Splurge or Save Thursday: Apple Cider Vinegar Blend Shampoo
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I’ve been on the hunt for a clarifying shampoo that will hit reset on my dull hair. I’m considering this well-reviewed one from Aveeno.
Their Apple Cider Vinegar Blend Shampoo clarifies and soothes your scalp while nourishing and adding shine to your hair. If you have oily hair or use a lot of products, this shampoo is especially made for you. It’s also cruelty-free and free from sulfates, parabens, and dyes.
This shampoo is $8.69 at Target.
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
What’s your mum friend situation?
My mom and I were chatting about parent friends last night, and how she had good neighbour friends (all our immediate neighbours had kids within a 2 year window) but often felt left out as she was the only one working.
I really like the mums of my son’s two best friends. Definitely a birds of a feather situation, we’re older parents in our community, on the slight crunchy side of things, and recent transplants. We socialise and trade favours as families, but also meet up for coffee sans kids. And my Reddit bumper group is going strong 6 years in.
I have been using all the Aveeno shampoos and really like them.
On the splurge side, I love the Ouai Detox clarifying shampoo. I have been using it once a week for a year and still have half the bottle left.
hotel recommendations near Dutch Wonderlands in PA?
hotel recs near Dutch Wonderland in PA or a suggestion of another area nearby of where to stay.
Has anyone here been to Australia with kids? I’m in the early stages of planning a trip for next year.
how do you help a kid build resilience? i have a 5 year old with some perfectionist tendencies and doesn’t like an activity if it is hard for her. she does seem to get the concept of practicing and likes to practice things that come at least a little bit naturally to her, but things that don’t, forget it.
Will cross post to the main site, but work question. The HR team at a tier-2 competitor reached out to me about taking a department lead position. So right now imagine I’m on a team for design at Hermes, and this new role is head of design at Tory Burch. I can’t/won’t ever get to head of design at Hermes without having been head of design elsewhere, so I always knew I’d need to go to a slightly less prestigious company to make the next move up in seniority. I’m in my 40’s, my kids are 10 and 12 and this new role will involve managing a team of 15, more travel, and more pressure. I’ve been here for 2 years and it was a big step up in terms of pay/seniority from my last role and I’ve learned a ton. We have a really good support system in place at home, my husband is supportive if it’s a move I want but I’m ambivalent. In my world jobs like this aren’t ‘posted’ (well, they are, but only for HR reasons), it’s more of a tap on the shoulder situation. These roles also don’t come up often and if I don’t take it I may be stuck for a good 3-5 years. Fwiw, Hermes would be totally fine with leaving (they get that it’s a high pressure company and many pepole move on after a few years) and I’d be in line for a higher level position once someone else ‘tests me out’ first BUT I will not get to that next step here.
What would you do? I plan to at least interview but I don’t want to go too far in the process if I won’t ultimately want to take it.
Is this an issue everywhere or is it just my area? All the swim lessons over the summer are on weekdays and in the early morning so it interferes with doing even a half day camp. I feel super guilty about the fact that my 6 year old still hasn’t done swim lessons, but I’m not sure how to make this work. We have local grandparents so we don’t need full day childcare, but I don’t really want to stick my parents with a kid who has a swim lesson from 9-9:20 and is their responsibility for the rest of the time. I think it would be boring for her too, especially since I imagine we’d likely have to do multiple weeks of swim lessons to see any real benefit? The waiting lists for private lessons are crazy; longer than daycare waitlists.
Do you think that not attending an in-person work event because your spouse already has work travel booked at that time reflects badly on you, or is the reality of a two-working parent household? Assume that the trip is a nice-to-have (offsite strategy/boondoggle) not a requirement.
We have no local family (or family that would be capable of watching them if they travelled in – grandparents are too old to be caregivers for a 4 month old and a 2 year old).
Could anyone offer advice on how to navigate a family member’s mental health crisis? BIL is experiencing debilitating anxiety. Heart palpitations, cannot make basic life decisions, paralyzed at work, etc. Broader family was in the dark about the severity/ symptom escalation until recently. He currently has a therapist and a telehealth dr who has apparently been prescribing lots of meds (sleeping pills, anxiety, depression) without SIL’s knowledge. We know we need to change his care, at the very least. My sense is that he should probably also take a medical leave of absence from his job and maybe even look into some kind of in-patient care. Does this exist for severe anxiety? And does anyone have advice on how to figure out a new care team?