{"id":4752,"date":"2025-10-26T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:33:57","slug":"i-borrowed-my-roommates-purse-then-found-out-what-it-was-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=4752","title":{"rendered":"I Borrowed My Roommate\u2019s Purse \u2014 Then Found Out What It Was Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in college, I shared an apartment with a girl who was the definition of <em>Crazy Rich Asian rich<\/em>. Everything she owned screamed luxury \u2014 from her clothes to her perfume, even the way she carried herself. But the one thing that always caught my eye was this tiny, stylish mini bag she carried whenever we went out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One weekend, I had a concert to go to and jokingly asked if I could borrow it. She smiled and said, \u201cOh sure, no problem!\u201d I was thrilled \u2014 the bag was perfect: elegant, compact, and just big enough for my essentials. I spent the whole night feeling like I\u2019d just stepped out of a magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, I decided I <em>had<\/em> to get one for myself. I looked it up online, expecting it to be a couple hundred dollars at most. But when the search results popped up, my jaw hit the floor \u2014 the exact same bag cost <strong>over $25,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just a purse. It was a <strong>Herm\u00e8s Mini Kelly<\/strong>, made from exotic leather and completely handcrafted. My \u201cconcert bag\u201d was worth more than my entire year\u2019s tuition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I returned it to her the next morning, carefully setting it on her vanity like a sacred object. She just laughed and said, \u201cOh, that old thing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s when I realized \u2014 some people really do live in a completely different world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in college, I shared an apartment with a girl who was the definition of Crazy Rich Asian rich. Everything she owned screamed luxury \u2014 from her&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}