Organizing Thursday: Baseball Hat Rack
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My youngest’s new obsession is baseball. I’ve watched more baseball this past summer than in my entire life.
I need this cap organizer to tame the growing pile of baseball caps around the house. This space-saving, wall-mounted cap holder holds up to 20 hats. The unique curved cutout design protects the front of your hats.
Thankfully, for a not-handy person like me, it includes all the necessary hardware and mounts in minutes.
This wall mount baseball cap organizer from DomeDock is under $20 at Amazon. For extensive collections, it also comes in a twin pack.
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
New commenting system: I like how the comments are automatically collapsed as a default. However, when I click on a thread I want to read, it opens it at the very last comment in the thread. If it’s a long thread, I then have to scroll way back up to the top to start reading. Is there a way that comment threads could open to the first comment on the thread, rather than the final one?
The other board told me to post over here. Can you talk to me (non-mom) about IVF? The egg collection would be for surrogacy because I take meds incompatible with pregnancy, so there would be no implantation in me, just retrieval.
Question 1: How close do I need to be for how long to the clinic?
For Temporarily Complicated Reasons, I split my time between three places right now.
1. Rural nowhere. Our primary home for another 8 months. They probably have a clinic somewhere within an hour or so, idk.
2. DC. Where my remote job is based and where we got a diagnosis of unexplained fertility at GW a few years ago when we lived in DC. (We never went back to GW because we decided to pursue adoption. We are now 4 years older and $100k poorer and still childless.) I stay with a friend when in town or a work hotel when I can expense the trip. Plenty of clinics within 30-45 mins of cross-town traffic.
3. Connecticut. Where we’re moving when our 8 months is up. We’re currently reno’ing a historic home and I’m an only child trying to help my single, 80 year old mom settle in to the new cottage we bought her nearby. I’m here as often as every other week. Cozy bedroom for me at mom’s house. Yale and UCONN clinics within an hour, as well as others.
Question 2: I’ve heard clinics can turn you away if they don’t think you’re a good candidate because you’ll ruin their stats. Is this true? DH is 47 and I’m almost 44. (My eggs were good 5 years ago…gulp.) We are acutely aware that we’re urgently running out of time. How do you find a willing clinic?
Question 3: I haven’t been to any gynecologist or fertility specialist since 2018 when we got our first diagnosis. Since I don’t have a relationship anywhere, how do I start this process again? Do I have to start again with a gyn?
Thanks, all. Feel free to provide info I didn’t know to ask. (And if my post seems scattered, please chalk it up to my crazy life.)
Has anyone had gestational hypertension? I got one high reading at my OB’s office so now I have to monitor every day, and if it’s high again I’ll get diagnosed. Feeling stressed about it :( Anyone been there? Thank you!
Does anyone have suggestions for how to deal with tween angst? My 11 yo girl is spending a lot of time very angry these days, most often over stupid things. I think it’s probably the start of puberty (she’s trending on the later end). I want to give her some grace, but I’m also sick of her yelling at us all the time and picking fights just because she’s grumpy. Any clever approaches for dispelling the tension?
I feel like we are forever nagging our 10-year-old to pick up after herself. Nothing sticks, or works for long, without DH or I reminding her. It’s stuff like: leaving food wrappers on the coffee table. Leaving a heap of hoodies and clothes on her bedroom floor instead of hanging them up. Leaving her hair stuff, toothbrush, and toothpaste on the very small bathroom counter, making it very difficult for anyone else to use it. You name it, her stuff is scattered everywhere. We have plenty of hooks, bins, and organizing tools for her to use. We have set rules about putting stuff away when we’re done. But without the nagging, her stuff does not get put away. Same with the car. Every day, I have to remind her to bring in her backpack, her hoodie, her whatever — and not just drop it where she feels like it.
Is this normal? Our other kid, ironically the one with diagnosed executive functioning issues, does not seem to leave a trail in his wake.
I’m not sure whether the answer is to be like Elsa and let it goooo, or to keep haranguing her.
Thinking of a trip in February with DH and our (at that time) 11 month old. Would like somewhere warm/on the ocean that is a direct flight from NYC. Does anyone have recommendations for a resort that is good for kids of this age? Wed like somewhere that offers babysitting for a night or two. Not sure if any resorts offer kids clubs for kids of that age.
Help. My mom did something I don’t know I can forgive her for. My kids – 4 and 10 – love grandma so I feel some obligation to let them keep her in their life, but I’m struggling with the best way to do that.
Anyone estranged from their own parents been able to navigate grandparent time?
Lately my toddler seems to have a mini-tantrum with red face and tears all the time now whenever something doesn’t go her way (having a snack, wanting to play with something, getting screen time, turning off the lights at bedtime, etc). The tantrum does seem to be “fake” because she can turn off the waterworks immediately if she gets what she wants. Everything is such a battle and we have admittedly not been the best about holding firm boundaries because we’re so worn down and just want the screaming to stop. We brought her little sister home about a month ago, but she seems very happy about the baby and still gets plenty of attention because we’re fortunate enough to have family help.
Is this just the terrible twos or is it because of the new baby? Any tips? We try to acknowledge her feelings and wait until she calms down but then the cycle just repeats in 20 minutes. I miss my sweet girl and this phase is killing me!
PSA as we approach Q4 to not forget about dependent care FSA reimbursements! I always did them monthly in daycare when we had huge bills every month and contributed the max $5k, but this is my first calendar year with no daycare payments (woo!) and I had completely forgotten that we were still contributing a little bit to cover aftercare and summer camp. Someone on the main page asked a question today about contribution limits and it reminded me that we have an account with a bunch of money in it and I need to fill out claims!
We’re having a baby soon and we have 2 cars (second kid, with our first we only had 1 car). Should we get 2 infant car seats (with 2 bases), or can we get 1 car seat and an extra base for the other car? Thanks!
My kid will be five in November and is in her last year of preschool. Unlike most of her friends, she just doesn’t seem to be interested in writing and her writing of her name is all over the place. I know they do name practice at preschool (it’s new – her old preschool didn’t do this). Should I just figure she’ll get there when she gets there or do I need to be pushing practice at home to make sure she’s ready for K? I wouldn’t have worried about it but most of her friends are happily writing whole notes (with the letters dictated to them).