I had to go and find your TikTok about Baggu bc I have been wondering what the boom is all of a sudden. I got my first baggu shopper as a PR gift in 2010 and the whole premise of the brand was encouraging sustainability. I still have and use that same bag for groceries (plus I’ve added two more!), and it’s in the same condition, not rips, no fray, nada. I also have a Fanny pack and a few leather goods (2 bags and a coin pouch). And again, awesome quality. I love your analogy to the Stanley’s bc somehow we as consumers are taking well made products we only need one of and hoarding them. Maybe it has to do with all the fun colors and patterns and individuals just don’t know their taste enough to just pick one and be happy with it??? 🤷♀️
Totally! I love a good reusable bag but the hauls are getting intense and I don't get it haha I feel like it comes down to some dopamine hit and the colors definitely add to it. Like just one more color and my depression with be curreeddddd!
This was so interesting, thank you! I was immediately reminded of parlors back in the day, the way the possessions in one's parlor communicated to visitors all sorts of status- and taste-related things about the family. It was definitely a much more complex phenomenon than a family buying and consuming a bunch of stuff!
It's super intriguing to me how consumption is becoming immaterial. When we buy things, we increasingly buy them to have them in a picture rather than in our lives. People window shop images rather than physical things. I don't know what it means, but it's fascinating (and also kind of terrifying).
Such a good point! This made me think about virtual consumption like along the lines of second life as we enter into more meta verse like experiences - where really all consumption there is to communicate and by nature is immaterial in a way!
I had to go and find your TikTok about Baggu bc I have been wondering what the boom is all of a sudden. I got my first baggu shopper as a PR gift in 2010 and the whole premise of the brand was encouraging sustainability. I still have and use that same bag for groceries (plus I’ve added two more!), and it’s in the same condition, not rips, no fray, nada. I also have a Fanny pack and a few leather goods (2 bags and a coin pouch). And again, awesome quality. I love your analogy to the Stanley’s bc somehow we as consumers are taking well made products we only need one of and hoarding them. Maybe it has to do with all the fun colors and patterns and individuals just don’t know their taste enough to just pick one and be happy with it??? 🤷♀️
Totally! I love a good reusable bag but the hauls are getting intense and I don't get it haha I feel like it comes down to some dopamine hit and the colors definitely add to it. Like just one more color and my depression with be curreeddddd!
This was so interesting, thank you! I was immediately reminded of parlors back in the day, the way the possessions in one's parlor communicated to visitors all sorts of status- and taste-related things about the family. It was definitely a much more complex phenomenon than a family buying and consuming a bunch of stuff!
It's super intriguing to me how consumption is becoming immaterial. When we buy things, we increasingly buy them to have them in a picture rather than in our lives. People window shop images rather than physical things. I don't know what it means, but it's fascinating (and also kind of terrifying).
Such a good point! This made me think about virtual consumption like along the lines of second life as we enter into more meta verse like experiences - where really all consumption there is to communicate and by nature is immaterial in a way!