Organizing Thursday: Command Clear Jewelry Rack
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After giving up on a tangled necklace, I decided I needed a better way to store my jewelry MVPs.
These simple hooks from 3M attach to your wall without nails, and the adhesive removes cleanly from a variety of surfaces. They hold up to one pound (that’s a lot of necklaces!), and the clear finish works with any decor.
I think of jewelry as the finishing touch — I plan to put these up in my bathroom so I can put on my jewelry right before I head out the door.
Command’s Clear Jewelry Rack is available at Amazon.
Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
Attending a conference in Cleveland at the beginning of October. First time going to this conference and from photos last year it looks like a huge range of attire. It’s tech focused but not exactly a hoodie tech vibe. I’m thinking something like ponte/pull on pants, blouse, sweater blazer, and loafers. Basically what I would wear if I went into the office.
Any favorite ponte pants or similar comfy pants masquerading as trousers? I wfh full time so I don’t want to spend a ton, but still want to look put together.
Curvy size 10.
My 8-year-old son is so reluctant to read and has zero reading stamina. Getting him to sit down and read for 20 minutes at a time is an exercise in frustration. Help me! Any ideas to get him to enjoy reading and improve his ability to sit down for a few minutes and actually read? We have the most success with graphic novels and non-fiction list books (e.g. Top 100 Sports Facts). Would love for him to read chapter books, obviously. Ugh, feeling like a terrible parent about this.
Would you be okay with water beads being used in your child’s daycare class? LO is 3, and the class is 3-4. It seems needlessly risky to me but the teacher seems to think I’m overly worried.
An older client asked me yesterday if I was pregnant. I am not. I have not been pregnant for over 5 years but I’m carrying weight not just in my belly, but in the area I would consider above my belly. Like my whole abdomen beneath my breasts. I need to lose weight but I work out a few times a week and I don’t eat horribly. I recognize I can make improvements in these 2 areas and that’s my initial plan, but does anybody have any insights on slimming down this abdominal area? I do bar method often and it isn’t helping. I have been mistaken for being pregnant more than once.
No, she knows that it doesn’t include her. Ha now I regret posting this because there is so much confusion. She thinks all teh friends coming to the party should be bringing gifts too.
Looking for advice on a daycare situation. This week, we switched our 2yo to a new daycare center from an in-home daycare for the following reasons:
– significantly closer to home and longer hours to accommodate work travel in a new role (I’m getting back almost an hour a day)
– more structured schedule and more insight into her days. right now, the in-home situation is a black box, we hear if something goes wrong (she didn’t eat much today, etc) but we don’t really know any details about naps, eating. we get photos maybe once a month.
– more socialization
The transition has gone really poorly so far. We expected some crying at drop-off, but she doesn’t seem to be adjusting/settling after I leave and her classroom teacher confirmed this. I can see from her face in photos and when I pick her up that she has been crying for a long time. Yesterday she was in the middle of a full on tantrum when I picked her up. Just completely inconsolable until she saw me, and her teacher looked worn out. She does seem to have small stretches where she participates in the activity, and she is eating and napping okay. My heart just broke seeing her like that at pickup yesterday, and I’m seriously considering putting her back in the old daycare. The reasons I listed above don’t seem to justify this amount of upset. What would you do – I know most kids adjust, but how long do you give it before you decide it’s not a good fit (especially if you have other options)? Adding that she LOVES her old daycare and we’ve never had any issues there, we switched solely for our own convenience and to give a bit more structure.
+1 – My MIL (White, Boomer) is obsessed with STUFF. DH jokes she’s a well-organized hoarder because she has so much stuff (e.g. she never liked cooking or entertaining but has sets on sets of various dishes to entertain with – she just liked getting them on sale).
Gift giving – especially to her kids and grandkids – is truly her love language. I come from a family/culture where you give money, focus on quality time/being there for one another, presents are never a focus/more of a token.
It took me a while to realize that for my MIL gifts/stuff = love. It’s different than how I feel but it’s definitely not wrong. All that being said, she should respect your boundaries and what you are saying about your home, and know that her presence is a great present (if she’s local).
Any tips on helping a super-sensitive 4 year old? She cries over EVERYTHING at home (her arm brushed the wall, the blanket is on the “wrong” chair, the dog wagged his tail too close to her) which I think is because she’s exhausted after school but our recent move may be contributing. This is a new behavior since turning 4 (and moving) and her teachers say she’s happy at school. I try offering a nap or quiet time after school but she wants a snack and then to go to the playground and then to color, etc. I’m not sure how to help her and the crying every 5 minutes is exhausting…
A minor complaint to start the day: we are having my 5 year old’s birthday and I sent the invite to my MIL. She texted back, and then brought it up in person this weekend, about how the invite says no gifts please. Why are we doing that, she’s only five, she should be getting more presents, this is so unusual, etc. I anticipate more questions about it on the actual day. My MIL is usually great so i’m not sure why this is getting to me, but maybe because it fits a pattern of her trying to give us tons of stuff (often junk from my husband’s childhood) and us resisting. My kid, between grandparents, aunts and uncles, and us, will be getting about 15 presents for her birthday- that is plenty, this is the norm in our birthday party circles, and we have a small house and tons of toys already! FWIW my husband and I agreed that in the future this just means she won’t be seeing the invite, haha.
So we had a weird experience at daycare and I just wanted some feedback/thoughts from y’all on it. Our son (4) has been having some behavioral problems, and we’re getting therapy set up for him to help address it. The daycare has been really nice to us about it and as far as we could tell, they have been managing his behaviors OK, including taking him out of the classroom when he gets upset. But yesterday at pick-up time, another parent confronted my husband (I wasn’t there) and asked him how we’re going to make sure our son doesn’t hit their kid. The parent also talked directly to our son and grabbed his chin so he would look at them. It made my husband uncomfortable and he quickly got our son and left. What, if anything, should we do now?
Any favorite workouts for postpartum, especially post c-section?