Tax free weekend here y’all so that means, back to school shopping today! Imma goin’ in style with my Chanel maxi. Yes you read that right: Chanel maxi. I still have it, love it, treasure it. I got it back in 2014 when your name had to go on a waiting list to acquire one. I put my name on the waiting list. Then, I literally heard the voice of God telling me, at 11 pm one night (Florida time), call the Neimans in Las Vegas. It was 9 pm Las Vegas time. I called and asked the Chanel department: do you happen to have a black caviar with gold hardware Chanel maxi? She said, hold on let me check. Then she goes to the infamous Chanel back room and says, ok this is so weird, but I actually have one sitting here in the shelf right in front of me! She said, that is so weird because there is a waiting list for this purse but neimans just got it in so we have not had time to create a waiting list! I started shaking y’all. I asked her, is it a virgin?! She said, excuse me?! I said, you know, virgin? Never been touched?! In other words, is it straight from the Chanel factory, all wrapped up, and no one has touched it before or was it sitting on a shelf, opened, where people have been touching it and trying it on?? She said, yes it a virgin! It is straight from the factory and it is still sealed! I said, can I buy it?? She said yes because there is no waiting list, you can buy it! Now y’all please hear me out. The Chanel maxi back in March of 2014 was $5300 and i know some of y’all are saying BUY BUY BUY butttttt, I had wanted that purse since 2001 and I promised myself that after I got my PHD, that would be my gift to myself. Well, what do you think happened? I got married during my PHD and got pregnant on my wedding night. By mistake. The best mistake! And my husband was a full time student so I had to work to put him through school after I got my PHD along with having a newborn son. At that time, the last thing on my mind was buying a Chanel! In 2014, our financial situation had improved since my husband graduated and was working and I was now a stay at home mom to 2 kids but I still had to be very mindful of our spending habits because we had student loans, 2 small kids, etc. So, I told the sales associate at Neimans, I told her, can you put it on hold for me until tomorrow please? I have to ask my husband. I did not feel comfortable dropping that kind of money without his knowledge! So she said, yes I will hold it for you for 24 hours. So as you can imagine, I did not sleep the entire night! I was thinking, how am I going to ask my husband, oh by the way, can I spend $5300 plus tax on a Chanel?! I still remember the next morning y’all. My husband was shaving his face in the bathroom. I approached him and asked him and he SAID YES! I was not expecting that! So it was 6 am Florida time but 3 am Vegas time so you can imagine how I felt! I just wanted to call neimans to buy the purse asap but I had to wait! Finally, the time came, I bought the purse, and it has been with me ever since. Some things are just meant to be ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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. Even the sofa has some pretty beading detail to match!
