I just don't share the female obsession with purses(and to some extent shoes). That said, i wouldn't even buy that hideous orange thing at a thrift store. UGLY!
BTW, anyone notice the usual liberal mantra of do what I say, not what I do? Apparently, wealthy conservatives may not spend their money as they wish and should be scourged for not paying menial labor a 'living wage' yet wealthy talk show personalities running huge television production conglomerates that are black AND liberal, are entitled to a little indulgence as their wealth dictates for liberal, gun hating grant writers...HYPOCRITES! Guess it never occurs to the liberal hack that conservatives and moderates are entitled to enjoy the fruits of their labors on trivial items that they enjoy as well. 
Dumb, really odd.
At 8-9 I learned a good lesson on female accessory's. Xmas I got $3.00 from a relative. Now I had been looking at the older girls that had wallets and decided to spend my money and get one too.
Off I went and bought one for with tax $2.95 cents. Oh so happy I filled it with my friends school pictures and then realized I had only a nickel to place in it. Lesson No. one in life , do not spend money on something just because other people have it.
Lesson No. 2-----At 14 I was at a school dance and left my wallet in the pocket of my coat and some one stole it. the wallet not the coat. I HAD ABOUT $2.00 and some family pictures and friends that were irreplaceable. Lesson learned, never cart about anything someone may steal.
Pursers, I graduated to them the next year and found they were not worth the trouble. I was afraid to put it down on the bleachers to dance for fear it would be stolen, what did I have in it, a new wallet sans photos a few bucks ,lipstick and a comb, the purse itself rather unusual as Mom had picked it up in Boston at a thrift store and was one of a kind up here in the sticks.
As I grew into an adult I began to make my own one of a kind purses, someone gave me the idea that I should put a long strap on it to go over my head and hang down at my side instead of the off the one shoulder type that are easily stolen or grabbed.
Few years ago Joanna's had a fall sale on fake fur. I went in and bought about $30.00 worth of all colors and some on sale fake velvet. I went home and made up about 15 just bag type purses with long straps and lined all with the fake velvet. I put in Velcro closers and used up the cheap jewelery I bought at Good will.
I brought them to work and set them on a table in the cafeteria -----I priced them at $20.00 each and sold out before work. Spent $50.00 for material including the Velcro and sold them for $300.00.
It was close to the holiday season, and Hubby encouraged me to take off a week from work and make 50 more. No way, What would I do with them, how could I sell them, everyone I sold to at work had bought me out.
What a scam, remember Monaca after the Clinton incident went into making hand bags with a very high cost ? Nothing special, something you or a 12 year old child could make.
You want something that is unusual, not another one like it, make your own ,no sewing machine, a needle and clear dental floss for thread will last years.
One of us posted pictures of purses they made out of old blue jeans, good Job, one of a kind, rather have that with personal satisfaction then spend $400.00 + for something I had only $10.00 left to put in it.
