Organizing Thursday: Collapsible Multi-Compartment Car Organizer
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After a bumpy ride back from the farmers’ market, I’ve often found a cracked melon or two in my car.
This car organizer should solve my melon problem. It folds down flat when not in use for easy storage. It also features straps to help keep your things in place, multiple compartments to fit anything from sports equipment to groceries, top handles for carrying, and a waterproof interior. You can even connect two of them to make a super-organizer.
This will definitely be a step up from the old diaper boxes I’m using to corral things in my car.
This organizer is $25.99 and available at Amazon.
Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + 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?
Any thoughts on Oh Cr@p for potty training? I read the first couple of chapters as the free sample library ebook and am waiting for the rest of the book on hold, but honestly, it seemed kind of annoying. I don’t doubt the boot camp is a good way to go for a lot of people and I am kind of inclined that way myself, but it’s so “my way or the highway” but without any actual evidence being cited. Like, right now I put out the potty chair in our bathroom and my 19-month-old likes to sit on it and pretend to empty it into the toilet, but she apparently thinks that’s ridiculous. Can it possibly matter? Is 20-30 months really a magical window?
FTM and want to go somewhere for few weeks while on maternity leave. Baby will be 4 months. Where would you go between these 2 places: a house in the woods near hiking trails or a house in a small beach town? Also will have a large dog with us.
My almost 6 year old just got super into Pokemon but dislikes Pikachu. She has a stuffied Eevee that she brings with her everywhere and she has several Pokemon games on my partner’s Switch. Is there something Pokemon themed I can get her for her birthday?
Any other gift ideas for a 6 year old? She has two hand-me-down Am Girl dolls that she used to be obsessed with but has cooled on recently. She also has a bike and a scooter and magnatiles and tons of other toys.
I’ve been going through fertility treatment for over a year now, on a pretty constant cocktail of medications intended to either alter (Lupron depot, Clomid, Femara) or bolster my own cycle (FSH, supplemental progesterone + estrogen). I’ve experienced pretty bad side effects to these medications – migraines, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, crushing daytime fatigue, digestive problems, hot flashes, bloating, weight gain. Yet, I feel that it’s so common for women to continue working and parenting at 100% capacity while undergoing fertility treatment that I am discouraged from talking to anyone seriously about the fact that I’m struggling, and that I don’t feel that I can be 100%. I’ve tried to broach the topic of side effects with my spouse and doctor and get the attitude of “the medications are typically well tolerated when used for fertility treatment and any side effects resolve quickly once they are discontinued”. I also feel that women have had to counter the “women be crazy cuz hormones” tropes so often that it’s now kinda taboo and almost anti-feminist to actually acknowledge in any genuine way that hormones can have a real effect on how a woman feels physically and mentally. In my circles, once a woman is pregnant, particularly during the first trimester, there is broad awareness of how hormonal changes can affect mood, energy, and well-being, and my workplace is very accommodating of pregnant women. But would it be similarly accommodating of women going through menopause or fertility treatment or other times of hormonal upheaval? I doubt it, because these states aren’t valorized like pregnancy. Going into year two of fertility treatment, I don’t know how I will continue to manage all expectations of me while feeling so run down and “off” – and yet, I really don’t feel I can ask for any leniency. Has anyone felt similarly? Or can anyone offer internet advice or encouragement?
Did anyone else look at their tantruming 2 year old this morning and think, well at least the government gave me some money for having you… just me? :)
I am an attorney who is working on a one-off pro bono matter that involves an absolutely devastating personal client situation as well as a lot of time. I know some of you may do this type of work day-to-day, but this is pretty new to me. I am going to continue with the case and hopefully work on similar matters in the future, but I did not really understand just how consuming it would be. I’m having a tough time shutting off at the end of the day and not spiraling a bit when I think about the case. All I want to do is hug my kid (who is not old enough to discuss this with) and cry. I know we are so lucky to live in a safe bubble, and this is not the first time I’ve realized that but it reminds me how cruel the world can be.
TLDR: Suggestions for dealing with the emotional stress of hard work or volunteer situations when with your kids?
I just need to vent to an understanding audience. I am so tired of moms around me being shocked that I would leave my 2 year old “alone with my husband/his dad” to -GASP- go on a two-day trip with a girlfriend.
Whenever I casually mention the trip and say that I am excited to go, it begins:
– What? My husband has never even put my kid to bed alone (talking about her 3 year old here)
– My husband could not handle being alone with kid for more than a few hours.
– Oh no, what will they even eat all weekend ?!
– This must be so hard, surely it is the first time you leave you son, right?
(For the record, it’s not. I stayed at a hotel the night before the bar exam because I needed good sleep).
That’s what maternal gatekeeping looks like, right?