Not as in wearing a bin bag (although there were a few times towards the very end of my pregnancy when I felt like that’s all I could possibly fit into…) as in a lady who has a somewhat delectable selection of very fancy expensive bags.

I have never bought a very fancy expensive bag. There was a half price Marc Jacobs once but I don’t count that as it was well….half price. And I was gifted a Balenciaga clutch by a very generous friend (I know, very generous) but that was a PRESENT so like I said, I have never bought a very fancy expensive bag.

I have tried, lots of times. I feel that I should treat myself to a staple, a beautifully made “forever” number that would go with everything (or at least most things.) My Mum has a Mulberry Bayswater, it’s lovely and all but I’ve always thought it was perhaps a little on the large side. I’ve toyed with an Alexa on and off for the last few years, James even offered to buy me one for my 30th but for one reason or another I found a selection of other pretty items I preferred.

Here’s the thing, I think I have a “spend” limit, I can’t justify anything over a certain amount on one fashion item. Yes I have some lovely what I would class as investment pieces, a leather jacket, a perfectly fitted blazer and so on (would love to know others general investment pieces actually – I can feel a separate post coming on) but I am simply too fickle and change my mind too frequently hence my dedication to the high street.

An Alexa is somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds (as I type that it makes me feel a little funny) don’t get me wrong, folks can spend their hard earned dollar on whatever the bloody hell they like and I’m the first person to admire someone else’s super swanky tote. It just seems I am unable to take that spendy leap of faith.

Maybe I’m just not that into bags? when I tot up all of the things I could treat myself to for the cost of just one sexy satchel it’s the multiple that always wins (can you imagine just how much Tom Ford make-up a thousand pounds would buy you?!) but I can’t help but feel I’m missing out. A posh bag would make me sophisticated and grown up….wouldn’t it?

Perhaps I’ve just never come across “the one” yet (There was a moment with a grey Miu Miu at the Westfield shopping centre last year but I never saw the same design again anywhere to the point I thought perhaps I had imagined it) or maybe the bags I do have and love (a black studded over-sized clutch from Zara and a tan cross body from Mango) do the job more than well enough without the need for me to part with such a large chunk of cash.

Do you own a fancy designer bag/s? Who is the designer and why did you choose it? Was it worth the investment? Do you worry about getting marks on it?!