Not Around Here
Woman in the Middle | October 27, 2015I have never been a huge purse person. Don’t get me wrong, I have used purses ever since the monthly you know what appeared on my life, so I am a long time purse user. But I am not a PURSE PERSON, in all capitals. I don’t dream of owning name brand, expensive purses. The purse I am using right now caught my eye because it was so colorful, so I splurged and bought it. It is one of the most expensive purses I have ever bought and I think it cost about $40.
(On a complete and total side note, I recently bought a “back up” purse that is similar to the one I am using now. It was on clearance at T.J. Maxx for $16. Score! I like to have a back up purse because they tend to have a zipper break or a handle come off at really inconvenient times. Besides, it was pretty.)
I was just reading a post on the Pioneer Woman blog. She was in New York and decided to treat herself to a purse at Saks Fifth Avenue. The one she saw and loved turned out to be $40,000. Yes, the prirce of a pretty nice car for a purse. And that purse was just sitting on a shelf where she could reach out and pick it up. Short of coating it with diamonds and having very high paid workers in some expensive European country hand stitch the thing together, pausing for an hour between each stitch, and only working four hours a day, I can not in my wildest imagination understand how any purse on this earth could cost $40,000 or why any one would want it.
But, then, I live in the backwater of western society, and am pretty darn cheap. But I am happy in my backwater and my cheapness. And I am happy with my $40 purse and its $16 replacement.
UPDATE: I realized after a comment I received that I never said if the Pioneer Woman bought the $40,000 purse. Of course she didn’t! She handed the purse over as quickly and carefully as possible to a sales woman and got out of Saks ASAP!
I’m the same way but even cheaper; I get purses I can wash!
Holy Toledo! Did she actually buy it???? That’s insane.
No, she didn’t buy it. She said she ever so carefully handed it back to the sales lady and got out of Saks ASAP.
And I thought Coach purses were over priced. With my neck and shoulder problems I look for small and light in a purse.