– Update: I just remembered that Jean at Extra Petite had a great video about how she’s saved money on Chanel bags over the years by taking advantage of store-wide discounts and store credit card offers (e.g., sign up for a credit card, get 15% off all day)… so keep in mind that $2100 could quickly become less than that if you’re smart about it.
And yes, you probably do recognize some of these from Coffee Break postings and other blog posts.) I purchase far less bags these days, if only because it’s harder to justify the expense with a baby. When the vast majority of these were purchased, I was a single girl with a lot of extra income - I thought they were a good investment, and I liked that purses “fit” no matter what size I happened to be that morning. (Just to be totally clear: The collection below goes back as far back as law school in some cases, so this is almost 10 years of purse purchases. Do I spend a lot more than some of my other friends do? Yep. Do I spend a lot less than some of my friends do? Yep. Ultimately: do I spend a lot on bags? Sure. I think the majority of women who spend Big Money on one bag do so with the acknowledgement that they don’t like to switch bags and the intention to carry that single bag for two or three years. Looking back, I probably could have/should have saved up the money I was spending on various small purse purchases, and instead bought one really nice purse once a year.
Nordstroms dooney and bourke handbags professional#
(Um: because I am insane, I thought I’d share some of those pictures with you below… I’m obviously not a professional photographer or Photoshopper!) (For my current lifestyle, I almost never see the vast majority of my collection - I keep pictures of them all so I can easily remember what I have and want without having to rifle through the bags on the tippy top shelf of my closet, mostly covered in dustbags.) When I was working I tried to switch purses once every few weeks or so, to keep them in rotation. It always makes me smile because I think of the bag as a gift from them. After three or four years it added up to a lot of money… so I used it to buy the LV, guilt-free. When I started working as a lawyer, I decided to use the cash mostly for cab money/random expenses, but to keep track in my Palm Pilot of who gave me what, and when, and save it for some “splurge” purchase. See, every holiday in my family, all the kids get money from all the aunts. – When I bought my most expensive bag (my LV), I used money from my aunts/grandmother. Many were purchased for below $200, though, either at sample sales, online sales, or through flash sales (some of where I had “referral points” from recommending different flash sale sites on the blog). – The vast majority of my bags are in the $300-$600 price range. This is a great question, and we haven’t discussed this since the big discussion on how much people generally spend on clothes a few years ago.* ( Pictured.) I’m curious to hear what readers say here, but for my own $.02, this is how I look at it:
So my question is, who pays $2100 for a purse? Are these people who have no loans? Who have married money? Or am I just not investing enough in my wardrobe? I am interested in getting your (and other readers) opinion(s). However, I don’t save that much money (though I do pay extra on my loans). I would buy a $350 purse, but that is a far cry from $2100! Like most lawyers I know, I have student loans and a mortgage. While I realize I may be somewhat conservative when it comes to clothes (I tend to buy designer clothes on sale or through Gilt or Ideeli), I am definitely not cheap. My firm pays the standard scale - I currently make $185,000 and will soon get a raise to $210,000. How much do you spend on bags? After our discussion on Tuesday regarding whether a reader should spend $2100 on a bag that she was different from what she normally carried, reader E wrote in with this comment:Īfter reading your post yesterday regarding expensive, professional bags, I wonder who out there can afford such a bag? I am a lawyer at a big firm and live in DC.
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