Organizing Thursday: Acrylic Tissue Dispenser
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I was reading the most recent issue of Real Simple and saw this tissue box as one of their suggestions on how to upgrade your desk. It caught my eye because it seems like such a great way to make your home or workspace look organized and stylish. Having a stylish place to put your tissues, a staple of a desk, seems so… grown-up. It’s aspirational, at least for me: “Hi, I’m the type of person who has their life together enough to have a nice tissue box.” This tissue dispenser is $54 and is available in several colors. Acrylic Tissue Dispenser
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- 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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Yesterday was ROUGH y’all. Share something cute your kid, pet, partner did while you’ve been together recently.
I’ll start. We have the luxury of a reasonably sized backyard (yay burbs) and our 2yo *dog* loves zooming around with a tennis ball in his mouth and tossing it in the air, then picking it back up. It is so cute watching him so happy playing around the yard by himself. Our old dog just stares at him and continues snoozing in the sunshine.
Carter’s closed their stores, but are still paying their retail employees. This is nice, and I wanted to share.
I’m going to whine here and then try to get over it, but this feels like a place where I’ll get some compassion.
I’m so annoyed at all the people who magically have free time because of this crisis. I’ve got 2 kids I’m apparently homeschooling (JK they’re watching Blippie and sometimes coloring) work expects my undivided attention, I’m trying to figure out how to feed us all 3x a day (coffee is not food, and I need to feed myself when I feed the kids! Who’d think that was a novel idea, but I just figured it out this morning).
I usually WFH one day a week, so I was all set up technology wise, but in every other way I was unprepared for this. DH is also working from home, and we’re switching off, but stringing 2 or 3 hours of concentration together is nothing like a full day of work.
Ladies I know I’m not the only one who feels this way but I’m kinda freaking out. These reports about younger people being hospitalized have me scared for DH/myself. DH still has to go into work but I am home. Our only other time out of the house will be one weekly grocery trip. We’re getting hair cutting scissors so DH doesn’t go to the barber. Our current plan is to just let DD play through the summer and then do Playing Preschool from Busytoddler starting in the fall if school is still closed. I’m worried about the social implications of DD/DS not being around other kids for 18 months. But I guess I need to remember that through the history of humanity kids have been through much worse…
I know these new reports are scary, but I keep trying to frame all these new data points in a per capita view.
It’s easy to say omg most patients are my age! But you know what, so is almost half of the US population, if I recall correctly, the NYT article says something like 25-55YO group. I will also say that age cohort is primarily the group that has been resisting social distancing and thinking themselves invincible so far. Also that is the majority of the working population, many of whom have to still go physically to their jobs and expose themselves.
I’m not at all surprised by it. Just keep doing your best to get through this healthy and sane. Let’s all try to think of these data points and what they really mean beyond a flashy headline.
I know it’s scary, but we can all get through this!
Co-Parenting Question/Rant: It is incredibly isolating and lonely to bear the emotional labor of the news without a partner who is equally as invested in the well being of the family and children. Ex’s weekend is this upcoming weekend. Kids and I have been isolated since last Friday, but ex is a front-line worker, interacting with the public on a daily basis where there is active community spread. If I were to object to the kids going, he would go sad sausage but would agree. My oldest has an autoimmune disease in remission. The answer is to keep the kids home with me this weekend, right? Even though my sanity is on the brink….
My cousin’s wedding invitation arrived yesterday. It’s in early June in Geneva, NY. Would you go? My parents are not going, so I’d ask them to watch my kid. Honestly, that’s probably the bigger risk; my dad is immunocompromised. If there are still active transmissions then, we’d cancel.
Bright spots of this for me:
— this is the longest we have gone without getting sick. Social distancing is working for flu and colds as well! It is lovely to have the family healthy
— i get to see my kids a *tiny* bit more. Before this I was so torn between job and kids. Mine are only 16 months and I was feeling very “oh i missing moments.” I get more of these moments now.
— this situation helps and clarifies why I like to work and what I get out of it. We are involved in the crisis and there’s a sense of meaning and purpose that feels good right now. And I like my coworkers and miss them!
Mental health resources during crisis? I don’t normally have a mental health provide / am not on medication (and normally think my mental health is pretty good). Buy have been having a really hard time coping during this time – can’t stop crying, etc. I feel like any effort to get help is selfish since everyone is going through a hard time, many a much harder time than me (I have friends getting laid off etc. while I work for the government so have a secure job), and also not even sure how to go about trying to get some support during this time. Ideas?
i know this is probably a dumb thing to be annoyed about, but i am pissed that my kid’s dentist office is still open for routine appointments. yes, parents can choose not to take them, but please close! my own dental office sent an email that they are closed for at least the next two weeks.
Are we just ignoring the $54 plastic tissue box that this post is ostensibly about?
I laughed out loud at this.
I am going to lose my mind. I normally work from home one day a week – the rest of the workweek I typically am out of the house at work for 10+ hours a day. Now that I am home, all DD (2.5) wants is me. Spilled something? Maaaaa. Need water? Maaaa. Need the TV on? Maaaa. Even when DH is right next to me. And when I refuse to do it and tell her to go ask Daddy, and Daddy even offers and throws in a bonus of her favorite activities, she stomps off or tantrums, until about 30 seconds later and it’s another Maaaa. I am so Maaa-ed out, and touched out. I just locked her and DH in the bedroom (she’s sobbing of course) for nap or quiet time, I don’t care which. I had to take a conference call the other day and she was literally trying to break down the door to get to me. Weekends and our one day a week have never been this bad. I don’t know if it’s a new phase, or the lack of preschool is making her more clingy or what. My patience is rapidly evaporating.
Hanna is having a giant sale! I bought matching spring pajamas so we can all look super stylish and seasonal during this quarantine.
That’s all she wrote.
Just got the call that my IUI was cancelled. After three weeks of injections, and a trigger planned for tomorrow with the IUI either Saturday or Sunday, it ain’t happening. Pending one last ultrasound they want me to come in for tomorrow, we might be able to still trigger and then do timed inter course, but given our fact pattern/case the odds of that working are quite, quite low.
I feel so selfish for being so upset in the face of everything going on, but there are no words to describe how broken I am right now. Wishing you all lots of health. Praying my giving up this procedure means someone else can get great care and overcome this illness.