Organizing Thursday: Gift Wrap Organizer Cart
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Every year, I wrap all my gifts in one evening after the kids go to bed. Instead of hunting through my closet for my holiday wrapping paper, I’d love to be the person who simply wheels out this gift wrap organizer.
This lightweight, three-tier rolling cart functions as a portable wrapping station. There’s ample space for 12 rolls of wrapping paper, and baskets for ribbons, tape, and other supplies. Wheel it out when you need it and back into the closet when you don’t.
The Container Store’s 3-Tier Cart is $19.99.
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+
A good friend only wants consumable art supplies for her 6 & 8 year old kids. Over many years of birthdays and holidays I feel like I’ve purchased every arts & crafts kit sold by Target and A-zon, along with (especially for the older one) lots of higher end supplies like fancy watercolors, colored pencils and tempera paints. Is there anything I’m not thinking of that I could send them that meets this description? Any new craft things that only came out recently?
Per the holiday vent thread, I feel like a grinch but I’m starting to really resent shopping for these kids. I have similar age kids myself and know these kids well, so I have tons of ideas for things I know they’d love that I’m not allowed to buy and it’s becoming harder and harder to find decent art things that I haven’t sent before.
I just remembered a really good little kid gift. Sending my nephew a kids camelbak. I’m excited. sharing in case any kids you know might like it too since I’m pleased with myself this morning!
how picky about clothing is/was your 5 year old?
My son (5.5) is extremely picky. He’s down to about 2 shirts that he will willingly wear. It has nothing to do with texture (which would make sense to me), and everything to do with the character on the front of the shirt. He will willingly wear a shirt with a kitty on it, and a shirt with a rocket ship on it. His only explanation is that they are “beautiful,” and his other shirts are “not beautiful.” I only do laundry like once or twice a week, so we are running out of options (especially since he only wants to wear his preferred shirts for bedtime, which I’m fine with bc he can wear it to school the next day).
I’m sure I could go scrounge up other kitty or rocket ship shirts, but I’m annoyed at buying him more shirts bc he has a full drawer full of soft, comfortable shirts that he won’t touch. I don’t recall his brother ever noticing anything about his clothing until he was like 10 and concerned with whether it is “cool” or not.
Trying to figure out if this is a phase, or if I should just break down and get him some more shirts (although also wondering if he’ll reject those as arbitrarily as he rejects his other shirts). Thoughts?
I’m nearly at my wits end with my 2.5 yr old DS. There is a tantrum for literally everything lately. This morning, after calling me into his room when he woke up, he immediately started crying/screaming for me to leave. Then it was all tears/screaming to eat breakfast, to get dressed, to get out the door… DH and I try our best to stay on the same page or at least back up whoever is handling each particular tantrum, but its getting to be so much and we’re barely keeping it together with each other. Any advice on how to handle this? Or its just the age and we have to wait it out?
Panic mode. I started a central fund for staff gifts at our daycare, and the notice didn’t get posted until MONDAY of this week, through the app. (because it needed approvals!) I thought they put too much paper in the kids boxes, so this would be more direct. We said Friday as cutoff for cash, Saturday as cutoff for digital/venmo.
I’d say maybe FIVE families contributed so far; and I’m not sure we will have a good amount to split amongst everyone.
What would you do? The director could send it out again via app, or should I ask to post a sign near the entrance/exit? Help! Thank you hive!
Hi all. I post often about my 3 year old, and even posted yesterday about birthday guilt. Well, kid turned 4 today. We started the year and the kid was in diapers and speaking in 3-word phrases, we’re ending the year with a daytime potty trained, conversational, very sweet, happy kid.
And he was THRILLED this morning with his special breakfast and us singing happy birthday (again! after our family celebration on Sunday).
Thank you all here for being part of my parenthood journey, ESPECIALLY when it’s been harder for me.
Daycare teacher holiday gifts — do you do them for the floaters in addition to main teachers? What/how much $ for each?
I thought we were going to have a good morning. Walked into my girls’ room to them giggling, had time for some cuddles…then we go downstairs and one sees two boxes of lucky charms for her sister’s class holiday party (their class name is lucky charms) and throws herself on the floor hysterical screaming/crying for 20 minutes. What a nice way to start my first day of vacation
Holiday Vent Thread! Please rant away.