If I can only buy all the bags I want…


Sorry for not having updated the blog in a few days. No, I did not want to neglect you peeps. I just had all these things I needed to take care of before heading out of town again. Yes, yes, this baghag needs a vacation every month. It’s my only ticket to sanity *muwahaha*. Ok, so I know for sure that I have a convoluted sense of reality because I feel that with each trip I take, I know that there is moolah in my bag for more new bags (Temporary happiness= how many new bags you can buy. Hellloooo shallow baghag!!). A random check with my bank book yesterday revealed otherwise though– aiyahhh faux tai tai (me), there’s no more money in the pot!! *Wail* I simply refuse to wallow in the pits of my own private hell (private hell= purse ban because hello, school for the kids in June… tuition time).

But today, I turned my private hell into something positive– Mrs.T has a new pasttime! Collecting credit card charge slips 🙂 *muwahaha*. Lucky for this pretentious dweeb, there is still faux reality, this blog– the one thing that I actually feel is real (here’s my philosophy: everything in life is psychosomatic. Convince yourself its real and you actually begin to believe it’s real even if it’s the biggest and fattest lie you’ve ever told yourself haha). This blog makes me feel every inch that jackpot tai tai that I wish in reality I was *muwahaha*. This blog makes me feel like an heiress with a bottomless money pit (muwahaha… I did tell you I have a very contorted sense of reality, right?). This blog is probably the last place on earth where I can be the shopaholic without collecting any card debt. I can just accummulate all these expensivo bags and not foot the bill– think putting all those bags into your “shopping cart”, then cancelling the order before checking out hahaa (yes, you caused eluxury and neimanmarcus servers to go down because of that hahaha).

The princess of virtual impulse buys is back today 😀 (I reserve the word “queen” for the true impulse buy goddesses). If I had all the money in real life, which bags would I get (or not get) today?

Flavor of the month: Hermes Victoria. While all bag designers seem to try to outdo each other by coming up with some extra detail in their bag that epitomizes workmanship perfection, Hermes came up with a no-fuss, basic bag yet again. In a crazy bag society, this bag will definitely stand out. It’s so nondescript, and so plain. But that’s not to say I don’t like it. In fact, let it be known now that this is the bag that I’ve been secretly crazy about in the last few weeks since new mom LPT bought hers to use as a diaper bag (Score!!!). I think I’m soo done with details. It’s time to revert back to the classics. If you’ve got the moolah, this is something you might want to consider. Ok, this goes into my shopping cart 😀

Tired of seeing all the Louis Vuitton Neverfull totes around town? Probably not (after all, we love LV, right? :D), but there’s another monogram tote from Fendi that seeks to share the same s”tote”us (status hehe) as the Neverfull. The Fendi Matrioska tote. Another basic tote for the monogram loving public. Priced at US$650 on eluxury.com. Would I buy this bag? Probably not. I’m still a Goyard St.Louis loving muchacha. I don’t think Fendi can pirate my bag love from Goyard just yet. Nice try though, Fendi. 😀

Thomas Wylde Flick Flack bag. A nice cross between a Marc Jacobs Stam and a Chanel Baby Coco Cabas. I like the leather, the color, and that logo engraved plaque. There’s the signature skull print on the interior lining of the bag. I like this bag and for US$1,200 I’d buy it just because 🙂 I think the only concern for me here would be the weight. But hey, if you have braved carrying the Chloe Paddington for over a month, then this bag won’t merit a visit to your neighborhood chiropractor haha. Available at eluxury.com

Oh crap, not again! Bugly bag alert! It’s been awhile since my last bugly bag report, but this bag is a definite loser in my book. I cannot fathom anyone can pay the hefty price tag of US$2,995 for this Carlos Falchi Collage bag. The bag was described as a “seductively luxurious mix of genuine anaconda and python in rich, earthy hues”. Seductively luxurious??! (Apparently the copywriter of that bag is more deluded than I *haha*). How can it be seductively luxurious when it just really looks like a piece of crap? *woohoo trash-talk! The biatchy baghag is seriously PMSing :D* This is sooo not a creative way to use those exotic skin leftovers. I am simply appalled that the designer could even come up with this bag. *Puke* Buy this bag and be scarred for life haha.

And of course, my bag list won’t be complete without that token “more affordable” bag (and let me say this on the record– this is the only bag on my list which I *think* I can still afford *bawl*). And today’s pick came from Mango! I was at Shangrila Mall yesterday after a very strange work meeting (seriously, it was strange, and I can’t even go into specifics). So I was walking around with a friend when we saw this bag at Mango (hehe check out the pearls on her!). Priced around Php 4,000+, it had all the makings of a Prada bag. The look was Prada. Even the leather (if indeed it is leather), which looked like courchevel (of Hermes), was very Prada. And what I liked about it the most? It had a “mini me” included 🙂 I shall rename this bag, Mango ala Prada (sounds like dessert!)

Oh dear, I only had 2 bags that I actually would’ve bought for myself (I excluded the Mango ala Prada bag, because I think *take note, I said I think– I didn’t say I can with full conviction haha* I can afford that and don’t really need to lust for it that much hahaa)! But oh gee, 2 bags only on the virtual shopping cart? That’s behavior unbecoming of a bag hag 🙁 Bah, let me go and earn some real money first. Someone’s gotta seriously foot this baghag’s bill or I’d go broke and bust for life. Sigh, it’s really time to learn to accept that wallowing in the pits of my private hell isn’t so bad. After all, there’s this blog which is really my main avenue for bag shopping and hoarding– virtually of course. This is why I love this blog 🙂

Have a good day 🙂

P.S. Last weekend’s Rockwell bazaar was so much fun. I ended up buying things that I don’t really need (like purple wellingtons which were really too cute to pass up), and clothes which I already have plenty of (even though I always end up wearing all my old ones haha). But here was something that I didn’t hesitate to buy– Tinsley made all these funky shirts and one said Mrs. Jackpot. I was really touched because it was apparently inspired by me *check out the bag Mrs. Jackpot has– a tote with stripes and a crown hehe* (hehe, if it’s really true, thank you so much for that, I am truly humbled :D). There are also other shirts which said Shopaholic and Proud etc. and these are available in Tinsley (at Tresorie- 2nd floor Doña Consolacion Bldg, 122 Jupiter Street Makati City) for only Php 600 each. These make perfect Christmas gifts for your baghag friends 🙂

xx
Mrs.T

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  1. Nice Hermes bag. Something new to lust after. Grrrr. By the way, I have a new blog (partly inspired by you).
    Please check it out at anything-queer.blogspot.com. My God, I still haven’t given you your birthday gift! I wish I could find the time to drop by Tresorie soon.

    RG

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