Wanting:

I’ve always wanted a mink throw for my bed, but then I decided as much as my mind may occasionally resemble a dirty 60-year-old man’s, my bed probably shouldn’t.

When I saw this shearling blanket — made with 10 Spanish merino lambskins — , I knew I needed it. But then I slapped my own 20-something ass, and told myself, “€998? Toots, the dollar ain’t what it used to be. Sometimes I wonder if you didn’t just marry me for money and not for my boyish charms. Hah, hah! Don’t worry about my cough, just a cold. Now don’t worry your pretty little head about this…”

Wanting:

I’ve a thing for classic hardcase luggage — it romanticizes an era when the journey was supposed to be as glamorous as the destination.

I usually carry-on Alstermo Bruk, handcrafted Swedish luggage that’s similar to Globe-Trotter — it’s essentially a fancy, empty, expensive cardboard box.

But I’ve always loved Rimowa, which has more function and as much form as Alstermo and Globe-Trotter. German goods store Manufactum collab’ed with Rimowa on a special-edition “Topas” suitcase that revives details from the original 1950′s “Topas” suitcases: handles made of cowhide, polished corner reinforcements, and black Rimowa-branded lining…

Hating:

This wheel-less Manufactum cardboard suitcase is too large to carry on, and likely too heavy for you to handle yourself.

Do you really want to sweat at the airport, or have to consider having someone help you?

No, thank you, sir…

Wanting:

I hardly romanticize life before electronic mail, the flying bus, the horseless carriage.

But there’s something romantic about a train ride, about a process of traveling outside of carefully placing your Giuseppes in a security tray, a journey that includes holding on to private packages like this  Manufactum cardboard hat box.

Hugging a hatbox on a train is so seductively innocent.

Espesh if you stash your Marlies Dekkers panties in it…

Using:

I take my Alstermo Bruk luggage everywhere, and people love the leather-trimmed retro trunk. A lady I just met at a photography show asked me if I had an orange suitcase — she’d noticed me in JFK airport seasons ago.

But as glam as hand-crafted, hard-case luggage is, you know what? Whether it’s James Bond’s Globetrotter attache or the Swedish royal family’s Alstermo luggage, it’s really just a fancy cardboard box.

Which I dig.

So I ordered this Manufactum cardboard attache, a Czech-made briefcase that cost less than Globetrotter’s four figures and Alstermo’s three. For fifty bucks, it’s the perfect home for the Hackintosh netbook I bought off Craigslist, and a spare silk jersey tank dress. What else do you really need…