Organizing Thursday: Bamboo Hair Tools Organizer
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Do you need a specialized organizer for your hair tools? Maybe not, but this bamboo organizer actually looks nice enough to put on your bathroom counter and has some thoughtful features that make it special.
This organizer has three round compartments for things like a hair dryer, flat iron, or curling iron. There’s three additional compartments for styling products, brushes, and accessories. I especially like the magnets for easy-to-misplace things like hair clips or bobby pins.
This bamboo hair tools organizer is $30 at Target.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
3 year old has been potty trained during the day for a year, but wets a diaper at night. Just moved to a bed so he sometimes gets up and goes potty before he falls asleep. When this happens he maybe doesn’t adjust himself properly and wakes up with a pee soaked shirt, pants etc. Do we need to use pull ups instead? is there a reusable option that won’t be a wet mess by morning? There are too many options… he hates wearing the diaper, but we told him it must be dry for 3 nights before he can go without.
Proud moment. My kiddo has had a tough friend year – he’s pretty self-contained, little professor vibe, only child who likes his personal space, and his class is full of the wildest, roughest kids I’ve ever met.
But we had parents’ evening last night, and academically, he’s great but most importantly, his teacher said he’s playing with a much wider range of kids, has befriended the new kid (teaching the kid from India all the Scottish vernacular), and will set boundaries/ask for help if kids are in his space.
Our dog is having surgery today and my 6 year old asked me this morning to email her teacher an update. If something goes wrong I’m not going to contact the teacher and make her deliver the bad news, but assuming all goes well is it ok to email the teacher and ask her to let my kid know everything is fine?
for people with older kids whose feet don’t grow as much, how often do your kids get new sneakers? i am trying to remember if as a kid i got them twice a year or once a year, not like that should matter exactly what i do with my own kids. all of the kids shoe stores near us have closed so it’s harder for me to figure out what size they need etc.
What songs do y’all sing to your babies? I just learned one in violin lessons called “Coulter’s Candy” that apparently is popular in Scotland, (is that true Cb?)..
Talk to me about weight gain in early pregnancy. The previous two times I was pregnant (both losses, unfortunately), I didn’t gain a pound before the miscarriages. Now I’m early into the third pregnancy and the scale seems to be creeping up already, even though I don’t think my routine is too different. Is this bloat or gain, most likely? It seems the guidelines from official sources are all over the place on this when it comes to the first trimester.
For what it’s worth, I don’t place too much importance on the number in my regular life, but since I’m trying to do my best to actually have a complete healthy pregnancy, I want to make sure that I do everything I can in terms of nutrition and exercise.
I have 3 kids and my middle is…difficult. She sweet and wonderful and quirky but she’s neurodiverse and it can make family vacations a little tricky. She has A Routine at home and deviating from this routine often results in terrible sleep, which results in terrible days with no attention span and unholy objection to whatever it is we have planned unless she’s all in on it. We’ve planned family trips/vacations around her for years, always making sure to get “perfect” flights that won’t disrupt her sleep in any way, booking large airBNBs that give her the ability to have her own room if needed (and it’s often needed), etc. DH and I have been trying out trips where we leave her behind, and I can’t figure out if this is brilliant or awful. For example, the last time we had a family ski trip, she protested everything. It ended up being either me or DH hanging back and the cabin with her while the other adult skied with the other two kids. Problem is, my other two kids are not equal skiers so either my oldest was bored to tears or my youngest had to do stuff she wasn’t ready for.
This weekend, we were supposed to ski. Middle kiddo already started refusing/complaining, even though I’d found a trailside condo with a pool so she could “dabble” in skiing and when she was done it would be easy to alternate adults. We finally decided to pull the plug. Instead, DH is staying home with Middle, putting her in a sewing camp in the morning and *not* taking a day off work. I’m taking oldest and middle up to ski, putting youngest in a full day lesson on day 1 so Big Kid and I can do the tricky trails, then we’ll stay in a hotel and in the morning we’ll ski the greens together.
I think this is right? Everyone seems happy, except maybe DH, though he’s the one that volunteered to stay home. I know it’s hard to please everyone in a family, so we are trying to be flexible but it also feels like maybe we need to teach middle better coping skills? Or…just white knuckle another year or two (she’s 8) then leave her in the lodges with an ipad while the rest of us ski and check in on her between runs?
This isn’t just a ski problem, we have it on summer vacations too when she decides she “isn’t going to the beach, i hate it” on family beach vacations. We have tried to build in lots of non-beach time, pick accommodations that have a non-beach alternative (instead of our usual 2 weeks in cape cod on the ocean, we are doing 2 weeks in the outer banks at a house with a pool a block from the beach and near lots of bike trails), etc…but man, as a kid I was just happy to go on vacation and didn’t get to b*tch about where. My other kids don’t ever complain about where we vacation.
How does this work in your family? Should we be teaching her to be more flexible or continue to accommodate her (potentially, though not always, forcing the other kids to have fewer or less interesting vacations)? We’ve been wanting to take the kids to europe but I just can’t wrap my head around trying to deal with middle kiddo’s fickle nature on a big trip like that.
Paging twin mom from yesterday –
I read the comments late last night and it does sound tough. One thing that stuck out is that the nanny is there until 6 and they go to bed around 7:30, so I think it makes sense they want more time with you – they only get you a couple hours a day. How are your weekends? Do things seem easier when you’re all together more?Would it work for your schedule to let the nanny go at 5? My twins will be 6 in June (one has anxiety and ADHD so I get the neuro issues involved) and I also have an 8 year old. My husband passed in November so I’m the only one trying to spread attention three ways every evening, though I don’t have work in the mix. Basically all their dinners are super easy now, because something had to give.
And I agree with the comment about not separating them for bedtime. One pees while the other brushes teeth, then swap. Pjs at the same time. We gave up on reading books at bedtime a few years ago because it just got to be too much, so they get audiobooks at bedtime.
I also liked the suggestion of sitting in there in the dark reading or something. We had to do that the summer they turned two – sleep was awful for a couple months so we had one parent who sat in there at bedtime until everyone was asleep, and the other would take the inevitable night wake up and stay in there until they fell back to sleep.