[Fleecewife]

 
I genuinely don't understand why anyone would pay nearly £800 for this:
http://www.johnlewis.com/aspinal-of-london-marylebone-leather-tote-handbag/p390822?colour=Black
 
For a start it's ugly, but how would anyone even have that much to spend on something to carry their junk around in 
 
Okay okay, I know I have never been accused of being a fashion victim, but I'm truly lost in the psychology of this handbag craze.
 
Does anyone understand it?
 
I'll probably be threatened with suing again for writing this 

[cloddopper]

It's a multi tasking thing for ladies .
Not only can you carry half the house about in it just incase you might need something you can feed and water all the animals out of it as well   .
 think of how it would look hung from a horses head or the horns of a cow that's using it as a nose bag 

Seriously , in truth  I suppose for those whom money is no object it is a statement of their freedom to spend money how they see fit and stuff the rest of you .

[darkbrowneggs]

Because its cheaper than these? 


http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hermes-kelly-bag     

[Brijjy]

I don't understand the fascination for handbags either and I'm a lady! Well female anyway. I just stuff all my junk in pockets or if I'm dolled up (last time circa 1996) stuff it all in hubbys pockets.

[happygolucky]

The programme we watched about porn brokers focused on expensive bags, they appear to fetch more than anything, my assortment of bags  must total well over £20 

[aess35]

The programme we watched about porn brokers focused on expensive bags, they appear to fetch more than anything, my assortment of bags  must total well over £20 

  Sorry..think you're meaning pawn brokers but porn brokers aka pimps are one of the classes of people that can afford stuff like that.  I don't get handbag thing either, when I was a lot younger and knew nothing I thought those that 'did lunch' had a great life but they are actually bored housewives with empty lives..unlike mine, covered in muck but fulfilled!

[MikeM]

happygolucky, possibly you mean pawn brokers? Kinda a whole other thing...

[happygolucky]

  see, that's what happens when I multi task...porn on the brain indeed 

[Lesley Silvester]

I do use a handbag - well shoulder bag - but my latest one cost £4.99 in the sales. We could live for a month including the mortgage on not much more than that cost. Ridiculous.

[Greenerlife]

Horses for courses!  i quite like the look of it to be honest, exceptfor the label printed on it, but the label is what most people who buy this stuff are looking for.  It's not for everybody, but good luck to them - somebody must be able to afford them otherwise they wouldn't get made.

[Bionic]

Yep I am, no was, a handbag person. I probably still have about 40 of them but mostly they don't get used these days.


I always had a different bag to match shoes but it doesn't seem so important to have a bag that matches my wellies 


I only once bought an expensive bag though, £125 and thought I was mad doing that

[Fleecewife]

Because its cheaper than these? 


http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hermes-kelly-bag     

    There's no icon to show my jaw dropped to the floor at those prices.  As for the clear one, I could get a see-through carrier bag if I wanted everyone to see what I cart about, and that wouldn't cost me anything  .   I could buy a nice big flock of top of the range sheep for the price of some of those bags. Or get my house reroofed.
 
 
 
Bionic - I don't think I've even got 40 pairs of knickers.   I'm clearly missing the point somewhere, but at least yours are not those OTT prices.   

[SallyintNorth]

I used to carry a handbag to cart what seemed then to be 'essential' paraphernalia about with me - phone, diary, purse, comb, keys, etc, and no doubt a dozen other things that weren't at all essential but I carried because I had the space for them.

I did once spend over £100 on a very beautiful leather briefcase.  It came apart within a couple of months, and I bought a more durable one for half the price.  (It was bad enough I had to carry papers and laptops about with me, at least I could have them be in something I enjoyed looking at and handling.)

Then I 'opted out' and switched the handbags for bum bags, which I still prefer - not least because you haven't room to carry anything other than the essentials!

However, now that I knit  , there's no room in the bum bag for a knitting project, so as I have to carry a knitting project bag anyway    , I have a project-plus shoulder-bag, which can hold my purse, a comb, a nailfile (never essential in my old life, but essential now as a knitter!), etc, as well as the current small knitting project (usually socks to be small and portable.) 

If I'm not packing a knitting project, then phone, car key and cash are in my jeans pockets, and I don't need anything else.

Except, that is, if I may be meeting spinners , then there could be a spinning wheel in her carry bag over one shouder... 

[Fleecewife]

I carry all that stuff, plus a bottle of water, in a back pack - which leaves my hands free to spin or knit, but my backpack only cost a few quid, not hundreds, or even thousands.
 
 
Every now and then I tip my back pack upside down just to see why it's so heavy - what a lot of unnecessary stuff I've been humphing around 

[The Natural Fibre Company]

Just think of how much sheep feed you could get for the cost of one of those bags...or the breeding stock you could buy!

NFC Lara