather than thinking carefully through the using of it (and with what clothes and how often). I think I am 90% cured of this and my current purge (to be completed by end of year) will eliminate all of my underused bags. Upside is they will find new homes where they will be admired AND used.

Love the "comfy jeans and fuzzy blankets" comparison - just this morning I grabbed a BV for this blah day b/c it cheers me up to carry it.

 

[southernbelle43]

This is continuing to be a very interesting thread. Barolo is a beautiful color, I can understand why you would want it in 4 styles. I too live in a small house, I understand how quickly the stuff can get out of control. My DH and I have a philosophy to buy less but buy the best we can afford. That works very well for us, we keep our stuff for years, cleaned and maintained, new large purchases sometimes may take us up to a year to decide. About six years ago when I started buying luxury bags I did not follow that rule, I would impulse buy, mostly because I like the way a bag looked on someone else, not me. The end of last year I had bags that I never carried and honestly didn’t really care for. I ended up trading them in at a reseller, over this past year I learned that all I really love are my BV bags, to me they are the equivalent of comfy jeans and fuzzy blankets. Lately I have been tweaking my collection and buying a few BV bags I have been lusting after, it has been very satisfying.

Very wise decision making. I think all of us in the beginning of our journey impulse buy before we settle in with our fuzzy blankets and jeans!

 

[ohmisseevee]

Me too - I have had a tendency to get caught up in liking a bag as a pretty object rather than thinking carefully through the using of it (and with what clothes and how often). I think I am 90% cured of this and my current purge (to be completed by end of year) will eliminate all of my underused bags. Upside is they will find new homes where they will be admired AND used.

Love the "comfy jeans and fuzzy blankets" comparison - just this morning I grabbed a BV for this blah day b/c it cheers me up to carry it.

I'm sort of at the start of my handbag journey, and I've caught myself doing this for sure. I like how it looks in the pictures or I like the idea of the bag more than the actual functional use of it.

 

[Nibb]

I'm sort of at the start of my handbag journey, and I've caught myself doing this for sure. I like how it looks in the pictures or I like the idea of the bag more than the actual functional use of it.

Tread lightly, but enjoy the journey!

 

[southernbelle43]

I'm sort of at the start of my handbag journey, and I've caught myself doing this for sure. I like how it looks in the pictures or I like the idea of the bag more than the actual functional use of it.

Thankfully, my friend TotinScience keeps me on the straight and narrow. After three years of sharing our bag journeys, she can point out to me that I am in love with the leather not the bag. She has saved me lots of money (and on occasion, cost me money).

 

[diane278]

Another borrowed mantra...clipped to a bag shelf because I need to be reminded of my goal. And what better place than the scene of the Disappearing Dilemma? (It’s getting easier!)

I now know that, although I won’t be among the No More Than Ten Bags group at this point in time, I am already in a better place than when I started this, and without the @Rami00 article, I’d still be struggling with trying to find my limits (which are still fluid where numbers are concerned).

I like it here because it’s both fulfilling and fun. Plus, I get to keep rearranging my closet!

 

[indiaink]

Bumping this back up to the top... people are in need!

 

[diane278]

I’m currently in limbo. I do need to remember that it’s winter and in winter I usually wear a jacket or coat, and I carry my keys, phone and wallet in jacket pockets....so I frequently don’t carry a bag. Because of this, I’ve been feeling like I still have too many bags. But I suspect that I may have too many bags only for our very short winter. Everything changes when spring and summer arrive. Then I need a bag nearly every day.
Being a ‘curator’ is not for the faint of heart.....

 

[jayohwhy]

After so many rounds of buying and selling, I had konmari-d my house and decided to only keep pieces that I truly loved (and sparked joy). I keep on reminding myself that purses do not go bad and have the capability to be around for decades so I need to be very selective about which ones I get. If a bag doesn’t fit what I need to and doesn’t match my preferred color scheme, it’s out. I feel like I have everything I want and try to err on the side of not getting anything new. Also, I’ve learned that if my husband picks out something for me, it means more to me because he’s shown his love by thinking about what I would like and i will use it more. My husband picked out my last bag as a gift when we went to Paris and I LOVE it.

I now have...
YSL N/S shopper
Celine luggage
Chanel jumbo
Chanel mini
Le pliage tote
Senreve maestra
LV on your side

And I feel like I have bags for every occasion.

 

[diane278]

After so many rounds of buying and selling, I had konmari-d my house and decided to only keep pieces that I truly loved (and sparked joy). I keep on reminding myself that purses do not go bad and have the capability to be around for decades so I need to be very selective about which ones I get. If a bag doesn’t fit what I need to and doesn’t match my preferred color scheme, it’s out. I feel like I have everything I want and try to err on the side of not getting anything new. Also, I’ve learned that if my husband picks out something for me, it means more to me because he’s shown his love by thinking about what I would like and i will use it more. My husband picked out my last bag as a gift when we went to Paris and I LOVE it.

I now have...
YSL N/S shopper
Celine luggage
Chanel jumbo
Chanel mini
Le pliage tote
Senreve maestra
LV on your side

And I feel like I have bags for every occasion.

You seem to have accomplished your goal. It’s great to see others ‘figure it out’ because then I know it’s within reach.....

 

[diane278]

Oops.

 

[Joule]

Oops.

!!!

 

[diane278]

Well, I feel confident that I have my first four bags figured out.
Two shoulder bags:
*Nero BV nodini that fits over coats; (winter bag)
*Cement/Steele BV cervo loop that fits over lightweight jacketssummer bag)

Two totes:
Nero BV mini cabat (winter)
Nuvolato BV Lido tote (summer)

I remain stuck on the clutches, which wouldn’t seem like such a big deal, except that I carry clutches frequently and have quite a few.....I guess if this process were easy, I wouldn’t need this thread.
At least they’re small and don’t take up much shelf space.......back to the grind....

 

[doni]

I thought of @diane278 as soon as I saw this!

It's the final day of the John Ruskin exhibit at Yale and his mailbag was prominently displayed. (On par with nearby J.M.W. Turner paintings/watercolors.) It's part of the university’s collection of his manuscripts, and I think it’s beyond wonderful that it was included it in the exhibit.

(And I bet that was the only bag he owned.)

Wonderful. Imagine they had to exhibit our bags, they would take over the exhibition
Actually, maybe that is a way to think about it. If they did an exhibition about me, which bags would represent who am I?