Make My Life Easier Thursday: AirPod Grips
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Always losing an AirPod? Stop them from slipping out of your ears with these tiny grips.
These comfortable grips work on oily or sweaty skin so your AirPods stay secure during the toughest workouts. To apply, simply clean your AirPods, peel off the grip pads, and stick them on your AirPods’ tops, bottoms, and sides.
These AirPod grips are under $12 on Amazon and come in several versions to fit different AirPods and other earbuds.
Sales of note for 5/8/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Up to 50% off select styles + 15% off fragrance (exclusions apply; ends 5/11) + give $150 in gift cards, earn a $25 promo card (ends 5/13)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your full-price purchase + extra 40% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – $25+ select styles + extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off must-have styles + extra 50% off select sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 25% off all tops, pants, jeans, and shorts + 25% off all markdowns
Just in case “Eva” from the surrogacy post on the main page also reads here: I appreciated you sharing your story, and I’m sorry the commenters were awful. Congratulations on your family!
What are your thoughts on traveling sports?
About a week ago, I made homemade breading for chicken — bread crumbs, olive oil, and spices. I put an unused portion in the cabinet, and didn’t think twice about it. I’m now second guessing myself if it should have been refrigerated? The unused portion did not touch any other foods (chicken or anything else), and none of the ingredients need to be in the fridge – when they are separate – any reason that it should have been in the fridge this week once combined?
Help me stand my ground at work. I’m 28 weeks pregnant and my OB just told me I’m not to travel outside the immediate vicinity of my home or the hospital. He didn’t really explain why, though the baby is measuring very big and so they’re concerned about diabetes even though my glucose levels look good. I’m also over 40 and it’s an IVF pregnancy, so high risk by default.
I wasn’t planning to travel by plane, but it was a big surprise to get told that I can’t travel by car/train already. I’m a litigator and I have a few court appearances within about 2-2.5 hours drive that I now I have to find coverage for. I’m getting mild to moderate pushback about not being able to attend these things because I’m still “so far” from my due date. I preface these conversations with “OB’s orders” so I expected folks to take that at face value. I’m not sure how to respond other than just sort of shrug and repeat myself. Any insights or advice?
Please tell me that my kid’s delays (which have been overall minor) don’t mean they have an intellectual disability. I need some hope. I’m open to the possibility they are ND, but the intellectual disability would be really hard for me/our family (and I know how that sounds). Of course, whatever the diagnosis, we’d love our child, we’d do all the things, and set kid up for whatever success would look like.
Anyone with hopeful stories? Feels like kid has been in some type of therapy (and responded well) since they were 17 months. Currently in preschool.
My 5 yr old twins are driving me bananas right now with constant questions about time. I am trying to do all the Things (monthly calendar on the fridge, Skylight weekly calendar with day schedules on the counter where we discuss at breakfast), but they still ask me, repeatedly and constantly, “when is Christmas?” “When is my birthday?” “How many days until Saturday?”
I know it’s a big time of transition – they are done with preschool in a month, and we’ve been visiting their kindergarten for registration and playdates, but OMG, my brain is going to leak out of my ears if I have to explain when Easter, the first day of school, their birthdays, mother’s day, my birthday is again.
Can anyone recommend a large, paper wall calendar that you like? This is mostly just so my seven-year old can see when Dad is traveling for work, since it has picked up a lot. I’m searching but not having a ton of luck with calendars still in stock.
Having a minor I might be pregnant freak out. Have an almost 2 year old, and an iud and am still breastfeeding a couple times a day so periods have been all over the place. But it’s been like 5 weeks since I had a period and I cant feel the iud strings and am panicking since I realized the timing. Bought some pregnancy tests but I’m at work all day. We want a second but, getting pregnant with the iud sounds so scary. Just a vent I guess. But with this mornings sock tantrum adding a newborn to the mix sounds impossible.
How much do you follow the “little pitchers have big ears” rule and avoid discussing more serious topics in front of your small kids (say, ages 2-6)? Especially medical topics? Do you approach discussing health issues that affect the parents differently than health issues that affect the kids?
I’m so deeply frustrated. Our elementary school announced with 6 days notice when the spring open house is. And, naturally, the announcement was absolutely buried in an email so I found it only this morning (it’s Tuesday). I booked work travel Tuesday this week for the night of the open house that I theoretically had flexibility around scheduling but I now cannot move because several others have locked in travel based on the schedule I set. I only learned about the OH because DD started telling me all about it last night – she’s SO excited – and I was like WTF are you talking about. I freaking can’t win, I swear.
Help us spend money. We’re debating spending an equivalent amount of money on either a party (housewarming though won’t call it that) or hiring out yard clean up. The yard clean up would include weeding, mulching, seeding, removing extra dirt and yard waste from our tiny property. We are new homeowners, with little kids, two big jobs and not enough time. Yard work would knock about 4-5 very time consuming tasks off our to do list. Party would allow us to reconnect with friends and help us foster our community, which is important to us and we’re feeling deprived on. Assume we can’t do both… which would you choose?