Organizing Thursday: Garage Sports Equipment Organizer
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Our kids have sampled everything from basketball to skiing, and we have the equipment to show for it. To keep everything from overrunning our garage, we need a sports equipment organizer like this one.
This large, sturdy organizer has shelves, baskets, racks, and hooks to hold golf bags, balls, bats, skateboards, roller skates, and more. You can see everything at a glance so (hopefully) your kids can get their own stuff before practice.
True & Tidy’s Garage Sports Equipment Organizer is available at Target for $149.99.
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
Sending a complaint into the void…and I will preface this by saying it is my fault for not checking the specs beforehand. But here goes — a few weeks ago, TWO of my kids’ lunchboxes broke on the same day (both different plastic Bentos, both were 2+ years old). I took this as a sign that maybe it was finally time to invest in the Planetbox ones that everyone is always raving about. I held my nose and spent $130 (!!!) on two lunchboxes that promised to last forever. They finally arrived and it turns out they do not fit in standard insulated lunchboxes. You have to buy SPECIALLY SIZED Planetbox-branded insulated lunchboxes. I am so deeply annoyed at this — what a clearly deliberate way to eke more money out of us. And while again, I should have checked, you’d think they could alert you explicitly. I have had four different types of (plastic) bento boxes and ALL of them have fit in standard insulated lunchboxes. It did not occur to me that Planetbox would design theirs just an INCH WIDER. Anyway, I am returning them, because I refuse to spend $90 per lunch kit (and that’s even before you buy their special ice packs), and plus I’m irritated at this company now.
Looking for any solidarity/thoughts. My husband had a major surgery and is finally out of the hospital and home recovering. He can’t help at all with the kids for the foreseeable future, so I can’t travel, work late, etc. I have the kids in full time care, but it’s still a lot. Mostly work has been understanding, it’s really more pressure I’m putting on myself and frustration that I will be doing 100% of the kid stuff for an indeterminate period of time. If I didn’t have kids, this would be a bummer, but I’d mostly be living my normal life and providing emotional support to my husband. With the kids, I feel like I am fried to a crisp and can’t do it all. I already exhausted my family leave while he was hospitalized and I wanted to be by his side. I have onboarded a new nanny to help in evenings, as soon as my in-laws (who somehow are more work than help) leave I’ll bring her on to help in the evenings and weekends. Would love some hope that it gets better from anyone who has been here.
We live in Massachusetts and our plans to go to Maine to play in the snow have been cancelled due to lack of snow. Any ideas for fun things to do with a 7-year-old and 2-year-old in New England or NY, willing to do daytrips to different states and/or overnights.
anyone have a recommendation for reusable straws for kids that they like, ideally shorter ones for a kid sized cup. somehow we’ve lost the ones that came with our cup. i know links are hard to share here so a specific name (or link) would be great.
Reunited with my 6 year old who has spent a week at camp grandma papa. He’s had an absolute blast, has eaten like a princeling, wasn’t homesick at all, and they gave up on the dream wee we’d been doing (because it was too cruel to wake him…) and he’s been accident free all week.
My husband and I had a really nice week – feel reconnected and tackled some projects.
Random question – I have a colleague based in Europe who’s having his first child & I was going to send a gift. I’ve got my typical go-tos I like to send, but is there anything that European parents want that’s hard to get in Europe? Totally recognize the answer may be no but was curious.
For those who turned a kid from rear-facing to forward-facing before they hit the seat max for rear-facing – how did you make that decision?
Context: I intended to wait until she hit the max, but our oldest child (turned 3 in October and at her 3 year checkup was 42 inches, 40lbs, has definitely grown since then) seems so crammed rear-facing (like I feel like I’m shoehorning her in there and folding her in half to get her in the seat!) that it seems absurd to keep going like this. But…safety? Parenting is hard sometimes.
I just had my anatomy scan for my fourth baby, and it is a confirmed GIRL, after three boys! I’m so happy and still may not believe it until birth. I know gender is a construct blah blah, but my boys are very rowdy and loud and into sports and all your stereotypes of boys. And while we obviously wanted a fourth either way, I was hoping (so was my middle son, hard!).
Anyway, it’s felt like a pipe dream for so long (I’m that child who played with dolls til I was 14 and always envisioned many daughters), so just shouting out my excitement today! (And all the caveats that yes my boys are great and I wouldn’t change them.)
How do you distinguish between normal 4 year old obsessions and autistic behavior?
My almost 4 year old is obsessed with Star Wars and can really only talk with other people about Star Wars. At home he talks about other things but with people outside our family it’s.. just… Star Wars. Like our neighbor asked him how he celebrated Valentine’s Day at preschool, and he straight up ignored her question which is basically how he interacts with adults — cannot be bothered. But if I suggest he tell her about something from Star Wars, he will happily chatter on. He has a bit of a speech delay too so maybe it’s a way to make himself understood? I will talk with our pediatrician for medical advice, just curious about other’s personal experience.
Can anyone share favorite vegetarian or vegan dinner ideas or recipes, or even a weekly meal plan if your family is vegetarian or vegan? Bonus points for being able to be made or prepped ahead of time and for not being super heavy on cheese. For a variety of reasons, we’re trying to eat less meat, but I don’t feel as inspired when I sit down to do my weekly meal planning. We eat a lot of stir fries (with noodles or with rice), curries, soups, tacos or burritos or nachos, salads (grain or pasta salad too), tofu dishes.
Or maybe I’m being unrealistic about how varied our dinners look on a monthly basis? Sometimes when I look at the week, it seems like a good mix of meals, but then across the month, it feels like “Didn’t we *just* eat that?”
Please send me all your good vibes. DH is going through a major depression/mid-life crisis. He doesn’t have any close friends/family on his side he feels like he can talk to, so I feel like I’m it while also being seen as the source of some of his unhappiness/depression (along with career, having no friends, being disappointed by family, etc. – everything sucks/he’s the giver/everyone takes is the mentality now)
I do not want to divorce/separate on my end for many reasons, so please be kind – asking just for good vibes right now.