You have £1,500 to spend on a bag of your choice, what do you go for?

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As the title says. Give or take 10% either way. Looking for a really nice new luxury bag and in need of suggestions.

lol at ‘controversial’ - aka ‘woman spends own money on bag she wants’.

It’s not a challenge, it’s just dressing sniping up as some weird moral position. My parents are also children of war (as am I, actually) and the shared sentiment is that life is for living, and enjoying, within your means to do so. Well, some people have more means than others, and can easily afford a £1,500 without putting themselves anywhere near financial jeopardy 🤷🏻‍♀️

"he would be appalled and disappointed if I spent this much on a handbag"
I suspect, @Notthrowingawaymyshot42 that having lived through a war and rationing that he wouldn't begrudge you spending money on what you choose. However, I don't know him.
My parents too survived dreadful wartime experiences and never once judged or criticised anyone who enjoyed life and wanted nice things because they knew how tenuous it all is.

@Notthrowingawaymyshot42 - I too have family who fetishised not spending money on anything “flash”, viewing anything they didn’t enjoy as wasteful, judging other people hard for spending their own money on things my family members wouldn’t value, failing to see the things they value /spend on wouldn’t interest other people.

I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy way to live.

@WouldURatherWinkieOrFinger that's brilliant and I would like to add - Pockets, those wretched Mia Tui bags and I bought a bag in 1973 and it's still perfectly useable.

@WouldURatherWinkieOrFinger 😂 😂 I appreciate the commitment to the golden nuggets from the thread!

@Notthrowingawaymyshot42 respectfully, I disagree. If I was asking for a "challenge" I'd have posted on AIBU, but I didn't. In your eyes, you see the thread as "flash", whereas I was hoping for genuine suggestions, not to be told to go on holiday approximately 947 times. I don't believe that I have been in any way boastful in any of the posts I have made on this thread, including in the title.

But you also need to realise that some of us do not give flying fuck about what you think. The thread is in style and beauty and there are quite a few posters that should never venture on here.
My dad was a soldier in WW2 and was shot up quite badly. We are a working class family and hold strong values...but do you know what...I love a nice bag and my Prada shoes. I got myself to university and work bloody hard in food poverty now. But that is only part of my life. In the other part I love buying nice things for myself and other people. Love spoiling my kids because I had fuck all growing up. I shall have a lovely weekend spending mine and my husband's hard earned cash...and next week I will be back to make sure families can feed their children.

Calm down astarsheis!

You’re being very rude @Notthrowingawaymyshot42

I really don’t know what’s so hard to understand- some people choose to spend their money on a bags. It’s not controversial or anything that needs debating. Equally some people like holidays, plants or trumpets. All non essentials that bring joy.

Hate to break it to you honey, but a holiday can be flash aswell. I had family members spends thousands on theirs including cruises. My Nanas 100, you would not pass her vibe check. Now she's a lady off class who likes a good glass of red, a round of golf and a handbag on her arm.

I know people who blow £100 on going out drinking every week, You could have a £1500 handbag every 3 or 4 months for that. People make choices of what to spend their money on. We don't all make the same choices and that's fine.

That’s easy. Go to M&S. Spend £30 on bag. Go onto internet. Spend the rest on a holiday.

Good for you, would you like a gold star. Read the "room".

I'm just wondering how many times this same post will be put on here. At least it was M&S this time.

You're right, that is easy.
Not what the OP wanted or did though.

Wow. I wonder if anyone else thought of that? Or read the thread. Or even just Ops posts.

I'm starting to think it is being done on purpose now, surely not everyone is that obstruse.

Yes, it's not nice to do that on a genuine thread, is it?

No it's not nice. But i'm bowing out of this thread now because of that. It's zapped the fun out of what should be a lighthearted fun thread.

OP enjoy your bag and trip away :)

Actually, OP - @Mouse82 has a good point. You've got your bag, some of us have enjoyed the thread, but unfortunately it's going to be spoiled now by these critical puritanical types, so maybe get it pulled?

I think getting it pulled would be a shame. I often search through S&B for recommendations instead of starting a thread. I did it this morning looking for a good place to find solid gold jewellery.

I think it’s a good example of human behaviour as well.

I think with the bingo card it's almost worth a nomination for Classics.
We need that bingo card!

I agree with this.

I think that once you've passed the 300 quid mark, there's little difference in quality and workmanship until you get to 2.5k. The next time (I wish!) I have a few hundred quid to spare, I'd just go for a Polene.

I'd only go true luxury/investment if I had a budget for a Chanel flap bag and several thousand pounds to spare. And even then, I'd have to get two, to pass on to each DD.

@EmpressOfTheThread I'm glad you showed up on this thread. I bought a designer bag for my 50th, I love it. I was lucky that I had lovely suggestions when I posted! It can go either way. My mother would implode with horror if she knew how I much I spent on it, but yet she did say "that's a beautiful bag" when she saw it. . I don't shame people for spending 53k on a car rather than 50k on a car, or tell them they should have bought a scooter and gone on holiday. This thread has been funny in its own way.

I can’t believe people are bringing their dads into this 😂

Absolutely bonkers… as enough pps have pointed out, this is S&B. And guess what? Women can spend their money on what they like without having to consider the (literal) patriarchy.

That's a flipping lot of money for a handbag!