Splurge or Save Thursday: Essentially Enriched Body Lotion
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If your skin needs a little late winter TLC, try my new favorite body lotion.
I’m one of those people who uses whatever lotion is around. While this started as one of those “whatever” lotions, it’s now a favorite.
This lotion tackles your driest skin — perfect for daily use, it’s infused with Nivea’s own Deep Nourishing Serum and almond oil to smooth and hydrate your skin. I found it absorbed quickly and had some staying power even after a round of handwashing. And, at less than $10 for a large bottle, it’s a great value!
Nivea Essentially Enriched Body Lotion is $9.99 at Target.
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?
I was thinking about the recent Disney threads and just wanted to add some reassurance for parents like mine who aren’t super into Disney and/or crowds. Growing up, we used to visit my grandparents in Florida, near Orlando, usually once a winter. We would spend one day at the ocean, one at Gatorland, and one day at Disney or another theme park. We brought our own sandwiches and all that. Honestly, I was shocked later to learn people spent full weeks there. I know the park structure has changed making it harder to avoid some of these “extras” like fast passes. But really, without trying to hit every attraction and knowing we only had one day, we did love it as kids. (Even the year my parents passed off that Disney mall as “Disney” — I didn’t know and I loved it and it was free!). If you love Disney go for it, but if you don’t love crowds and that, one day is really fine for most kids.
Let’s see if my comment disappears! I was listening to the Ask Lisa podcast recently (she has a lot of great advice geared mostly to parents of tweens/teens) and she said that she didn’t befriend any of her kids’ friends’ parents until the kids were out of the house due to the potential awkwardness if the kids have a disagreement or some other kind of kid drama. I found that to be interesting. Husband and I have made friends with some of our older kid’s friends’ parents and one couple in particular is great and we love hanging out with them. However, I can see a situation where our kids will stop being friends or worse, actively not like each other, and that will be awkward for our (parent) friendship. How do you all approach this? I’m having trouble with this idea because honestly it’s tough to make any new friends nowadays and this would really limit our future social interactions.
It says there are comments but none show up…
More disappearing comments. I saw one about Disney and one about parent friends. Now there is only the Disney one. Chrome.
Leaning out as a lawyer…is there a way to do it? I’m a litigator in an intense government job (AUSA). I’ve been looking at some in house opportunities but am getting warned that the hours are not that much better than at a law firm. I am really burned out and just want a 9-to-5 at least for the next 3-5 years while my kids are so little. Money is not a big priority at this time. Is this just not something that exists for someone with my background? Relatedly, Sheryl Sandberg can go jump in a lake.
Help me pick a birthday present! I have an 18-mo old and am 28 weeks with #2 (both girls). My birthday is next week, and my parents have asked me for ideas, and I have none. I tried to think of an “upgrade,” and all I came up with is a Fawn diaper bag, but I don’t like the colors (I was hoping for blush pink), and my colleague says it’s heavy. Anything else y’all can think of? Would something that feels lux and just-for-me even if it is mom- or mat-leave focused.
Where are the comments going??
Today is my little one’s first day at daycare! Drop off went really well except for one thing; the sippy cups aren’t leak proof and spilled milk everywhere! Any suggestions on the best way to transport sippy cups to and from her classroom? I have an older daughter but I can’t remember what I did (this is the problem with the five year age gap, lol). Thanks so much!
Fertility-related trigger. I’m newly pregnant with my second and will be meeting next week for an ultrasound (because I previously had an ectopic pregnancy), and apparently they’ll talk to me about various genetic tests then. I get them I’m now 35 (was 29 the first time I got pregnant), but I can’t tell what, if any, of the tests makes sense.
Some relevant facts:
-Husband and I are 35 and 36
-no known familial issues with the disease they test for
-I had the carrier screening last time around and had one bad copy of a minor autoimmune disease that doesn’t really impact quality or length of life
-I have a healthy 5 year old
Carrier screening doesn’t seem necessary unless they’ve expanded the panel in the last five years, because I don’t have anything bad and husband is getting a vasectomy after this. Maybe our kids would like the knowledge but if they have kids, they’ll probably get better testing in 25 years anyway. I’m not opposed, it’s just two blood draws, but it seems useless.
An extra ultrasound at 10-11 weeks (I assume to check for nuchal translucency) is being offered, as is a second blood test in a month to see if I have baby’s cfDNA floating around indicating certain diseases (including diseases I wouldn’t view as a particularly big deal and wouldn’t abort my pregnancy for, and a couple rare, incompatible with life diseases I think I would terminate for.) It seems like the blood test is accurate at predicting Downs, but has a MAJORITY false positives for the other chromosomal abnormalities. If I got a positive, I guess I’d have to wait and get an amniocentesis to see if it was a false positive. I’m sort of inclined to skip it all and do the normal 16 week anatomy scan. I feel like the tests will just drive me crazy and insert more anxiety in to my life, especially since the positives they produce for the diseases I care about are more often than not FALSE. Is this crazy?
Hi there! Baby travel advice request. I haven’t been around lately, so apologies if this has come up — feel free to point me to prior threads.
We are thinking of taking baby on a two week trip to visit all her grandparents in August. It’s my mom’s 70th birthday. My side of the family is near Chicago, and husband is in the northeast.
Baby will be 11 months and probably just starting to walk at the time. She is a good daytime and nighttime sleeper in a familiar environment. No idea how she’d do on a plane. I’m trying to figure out what time of day to fly to have the least hassle. Daytime with no bedtime overlap, and try to get a nap in on the plane? Evening overlapping with bedtime, and hope we can carry her asleep through the airport? We’ve never traveled more than like 20 minutes in the car with her (thanks, COVID and cancer), so we are pretty clueless.