It depends on how you define “worth it”. Last year, I used the budget that should have been used to buy LV to sign up for a wine taster course, and now my hourly wage has doubled – as for the tote bag I use for commuting? I got a replica with old flowers from lxybags·ru, and even the French customers of the winery praised it for its “vintage texture”.
In fact, the premium of luxury bags is enough to buy a second-hand Corolla. Instead of paying for the KPI of the brand marketing department, it is better to turn money into skills that can increase value.
My boss is a living teaching material. The Hermès Birkin she bought ten years ago has increased by 40%, but when she sent it for maintenance last year, she found that the dust bag, care cream and safe deposit box alone cost more than the current price of the bag.
Even worse is that once she carried it to the vegetable market, the vegetable seller stared at the crocodile skin pattern and exclaimed: “This snakeskin bag must be made of a two-meter-long python, right?”
Now she locks the bag in the bank safe and squeezes into the subway every day with the imitations I recommended: “This is called real financial management – real bags appreciate in value, fake bags are made.”