Iโm in winter year 4 (first farm), went to the traveling cart every Friday and Sunday in fall, and the night market to find a pomegranate. Nada. So, I have to wait until next fall to get ONE POMEGRANATE.
Please commiserate with me.
#INTRO
I bought a Medium Celine 16 in Amazone from Tom/Pomegranate Factory (Bag #1) and was a little disappointed. That review is here. The clasp was tarnished, the lock looked like it lost a fight, and the stitching was uneven. Eventually I managed to clean the clasp, I ditched the lock, and learned to live with the unevenness. Now it looks decent enough that my mom started eyeing it and dropping hints about how she wanted a nice tan colored bag for Christmas. So I went back to Tom and asked which factory was best for Celine 16s. He still said Pomegranate was the best and I decide to try again, albeit with very, VERY careful scrutiny of the QC pics. Now that itโs after Christmas I can write my review for it (Bag #2)! I donโt think many people get the same bag from the same factory twice in 1 year, so hereโs a comparison of the two!
#DETAILS
Disclosure: I received a 11.11 promotion which took $15 off.
Seller: Tom
WhatsApp: +86 135 1024 7228
Price: $275 for the bag (11.11 promotion), shipped for free to the Superbuy warehouse
Factory: Pomegranate
#TIMELINE
11/4 - I ask Tom about a tan Medium Celine 16 and if I should get it from Pomegranate again, because I love how scratch resistant but beautiful the leather is. I also ask about a Celine Trio in Celadon. He says Pomegranate still has the best leather quality for what Iโm looking for and confirms itโs in stock, heโll check on the Trio.
11/10 - The Trio is not available so I pay for the Celine 16.
11/12 - PSPs sent, they look good but Iโm extra cautious now so I ask for more.
11/13 - Extra PSPs sent, I confirm, and he ships it that day!
11/14 - It arrives at the Superbuy warehouse, I get more PSPs.
12/4 - I ship my Superbuy parcel.
12/28 - It arrives, even though itโs a few days after Christmas. For reference my Taobao consolidation parcel shipped on 12/18 and arrived on 12/30. (?!)
#PHOTOS
#QUALITY
Bag #1 7/10
Bag #2 8.4/10
- Obviously at this price the leather is not going to be the same as the auth, so Iโm not going to take points off for not being perfect butter soft untreated calfskin. For th
ETA: I got some at Costco. They had 8 lb whole pomegranate boxes and 1 lb boxes of the arils (4 containers in a box)
I know it's past/ the end of pomegranate season, but I have been looking for pomegranates. I have checked several stores (Aldi, Target, Homeland, WinCo) and haven't found any. I would also be happy if I could find some frozen pomegranate arils. Does anyone know where I could buy some pomegranates?
Demeter seems like the sort of mom to pack her kid lunch anyway. Plus being the goddess of agriculture, sheโd be good at it (even though Iโm not sure if gods have to eat anything but ambrosia).
Sheโd probably have to send them down with one of Greek mythologyโs many psychopomps (beings responsible for guiding spirits to the afterlife). Hermes is sometimes described as a psychopomp, and heโs the god of messengers so it would make a lot of sense, but Hecate might make sense too.
Hecate is the goddess of witchcraft, but I think sheโs sometimes a psychopomp. I heard somewhere that sheโs supposed to be the one who leads Persephone down there each year, lighting the way with a torch. Iโm also pretty sure that she helped Demeter look for Persephone after she was kidnapped so the two already have a good relationship. I donโt know whether sheโd have more important things to do with her time than deliver food though, since unlike Hermes she isnโt the god of delivering things.
