How vapid and desperate for approval does one have to be to RENT a designer handbag?

[KitchenWitch]

:wtf:

http://www.bagborroworsteal.com/

Good fucking grief. The only designer handbag I own is a Coach bag, and I got it for 10 bucks at the thrift store.

[elleng]

1. VERY

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear KitchenWitch!

Now, that's pretty desperate, IMHO!

I have two Coach bags...one I bought second-hand from a girlfriend many years ago, and the other was a gift from my husband...

:wtf: indeed...

[KitchenWitch]

4. Don't get me wrong, some designer handbags are gorgeous

but I just cannot see spending the GDP of a third world country on a fuggin purse.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Nor can I!

I wouldn't buy any current Coach bag...

They have moved away from the solid leather with the good brass fittings they used to use, to cheap fabrics and crap like that...

PLUS they cost more than the good old bags!

Never again will I buy one...

[KitchenWitch]

10. The garish Cs all over the things make me want to hurl

I love my old black solid leather bag.

[sarge43]

44. Yup. I still use my military purse.

Plain black leather, built like a tank, just the right size. The thing will outlast me.

On the other, for casual affairs, a Wal-Mart plastic bag works just fine.

I can think of many other things I'll spend that kind of money on than a frackin' handbag.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. How will you carry your kinkajou??

You need a Louis Vitton kinkajou bag!!

[KitchenWitch]

14. Don't even get me started.

If I created a T-shirt in cafepress with the slogan "Dogs are NOT a fashion accessory" would you buy one?

[Ellen Forradalom]

18. But my dog is so chic

[KitchenWitch]

21. He/She a pittie?

[Ellen Forradalom]

23. Puh-leeze. He is a Braque du Bourbonnais

Yep that's a real breed--Bourbonnais pointers, originally from France.

http://www.rufnitkennels.com

[KitchenWitch]

24. Sorry

She just had kind of a pibble look about her. I think pits are beautiful animals. Very misunderstood.

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. Oh I agree

pitbulls are sorely misunderstood. I can thank our own flvegan for raising my awareness.

It's true that my dog's head looks more boxy in the picture than it really is. His head shape is more like a pointer breed's (think Vizsla or German Shorthair.)

[KitchenWitch]

30. AH, got it.

:D

[REP]

35. A lot of those bags are either a) not that expensive or b) not that great!

I have a few of the bags they list, which can be had for a couple month's "rent" ... but a lot of them are gagalicious. I've seen nicer purses at TJ Max ... where they often do have very good purses.

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. I have a muy cool Flicka laptop bag

No, you can't rent it.

[KitchenWitch]

7. That bag is cute!

:D

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. I love it

wish it were a bit wider though. Or my laptop thinner :-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. That's cute!

I'm using a padded bag that is meant to hold refrigerated items!

My brother advised me to not buy one of those expensive leather bags that scream "expensive laptop inside!"

Works for me!

:)

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. Oh that sounds great!

That's gotta look cool!

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. That's nothing short of insane.

The Rotary Club promotes an ethical guideline, The Four-Way Test:

1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

I maintain they should add a fifth:

5. Does it make a LICK of SENSE?

Seriously. If you are renting designer handbags, or painting your cow to win the state fair, or are running people off the road to take celeb photos, haven't you gone completely off the fucking deep end?

[KitchenWitch]

6. This handbag rental thing is yet another thing that has assaulted my midwestern sensibilities

:crazy:

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. La-La Land is a churning flood of vulgarity, yes

x(

[KitchenWitch]

12. Yah, but does it HAVE to spill over into Orange County?

x(

:hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. Of course! The OC is where

the vulgar ape the vulgar!

[KitchenWitch]

17. Word!

[DarkTirade]

20. ... wow.

That's all I have to say about that.

[KitchenWitch]

22. I was pretty shocked too.

Just when I thought I have seen it all...

[Shakespeare]

25. Totally insane. A perfectly good (well-made, actually) knockoff can be had for $30...

...at Santee Alley. :7

[KitchenWitch]

26. Where is this Santee Alley of which you speak?

:D

[Shakespeare]

28. Downtown LA, in the fashion district.

Near the intersection of Olympic and Los Angeles St. The alley (it's an actual alley) behind Santee Street opens up on weekends, and (on Saturday mornings especially) THAT is where you can find the knockoff designer goodies. Some of it's extremely well-made, some not so much. You'll be able to find the good stuff easily.

[KitchenWitch]

29. HMMMM

:D

[Tektonik]

34. Oh god you haven't been to Santee Alley or the Fashion District?

It's a fun area for cheap knockoffs, cheap fabric, lots of cheap stuff good and bad. Just be ready to haggle, especially if they are Persian.

[KitchenWitch]

36. Not been to the fashion district yet.

Have been to the toy district though.

[Tektonik]

37. The fashion district is cool

There are areas with just fabric stores, bead stores, button stores, bridal stores, church clothing stores, etc. Also just north there is the floral district where you get the cheapest flowers you can find, but you have to go early in the morning.

[krispos42]

31. It matches the rental Mercedes

and the rental studmuffin to escort you to the gala, of course!

[KitchenWitch]

32. So how do I go about renting a trophy boyfriend!

:P

[krispos42]

33. I think you just throw a cute guy from the Hertz counter in the trunk

yeah, he'll kick and scream at first, but that's why God made electric stun guns.

[jmowreader]

38. The same could be said about renting tuxedos

I can think of one very good reason to rent one of these purses: if you were actually going to buy one. (If you look at the referenced site, you'll find they'll sell you the items you're renting.)

My wife loves purses, and she goes to places like TJ Maxx and Ross Dress For Less (where they have designer purses cheap) to get hers. And normally, she'll spend $15-$20 on one, carry it for a few days and decide it's not QUITE what she wants. Onto the shelf it goes, where it sits forever. If she was buying $500-$1000 purses, she'd probably do the same shit. But if she could rent the purse for a week as kind of a test drive, she'd know that once she loaded the purse up with all the things she carries in one she couldn't get her car keys out.

[FloridaJudy]

39. I wouldn't use one if you gave it to me.

I have no desire to be mistaken for a Rich Person! Most of them are Republican.

Mind you, I wouldn't mind being rich - ha! as if that's gonna happen - I just wouldn't want to look like like the stereotypical over-privileged twerp.

[Miss Carly]

40. OMG I feel so........inferior

I don't rent my purse, I buy them on clearance at walmart...as long as it holds my keys and checkbook and cell phone, that is all I need...I am partial to denim ...
Carly

[Book Lover]

41. All I have to say is this

A) It is smarter to take money from the rich than to take it from the poor.

B) Where do I get the capital together to start my own rent-designer-shoes store online, because I *know* there's a market, clearly?

[pitohui]

42. i bet my husband WISHES i'd rent my handbags

i have closets and boxes full of them, i am the imelda of handbags, it's just awful

the only good thing i can say in my defense is that i have actually spent very little money on this sick, twisted obsession because somehow handbags seems to fall into my hands or jump off the shelf at thrift stores or bargain tables -- i've paid as little as 25 cents for some of them, received others for the price of just taking them away -- but still!

i'm afraid to count how many i have, i'm afraid i would discover that i have a different handbag for every day of the year

it's sick, sick, sick


i do get a lot of compliments on my unique bags tho, i just need to cut short the stories associated with some of them, nobody cares that i found that handbag in a market in johannesburg, south africa, too much information!

no, i'm afraid i don't loan or rent out MY handbags, i just...no, i need them all somehow, as i said, it's some kind of sickness :-)

[jobycom]

43. So cynical. Keats would beat you around the head and neck with a rubber duck.

If someone who can't afford to buy the beauty that so moves them, who are you to deny them the temporary rental of happiness? Sure, there are those who buy and sell beauty simply for lust and attention, but even so, why criticize their vulgar motives? Is not life short? Should not harmless joy be sought wherever possible, even by those less economically fortunate? Aren't we all simply leasing every item we believe we own, until our death renders all definitions of ownership nonsensical?


'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing"

[grannylib]

45. Oh, lucky you! I do love Coach, and I'd pay that for a thrift-store

one! I love thrift stores. But RENT one???? Hell, no!