FAB Alert: Louis Vuitton's Revelation Keep-All Bag

Recently I saw this Louis Vuitton (LV) bag I wanted, so I am online searching for it because it is not shown on the LV website and I am singing to myself, “I’m getting a new Louis, I’m getting a new Louis!” I finally pull up the information on the bag, get my wallet, and pull out my credit card. Then I see the bag is part of a special collection only sold at the LV flagship stores with a price tag of $4,040. When I tell you I have never put my credit card back in my wallet so fast ever in life. The Revelation Keep-All bag came with a revelation that if I purchase it, I may wind up evicted from my apartment in a month or two, so I have mentally put the bag on lay-away in my mind. I like exclusive things, but I do not think there is space for my sofa, dinning room table, big screen TV, and at least my bed in there. Seriously, the bag is fabulous and seeing how Valentine’s Day is next week and my birthday is just around the corner, I thought I would drop a few hints in case someone wishes to gift this to me. As I said in my “Reasonably Fabulous” blog article, being fabulous is about living within your means and knowing when you should really splurge on an item. Even though I am able to buy the bag, at this point in my life while I have a lot of other goals I am working on achieving, it is not an item I need to purchase because it will distract me from achieving my goals. The bag moved me in some kind of fabulous way though, especially with its red interior, so I wanted to share this fabulous item with you all. Now do you all see why I like it? Whew! Now that that is out of the way, back to our regularly scheduled fabulous programming…

Fabulous Event Etiquette

I originally wanted to publish this post before Christmas, but I then decided to push my blog launch into the New Year. However, this is an important topic, so I definitely want to make sure I talk about it with everyone, especially since the weekend is right around the corner.

When attending celebrations or events at someone’s house, you should always take a nice bottle of wine or alcohol with you as a gift. I learned this while attending Oprah’s School of Gifting (maybe this is not a real school, but I think I sound fabulous when I say it, at least I think so).

I was taught you never want to show up to someone’s house empty handed, but the person who came up with this concept had an ulterior motive. I believe the person went to the house of enough people where there was horrible alcohol, so they came up with this polite way to bring their own, and then it became proper etiquette.

Everyone has been in that awkward situation when you are at someone’s house and think to yourself, “Who bought all this cheap alcohol?” At times like this, you always are able to open what you brought. My biggest pet peeve is when people bring the cheap, I mean inexpensive alcohol and are the first to drink the good stuff. (Um-hmm, I see you with your faux fabulous self.)

No one judge me, but when I attend functions and throw my own, I always take notice of who brings the (I have a good phrase for it) “less than desirable” alcohol. I either will never invite you over again or I will make sure I fail to arrive at an event at the same time you do so I am not associated with your “less than desirable” gifting habits.  

Here is my rationale: being fabulous is a lifestyle, so do not come to an event wearing Gucci, but you brought Pearl vodka and are running for the Ciroc the second they open the bottle. I am not saying you have to gift top shelf alcohol, because I do not depending on the event and whose event it is, but a fabulous person would never give others alcohol they themselves would never drink. Plain and simple.

So when getting ready to attend your events this weekend, please keep this in mind because people will talk about you no matter what, so just make sure you give them something fabulous to talk about.

Because to be fabulous, you have to know what makes you fabulous!