Splurge or Save Thursday: Cleansing & Renewing Nighttime Body Wash
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Are you on Team Body Wash or Team Bar Soap? I’ll admit I play on both teams — during the summer, I use bar soap, but during the winter, I find I need more moisture and exfoliation, so Team Body Wash it is!
I’m looking to add this super-popular body wash from Olay to my cart. It contains retinol, an effective anti-aging ingredient, and moisturizers that continue working long after you get out of the shower. It looks perfect for my combination skin (dry in some spots, oily in others), and like many other Olay products I’ve used, will leave my skin hydrated and smooth.
This body wash is $7.99 at Target and $18.19 (a 3-pack) at Amazon and is available at many other retailers.
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+
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?
This is quite possibly the stupidest question I’ve asked here, but here goes. My friend group is really into Halloween. Especially now that their kids are older and don’t need a parent chaperone for trick-or-treating. So they’re “taking back” the holiday and are enthusiastic about the idea of all of us dressing up in themed costumes to hand out candy to the neighborhood kids, which would require participation from all four of us to complete the theme the organizer(s) want. I do not want to do this. I have a first grader and am not ready to give up taking her around the neighborhood. Plus I couldn’t care less about adult Halloween. Anyway, I’ve hedged on all costume talk because I know that when I say no they’ll try to solve my “problem”: Have DH take DD! (Is it weird that my fun comes from seeing my kid enjoy the holiday?) Come for part of it! (No, I’m not spending $50 on a costume to hang out for 10 minutes and take pictures.) Why am I having such a hard time using my words and saying NO, this is not my thing, do this without me? I don’t want to be the lame friend that screws up the plan, but I want to spend time with my kid more. Is that so weird?
A recent piece in The Atlantic identified an FDA committee as the bottleneck on approving a vaccine for children under age 12. There is a comment period open for their meeting, but it closes at midnight. Please submit a comment to urge the committee to approve the vaccines as expeditiously as possible. They have been slow-walking the process and it is getting ridiculous. They need to expedite review of the safety data, which is anticipated imminently, and then get the vaccine on the market unless they have a strong and real safety concern.
Link to The Atlantic piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/parents-vaccines-covid-fda/620077/
Link to submit a comment to the FDA committee: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2021-N-0965-0001
Hi, looking for a cookbook for my soon to be five year old’s birthday. We’ve kept it pretty basic in the kitchen but she loves to help with muffins, oatmeal, cake, etc, and I thought she would like picking out her own things to make. We eat a really wide variety of food, so pretty much any kind of cookbook would be fine. Any recommendations? Also would like to get her a set of kid knives if anyone has those to recommend too. Thanks!
I know that some variation of this question comes up regularly. But, here we go anyway. I am an attorney and am getting burnt out by keeping up with deadlines that matter to client rights. I’m toying with applying to some JD optional type positions that seem less stressful – I’d have less overall responsibility for matters. I am now at a medium sized law firm. I’d make less money but have real benefits most likely. I’d obviously investigate more throughout hiring processes about specific duties to determine if I’d really be giving up negative aspects of my job. My real question here is how do people come to terms with suddenly making less money by choice? It sounds very difficult.
I’m 34 weeks pregnant with my first and I do not care about work anymore. Normally I enjoy my work and care about it a lot. Now all I want to do is nest. I have a desk job and feel great so my apathy is all mental, not physical. Did anyone else feel this way in late pregnancy and if so, were you able to regain your prior work ethic after returning from maternity leave?
I got up early this morning and made soup for my picky kid’s lunch. I just found out that her thermos opened up in her lunch box, so now she has a ruined lunch box and no soup and has to eat the school lunch that she had begged not to eat in the first place. Just the latest example of how I can’t do anything right as a parent or at work. Sigh.
Husband and I are finally taking our son camping in a couple weeks. We have a large enough tent for all of us and are only doing 1 night to introduce the toddler to it. We will be in sleeping bags on sleeping pads, should I just put him in a kids sleeping bag on the ground between us in his super warm jammies? It won’t be cold here in the SEUS, but overnights in the 40s.
After avoiding travel for a long time, I have to go on an overnight trip for work (ugh). The problem is I’m still breastfeeding my 15 month old morning and night. Have not had any luck with the pump since about 11 months. What do I do? I’d rather not wean completely just yet if I can help it, but maybe this trip means the end.
We’ve lamented a lot here that the media coverage of Covid seems to be ignoring parents of young children, so I wanted to pass along this thoughtful article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/16/covid-under-12-parents-vaccine/
Has anyone tried a friend that cooks? They are in a lot of cities and seem relatively affordable for those that are usually doing meal kits anyway and this is a personal chef concept and more tailored to what your family will eat. Heard great things locally, but wondering here. Thanks!
Would you send your child (1.5 years old) to an immersion daycare at which the only language spoken is one that you and your partner do not speak? We found an otherwise appealing daycare but are concerned about having our child start there before developing solid English skills. If he starts asking for milk or something in the other language while at home, we’ll have no idea what he is talking about and that could be frustrating for him.
Our child is currently enrolled at another daycare that is great except that the hours are not long enough and it’s one of the most expensive options in our area. The location is also not as convenient as the immersion daycare. There are a couple of other facilities we’ve toured where we would jump at the chance to enroll at instead, but unfortunately none of them anticipate having spots open in the next few months.
Favorite shoes for almost-walkers with tiny feet? Most of the shoes I’ve looked at don’t come small enough, and we’re running out of days when my LO can play outside barefoot.
Tips for getting yellow stains – especially the kind that you get around the neck sometimes? – out of old baby clothes? You all are better at this than me!
What are your best tips for increasing milk supply? My daughter is 11 months and my goal is to b-feed exclusively until she’s a year, and then wean over the following 4-6 weeks. My period came back 2 months ago and my supply has taken a huge hit – which was surprising since I was such an overproducer for so long (and have a significant freezer stash as a result). I’d rather not dip into the stash too much until she’s after 1 year, though, so I’m hoping to get my supply back up for the next 1-2 months. What worked for you?
Did anyone else have a kid who just wouldn’t learn their letters? I’ve typically not been one to stress over milestones but kid is 4.5 and still won’t learn letters, sounds, etc. We’ve tried handwriting without tears, hooked on phonics, flashcards, iPad games, you name it. Meanwhile other friends’ kids are reading already. I feel like an awful parent both because I can’t get her interested but also feel bad for getting stressed out over it (and I know she senses me stress which I’m sure makes it worse). Honestly just looking either for commiseration that you’ve been there or tips of anything that helped.