Mel's Shopping Diary
Bring Home “Bringing Home the Birkin”!
July 14, 2008Only about sixty more poems left to be read! Whoo...powering through.
I’m sorry it’s taking so long, but I’m also trying to finish two books, write a new TV pitch, and raise a kid…
I know things are overwhelming when all I do is tune out and obsess over a new handbag!
That’s right. Still in the clutches of Birkin fever. Yesterday I devoured “Bringing Home the Birkin” by Michael Tonnello. Two manicured thumbs up!! Hilarious, gossipy, bitchy and insider-y. Michael figured out “the formula” to buying a Birkin. Basically you just need to be a SERIOUS buyer. Show them you mean business and that you’re a regular customer. He would buy a thousand dollars worth of Hermes trinkets, then CASUALLY ask if they had any Birkins. Every time I have gone in to ask about the Birkin, I have no intention of buying it right then. I just want to SEE one. But now I am ready. The husband has given the go-ahead. Birkin greenlight! Of course, Mike reminded me that he’d already agreed to buy me a Birkin two years ago, but I decided it was just to gross to spend that much on a handbag.
But now, I really, really, really want one.
So off to Beverly Hills I go…
This blog has become a Birklog, hasn’t it? Sigh.
Other shopping updates: I finally bought one of those maxi dresses. You know, the spaghetti-strap dress that goes all the way to the floor. Very hippie 70s Cali beach chic. I finally found one that DID NOT MAKE ME LOOK PREGNANT. Joie. $325. Bloomingdale’s. Tres comfy. I also bought a crisp white Diane Von Furstenberg shirt dress. ($149 from $400!) And a James Perse t-shirt ($39). I’m not a t-shirt girl. I think to be a t-shirt girl you need to be the thin-upper-arms-and-protruding-collarbone girl. I am not that girl. I am the no-butt-and-skinny-legs girl. You only get to be one kind of girl. (Although I guess supermodels gets to be both, but they are a different species.) Normal girls either look thin on top or on the bottom. It’s taken me thirty-six years but I finally realize I cannot do every trend and should just highlight the assets and hide the “problem areas”. (I still remember the Beverly Hills 90210 episode where Kelly and Donna talk about their problem areas and it was the first time I thought, oh my god, I HAVE PROBLEM AREAS???)
But a Birkin looks good on everyone.
Ciao!
xoxo
Mel
On July 14, 2008 at 10:05 am, Jenn had this to say:
Yay, Mel! Actually, I can’t imagine reading 300-some poems in a couple of weeks (well, I can, but it ends up with me in a straitjacket at the mental institution. JK, JK). You can do it! And if you get a Birkin, that would be fawsome. Yay for your husband - at least he’s learned not to get in between a lady and her handbags.
On July 14, 2008 at 11:28 am, Amandajoy had this to say:
omg i hope you get a fawesome color...like lindsay lohan’s bright orange. I’d love a rich, but bright green for you Mel! You rock and btw the ‘birkin fever’ is a disease the best of us can sucumb to!
On July 14, 2008 at 5:28 pm, Leah had this to say:
What’s a Birkin?
On July 14, 2008 at 6:54 pm, casey had this to say:
Haha after reading your blog, I always want to go shopping! I’d definitely get the Birkin though. They’re tres chic and oh-so-adorable! It could be your present to yourself for completing Revelations! So then there’s no need to feel guilty about it afterwards. Enjoy! <3
On July 14, 2008 at 7:31 pm, Natalie had this to say:
What’s a Birkin?
^^its mel’s latest craze. the birkin bag is an exorbitantly priced hand bag which most middle-class folk only dream of owning. most celebs and upper class people rave about them.
anyways, congrats on almost being done with the poems. hopefully the birkin fever will be over as soon as you get your hands on one. but then maybe you will get a birkin withdrawal and have to go back over and over again lol.
cant wait to hear the winners!
On July 15, 2008 at 3:25 pm, Briana had this to say:
that 90210 reference made me giggle. i remember that episode oddly enough.
On July 15, 2008 at 4:37 pm, Sylvana had this to say:
!!!!!!!!! Awesome! Can’t wait to here the details about *that. ;] lol
And I can’t wait to hear about the winners for the poetry contest! WoooooT!
On July 16, 2008 at 10:34 pm, elisa had this to say:
omg omg omg...i must ask this.i am currently obsessed with the blue bloods series and i just finished reading masquerade (a little late i know).when is the third book coming out?(please please pleaseee tell me it’s coming out soon)i love you melissa.my name rhymes with yours lol(i know, i get pretty obsessed at times, but don’t be scared, it’s just a temporarily thing).byee (:
On July 17, 2008 at 12:49 am, casey had this to say:
hey elisa. revelations is set to come out on october 28th, 2008. i’m excited for it too! (: haha
On July 17, 2008 at 5:45 am, Jenn had this to say:
hey, Revelations comes out on my B-day!
;D
On July 14, 2008 at 9:02 am, Yuka had this to say:
Maxi dresses ftw<3. Lucky little… thing D: