October 10th is #NationalHandbagDay & Thoughts on Money...

First things first, how great is it that there's a national handbag day? I don't know where my love of a good handbag comes from, but I do know that my first money memory was about a bag. I took a class on money and one of the questions was, "What is your first memory of money?"

This is telling of why, perhaps, I was not very compatible with my ex.  My first memory of money was a suede Navajo purse that my grandfather brought me back from Arizona. It was a child-sized bucket bag with feathers and beads hanging off of it. When my grandfather gave it to me, he put a few coins in it and that's the first time I thought, "Money, meh. The bag it goes in? Sign me up!

Just for reference, my kids' father's first memory of money was that his grandmother gave him a dollar. He promptly ran down the hall and hid it. I think that pretty much sums up a few things. Incidentally, I don't think his view of money is wrong, it's just very different. Money to me represented "freedom" to do what I wanted -- to go where I wanted to go and have the things that made me happy. To him, it represented security -- and maybe a little bit of power. I think marriages generally have a spender and a saver. I'm kind of a mix. I get frantic if I'm below a certain amount, but if I have anything extra, I am buying a handbag. 

Obviously, being sickly has gotten in the way of my handbag fetish, and this makes me sad. I want to be healthy so I can go to Spain and buy a Loewe bag. Life is filled with so many "musts" -- like this morning, I replaced the stopper in my bathroom sink. Do you know what I don't want to spend money on?  A house. Is that practical? No, because houses cost a fortune and something is always busting. I can't tell you why I'm able to drop a large amount on a  handbag, but it kills me to spend $15 on a new sink stopper -- but it does. I suppose buying handbags is my way of rebelling against the machine that makes you pay for insurance to drive, insurance to own a house, insurance to go to the doctor, etc. We all have to adult until we can't adult anymore. I imagine that's why there are Disney adults.

So what's your "opt-out" on adulthood? Will you celebrate national handbag day? I think I'll out to dinner and take one of my babies for a spin...