Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Pre-Pregnancy Splurge

Kate Spade Denise Baby Bag
Back in July my favorite flash sale site Rue La La had one of my favorite designers, Kate Spade. Le sigh – I just adore her beautiful, overpriced goods.  I browsed the loot, and while there were quite a few cute items, nothing stuck out until I saw it…a beautiful black and white Kate Spade nylon Denise Baby Bag with patent leather straps.  What?!  I wasn’t pregnant.  We weren’t talking about having babies (at least not after the honeymoon scare).  But there is was and I wanted it.  Rue La La sales run for 48 hours and they sell out very quickly so I thought I would let fate take over.  I’ll wait and check back tomorrow to see if they still had it.  Which, of course, they did.  What to do?  Arthur and I hadn’t been married that long, so we hadn’t 100% figured out our whole discretionary spending budget/habits yet (I like smaller more frequent purchases; Arthur prefers larger purchases less often).  I wasn’t pregnant, but I knew we weren’t going to wait that long.  Also, I knew I could never justify a $400 diaper bag, especially once we were expecting.  But at 70% off…and Kate Spade stuff is pretty classic so even if we didn’t have babies for a couple of years it would still be cute.  Moms need cute things.  I could just picture myself strolling baby, Mercedes, & my new bag through the Boston Public Garden.  And I liked that pictured.  A lot.

So I bought it.  And hid it and only told my mom about it (she was rather amused).  And I’m very happy I did.  Won’t it look so cute with a red stroller?
Tons of storage

2 separate waterproof sections

Lots of pouches & storage sections (I counted 13)

Separate pacifier pouch

Changing pad

Changing pad folded

Arthur has informed me that he will not carry such a beautiful bag unless I am present, so the hunt is on for a nice manly bag too.

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