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Coffee Break: Multi-Pocket Tote

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red north/south tote with many many pockets

This bag caught my eye over at Tory Burch — it's so unusual. Apparently it “echoes jackets from the Fall '25 runway collection.” I would think of the pockets on the outside as being a bit more decorative than functional, of course, but I do think it's a cool bag.

It gets interesting with the price — it was $880, but is now marked $619. But! It also says “$527 for Private Sale.” This piqued my curiosity; I wondered if it was an archive/resale portion like you can find on some sites. But according to the offer details from the homepage, it's an online only sale that ends 8/19. Why are there two sale prices on a single product page? Who can say.

In any event, the bag is $527 for now, with free shipping in continental US. It also comes in brown. You can see everything in the sale here.

Sales of note for 8/28:

60 Comments

  1. Has anyone tried Bared Footwear? They’re stalking me online and may have gotten me with Pipilo

    2. Yes, love them. They’re an Australian brand and are quite popular here in Australia. I have had good experiences with their sandals, loafers, and sort of strappy flats. I am prone to plantar fasciitis and generally have fussy feet and they are great.

  2. I don’t get this bag. The card slots look upside down? Obviously the pockets are decorative as Kat noted, but wouldn’t it look more correct if they were right-side up?

      1. At first I thought maybe it would fold in half, so you would have a smaller bag with all the little pockets inside. Since no, it’s just a weird bag.

    5. This bag is to totes are peep toe boots are to boots. It makes no sense. So glad peep toe boots came and went, and this bag will too.

  3. Curious where people are buying costume jewelry these days? I have a decent collection of fine jewelry but enjoy some fun pieces mixed in. I just got an order from BaubleBar and it was awful – plasticky trash. I wasn’t expecting amazing quality but I literally have nicer necklaces from Loft! Conversely, I snagged a necklace from Veronica Beard on markdown and it was lovely but $175 for enamel and brass on sale is nuts. Please do not recommend Dorsey, I am aghast at their prices. I bought the ‘Clarette’ necklace when it was under $300 and now it’s $645 for coated brass!

      1. I don’t expect influencers to be 100% honest but I am ready to stop following The Stripe and Grace Atwood at this point. Everything she recommends is either absurdly expensive, or clearly a cheap referral item. She raaaaved about her BaubleBar pieces and they are such trash IRL.

    4. Impulsively and in random places. I’ve always been a fan of costume jewelry having a story about where you found it and that it made you smile when you saw it. Most complimented necklace years ago was found at the checkout of a random nail salon I went to with my sister. Other good finds have been at antique shops, art festivals, museums and a random store I found wandering around on holiday.

    6. Museum gift shops often have surprisingly great jewelry! I love the V&A’s selection.

    8. Antique shops, yard sales, and smaller local boutiques. I love costume jewelry but I want to see it and touch it so I can rule out it being cheap junk before I buy it.

  4. Thanks to all the commenters who responded about my shoulder. I called my doctor for a sports PT referral. Fingers crossed.

    1. If you can find a rehab place focused on younger people/athletes, I’ve had the best luck with those PTs. If you’re in NY/NJ/CT, the hospital for special surgery has good rehab options under their brand.

  5. I’ve always lived in houses with standard 8-ft ceilings. We just moved into a new home recently where every room in the house has a 10-ft ceiling. So not vaulted ceilings, but just very tall ceilings throughout. Any suggestions for how to think about scale or proportion when decorating with tall ceilings?

    I’m good on curtains and know how to have those appropriately proportioned. But all of my furniture from my old house looks teeny tiny and I’m trying to figure out what I need to choose to make everything seem proportional. (I’ve always had the opposite problem with antique-aged houses that needed small boned furniture.)

        1. You can add trim 6-8in below the crown molding and paint it all the same color (the wall being a different color). That visually “lowers” the ceiling.

          Very large rugs.

          1. Old house with tall ceilings. It came picture rails in every room, which are not only handy, but also helo break up the walls a bit to make the room more cozy.

    2. How long has it been? I’m wondering if you just need to get used to it and see it more as spaciousness and not as furniture looking tiny. Wall art might help too.

      1. To be fair, the furniture is objectively small because it came from a much smaller, vintage house. I will be purchasing new furniture that fits this home. I’m just trying to figure out how to get scale right when selecting new furniture.

        1. But furniture only gets so tall, right? If it looks too small, I think it’s probably the size of the rooms and not the height of the ceiling.

          If you don’t have rugs yet, that might help the furniture feel grounded and not like it’s floating.

          1. In the past I’ve had bookcases, built ins or other furniture that went to the ceiling or almost to the ceiling. Framed art also filled most of the wall above a couch. All of that space is just so much bigger now.

    3. Best advice I got was wait 6 months before making any big furniture purchases. This will give you time to see multiple seasons and how winter lack of light affects your feelings about the house. And, it also gives you time to rearrange your furniture, figure out where you need more clearance in the hallway or more storage for random things. Chances are, the feeling you get of the furniture not fitting could just be an increase in square footage so the room overall feels less stuffed.

      1. It’s tiny apartment-sized furniture in a big house. It really is too small.

    4. I would play with paint for this. Make the top two feet of wall the same color as the ceiling. Make the walls and ceiling all the same color, go very dark, etc.

    5. IS your furniture objectively teeny tiny? Like, your current dining room table only seats six, and your new dining room is the size for a table that seats 20.

      Or is your furniture actually a good size for width and length of the room but just feels too delicate for the space and you want something with more visual weight?

      1. My current furniture is objectively too small AND was chosen not to take up visual space. I’ve never had to purchase furniture for a big space before.

    6. I think you are probably frustrated that we aren’t telling you what you want to hear.

  6. Does anyone work in a hospital? There is one next to my apartment. I’m looking to work some at nights and on weekends to save up for grad school (on top of my McJob) in a health field. What is a good PT job for getting to meet a lot of people (or have periods of down time for studying or applications)? I had thought of trying to be in the dietary department and getting trays from rooms. I will have my EMT soon and they hire people with that to be ER workers (more like clerks than patient care).

    1. pharmacy tech! I knew every one because I ran drugs all over the hospital, filled the pixus, stocked and billed code trays, answered phones. i also lost like 10lbs pretty fast from all the walking/stairs.

      1. My friend’s daughter became a pharmacy tech during college (studying an unrelated field for her degree) and it turned out to be a great part time job. The hospital pharmacy she worked for paid for her training because they were desperate for more techs.

    2. I cannot think of a job in a hospital that has a lot of down time. Hospital resources are so stretched, most people have more to do in a shift than they could reasonably get done. Also, be prepared for a long hiring lag. Their admin/onboarding paperwork is lengthy.

    3. You could consider getting your certification from your local community college for either a nurses aid or personal care aid (PCA). But those can be poorly paid. Honestly, babysitting may be more lucrative.

      1. And these don’t have down time typically. PCA work can be very demanding, physically.

        It is possible you could look for a job as a “sitter” for patients that are elderly/confused/unstable and who need someone sitting in the inpatient room to make sure they don’t wander and fall. Can be long slow shifts, with much boredom followed by sudden stress/crisis. You can’t fall asleep doing this, and strictly speaking you are not supposed to be filling out applications and studying.

        The chill jobs working at the gift shop or reception are few and far between and are more often filled with volunteers and full time workers.

    4. I have hard of people working as medical scribes before going back to school to become an NP/PA/MD.

      1. Is this still a job? My doctors use AI and don’t really clean up the transcription much either.

    5. Registration specialist, especially if you can type quickly and accurately. I got my start in healthcare over 30 years ago on the day shift doing registration and night shift in the ED.

    6. Could you offer to visit patients and maybe help them with small errands (like buying snacks and delivering to the hospital)? I would imagine not employed by the hospital but more of a care dot com or task rabbit setup? A lot of people in hospital long-term might appreciate the visits and help… speaking as someone who spent a lot of time with FIL when he was in hospital but I am childless myself and am not sure who would do the same for me?

  7. I am just weirdly sad and antsy today. Not overly stressed, nothing different in my routine. Any tips for breaking out of a completely unexplained funk?

    1. Move your body with exercise or a walk outside and get something on the calendar that you can look forward to (even if it’s just a night in soon with a new book and takeout you like!) also going to bed early always helps me.

    2. In case you check back for future advice, I second exercise. Vigorous or heavy lifting if you are antsy.

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