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March 24, 2008
My luxury goods confession
I am a shopaholic and I have enough entries on this blog to evidence of that. Clothes, shoes and bags, I buy alot of them and sometimes even the same design in different colors. However, there is this other something I have to admit. I have a weakness for luxury goods. If I were rich, I would be decked out in LV, Gucci, Prada, CD, Hermes, Fendi ,Chanel etc. However, I am not, so I can only content with little treats now and then. Whenever one of my friends buy a new luxury item, they can count on me to "ohh and ahhh" and share in their purchase experience. Even when I walk along the streets, I observe the luxury items other people are using. Sometimes, when with like-minded friends, we will observe and gossip about the authenticity of the luxury item that another fellow human being is using. Why would someone be carrying a SGD3,000 bag to the neighborhood shopping mall? Is it fake that's why she is so careless with it? Or is she simply a show off? Silly questions like the above sometimes plague me and my like-minded friends!
I bought my first luxury item after graduation from university. Such a momentous event of course must be celebrated. I bought myself a green Salvatore Ferragamo wallet which I have not used yet till today. Why??? Well, on the advice of my good friend, in my first job and as the lowest life form in the company, it will not do me any good to be flashy. Although I have since progressed from being the lowest life form, I am now saving that gift I bought for myself for some other time.
After that first splurge, I did not buy anything in the next few years partly due to the fact that I was getting a really tragic pay in my first job. Besides basic necessities, there really was not much left over to splurge. I love luxury goods but I am not one of those people who are so crazy to own a luxury item that I am willing to forgo basic necessities in order to buy an item.
My second luxury item was a blue Bally bag. Until today, I still have no idea how I ended up buying it. It was on sale and I felt like spending money and that handbag was just calling me to buy it. To date, the handbag ranks as one of the most expensive impulse buys for me. I still use the bag these days and its in good shape even after 3 years.
To celebrate my promotion from a graduate assistant to senior, I bought myself a Gucci bag with pink leather trimmings. That bag is my most expensive indulgence to date. I thought about for some time before deciding to buy but decided that I should just buy it. Hey, you only live once and I really do not want to regret not buying that bag.
Since then, I have been buying little treats for myself every year. I know some of my friends do not understand this fascination with luxury goods just as I do not understand a techie's fascination with buying the the latest technology. I do not try to make excuses or try to make people understand, its just a part of me. I enjoy buying luxury goods and I enjoy carrying them. I also know that there are cheaper stuff which are just as pretty and durable and I do buy those too. But if a pretty luxury item does catch my eye and its within my budget, well, I am buying it!
Posted by Fatgirl at March 24, 2008 12:20 AM