Make My Life Easier Thursday: Clean Remove Color-Code Tape
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When our kids started daycare, their bottles needed to be labeled red for breast milk, and some other color for regular milk.
Amazon to the rescue! We ended up with something similar to ChromaLabel’s 3/4-Inch Clean Remove Color-Code Tape. It comes in a rainbow of colors (including the required red), removes cleanly from most surfaces, and according to the comments, lasts several rounds in the dishwasher.
We’re still on our first two rolls of tape and have used it to label school supplies and snack boxes and even hang up our kids’ art.
A 500-inch roll is $5.99 at Amazon. A 1/2-inch-wide/500-inch roll is also available.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I feel like my marriage is really starting to suffer from the state of everything. We’ve been married about 4 years now and have an almost 1 year old. I have nothing to say to my husband. I feel resentful about how much time he spends on his hobbies and I’m usually so worn out and busy. We keep re-hashing the same argument over and over.
Part of me wonders if it’s our relationship making me unhappy or my unhappiness hurting our relationship.
Not really sure what I’m looking for here. I know there have been a ton of posts lately about being burnt out, and I think I’m hitting that point.
DD will turn 4 in August. She only has about an inch left in her current convertible carseat based on where her head is in position to the seat with the head piece maxed out (she is 51 pounds and about 43 inches tall with an absurdly long torso but it is hard to get her to stand still long enough to measure). So I expect that by end of summer we will need to be looking at high back boosters, which I thought would be a post kindergarten thing but apparently we grow giants.
We are currently considering the Chicco Kidfit Zip or the Chicco Myfit Zip Harness + Booster. We have the Chicco infant and convertible seats and find them pretty easy to install and washability is key because she gets carsick (although these days she mostly hits the bag rather than the seat cover, thankfully). She does a pretty good job of staying in position in the car but is prone to sleeping on longer trips. The Kidfit Zip has the benefit of a smaller footprint, costs less and is about half the weight, but it is only belt-positioning and doesn’t have a harness. We are buying for 3 cars, although we may just use the Ride Safer Travel Vest in the convertible since the back seats are so, so small and the front passenger (me and DH is even taller on the driver side) has their knees in their chest with the bulky car seat (we successfully used the vest this spring in a rental car and I was really impressed). Any tips, recommendations, other things to consider? Is the harness worth the $120 difference in price or will she outgrow that pretty quickly and be in seatbelt mode anyways?
What’s the going rate for a FT nanny in the NYC burbs? I’m considering throwing my hat in the ring for a promotion (and have a decent chance of getting it), which would require relocating to the area from my MCOL city, and I’m trying to figure out whether it is feasible with two little ones. My kids are (almost 4) and 8 months, so we will need childcare for some time. My kids are currently in daycare, but I don’t see how that would be feasible with an hour commute each way.
Does anyone have recommendations for kids’ masks that go behind the ears but DON’T have ear adjusters? We used to love the Old Navy ones but they’ve now switched to selling only masks with ear adjusters (their webs1te still advertises the ones w/o but I ordered them and they came with ear adjusters and when I called them they said they no longer make the original kind). I cannot get a mask with an ear adjuster to stay on my kid’s face. I think it has something to do with the fact that her ear is really soft and folds forward (my husband’s ears are the same way) and the little bead on the ear adjuster pushes the ear forward and causes the elastic to slip off. This happens regardless of whether I set it really tight or loose or in between. The elastic in the masks we purchased a year ago is wearing out and I really need more, but it’s so frustrating after 14 months of mask-wearing with minimal issues to have to be fiddling with my kid’s mask constantly.
Here’s a really specific question (sorry for the cross-post) – Do you have middle schoolers in DC? Where do they go? I have a first grader in a DC charter school and will have to lottery in to a middle school. I am trying to research middle schools now in order to figure out where to live. Of course, we can scrape together all of our pennies to move to west of the park to go to great public schools…but what are the other options?
Recs for places to buy a twin bed mattress and trundle bed mattress? About to buy “big girl bed” w/ trundle from PB Kids. They have some on their website but not sure if that’s a good or cost effective choice.
Help us develop a new bedtime routine. Right now, DD comes home from daycare about 4:50, plays/runs around until dinner a little after 5:00, then plays/runs around some more until bath at 6:00 (we do bath Sunday-Thursday because otherwise she’s dirty and smelly). Right now, after bath we do a bottle then DD goes to bed, but I would like to cut the bottle AND introduce books.
I cut the morning bottle 5 weeks ago and it’s resulted in DD drinking some, but nowhere close to the same amount, of milk from a cup. She’s then super hungry for breakfast and eats a lot, which is fine. But I’m afraid the same will happen in the evening – she’ll go from 8 oz. in the nighttime bottle to just a few sips from a cup. She’s 17 months old.
As to books, DD “reads” books at daycare and sits still for virtual visits from the librarian, but at home, she closes the book or just keeps bringing more books when we try to read to her. I read posts about 3-4 books per night and always think, how???
For anyone else trying to avoid amazon, you can get this tape directly from ChromaLabel’s website for about $2 less (w/shipping total).
Love this post, Ann. You must have read my mind today, because I couldn’t find the masking tape and resorted to white duct tape. One of those days. Now I’ll be stocked up and have pretty colors.
This type of color-coded tape worked really well when we moved. We used a different color for each box and piece of furniture as we packed, then placed that color tape outside each room of the new house (or in the middle of the living room). It really sped up the process of unloading the truck and helped us unpack the most important stuff first.
My 7 mo finally started taking longer naps during the day, but this means he’s waking up way too early in the morning. Suggestions for how to adjust his schedule to a more manageable 6 am wakeup? Is it possible he’s now getting too much sleep?! This is completely unthinkable after months of nap-refusing due to serious baby FOMO. We can’t do anything about the length/timing of his naps when he’s at daycare – they put him down for a nap if he shows signs of being sleepy, and their rules don’t allow them to wake babies up unless it’s pickup time. Bedtime is at 7 pm, and he is definitely ready at that point, so pushing back bedtime might be tough.
I was just asked to return to the office in about 2 weeks after having worked at home since early 2020. I know I’m incredibly privileged to have been able to work from home this whole time and I knew it was a matter of time before I would have to return to the office, but I’m not prepared, especially given the short notice. I think in the beginning I will only need to go in 2 days a week. Any suggestions, tips for returning to the office? How do you prepare your kids for the change in day to day to routine, now that mom won’t be around everyday? How do you stay organized making sure you have what you need in the office and at the home office? What are people wearing in the office? I imagine it’s a little like coming back from maternity leave, except this time I’ve been out for a lot longer:)
Y’all I have a confession. I’m coming out of a very deep post new-baby-with-a-toddler-in-a-pandemic fog. No family support or visitors, and it was a struggle.
Now that the fog is lifting, I’m realizing that I think I missed sending quite a few thank you notes both from baby gifts and potentially gifts from relatives to the kids at Christmas. I honestly just can’t remember which I sent, which I didn’t, or who sent what when.
Yes, I know this is inexcusable and I’m normally really diligent about sending thank you notes, or at least texts. I don’t have a good excuse except that I was in survival mode. It’s embarrassing. I’m embarrassed.
Thanks for listening.
As my law firm office contemplates reopening this summer or fall, I’m noticing that in general, people without small kids are eager to go back and people with small kids are very reluctant (both due to health concerns until kids are vaccinated and because assuming you have childcare, life is much easier avoiding the commute and rush out the door in the morning). Is this a trend others have observed? That’s fine except that the bosses are really happy with people who want to come back and annoyed at those who don’t. Feels like another way that parent’s especially women miss out on face time and intangible connections that really matter.
I suppose it just is what it is – but curious if others have observed this and have any suggestions for how to mitigate the downside.