Makeup & Beauty Monday: 12 Days of Luxury Beauty Advent Calendar
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Maybe December 2 is a little late to unwrap a traditional advent calendar, but this 12 Days of Beauty one from Macy’s works throughout the season.
Each drawer opens to reveal a beauty, skincare, or fragrance surprise. Enjoy samples from Estée Lauder, La Mer, Lancôme, SK-II, and more. You may find a travel-sized version of an old favorite or something new for the holidays.
This beauty advent calendar (a $322 value) is available at Macy’s for $120.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
May re-post tomorrow, but can we have a thread about gifts for elementary school teachers/staff? It seemed like in daycare there was much more of a standard and you knew which teachers to give to, but in elementary school it feels like it’s all over the place with some people giving nothing to anyone and some people giving gifts to every staff member they’ve ever met. My kid is in first grade but I forgot what we did last year. I think a $25 Target card for the classroom teacher and nothing for any one else, but this year I’m feeling kind of guilty about that and wondering if we should do more.
I want to plan a winter party for my daughter who has a summer birthday. With her summer b’day older sister I have traditionally done it as a Valentines/Galentine’s party so I’m looking to do something slightly different and thinking a winter/holiday party.
I’m looking at ~7-10 1st grade girls for ~90 minutes or so either during one of the half days or after school on a Friday afternoon in December. Help me brainstorm activities?
– Cookie decorating (Snowflake/snowman type cookies, maybe a Christmas tree or something in the mix)
– make and decorate snowflake station
– ?? I want to do kareoke but I think it will end in chaos with a group this size.
– “Pass the parcel” but Lucky’s dad’s rules and the final box has a prize for everyone (same prize)
– Eating a meal (lunch if half day, dinner if Friday evening)
– …photo booth?
Other ideas? I want to avoid gift swapping of any kind. Maybe a holiday service project (decorate a card? bring a toys for tots donation?)
My daughter at least has outgrown “Frozen” but I’m wondering if maybe there is some Elsa-inspired theming to do here?
How do you handle thank you notes for kids birthday parties? I only have phone numbers/email addresses, not physical addresses for most of the guests (well, parents of the guests!)
Hi! Any suggestions for toys or other entertainment to pack for an international trip to Asia that will involve layovers and many family events?
Our kids are 5 and 7. They’ll have screens and earphones, but I also would love to have a few toys or activities for when they need a screen break, and also that they can share/play with each other and with cousins they’ve never met before. We’re travelling carry on only, so I think my criteria is:
-portable/packable
-engaging/ open ended
-not valuable because we will inevitably lose things.
Has anyone been to Argentina with elementary age kids? I think we’d need to go in our summer, their winter, so Patagonia is probably not doable but Buenos Aires and Mendoza both seem like they’d be fun with school age kids.
At the risk of provoking a flame war–what is really wrong with having a default parent, as long as the other parent is capable of stepping up when necessary? I’m talking about the administrative part and not the hands-on parenting, which I think should be much more equally distributed. I have always been the admin person in our household. I do the taxes, balance the checkbook, pay the bills, and book travel reservations. It’s simpler to have one person in charge of all of these things. If my husband and I were both hands-on with these matters there would be confusion and it would be a lot more likely that balls would get dropped. (“Did you pay the electric bill? No, I thought you did.”) So why is it any different with kid admin? Things are just so much easier with a single point of contact. Sure, my husband takes the kids to the doctor if they’re sick and it makes more sense with his schedule than with mine, but by having one person in charge of scheduling routine appointments, keeping track of medical bills, signing school permission slips, signing up for summer camps, etc., we ensure that everything gets done and there are no scheduling conflicts or dropped balls. Most families I know operate this way. The admin parent is not always the mom; it’s usually the one with the more flexible and/or desk-oriented job, which in some families is the dad.
My kid’s class at school is a mess. The teacher is experienced, but has been handed a sh*t class. A group of incredibly disruptive boys were all put in this class and disrupt class daily. There is bullying, there is behavior issues and general chaos. My kid is fortunately not involved in the bullying, but I know that their learning is impacted by this. The teacher was honest with me when I asked about the class and very frank about the challenges she’s facing. We still have six months to go in this class and my child is in third grade. What would you do? There’s another class at the school, and I could push really hard to get my child moved, though the outcome is uncertain. I feel very powerless because my child is stuck in a horrible learning situation 5 days a week.
Advent started yesterday (four Sundays before Christmas) so today is the perfect day to start an Advent calendar. Also the “twelve days of Christmas” are the twelve days from December 25 to January 6, not just whichever 12 days marketers want to sell you things for.
I just found out that my daycare is going on strike for two days this week. I’m all for daycare workers getting better pay but will confess that the timing of this, right before the holidays during one of our busiest times at work, is really not great for me. DH and I are both taking one day off and really hoping they don’t extend the strike. How is everyone else doing?
I know there are a lot of kids sleeping on the IKEA daybed. Help me!
You can’t really tuck a blanket down the side, and blankets fall off in the middle of the night, waking him up and thus us. Yes, this is a problem he should be able to fix himself, but apparently it’s beyond him at 3am.
He has a twin weighted blanket, with a twin duvet on top of that. I’ve tried bigger blankets but the extra weight seems to pull them even faster when he rolls about. The room is really too small to put a double bed in and still have room to play, and I really like the storage of the Hemnes.
Duck tape? Velcro? Magnets? Wake him up every time our feet come untucked to remind him how annoying it is?
A while ago, I either started or contributed to a discussion (can remember) about having both partners take parental leave consecutively or concurrently. I mentioned we were planning to do concurrently and reporting back that it was an amazing decision for us. We had a difficult situation with a sudden preterm induction that failed and ended in a C and a NICU stay. There is no way I could have dealt with all of that (and the resulting exclusive pumping) without my husband pulling his weight alongside. We’ve had the opportunity to learn together and most importantly, take sleep shifts. We’d be dead people walking without those and I don’t see how they would work if one of us was at work. If anyone else is considering concurrent leave, it’s been the best choice we’ve made so far.