Organizing Thursday: Bath Toy Organizer
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Now that my son’s bath toy collection has grown (even to include toys that are not necessarily bath toys but have now become them), I needed to find a way to store all of them.
I found this product, and the best part is that it involves keeping the toys within the bathtub itself. Instead of collecting the toys at the end of the bath and moving them to a container that lives outside of the tub, I just scoop everything into this basket and let it drain over the tub. It’s not the best looking solution, but it’s definitely the easiest!
This is $12.99 at Amazon and is eligible for Prime. Bath Toy Organizer
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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
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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?
You guys — It is only day three, but I don’t hate virtual learning! I was a ball of unspoken anxiety, mostly because I was getting that energy from other moms. My kids are in 3rd & 7th grade, so a little older, and husband & I are both working from home. The technology is working fine & the kids are engaged. They can get on their meetings themselves! I picked up some materials for the 3rd grader from the school. Her teacher is the teacher tech lead for the schools and has her act together. Most of the 7th grader’s books are on-line, but there is material pick up next week. It isn’t what we are used to, but you know what? It’s going to be okay. Model the behavior (positivity, resilience, perseverance) you want to see from your kids.
Our district is evaluating returning to school (hybrid, 2 days/week) every 5 weeks or so. I might change my tune in a few weeks, but right now… I think it is going to be okay.
(And a bunch of disclaimers — I know I am lucky to be in a good school district, with good technology plans pre-pandemic. I know I am lucky that my husband & I are mostly working from home for the foreseeable future. I feel so hard for the people with little littles or special needs, because I don’t see how it is easily workable. )
paging Anon looking for fall outfit ideas for family pics. I have some ideas (banking on Labor Day Sales)!
Mom: Boden: Flora puff sleeve jersey dress in navy bramble, Benedicta dress in navy, Anthro: Natalie Cowel-Neck Cashmere Sweater (a few jewel tones), Alizeh Tiered Maxi Dress, Talbots: Soft Merino V-Neck Sweater Dress, Jersey Twist Midi Dress in Indigo Multi, Knit Bateau Neck Dress; Free People Ottoman Tunic in Midnight, Nutmeg, Brick.
5yo: Janie & Jack: Quilted bow dress, Paisley dress, Ruffle Sweater Dress, (Not seeing a ton of florals yet but Old Navy has a dress in Navy Floral) (I’d also check Poshmark/Ebay for previous season dresses)
10yo: J. Crew factory Boys’ long-sleeve flex casual shirt in plaid (burgundy indigo); Boys’ long-sleeve flex patterned washed shirt in stone blue white, authentic navy; they also have some nice sweaters to match (this may be a tough sell but Janie & Jack has a shawl collar pullover on clearance in his size)
Hubby: Button Down of choice + Lands’ End Bedford Quarter Zip in complementary color
My SIL is having her second baby (boy) today! I’m putting together a care package to mail to them since they live 500 miles away. I’ll send my nephew (4) a book, and her some food and maybe a cute notebook and water bottle. Is there anything you found particularly helpful for your second?
can anyone comment on sizing and quality of h&m kids clothes?
Thanks for all of the comments on the pre-K homeschooling yesterday. I think I am going to break down and just put a flexible schedule in place. I think it will help us both have piece of mind.
What shoes do y’all recommend for a new walker, 14 months? His feet are too big for the Target size 12-18 month shoes with soft soles, and the bigger ones I got have thick, hard soles that seem like they’d be bad for a new walker?
my 2 year old always want to ‘cook’ something, but every time we try to bake, it results in a tantrum when its time to actually put the item into the oven or they try to eat it while its raw. any tips to make baking more pleasant?
Along the lines of the Nice White Parents podcast, I am reading/recommending the book White Kids: Growing up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America. It’s a challenging read (in terms of confronting ideology/assumptions) but I’m finding it interesting. It focuses a lot on schooling and is perhaps a little heavy-handed at times – but that kind of drives home the point that school choice is never *neutral*, but is fraught with implications. I just finished a section re: how much a kid internalizes about race just based on where they go to school (and what is implicitly communicated there) – regardless of how you as a family talk about race, take anti-racist actions, vote, etc
Anyway – possibly something to add to the (growing) list of content about how we recognize and confront privilege. It also dovetails with a lot of the school convos we have around here
I’m so mad at my boss/work right now. I had no childcare from March through the beginning of August. When it became clear in April that this was a long-term situation and I couldn’t work very effectively from home with a toddler I asked my boss about using the CARES leave. He basically insisted I not go on leave, and told me that whatever I could do was fine, even if my productivity was greatly reduced compared to normal. He pitched it as “you’re such a valuable employee, we can’t afford to lose you even temporarily” although I think his actual thinking was that the company would be paying me my full salary no matter what, so might as well have me working, even if it was only part time. It wasn’t a pleasant summer, but I survived – often working until 1 am to get stuff done because I found it so hard to focus during the day with a toddler underfoot. My toddler went back to daycare a couple weeks ago and I thought everything was good. Today, my boss blindsided me by telling me that my main internal customer has been complaining about my productivity (in general apparently, but especially over the last 6 months). It appears that my boss basically threw me under the bus to the customer, telling them there was no excuse and he would speak to me about it (which he did on a Zoom call with the whole team…I feel like this should have been a private conversation, no?). He seemed unsatisfied when I reminded him about our discussions in April, and now I have to have a meeting with him, the customer and HR. I feel like I’m getting fired or at least put on a formal performance improvement plan, right? I’m so mad at myself for not standing my ground and taking the leave. Maybe I would have been let go anyway, but at least I feel like I could have made some kind of discrimination claim and gotten some money out of them because it looks really bad to fire the only mom in the office when she takes a permitted leave. Now I have no recourse because I just look ridiculously lazy. The customer who is complaining about me has young kids but his wife quit in March to stay home, so he doesn’t understand why anyone could possibly be less productive than normal. During the lockdown, he kept making comments like “we can all be so much more productive now that we don’t have to commute!” Ummmm no dude, I’m pretty sure NOT HAVING CHILDCARE cancels out the 30 minutes we’re saving by not commuting.
I hate the f-cking patriarchy.
Any recommendations for a quality, but not too expensive, kids clothing box? My preschooler and kinder are in desperate need of new clothes, but I really just don’t want to go through the time and effort of picking out new outfits right now. Plus, we’re in the still-very-hot SEUS, so I don’t want to spend a ton of time and energy picking out transition clothes for the in-between seasons phase. Everyone is at home for the foreseeable future, so nothing fancy needed. Just looking for a one click option to keep them from looking like total ragamuffins in the yard or wearing their pjs all day.
Had my baby, yay!
Coming here first to complain about “maternity leave” in the US and the nightmare of navigating benefits and disability. Ugh. And my company has great benefits on paper AND YET like a week after my kid is born I’m on hold every day with some third party or another to figure out how to actually use my benefits and pay for the medical care that I obviously need since I just delivered a gd baby. /endrant
Second – how does one elegantly insert the spectra flanges into your pumping bra? With the Medela they detach so it was easy but I have not figured this out yet.
Doing anything fun for Labor Day? I need inspiration.
I have several rants about Primary.
1) The new web/logo redesign is terrible. So blah and too many typefaces, several of which do not translate well to digital.
2) How is this supposed to be my one-stop shop for kids’ basics when half their sizes are forever out of stock in the colors and sizes I want?
I love the idea of this place so much, but the execution still leaves a lot to be desired.