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mikesgirl
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Sherri
Elma WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 18 2008 :  5:58:53 PM  Show Profile
Handbags for rent. Some company has designer handbangs that you can rent by the week or by the month - the one I clicked on was $75 a week. I have never even paid $75 for a handbag to BUY IT in my life. What do you think of this idea? Would you do it and if so, why?

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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl

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Jonni
Elsmere Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts

Posted - Feb 18 2008 :  6:00:24 PM  Show Profile
Was it in Asia? They seem to do a lot of "renting" of things, believe it or not--even dogs.

Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl

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Sherri
Elma WA
USA
3659 Posts

Posted - Feb 18 2008 :  6:05:41 PM  Show Profile
I don't know - it was an ad on my e-mail page and now it's not there, so next time it pops up, I"ll check it. I don't think it was Asian tho.

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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl

950 Posts

Elizabeth
Novi MI
USA
950 Posts

Posted - Feb 18 2008 :  6:28:23 PM  Show Profile
They do it here too. I saw a news clip on it about two years ago and then another one a couple of weeks ago. Crazy stuff...lol

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22shortie
True Blue Farmgirl

329 Posts

rebekah
sulphur la
USA
329 Posts

Posted - Feb 18 2008 :  6:36:07 PM  Show Profile
I read alot of fashion magazines and things and I actually HAVE seen this site. In a way I think it's cool, if you are into name brand stuff, because even if you can't afford it you can HAVE it...lol. I have never used it before but the only thing i could think of was if you wanted an expensive bag for a special even or something, but then again, really, it's just for show because it's not really yours so I guess it seems kinda vain. I just like dreaming about
having a Gucci bag or a Prada purse...LOL I want to carry one when i can AFFORD my OWN..LOL
There is also another site, where you can swap expensive clothes. It's like a higher class Ebay but you TRADE clothes with other people who have and want high brand stuff...sort of funny but who knows, maybe it's a rich womans way of being frugal. :)

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queenofdreamsz4u
True Blue Farmgirl

3845 Posts

Stephanie Suzanne
Smoky Mountains Tennessee
USA
3845 Posts

Posted - Feb 18 2008 :  11:47:25 PM  Show Profile
No I wouldn't rent a purse for $75 bucks a week...if I wanted to spent that kind of money on a purse I'd save for one of my own

However, I love the ingenuity of whoever started it...alot of people probably laughed and told them it would never go over..I take great pleasure in seeing those people have success in these quirkly concepts...

Stephanie

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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl

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Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts

Posted - Feb 19 2008 :  12:09:26 AM  Show Profile
Ok, I am still trying to process that they rent dogs? Don't the dogs get major confussed with "new owners" all the time. My mind cannot wrap around that one.

I wouldn't do it cause I would use that money and buy quilt stuff!!!!! Yep, my addiction. But I agree with Stephanie, somebody definitely had some ingenuity!!

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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl

4853 Posts

Jonni
Elsmere Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts

Posted - Feb 19 2008 :  05:34:42 AM  Show Profile
About the purses, I don't have that kindof interest in "fashion" and $75.00 goes along way to my seed catalog orders :)

Carol Sue--I believe it was in Tokyo or another larger city where there are so many people, so many apartments and people who "want" a dog and love them, seek the companionship or whatever, but don't want the "responsibility" of a dog, will do a daily dog rental or something to that effect. Seemed weird to me, but then again, every now and again, I'd like to rent our Elie (garbage dog/all around messmaker) out for the day :)

Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl

1306 Posts

Judy
Lawrenceville NJ
USA
1306 Posts

Posted - Feb 19 2008 :  05:58:42 AM  Show Profile
If you google 'designer handbags for rent',you will come up with a few sites. I've heard of this before and one I know of is: www.bagborroworsteal.com. I don't belong but was intrigued by the idea. The prices for renting are high, and this would be for women who long to own designer handbags for a time at a fraction of the cost of owning. It's a status thang....

"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main
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Lavendar fields dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl

1032 Posts

little monkeys mommy
washington
USA
1032 Posts

Posted - Feb 19 2008 :  8:49:49 PM  Show Profile
0k s0me lady started up a business 0f renting 0ut t0ys f0r kids, just saw it this m0rning 0n the t0day sh0w.
the d0g rental thing is 0nly f0r part 0f a day y0u walk it 0r take it t0 the park.
but renting this stuff just seems like a waste t0 me.

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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl

2099 Posts


Finger Lakes Region NY
2099 Posts

Posted - Feb 20 2008 :  06:27:58 AM  Show Profile
It makes sense to me. If men rent tuxedos for formal events, I can see how women might want to rent a certain purse for a special event. I think they are thinking of it as part of an outfit, not a tool you use to carry your stuff around.
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