PurseBlog Asks: Have You Been Shamed for Your Designer Bags?

Big bro hug there for your comment. These women must be super victims. $4000 for a bag! That is just dumb. For that, you can hire a valet or an assistant to carry your stuff for you. Plus have money to fly coast to coast round trip PLUS the hotel.

Men do not waste money on useless clothing items or accessories. Men buy nice cars, yes. And that car has an engine, can carry passengers, can take you across the country and can in a pinch, be slept in or had sex in. For many many years that car will continue to provide measurable benefits for it’s owner and passengers. Your dumb bag does no more than a paper bag. You can literally dump 100% of the contents of your $1000 bag into a canvas grocery bag and lose no functionality whatsoever.

The designers have tried many times to get men to start buying bags and dumb expensive accessories, but we just know better. Many women are frivolous when it comes to buying things. For rich guys, this might not be a problem, but many rich men would rather his money not be thrown away into a dumb bag that only other women will know what it is or how much it cost.

I drive a Mercedes Benz, but I have been able to use it to move bikes, appliances, carry tools and materials, camp with it, and carry other people in it to faraway places where it will also be valet parked and carry elegantly dressed passengers to elegant venues.

A bag is a bag. It cannot be anything more than a bag. And it serves only the spendthrift, materialistic woman who purchased it. It does not impress men (except in a negative way), and most women too. If any woman tells me she spent $4000 on a bag, that is a dealbreaker. The cow it came from is more useful and costs only $2500.00

But that is not true. How many Toyotas can go zero to 60 in 5 seconds? How many can hold 6 passengers in complete leather lined comfort, and also be proudly parked in front of a venue instead of in the back? Your bag is not going to give you any prestige amongst men. Only women, and only those who are impressed by expensive bags. If impressing others is not the reason, then buying one is even more stupid. It can only be a bag. It can’t be luggage, or convert into a tent ot a parachute or an inflatable boat.

Honestly? I just broke up with my girlfriend over a $475.00 bag she bought with my credit card. That is the reason for my angst. I am on the computer (my computer) she used to shop for her bags and post pictures of her with them on Facebook. This blog is a bookmark. I clicked it and got pissed at the comments of those who think it’s perfectly okay to waste somebody’s money on a dumb bag. I applaud the women on here who spend their own money on them, even if I still think the bag is dumb.

Because of her, now I will notice if a woman has a bag that costs more than $200.00 or looks like it does. I will actually ask her now, instead if ignoring it. Expensive bags are just a red flag. With that comes dumb expensive accessories to match the bag, and $100.00 nylon shorts and $500.00 sneakers.

You are right, I don’t belong on this blog.

That is not the same. Be mad if he spends $100.00 on a screwdriver which is no different than a Craftsman screwdriver found in Home Depot for $6.00. That would be the comparison. The $1000 designer purse can not carry any more than a bag of the same size and color bought for $50.00 at Kohls.

Um no. No sewn product of any type is remotely close to the engineering and craftsmanship of even the simplest car. Even a go-kart. And the leather is not going to explain it away either. It takes more craftsmanship to create a tent than a purse.

The cold hard reality of designer bags is marketing genius and women duped by it. A $10,000.00 Birkin does no more than a canvas shopping bag and that bag only holds your stuff.

You gave the same lame justification that my now ex girlfriend gave me for buying her dumb bag. Suggestion: NEVER try and get your husband or boyfriend to “appreciate” your expensive bag. We just don’t want to know how much you wasted on it.

Other than your unhealthy spending perspective when it comes to not-unique “designer bags” which are sold in retail for “X” amount of dollars, you seem like a fascinating woman.

I love art. Adore it. Appreciate it. And designer bags are not art. Their designers are artists, to be sure. But these artists are designing a PRODUCT which is made expressly to be sold at a ridiculously inflated profit. All luxury items (or objets d’ art if you prefer), are carefully marketed to exclusive critics, vendors and marketers after a construct has elevated it’s desirability to it’s highest level. This involves placing it in the hands of the wealthy and powerful for free, publishing models carrying them in elegant venues, entering and exiting premium automobiles and hotels, wearing furs and bedecked with jewelry, etc etc etc. Women who buy these bags are victims. And most are seen as naive and/or materialistic. Just the facts.

When the woman I love spends the equivalent of two weeks salary on a bag, that really makes a bad impression. Even if I were a very wealthy man, which I am not, I would not appreciate this at all. Why just tell you? How about the next time you get a chance, don the most expensive bag you can find in your collection and go to the wealthiest waterhole you can enter. Observe and remember what you see the MEN do. Are they comparing their cars? Some are most are not. What type of men are comparing their cars or even playing the one up game at all? What type does not? Your choices are yours and I cannot shame you for any of them. What I have done is start noticing the type of women who buy these bags and I do not like what I see. Many will actually change which arm the bag is on so that her competitor can clearly see it and be put in her place. Amiright?

Carry your bags proudly.

Here’s how I know when to dump her – when she thinks that spending $1000 on a bag to carry tampons and gum and has no job or education. Usually they are young and pretty and naive. And lack any common sense.