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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?
Anyone else fighting constant colds? We have a 3 and 6 yo and have been sick for a solid month, with the 3 yo coming down with something new last night. Can it be spring yet? It’s only December and I’m already so tired of being sick.
Yesterday at daycare pickup my toddler’s teachers mentioned that while she was eating her forehead briefly broke out in red bumps that went away shortly thereafter. I assume this is some kind of allergic reaction, because an infectious rash wouldn’t just disappear immediately, right? But the weird thing is she’s been at this daycare for over 6 months and has had all the meals many times, and according to the daily report all she ate for a lunch was a hamburger bun (I know…) which seems incredibly unlikely to cause any kind of reaction. She’s had bread/wheat daily for almost a year now (she’s almost two). She’s pale and shows redness super easily (if she cries even briefly she looks like a tomato) and she seems to have inherited my skin, which regularly breaks out in minor rashes that quickly disappear. Do I have to call the ped? I know I probably should, but they’ll just tell us to come in and since it’s flu season I’m a little hesitant to take her in for this and expose her to all the bugs in the waiting room.
So I need to buy in-laws a gift as well as some other extended family. My thoughts are to pick up a decent bottle of wine, a locally made pasta sauce a friend sells from her independent grocery store and some locally roasted coffee beans for each household and call it a day. I realize there’s not much thought going into this but I don’t really know these people (and definitely don’t like them). Everything is useful, supports local and can be easily regifted if useless to recipient. Thoughts?
And don’t ask why husband isn’t doing this… if left to his own devices husband will shop on December 10 at a 24 hour pharmacy … he does many things well (he’ll purchase everything for Christmas dinner including accommodating for kids and diets and do 90% of the cooking and baking) but can’t put any effort into presents. I’ve just gotten used to terrible gifts from him.
THANK YOU to the kind soul who shared their trick of pretending there are zoo animals inside your kids mouth to get them to brush their teeth.
When I read that post, I thought there was no way it would work on my kid, but he RUNS into the bathroom at night now and sometimes asks me to go longer and find additional animals. Brush your teeth a little longer? Sure, bud.
Ugh. My mom is flying in tomorrow to help with the older kids in preparation for me having a baby, and I just found out she hasn’t had a flu shot. Further, she has NEVER had a flu shot, and doesn’t want to get one because she’s “afraid it would trigger an illness.” I knew my mom was a little bit “crunchy,” but did not realize she was this way about vaccines. She definitely wasn’t when I was growing up–we had all our shots on time and flu shots every season. I don’t want to fight her about it, but I also know she is highly susceptible to illnesses, and kinda don’t want her around my newborn.
Any tips for soothing a congested baby? My 5-month old has his first cold and was up all night. I think he hates the sensation of having his nose full but doesn’t know how to blow his nose yet.
Guys, I’m having one of those weeks where one side of my brain is thinking how blessed I am with such an abundent life full of friends and joy and activities…
The other side of my brain is just screaming because I don’t know if I’ll ever sleep again. Also, pretty sure when my MIL (who is honestly just a totally lovely human) comes over tonight I’m going to ask her to help me with housework.
Guys, help me party plan. I went crazy and invited a bunch of ladies in my town over for a cookie swap/ party. Families welcome. It’s 3:30-6. Most of the people invited have kids ages 2-4 (my own kids are almost 2, 3.5, and 6). I’m expecting 5-6 families, some adults-only and some with kids.
I am planning on having kid food/snacks as it’ll be early kid dinnertime: hot dogs or pigs in a blanket, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets. Water (though at this age kids tend to BYO water bottles).
For adults, I said I’d do adult drinks and heavy hors d’ourves–maybe something that could count as dinner, but I don’t want people expecting a full meal and leaving hungry. What are some good options? Something like mini sliders (make your own?)? Chili is easy but sort of un-Christmas-y (more tailgate-y).
The main event is the bringing of cookies, standing around and sipping cocktails in the snowy weather. For those that bring kids, I have a playroom full of toys and i’ll put Frozen on. If it ends up being more older preschoolers, I have cookies to decorate, or some snowman stickers to throw on a table covered in paper to color on.
Hey all,
I am especially cranky this morning and have a scenario to run by you all — I need some calming advice:
(1) we make the most money out of my husband’s sibling group by a decent amount (we are at 150K ,down from 250K because we moved for my job and husband is managing the move-in and all of that before job hunting. Not sure but I don’t think the others at at six figures)
(2) when we announced our move there were lots of hurt feelings from my husband’s family, especially his mom and dad. MIL had been providing childcare for a our twins one day a week, although it really had been more like 4-5 hours per day, with H coming home early or using his flexibility. It hadn’t been great childcare imo but free is free and I like that she saw them so often.
(3) About a month after we moved, MIL flies out to visit and help us unpack etc. She tells us that before she knew we were moving, she was going to “buy out her contract” with us by giving us money for the rest of the year to cover more nanny hours. Since “if we give money to one child we always give to the others,” they had also decided to give husband’s brother and husband’s sister money. They told the siblings about this and then we announced we were moving (I think the next day or something).
(4) All during the prep for our move we didn’t know about this. MIL tells us this now and offers us $1500 for something we can use around the house. What we’d really like to do is use it to travel (5 year wedding anniversary in March) but she says we can’t, it has to be a capital good. Which is fine. I think they’d be okay with us putting it in the kids college fund, which has been neglected, and so we are thinking about doing that.
I am wondering if they didn’t tell us because they weren’t sure they wanted to “buy us out” given that we were moving. I am a bit hurt that during the “why are you leaving here why” and “MIL basically raised these kids and you are taking them away from her” no mention was made that she had decided to not provide childcare (totally in her rights, but not mentioned while we were the bad ones for moving).
These events plus the weird dynamic of “buying us out” but then giving money to BIL and SIL has made me wonder if we shouldn’t just say no to the money and tell them that we won’t be counting on financial assistance from them in the future.
There is this money we could say no to, and then also a further 10K for a down payment that is on the table for when we buy a house.
I am getting a bit sick of the financial intimacy of husband’s family. MIL has made some comments in the past about how much money I make that make it seem like she thinks its unfair compared to how much money SIL (her daughter) makes (which is weird because I think if my husband were making it it would thought of as a good thing). My salary is public information because its government, but whatever husband makes will most likely not be. We could start making a repeated point to not talk about money with them, could avoid joint Christmas gifts, and respectfully refuse gifts. It just feels like with this financial assistance comes a (few) strings, and I am sort of done with any strings at all? Plus I am grumpy.
I’d love to hear from folks on this thread about this. We don’t have any money for a down payment saved up but I do think if we just decided to do things by ourselves it might be better in the long run.
I will be resigning from my job tomorrow to stay at home with my baby who will be arriving in mid-February.
I have always envisioned being SAHM and am excited to be in the position to do so. I have my resignation letter, I’m giving 5 weeks notice and I think I will be leaving on good terms.
I am trying to figure out how to phrase to coworkers and friends that I’ve decided to quit to stay home. I don’t want to say “I’ve decided to put my family first” because that means working family members don’t. I don’t want to say “I want to focus on my family” because it has the same connotation. “I’ve decided I want my primary focus to be my family” this seems weird too.
Any thoughts?
(Re-posting because I messed up and posted it in a thread above..)
I feel like this community would appreciate this:
I volunteer with first graders (it’s super fun, but that’s not the point). We read stories from a generic “See Spot Run” reader. This week’s story was about a little girl who is sad she has to go to aftercare (to be fair, she’s only sad in the beginning, then she grows to like it). The story specifically says she has to go to aftercare “because her mommy works and can’t pick her up from school.” No mention of her dad, of course. So annoying that we’re still giving kids messages like this!