Closet Clean Out = Vintage Find

I'm in the process of doing a triple closet clean out... I'm cleaning & organizing our coat closet in the family room to serve as art & office supply storage, repurposing our 3rd closet in our master bedroom into my workspace, and converting our old tv cabinet into a coat closet. It's a big undertaking and I'm working hard (and slowly) at not making it just a rearranging project. In our 1500 square foot house space is limited, so I need to make these spaces work better. Before & After pictures will pop up on here, I'm sure. But the point of this whole rambling is to share what I found in the formerly-known-as-coat-closet. Check out this vintage purse:

It was stashed with some odd mittens and scarves in the bottom of the closet. I vaguely remember rescuing it from one of my parents' garage sales, but I don't recall the history behind it. So I guess I really don't know if it is even vintage. To be honest, I'm not really sure what even qualifies as vintage. Heck they're playing 80's music on the oldies station now, so it's got to be vintage. Right? No matter, really, because I'm in love with it! I usually make my purse purchases at Marshalls or TJ Maxx (my latest is from Sam Moon... Thanks Erika!), but I just spent way too long (and had way too much fun) perusing vintage handbags online to see if they measured up to my sweet little find. I discovered so many interesting totes out there when I did my maraton search for "vintage handbags". I might just have to broaden my purse purchasing venues. Take a look at a few that caught my eye.

{1: ancestorvintage 2: AvantGarb 3: LilOldLady 4: AnitaBier312

5: ZucchiniFlourVintage 6: fuzzylizzie 7: TheChurchofVintage}