Budget Thursday: Lord & Taylor Cashmere
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We’re featuring a very simple, basic, crewneck cashmere sweater from Lord & Taylor, but note that all Lord & Taylor cashmere sweaters are on crazy sales right now, some as low as $80 from $285. Lord & Taylor cashmere has always been one of Corporette readers’ favorites for quality, easy-care, affordable cashmere for work. This particular sweater comes in three different grays, and I like all of them. It would be a great basic to wear with neutrals or with brighter colors (like the purple that’s the 2018 Pantone color of the year). The pictured sweater happens to be $40, marked down from $160, but there’s much more available on the site. Lord & Taylor Cashmere (specific item pictured)
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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Ooooo I love Lord and Taylor cashmere. Might need to add to my open cardigan collection. You know, for post-partum (yes I know cashmere and baby spit up don’t mix but let me justify this purchase to myself ok?!)
Somebody please talk me off the ledge and remind me the world is not ending. We took my soon for a food allergy scratch test yesterday. He’s 6 mos old, has eczema. Because I also have eczema and some food allergies, the ped recommended testing before we get too far into solids. Test results not great, he reacted to peanut, milk and wheat.
Short term I’m freaking about how to feed my kid. We are still breastfeeding so now my options are basically: 1) eliminate wheat, dairy and peanuts from my diet or 2) wean. I feel guilty/selfish that I don’t really want to undergo a massive dietary change because formula is readily available. I’m sick over the 100+ oz in the freezer that I suppose we just dump. And I actually really enjoyed breastfeeding (pumping of course sucks).
Long term I’m freaking about everything. The PA who did the testing pretty much just said, eliminate those foods from his diet and schedule and appointment with the allergist doctor in a month. I think my biggest source of stress right now is just all the unknown – I need there to be a plan and it doesn’t feel like we have one yet.
Just needed to vent in a safe space and I’m wondering if anybody else has dealt with this?
We just found out that one of the primary teachers in my daughter’s school had a family medical situation arise, and as a result, her last day is tomorrow. We’re sad that she’s leaving, and she was a great teacher. Do I give her a gift in this scenario? That seems weird to me, but I’m not sure what the etiquette here is.
Anyone have a kid that just isn’t interested in reading and writing? He’s 4.5 and just… doesn’t care? Highly verbal, creative, outgoing, all around great. I’ve stayed hands off and encourage when it feels right but he often doesn’t want to even try writing his name or practicing writing letters or working on phonics (I try to sneak it in in fun ways but maybe I’m not succeeding).
He’s been in daycare his whole life and his current pre-school room works on phonics and writing. He prefers tracing his name as he does when he “signs in” to class each morning. He will go to K in the fall and I’m not really worried. He’s bright and will catch up.
Any experience or commiseration? Ideas?
Don’t worry about it. He doesn’t need to be interested right now. My 5.5 year old all of a sudden got much more interested in reading and writing around the time he turned 5, and he loves kindergarten. His fine motor skills are still not the best, but they are totally within the normal range. My son’s preschool did not teach phonics at all; it was very much play based, and my son spent as much time as possible in the sand box. At our fall kindergarten parent-teacher conference, the teacher told me he already knows 25 out of the 27 sight words he’s expected to learn by the end of the year, and he’s really into their writing/phonics curriculum.
Certain foods my 18 month old used to eat plain are not of interest to him anymore. But, he’ll eat them in sauces/combinations with other things, etc. I don’t love this because it was just so easy to get green beans or peas ready, but here we are. Any recommendations for easy sauces or combos with these foods?
Beans (especially black, red, and chickpeas)
Green beans
Peas
Corn
And he sadly won’t eat it if I just combine two of those things.
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Spa advice?
My sister + I want to meet for a visit – spa – personal retreat kind of weekend (without our partners and children). She’s in SF and I’m in DC. We’re looking for someplace easy to get to for a long weekend, has hiking or some interesting activity, has spa stuff but won’t be as spendy as Mirival.
We don’t know the lay of the land with destination spas: is the price worth it if we’re looking for a click or two below the premium luxury places? Are we better off just choosing a city between us with good food, hot springs, hiking, etc., and making our own spa experience? If so, any suggestions??
Any suggestions for getting picky eaters to consume probiotics? My 11-year-old will not eat yogurt, kefir, or cultured cottage cheese. She likes miso but it’s too salty to consume on a daily basis and I can’t buy it around here anyway. I’d like her to be getting probiotics regularly, but I have doubts about the value of supplements and would rather it be in actual food.
This is for “Food allergies suck” above. I went through this with my first child. Starting when she was <2 months old, she had horrible eczema. Our ped at the time prescribed steroid creams but by 5 months (when she could really scratch her skin), it was awful. She's scratch until her skin bled on her arms, legs, neck, face. We brought her to the one ped allergist in town who would do a skin test on someone that young. She identified a list of things that triggered reactions (wheat, nuts, eggs, soy, etc.) I was exclusively breastfeeding at that point and, like you, I kind of freaked out. But I took those things out of my diet and the baby's skin was clear as a bell within a week. We brought her back for skin tests frequently (maybe every 3 months?) b/cbabies' immune systems change so quickly, but for us, my avoiding the foods worked really well to stop the horrible skin reactions. It was a pain and a nuisance (I was in big law at the time), and the conventional wisdom has shifted back + forth on avoidance v limited exposure since then.
No shade on anyone who doesn't want to restrict her own diet, of course. I really wanted to nurse and the hypoallergenic formula available then was *disgusting*. this worked for me.
Happily, my baby grew out of the wheat allergy by age 2, the stone fruit allergy by 3, egg allergy by 8, some nut allergies (!) by age 10. She's a very healthy 13 year old now. She carries her epipen everywhere and is careful about every label and only has the most ocassional issue with her skin. And my two other children have zero allergies, which is something to be very thankful for.
Good luck, whatever you do. It's not easy, but it does tend to get easier over time.