Does anyone else not get bag love?

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Right, Escargot, if I get trashed I'm blaming you

Bags. Why?
Yes they hold your stuff and chocolate would melt if you kept it in your pocket. But Mulberry, Pashli, whatever, I'm sorry, they all look like something off Ashton market to me. Why, when there are so many lovely dresses and cakes in the world, do people get so giddy about them? Why all the gushing and the stroking? Thread after thread after thread....

It's not the price tags. I am all for spending money on beautiful things so please, no benches, holidays or new boilers. I don't even want to hear about your favourite charity. And bag lovers, please save your breath and your links; you have had plenty of chances to convert me and you have failed. I just want to hear from people who don't feel the luuurve.

Don't be ashamed! I'm happy that now you too know about the Mohs scale. If you would like an alternative engagement ring (and why not?) then my recommendation is to go for corundum, because I really hate it when a poor girl cracks the stone that holds such meaning. Sapphires can be found in a myriad of colours: yellow, pink, green, purple etc. I recommend softer stones be kept for things like earrings and pendants as they are much less likely to get knocked.

[if anyone ever needs help with this stuff, I am happy to be contacted on the board (clue's in the name google apatite) I've helped many a person buy engagement rings]

Ok, back to bags!

Little need of an engagement right right now tbh I would rather not have one since I am not one for rings usually (or much jewellery at all - like looking at it more than wearing it). I really like iridescent stones but I think they are universally quite fragile?

Apatite is v pretty btw. I like watermelon tourmaline and ametrine too btw, I am not really one for plain coloured stones tbh.

They are easier to buy than clothes - they don't have to fit.

I unfortunately know that diamonds are a lot harder than sapphires from when my (18th birthday) sapphire ring and diamond engagement ring both spun round when I was clapping for about 5 minutes without stopping - the diamond smashed the sapphire into pieces :(

Re bags, I think it is worth splashing out on one very beautiful, versatile bag that you will use daily, but otherwise I don't really get it.

they don't have to fit.
That is true. But neither do scarves or hankies. Or cakes

Cakes are much easier to buy than clothes, certainly. I can even buy cakes locally, which is nice.

I get wanting a nice, durable bag but if I had a spare few hundred pounds to spend in a department store, I would never just buy one bag. I'd rather have dresses or perfume.

I carry a Longchamp Le Pliage which I love to bits. That's the most expensive bag I've ever owned. I thought it was extortionate for what you were getting at the time, but it has lasted and still looks alright after quite a few years. Usually I just wreck bags - they seem to get filthy and battered and I'm never sure why!

Thinking about it - I am like this with perfume and would happily drop ££££ on a rare fragrance if I had the money. Definitely get the appeal of things that you can never be too fat/short/tall etc for

I understand that too but why do they have to be so plug ugly?

I know what you mean, LittleBabyPigsus. When I think about how much I've spent on Diptyque candles over the years I feel ashamed. And they're even LESS useful than fancy bags!

Oh I love a naice scented candle. It's a good job I'm skint anyway...

We'll I love handbags, shoes and diamonds:)

Don't understand candles though. Mine are for emergencies only, like a power cut.

Don't understand candles though. Mine are for emergencies only, like a power cut.

I find that statement faintly liberating. I too shall now look to my candles for utilitarian purposes and save a fortune in the process - I may have enough for that Mulberry leopard print bag I linked too...

I have to go now everyone but sooo good to know I am not alone.
A big mwoah mwoah to you too, all you bag lovers and thank you for your forbearance.

So is it heels next? Or scented candles?

See I think of shoes and bags as being more useful, so tend to think about them in more utilitarian ways. Scented candles are far more frivolous so I think, well it's less useful anyway so may as well go the whole hog? Same with spending £££ on discontinued perfume.

Little: I've got loads of discontinued perfumes. Too many. But I never paid more than £ 100 for a bottle. Most of them were in the £ 15-40 region.

Ahh but I'm thinking more of v v v rare niche limited editions, or originals before perfumes were reformulated.

Yes, some of those would cost ££££ depending on what you wanted..

OP I love my bags but your OP made me laugh with the reference to Ashton market. I grew up locally

Hanging, I have to admit I haven't been for a long time but Ashton Market was a Legend back in the 70s - the Net-a-Porter of the North West. Happy days!

Really don't get those saggy shapeless bags people gush about. If I've paid a lot I want something that looks well-made at first glance - you can't see what you're looking at with those bags because they're just a big heap of leather/pleather. You'd have to really paw over them and examine seams to tell if they're from Primark or not.

I may just have found my spiritual home on MN. I thought I. Was the only one in the world who thought that bags are the biggest waste of money on the planet. The majority are ugly, clunky, Tatty pieces of aspirational trash. They make my teeth itch.

It's the ugliness that gets me though. So many of them are just hideous...

I really don't care about bags. But someone upthread mentioned nails-my nails are shit too. And I don't wear jewellery because I'm allergic.

Scarves though, I love. But I like the cheap ones.

Actually I don't mind a bit of trashiness or silliness. Fashion is supposed to be fun. What I hate is that extra special reverence that these ugly, silly bags seem to attract, you know, the hushed tones in which people talk about something that looks like a giant boiled sweet on a chain.

So, on reflection, that Bambi bag that I linked wasn't such a good example as it was probably just meant to be a bit of fun. That ugly little quilted Chanel is more annoying because of the way people practically genuflect in front of it. Like it's the Sistine Chapel of handbags or something.

I hate bags. Horrible germ-ridden things.