Fug Money

Listen, I love a large handbag. Love one! I carried an enormous tote for YEARS until I realized that the larger my bag was, the more stuff I would jam into it, and that maybe my back hurt so badly because I had a pony keg in my purse.

And, as Katie Holmes demonstrates, there is something to be said for moderation in all things:

I know moderation isn’t practiced often around the Cruise/Holmes abode, but unless you’re using this as your Very Posh Birkin Weekender — full of bathing suits and cashmere cover-ups and Pucci print bath towels and all the other stuff InStyle insists is required for a resort weekend away — this mother is just too big. For one thing, she can barely carry the thing (what’s IN there, anyway? She hasn’t got Suri nestled in there for a little nap, has she?).  For another, it’s wider than her entire body, which you think would be a good tip-off to downsize.  There’s a fine line between Fantastically Glamorous Oversized Luxury Item and Damn, Girl, Do You Need A Hand With Those Bags?, and K. Ho here left that line behind her about twenty feet ago.