Used Bags

,,,  a leather bag from China restored with Danier skin care for leather ...

Mary’s friend called for help.

A mutual friend had died and that apartment needed to be cleaned out so that the apartment owner could re-rent his space.

Mary said he had been a generous landlord, but now it was time for him to get some rent so he needed to have the space cleaned out.

Mary went to help on Saturday. She came home with two boxes of stuff, one of which is full of old DVD’s which might or might not be worth $5. A lot of work, packing it up, then trying to make a deal with the used book/DVD dealer so that they can send money to the relatives who can’t come to help.

Two leather bags came home from the project. I have tried to bring one of them back to life with leather moisturizer. That liquid can’t fix the broken latch on the front of the bag, nor the seam that has split open on the back pocket where a computer could be stored.

It is so hard to know at what point to mend items vs throwing them away.

And speaking of bags that need mending, Naomi has a purse with an arm strap that she got at the second hand store. While she was at school Griffen (the dog) opened the bag, ate all of the theatre candy inside, and chewed out one of the pockets.

The tears Naomi shed were over the potential loss of the bag and not over the candy. To me it appears easier to sew in a whole new pocket than to mend the shredded fabric.

Hard to know when to throw out the used and just start over again!  I am in favour of getting back to a second hand store to find another, but I think they are going to try to patch this pocket.

Arta