How much would you spend on a handbag?

@la_baby_khalil7703

10 ай бұрын

😬 NOW...That criminals are taking over the City where I live...$15.00, no more than $25.00, OH, and it has to be 👀 through 👛, that I purchased from Amazon. Yup! I STILL/USE carry My 2010, or 2017 phone with the screen damaged. I refuse to buy the LATEST ANYTHING, and become a 🐑 to C.A., NO THANKS...I got rid of expensive purses that I was able to use freely in Downtown in the 90's thru 2007...😔 Now, NO MAS, it's really dangerous...THANK-YOU FOR YOUR PASSION ❤!!! I LOVE YOUR CONTENT SO MUCH...CAN'T WAIT FOR MONDAY 🏃...GOD BLESS YOU...PEACE!!! 🙏😇🙏

@GoldfinchRobin

10 ай бұрын

on average up to £40 (uk), for something very very special maybe £100. but nothing over that. It is okay to buy good quality, but for expensive handbags like that no way, I would rather help poorer people in need, that would give me better happiness.

@ginamarie5575

10 ай бұрын

I thrift mine . They have always been like under $20 lol . I will never buy designer. Don’t see the need for it .

@rosetta_diabolo

10 ай бұрын

I have not bought a handbag since I was 19, the hand bag I use is a gift given in 2010 and I still use it everyday. It works well, and is still in good condition. If it breaks then I have other handbags also gifted to me.

@RKCALGARY

10 ай бұрын

Max $100 because I buy a certain brand for durability, lightweight, crossbody, travel safe (rfid). I need a wide shoulder strap because of pain issues. I use the purse for years then I send to Goodwill when I need a change in color or style. When I was young max $20. I didn’t need orthopedic or travel considerations, anything that struck my fancy and was inexpensive.

My husband and I just took a trip with a friend and her husband. I’m a minimalist so I packed very lightly. Our friends are not minimalists, so they did not. She brought her Louis Vuitton backpack and her Louis Vuitton duffel bag, a lot of really beautiful cloths, etc. I noticed that I was feeling a bit “less than”. I also noticed that the thought of purchasing a purse or a backpack or a duffel bag for $3000 is just something I could never do. I’d feel terribly guilty knowing that the money could have been given to someone who needed some help, or to another good cause. Even still, I looked into buying these things used. It’s amazing how you can so easily get pulled into a way of thinking that you don’t even agree with.

@MsLinda165

10 ай бұрын

I hear you on the cost and not being able to pay that much; but the helping someone or going to a good cause is in my opinion the wrong lens to look through. Jesus himself said 'the poor will always be with us'. We know from experience that when people get things for free, they do not value it. I traveled with a young woman who needed expensive things too, and she couldn't carry her suitcase because it would ruin her manicure, so I was her lackey. But there we were, seeing the same art, staying in the same hotel room together, eating the same food, meeting the same people. We can spend our money as we see fit. Your friends aren't making demands on others to buy the Louis Vuitton bag for them. They worked for it and the Vuitton company represents excellence and quality. I'm thinking there's another lens to see it. Remember the woman who poured expensive perfume on Jesus feet, and the disciples said 'She could have used that to buy food for the poor'. Jesus commended her for doing what she did. We need to discuss why even bother having excellence in handbags if people would rather buy no name brands, and give all their money to the poor who will always demand more? I don't know...I'm just thinking out loud. I'd love for you to have an expensive item that would bring you joy. Maybe it's not a handbag, but maybe it's a perfume, or a dish, or a vacation in a gorgeous castle?

@simplycj5460

10 ай бұрын

@@MsLinda165 I love your insight, Linda. Thank you:)

@judylloyd7901

9 ай бұрын

​@@MsLinda165 Just because Jesus said that the poor will always be with us (and that could be seen as an indictment on human greed) doesn't mean that we who can, shouldn't help them. Sponsoring education for underprivileged children is a hand UP, not a hand out, breaking them out of the poverty cycle. 😊😊

My four dollar bag from Goodwill, serves the exact same purpose. At least for me…

@fgonzalez78959

10 ай бұрын

It serves the purpose for holding items not attention from others..

@chrysvest4746

10 ай бұрын

@@fgonzalez78959 exactly. Not looking for attention. 😀

@eadancer07

10 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!

Anyone who buys that purse is seriously getting ripped off. The designer is laughing all the way to the bank with your money because they successfully managed to rob you. That purse is nowhere near the cost. I bet it cost $30 to make and you were manipulated into thinking that it's special.....A bit like The Emperor's New Clothes.

@yuniaaniza5120

10 ай бұрын

While I agree with you for the most part, the bag definitely cost more than 30 usd because it's made from crocodile skin, and the rarest one too (Himalayan)

This is spot on! I’ve been simplifying and evaluating myself and I use to be the person buying things for respect and placement in this world. Thankfully I’ve outgrown that shallow mindset.

I hate debauchery. I don’t care if you can afford a $25000 wedding cake. Being wealthy doesn’t mean you should burn money. How about a $250 wedding cake and buying food… $24,750 to feed children a nourishing meal at school…children who go to school hungry everyday because their parents don’t have the means to feed their kids, financial or otherwise. Frivolous waste has the devil written all over it. Have your awesome house, car, boat motorcycle etc…but don’t throw money away stupidly that can be used altruistically.

@justsayin3647

10 ай бұрын

Those kids actually get free breakfast when they get to school. They get free lunch too. All their parents have to do is fill out the paperwork. If they can’t do THAT much. Then, they can go hungry ✌️

@RKCALGARY

10 ай бұрын

@@justsayin3647 You do realize the cost of the free food is not paid for by the school district. You know that right? Charitable organizations foot the bill. There is NO paperwork here. Any child can eat. Also the thought of punishing a child and not allowing him to eat because the inadequate parent can’t or won’t fill out a form is ludicrous. I don’t know where you live but you probably have expensive shoes with that response. “They can go hungry”. 🙄

@lot2000

10 ай бұрын

@justsayin3647 your comment is a clear sign that you haven't been in a position of financial struggle. I wonder what your comment would have looked like had you not been given an easy hand in life when it comes to food on the table, and wealthy enough family members to foot the bill. Just sayin'

@judylloyd7901

9 ай бұрын

Debauchery -- excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs. Extravagance -- lack of restraint in spending money 💰 😊😊😊

@justsayin3647

8 ай бұрын

@@lot2000 you can assume anything you want to. Some people tend to do so. It doesn’t change the fact that you don’t know jack shit about me.

It's a good point that $ doesn't change you, it just gives you the options to express what was already there.

At the age of 82, living in a retirement home, in Mangarai, a suburb of Coimbatore in India, I can't even imagine why somebody would buy a handbag at that price. And what would it go with?

I’ve never really understood the whole luxury goods thing. Quality yes, form and function yes, but after that no. I guess to really find out the reason someone spends that kind of money you’d have to ask them. I think it’s Courtney Carver who says there are more interesting things about a person than what we wear.

Ludicrous. I agree with Josh - the way that these items are now marketed as the status quo rather than high end luxury, especially through the exposure of influencers, celebrities and reality TV, is disturbing. AND....$250k on a HANDBAG??? I just think of what that money could do for social and health problems, or what I could do for my family with that money (my youngest son has a disability), and I just can't justify it in my brain. A ridiculous flourish of wealth 🤦‍♀️

I bought a couple Louis Vuitton bags many years ago and liked using them UNTIL I got to meet and know people that wear designer bags. Not my kind of people.

The most I've ever spent on a handbag was 40-50. The most I would spend is $200 but that's if I commit to a "timeless" style that I will not change in 20 years and best believe I'm taking it to those repair shops. Right now my favorite ran around $20 and I keep it wiped down, organized, vacuum any crumbs and put a scarf bow on it 😂

I understand that people purchase expensive things as investments, but if it's something like a bag that you will actually use and take out with you, it seems beyond excessive. $250,000 for a handbag is obviously no longer about utility and practicality and becomes a symbol of wealth and influence. It's an expensive way to get people to notice you through the items you wear and carry, though of course on the flip side, I would have also thought that it would make you more of a target for thieves. To think that each time you take it out with you, it would be like you're carrying around $250,000. That's so crazy to me! I've had my classic Mat and Nat tan tote bag now for about 14 years and it's still going strong! It was on sale and I don't think I spent more than $100 on it. For me personally, I can think of so many more things that I would rather spend my hard-earned money on.

Great video, Minimalists! TK's comments about FU money are spot on. I really enjoyed this.

I would just be embarrassed to have or use that bag. I’d be embarrassed to use a $500 bag tbh. I’d end up hating it

The bag does not bother me. No matter how large my bank account gets I would NEVER pay this amount for a bag.

It bothers me, because there are people starving and you can get a bag for under $50 that will do the same job and perform just as well.

Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” in 1899 to describe the public display of discretionary income to attain social status and prestige.

Money just makes you more of what you already are, for better or worse.

Actual worth: $500 in leather and hardware at the most. Facts!!!! These pretentious “influencers” and marketing campaigns are giving hoodwinked, led astray and run amuck.

Understanding you have enough is freedom.

$250k is NOT the price of a condo but a WHOLE house! Dude

Ill rather buy the most expensive spices. The vanilla, the saffron the nutmeg. I can taste them and enjoy the flavor. If your talking about most expensive by nature. 😅😊

$250,000 could help a homeless family in getting a home.

People shame hoarders if they’re poor but Kim Kardashian is one of the most prolific hoarders but because she can afford to have a fancy closet which is bigger than my home her hoarding becomes enviable by other want that desire to be rich women.

@RKCALGARY

10 ай бұрын

True. The Kardashians are filthy rich because the barely getting by people were throwing dollars at them. Amazing how economics work. The middle class and poor class sheeple are the first to be influenced and buy from the “influencers”.

If I can handle it and see that is was made very well (read: sturdy) and it’s going last, I MIGHT spend up to $100. My current bag seems pretty well made, is currently 3 years old and needs one small spot mended (which I will do!). It was $40. I’ve never been able to comprehend something made for many hundreds if not thousands of dollars being an attractive buy (at least in the bag world!). Sincerely don’t get the idea of an “investment” piece.

This is an amazing episode! Your insight is spot on.

I have a cotton pouch that I have embroidered on that in which I would place in my 250,000$ rolled up in an elastic band. And no one would even know...or care. Voilà.

I think the issue I have this type of consumerism is two-fold. First is what you are talking about. It sends a signal that if you don't have it you are lacking, or if you have it you are better than. The other issue I have is with people like the Bezos, Musks etc who use their extensive wealth for vanity projects when they could be doing good with that money. When the rest of the world sees that, it gives permission to everyone else who is privileged with wealth to spend "selfishly" rather than to make someone else's life better. How much respect should someone receive for donating $250k to a worthy charity, school, hospital etc. than for buying a purse. But it is their money and they are free to spend it how they like...too bad we live in a society that honours hand bags over humanity.

I really thought I liked expensive outdoor gear. Thank you for making me feel better! This is insane!!!! 🤪

I've had the same fossil bag for ten years, bought as a Mother's Day present. Honestly the styling is not minimal, I don't care whether I am going to an expensive restaurant, a hospital appointment or just for every day use, if people judge me because I have a boho slightly tatty round the edges bag, they are not worth knowing. Once the bag falls apart I will try to replace it, probably off ebay. I don't need expensive things around me to feel happy. My daughter saw it in an outlet store and it has been the best present she has ever given me, useful and so me, boo hoo, perfect number of pockets etc. Personally, I thinks it obscene with all the issues in the world to spend that much on a bag. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I still wouldn't buy one of those bags, EVER GUARANTEED OR AN EXPENSIVE CHUCK OF METAL - LUXURY CAR, OR SMALL GLITTERY THINGS - DIAMONDS. I would open up some form of Foundation to further literacy and reading in adults and children!

I have never understood the expensive handbag thing and wouldn‘t want to be a walking ad for a brand anyway. I use a small bag daily, cost between 12-80 (leather), I don‘t really care and when I need a new one I look for one I like less than the price. However, with this Hermes bag, I did wonder if it‘s comparable to someone buying a piece of art - a bag this expensive can‘t be used, so you‘d have to somehow exhibit it and then it becomes a piece of art (beauty in the eye of the beholder, subjective) and we know people pay these prices for art, so maybe that is the motivation?? It‘s the only reasoning I can think of, though I never understood that, either, when I look at multimillion paintings in museums… either I like it or often, I don‘t!! Worth it to someone, I guess.

It upsets you because you’re a decent human being.

It DOES bother me that you could spend that money on other things. What a massive waste of resources. What TK said though was SPOT ON. Money doesn't change people - it allows the expression of what was already there but unable to be expressed. 👏And of course none of us would like to imagine that we would do the same thing in their shoes, but easier said than done.

At the end of the day a hand bag can only provide so mucy uility. They hold personal items, make up, chapstick, money etc. Why would i spend $250k on something when i can spend $50 for something that can do the same job if not a better job? At that point 250k on bag is nothing more than added stress. Unless its an investment its a stupid purchase. Anything over a few hundred on a bag is dumb in my opinion.

EXCELLENT!! Thank you both!!

Very hard to justify this level of indulgence. However, we’re all playing a status game one way or another. This community is no different. The status game by Will Stour is a great book. Really got me defensive at first (always a good sign you should continue down that path with curiosity) but i learnt that our status game will be a mix from three categories - dominance, virtue and success. There is only one thing for sure. We’re always playing a mix of these. The scale slides and the balance is a,ways different, but a 250k handbag is just another status play. As is the virtue play of discrediting it.

@micalthegal

10 ай бұрын

Are you saying that the minimalist group is playing a game too? 😊 i.e. "I have less stuff, less cluttered home than you." Will check out the book!

I agree. I think some things are fairly priced based on the work and supplies to make something, and then are other things that are way overpriced for what they are and need way less money to be made then what the price at the end for that thing is. If I’m only talking about bags, I think Mulberry makes bags of amazing quality and is probably better if not the same quality as Hermes, and yet Mulberry prices are way lower than Hermes. Don’t get me wrong, Mulberry is still an expensive and luxury brand, but I feel like their products are still fairly priced compared to Hermes. Some brands are just ridiculous with their price range! However, I like getting things of higher quality than something that costs 20€ and it rips apart in a year.

I think if that fits within their overall net worth and they are making other choices with their money that balances it all, it’s fine. We should be generous but also can enjoy your money & if that’s what the person enjoys using it’s really their choice.

I think Louis Vuitton purses are so ugly. I rather spend money on experiences that change my mind life. I am grateful o have been to England , Australia, Colombia and a bunch of the island in the Carribean. Wow, what a great conversation of you two. It makes me sad this culture of I don’t have enough.

Freddie Mercurys stuff just went up for auction, crazy money ! Love Freddie, but 100 k for a mustache comb ? ( I honestly forget how much it was , but 50 . 4. million for the whole lot

I bought a purse from TJMAXX recently, it was beautiful. It was $69.99, so about $75.00 after tax. That is a lot of money to me. The day I brought it home, I was so happy, but thought it's to nice to carry everyday. It will be my church purse or going out purse, but I had it for 3 weeks and never used it. So I returned it and got my money back. I would have felt awful if something happened to it or it got dirty because it was just too pretty to be used. Is this weird?

That's the amount of money I'd need to buy my dream apartment.. It's utter madness, that price on that thing.. 😅 It's not new to me that stuff like that is expensive, but I'm disgusted by it and the people that support it and sell it. I have spent as much as €120 on a European leather shoulder bag, which I later sold for the same amount of money. Otherwise I've spent €20 and €12 on shoulder bags. Now I don't use one and some of my older ones are now for sale. I bought a vintage European leather bag for only €20 and sold it recently for €350. I'm picky, so I have to wait for the one I'd be satisfied with. Although, my limit would be €40 I guess.

I have a 72 Ford Pinto for sale. 300k and it's under priced because this is vintage. LOL !!!!

This obscenity level of spending money when other hard-working people are being forced onto the streets is what I call “The Kardashian Effect”; well-nigh uselessness for a lot of money, badly spent.

The moment you desire less, you *instantly* become wealthier

It brings that persons joy isn’t that your philosophy? If they are happy and not hurting anyone why should you care? I wouldn’t but don’t care if someone else does. My self esteem isn’t what I own or wear.

Live simply so others can simply live

I hate when people especially celebrities buy expensive ridiculous things like this 🙄

It bothers me because it’s just plain dumb. It’s literally a sack you carry things in. And the irony is that most people who buy these don’t even USE them because they might damage it. I roll my eyes at the stupidity. Not to mention, people make the fact that they own these luxury brands their whole personality, and you can’t even take it with you when you die. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Over priced goods of any kind are just foolish

Ridiculous! So much good you can do with that money!

Such a good conversation

Excellent insight

What makes me feel even sadder is how many young woman will go into debt just to get a momentary high.

You have to look at it as art. A painting that maybe costs only 500 euro on supplies (canvas, paint,... time to master the craft not included) can also sell for thousands of euros. Mostly you pay for the name of the artist, not even the skill. Isn't this handbag just like a painting? It is not to be used, but to be displayed and to look at.

I get mine free from dumpster diving or goodwill outlet

This definitely bothers me! Everything has a value. The manufacturing cost of a well made leather handbag is unlikely to be more than $300 and some people will be willing and able to pay that. Inflation based on desirability is a mercantile issue- the more people excluded from being able to buy something, the more desirable we are told it must be. What if we focus instead on how much benefit our money brings to others. For example, we had $250,000 could we set up a company employing 20 people to craft quality handbags? A shift in how we think about wealth is needed.

I don't mind people having expensive designer stuff, but what bothers me is whether the item is actually worth that. I can believe that gold and diamonds would cost a lot .....but leather? That's why it bothers me.

When I was younger someone convinced me that Coach leather bags were very well-made and therefore better than other bags. As I got older and thought about where the leather from those bags came from, it made me sick and I sold all my leather bags. I will only use non-leather ones now. Leather bags are not beautiful, the animals that the leather came from were beautiful. Someone stole their life for a goddamn bag. Think about that. In fact, it's funny how the more money I have now the less I even want.

$100+ Stanley cups bother me.😊 I never pay more than $30 for a purse.

If you are that obsessed with the brand name of your clothes, then you really don't understand what is important in life.

Attention and attraction are not the same thing. Attention is cheap in nature. Attraction is naturally irresistible. Be careful what you consider synonymous. TMH

It bothers me too!!!

I have no problem with luxury, but wasteful opulence is something I can never get behind. Granted, I subscribe to lots of minimalist ideas, and I also tend to lean a bit left, so those might both be reasons why. I can't help but think of the opportunity cost. You can do so much with 250k.

That cost more than my house with 5 acres of land, and our cars put together. It’s absurd

Yeah it's just not logical. It's beyond pretentious. I can't even fathom it.

Gold!👍

"available exclusively on patreon" is one of those club items that I just don't care about. If you can't share it unless it gets paid for, I'm not interested.

@Kiki-th1wm

10 ай бұрын

Exactly

I think the exotic skin bothers me more than what someone pays for a bag We have no idea what a luxury bag owner donates. Etc. The bag should not define them. That looked to be a resale store. They generally sell above retail. Their job is to create that sense of you’ve arrived once you own this. That’s another podcast though.

Some of these ultra expensive items are created with no buyer intended. They are made and marketed just for publicity. Even if no one ever buys that bag, look at the free advertising that video clip has given Hermès. It can also be used as an "anchor bias." That $250,000 bag is making the $35,000 bag seem not so unreasonably priced in comparison. Hermés doesn't care of the bag priced at 1/4 million never sells if it can sell a hundred thousand at twenty grand or more.

Sad in so many ways.

Most of the influencers that have Hermes they look like, the bag carrying them. The bag goes first. They are really don’t know how to use a bag. The bag use them. I can spend 150 for a bag because I know I can have it for years. I think though that something that costs 250000 is more of an investment. I don’t thing there are going to put there’s children snacks in them😂

Don’t worry. The person that buys the $195,000 handbag will lose interest in it after a period and wonder why they even bought it. Same insatiable cycle of human desire that everyone experiences. Once your needs are met, wanting is better than having.

My sister is a "name brander" . . . she had to have a Jansen sweater. I've just never understood that "need". Makes no sense to me. A sweater is a sweater.

how about getting rid of that fancy cameras? 360p is good enough to spread your thoughts, isn't it?

Went shopping with a friend once he sold drugs, he wanted to buy a $1000 pair of Giuseppe Zanotti's. I told him if he makes 100K after taxes that's 1% of his yearly salary on a pair of shoes, needless to say he didn't buy it

it's about the unethical pricing that should be in question on many things. Because you can is not a reason to do and to rationalize it. Unethicalness is a real thing on many material things because there are people who allow it and it has been made to be okay as long as there is a buyer to be had. It's all just twisted unethical rationale that has especially permeated western culture the last 30-ish years. It's sad and there are rationalizers to rationalize it to make it normalized and somehow okay because there are buyers willing to be basically ripped off willingly and a certain market preys upon.

I CANNOT understand why someone would buy a handbag for that amount. They have no clue there r sooo many people out there that cannot eat every day. SELFISH CLUELESS UNBALANCED

I wonder how hollow the life being lived that thinks such a purchase is needed? I have never looked at a woman's bag once in my life to size her up as a person, for success, or for an idea of personality. I do often take into account a persons hands and shoes. Otherwise I watch to see how they treat others when they themselves are stressed, angry, or in a neutral state. This defines more often than not the quality, or should I say value of the being before me. not the price tag of a sack they carry. "shrug" Just my thoughts.

A violation of your values. I'm aiming for a country lifestyle so that stuff is completely useless to me. 4:21 lol this

It's the modern version of Dutch tulip mania ... handbags, sneakers, watches.

it bothers me too! i live near the King of Prussia Mall & there are literal "bodyguards" in these stores & around them guarding... I can't wrap my head around the fascination! 🤔🤨 To each their own i guess 😅

It bothers me

At my current living expenses in Germany I could comfortably live years with that money. And properly investet one could retire with that money.

Expensive purses are the latest trend in the ghettos.

Oprah comes to mind . . . setting herself apart as "better" with her stuff. I quit watching her when she got into the discussion of "class".

If someone rich enough wants to buy a handbag for 250000 dollars then so be it, it's up to them not u!!! It's none of your business as to what they do or buy with their money!! As always humans feel the need to judge an pass comment we can't help that!

My self worth is not wrapped up in the newest latest greatest most expensive. It is also not wrapped up in judging those whose self worth IS wrapped up in the latest great most expensive. The buyer of that bag and their bank account is none of my business.

That anyone needs a 50 dollar hand bang boggles my mind. Same with shoes . . . it's just crazy.

Won't find peace in material stuff x

What bothers me about that bag is all it is cowhide and possibly a few brass hinges and such. When you tear the bag apart in your mind you can see where it is not logical at all.

Truly nauseating amount of money that could be so much better spent a !

RIDICULOUSNESS!!! It's fabric and a brand name. Nobody cares how much you pay for something. So dont pay more than you have to.

It bothers you because you have a conscience. This is self glorifying purchase is all about status there are many nice non -200k alternatives. Truth exists. Right and wrong exist.

It’s disgusting! It’s stupid rich hoarding.

You get what you pay for with a lot of items, like guitars for example.

This is the "IT" bag and I would love it if was maybe $1,500 because of the gold plated elements. These brands are now owned by corporations and 2 of them are the top billionaires. I chose not to buy a top brand watch when I was younger as I realized my community did not own such items. Blending in is a forte.

If it doesn't bother you, it should. Such horrible waste of money that could ease suffering and even help save lives of innocent people & animals, is pure insanity!

Bothers me as well…