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Love At First Grope: The Verdict

I’m sure you’ve all been waiting with bated breath to hear the verdict on the Abaco bag. A brief schpiel on my biggest shopping conundrum to date: After I posted about the bag, I hit Petticoat Lane again - I needed the Abaco’s presence to determine whether it really was love, or just puppy lust. Or so I thought. This was on a Monday; the one day of the week on which Petticoat Lane is closed. Guess what’s never closed? The Internets, yo. I came home that afternoon to comments from you beotches; only after reading them did I realize the answer to my handbag problemo.

The best advice came from one Stazh, who wrote:

“…If after you buy this bag you can still pay your bills, have enough for food, going out, and other necessities before your next paycheck, then by all means treat yourself. But keep in mind that you may not be able to shop for anything sartorial for a while. If there is no way in hell that you can buy the bag AND have enough $$ to live, then forget it…”

Had I bought the Abaco, I could have continued to “live” in the general sense of the term. The rent would have been paid; the fridge filled; the friends met for cocktails. But one thing would have seriously suffered. And that’s this blog. When I think of the amount of Cheap JAPtastic things one can buy with $500, I just can’t rationalize spending that same amount on one splurgy poo. It’s not that I’m about quantity over quality. It’s that these days, $500 buys me a hell of a lot more than clothes; it nets me weeks of pics, ideas, content, and, obvs, eternal wisdom that I get to share with you.

Sooo, the cheeseball in me wants to say thank you. Not just for saving me a chunk o’ change that can be better spent elsewhere. But for showing me that, unbelievably enough, there’s something more satisfying than carting around a big, buttery, leather bag: hearing from all of you.

Okay, you can go throw up now. The bitch will be back in the next post, fear not.