The Tale of the Bags

One weekend afternoon, we heard a loud "kalabog" in the other room. I got scared because I thought somebody got inside our house. Alvin checked it out and saw that my coat bag stand fell.

ME: Bakit nalaglag na lang bigla?!

ALVIN: Sa dami ng nakasabit, bumigay na.

Yea, one of its foot gave out already. And the bags all look like this:

Ang gulo gulo!! 

One time I read in the Bag Hag Diaries that she was a hoarder. She buys a lot of things but doesn't use them. I am like that. I buy and buy and buy but I don't use them often. My Havaianas for example. I own 25 pairs. But I only use like 2 pairs often. I just like looking at them all lined up, sitting prettily in my room. Now I became a mom and had a new job, I don't use any of them at all! Sayang the money!

When it comes to my bags naman, I'm like that too. I have lots, accumulated from all these years. But I don't use them all naman. I seldom change my bags because I feel lazy transferring all the contents from one bag to another. Sheeeshh..

Anyways, because the other room became crowded with the bags, I felt it was time to edit them. I have to choose what to throw or give away or what to keep. One by one, I analyzed each while being sentimental about letting go.

Here are only the bags I kept. The more expensive ones are inside their dust bags in my closet.

The others I threw away kasi super luma na pala. While the others I gave away. Girlie and Elvie was so happy with the bags they got. Tingnan mo nga naman ang life. Sometimes we take advantage of what we have samantalang others will be very happy kahit hindi bago.

Anyways, while editing my bags, I saw this small, red, Marithe + Francios Girbaud bag. This was the first ever bag that Alvin gave me when he first started working, way back in the late 90's. Cute no?

And this was the bag that Alvin had made with our pictures in it. This is the one side:

And this is on the other side:

Nice gift for christmas no?

So there you go. Organized na ulit my konting bags. I don't dare ask hubby yet when I can buy new ones to replace those I threw and gave away. May I'll ask him after he forgets the things I bought in the Forever 21 sale =)