Sunday, January 25, 2009

New York Handbags

My husband and I like to travel together. For the first several years we were married our traveling included camping because we could not afford to stay in hotels or motels. Due to our limited budget we tended to travel to areas that had natural wonders to see. These areas usually had good campgrounds and natural wonders are usually free or inexpensive to see. As we have progressed with our jobs and have paid off our expenses we are able to spend a bit more money in our travels. Now we are going to places that we both have always wanted to see. We each made a list of ten places we wanted to visit. We then compared lists and agreed that we would start with the places that both of us included on the list. There were several places that matched. The first we decided to visit was New York City.

A friend of my husband’s moved to New York right out of high school. Each time my husband sees him when he is home visiting his parents, he says that we have to come out and visit him. My husband called him to let him know when we were coming out. He asked us to stay with him and his wife. He said they had plenty of room and that they were close to the subway system so getting around would be easy. I told my sister about the trip. She has gone to New York twice. She told me to make sure to check out the New York handbags. She bought two purses from street vendors. She said that they are on the street corners with garbage bags filled with new purses. Some of the purses are knock offs of famous brands and others are originals. She said regardless if you get an original or not it is fun to have New York handbags so you can tell the story of buying it.

When we arrived at our friend’s home we talked about our itinerary. I asked our friend’s wife about the New York handbags. I was nervous about buying stolen property. She assured me that the greatest majority of the vendors are legitimate business people with vendor numbers. She told me the best corner to go to buy my New York handbags. She said that if the vendor or his merchandise looked questionable I could just walk away or ask to see his vendor number. We went to the corner that she suggested. My husband was leery about the process, but I was determined to have New York handbags that were purchased from a vendor.  I came home with two of the purses. I think I made great deals on both of them.

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