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 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
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 was one of the people definitely being grouchy about how this would affect moms more so than dads because so many men have stay at home wives at my company. Still true, but this week I had a call with a coworker with his 3 young kids audibly harassing him on the other end and he told me he was watching them while his wife went to the grocery store. Another guy was presenting on a call today to 100+ salespeople and warned everyone that he had 3 kids in the other room who might barge in at any moment. Finally the most touching to me was one of my young, single fratbro coworkers who went to his brother’s house to help his SIL with his niece & nephew because his brother is a first responder. It is really helping to hear guys step up and talk about how they have child care responsibilities too.
Woo hoo! My husband got a note from HR that he can have 6 weeks of paid leave to care for an ill family member or (much more excitingly!) perform childcare! This makes the near future doable!
Am I being paranoid?
I have been working from home all week. My husband has to go into the office. We were scheduled to get an IUI in the coming days. The doctor’s office has not canceled it but have said they are taking it a day at a time, so it’s possible. They have also advised that we can still try on our own naturally until there is good evidence not to. We have been taking all precautions (he immediately takes off his clothes and showers when he gets home while I disinfect his things) and even distancing from each other a bit to be extra careful. We take our temperature every day. I’m just freaking out a bit. As There are four options: assuming the doctor’s office does not cancel, I go for my follicle view, get the shot, and we do the IUI. Option 2: I get the follicle view and get the shot as a ‘monitored cycle’ to time when we should try at home. Option 3: I cancel my appt and we continue trying on our own. Option 4: We don’t try this month (and maybe next?) and socially distance ourselves from one another. We have been trying for 10 months and I am 34. On the one hand, we could wait, but I suppose I worry that it could be worse in a month and there won’t be appts for the foreseeable future? I’m not sure what I’m afraid of – that there won’t be appointments, that things will be so quarantined that it will be hard to buy groceries if we get sick? Or that I’m paranoid about the exposure of people at the doctor even though it was empty when I was there a week ago? I will have to leave the house eventually to buy more groceries. We live in Chicago and I have not gone anywhere but to get groceries a week ago and to my last doctor’s appointment. My husband is not going anywhere but to work and is not taking public transportation. I was calm and we decided earlier this week we would do the appts unless the office advised otherwise or canceled but today has me freaked out when I wasn’t before.
Any recommendations for durable but not too expensive toddler shoes for this summer? I think my almost 2 year old is about a size 6 or 7. We’re having another boy and they’ll be exactly 24 months apart so I’d like to pass these shoes down. How many pairs should I have for the summer? He wasn’t really walking last summer and wasn’t in daycare (although who knows when he’ll go back to daycare …). He’s been wearing multiple pairs of boots basically since he started walking and has one pair of sneakers that fit. What else should I get and which brands? Thanks!
our 2.5 year old daughter will not fall asleep until 10pm at the earliest and we are about to lose our ever loving minds. it’s been over 2 weeks. we were starting bedtime (bath/PJs/Stories/teeth/bed) at 7pm,but moved it back to 8:30 or later because she was fighting sleep till 10 no matter what, and 3 hours of toddler fight will make me homicidal. She has to get up at 7am for daycare, and I think still needs a nap or she is a monster. I’ve tried letting her cry is out, holding the door shut, telling her she doesn’t have to sleep, she just had to stay in her room. If we leave her in her room along before she is still and tells us to leave-, she is full on tantrum until she pees her self, then the tantrum gets more extreme. So we always end up rocking/laying with her until she is finally still at 10, and lets us leave. tips? Considering asking daycare to wake her up after an hour of nap? (yes, we still have daycare here, for now)
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.
Hanna is having a giant sale! I bought matching spring pajamas so we can all look super stylish and seasonal during this quarantine.
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.
I laughed out loud at this.
Are we just ignoring the $54 plastic tissue box that this post is ostensibly about?
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.
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?
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!
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.
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….