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Snap-ant

shop-to-drop wrote: »

Everyone loves the monkeys and they are cute but must admit as a 45 year old women I do feel a bit embarassed at times having a cuddly toy hanging from my bag. So much so that i turn the bag back to front sometimes and am thinking of removing it and adding to my keys instead. Anyone else?

:mad: I hate the furry monkeys & have a whole drawer full of them

Luckily the Kipling I'm using at the moment has a lovely fat metal monkey in a blue sweater

flower24

ahh I love my monkey :-)

shop-to-drop

immynjoesmum wrote: »

ahh I love my monkey :-)

Do you wear it with pride? If so are you ahem.. 'middle aged' too?

Scaredy_Cat_3

Snap-ant wrote: »

There are 2

Shrewsbury
Warrington

Warrington smaller than Shrewsbury, both have good stuff if you can beat the eBay Sellers

Shame neither is near me! Would love to visit one though. 7roland8 is right - you should be taking orders!!!

Regarding the monkey - I removed mine and gave it to my daughter, I'm really not bothered about it. On the Defea that I gave to Mum, she asked me to attach the monkey to the zip pull to make it easier for her to get hold of.

On QVC they reckon the monkeys are really popular and some people collect them but personally I don't really like them, I'd rather have a kitty cat!

josey1964

shop-to-drop wrote: »

Everyone loves the monkeys and they are cute but must admit as a 45 year old women I do feel a bit embarassed at times having a cuddly toy hanging from my bag. So much so that i turn the bag back to front sometimes and am thinking of removing it and adding to my keys instead. Anyone else?

immynjoesmum wrote: »

ahh I love my monkey :-)

shop-to-drop wrote: »

Do you wear it with pride? If so are you ahem.. 'middle aged' too?

I too love my monkeys, but have removed some from luggage etc for practical reasons.

Oh and by the way I am 48 years young.

lewpster

Snap-ant wrote: »

:mad: I hate the furry monkeys & have a whole drawer full of them

Luckily the Kipling I'm using at the moment has a lovely fat metal monkey in a blue sweater

I am a big kid at 35 and love the bags for the monkeys
And now have a 7 year old trying to steal both off me!!

tobykim

I don't like the monkeys either, particularly the furry ones, my 2 year old granddaughter doesn't like them at all, regarding Kiplings i've been naughty and ordered a Lancelot been after one for a while

7roland8

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

On QVC they reckon the monkeys are really popular and some people collect them but personally I don't really like them, I'd rather have a kitty cat!

Don't like the monkeys myself either - take them off as soon as I get a bag so they are in A1 condition for whwn/if I sell the bag on.

Oh would love cats!!

As a 'mature' person myself I would not mind using the monkeys if liked them - who cares how old you are!

7roland8

Re monkeys - if anyone does not like them you can sell them on ebay - people go for certain names - sold one for £20 once - so ended up keeping the bag and it cost me virtually nothing!

But if you want to sell the bag on later make sure you keep the monkey or the bag will lose some of its value.

Snap-ant

tobykim wrote: »

I don't like the monkeys either, particularly the furry ones, my 2 year old granddaughter doesn't like them at all, regarding Kiplings i've been naughty and ordered a Lancelot been after one for a while

My OH has a black Lancelot - he thinks it's a 'man' bag

7roland8 wrote: »

Re monkeys - if anyone does not like them you can sell them on ebay - people go for certain names - sold one for £20 once - so ended up keeping the bag and it cost me virtually nothing!
But if you want to sell the bag on later make sure you keep the monkey or the bag will lose some of its value.

Definitely agree.
Sold a Kipling monkey once on eBay that has a beer can with Kipling written on it.
Sold for a very silly amount of money
It was after that I googled it & found there is a Kipling Beer brand. That has the same style monkeys ....