Fendi Spy Bags - Like Buttah Baby

I'm itching for a new bag. I've been trying to ignore the itch but it just won't seem to go away. Out darn itch, out I say! Although admittedly not a true fashionable gals way of thinking, I do not enjoy spending large amounts of cash on bags. I adore Fendi bags and I have been coveting the Spy bag for quite sometime now. But I had a revelation a few years ago.

Back in the good ole days of when a designer bag was still under a grand, I was watching a lifestyles show on E! or the Style channel - aren't they the same channel? Anyhoo, on the show they were featuring one of the Fendi family's summer homes on some tropical isle. Suddenly, as I was oooing and aaaing over this home - it hit me! By golly I pay for that home! There I sat, the owner of many designer bags but not a single summer home to speak of. Right then and there, I vowed to stop funding the summer homes of designers until I had my own.

Since my revelation, I do admit, I have broken down and purchased a designer bag here and there. But I will only do so if it is on sale. In my quest to gain "more guns, less butter" (50 points and a mwa for anyone who can name the movie from which that fabulous line comes) I came to realize, that as I kept purchasing over the counter bags, I had an emptiness inside. The OTC bags just don't do for me what a superfluous designer bag does. Let me give you an illustration.

When I was recently in the market for a spring/summer bag, I purchased a Stone Mountain Handbag. I know, a wha? I found them via Lucky magazine. I bought a beige-ish large hobo bag. I was trying to be anti-designer, I was trying to save money, I was trying to be good. I got the bag in late March and here now, barely into May, I am tired of the bag. Although a beautiful, well-crafted bag in its own right, I never loved it. The bag never gave me that jolt of adrenaline, that skip in my step, that designer bags do.

So, now here I sit longing, crying out for, coveting a Fendi Spy bag. (Friends, be warned of the online discount designer sites such as bergacci -most are fake .) As much as I desperately covet, I shall not have thy Spy bag. A girl's gotta keep her boundaries -yes? Perhaps this weekend when I visit designergirl in that moneyed suburb wherein she lives, perhaps, just maybe, designergirl will loan me one of her many sticks o' butter.