Budget Thursday: Machine Washable Ponte Inverted Collar Blazer
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This blazer is something you don’t see every day — ponte with an inverted collar. I really love how simple, modern, and striking this blazer is, combined with the comfort of ponte material. I also really like the longer length and clean lines, and the inverted collar looks nice with the welt pockets and one-button closure. The black version is available for 50% off, which brings the price down to $54.99, and the gray version is 40% off at $71.98. Both are available in regular sizes 0–20 and petites 00–14, and most sizes are still in stock. Machine Washable Ponte Inverted Collar Blazer
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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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right now i have my twins home with a nanny. we have to decide soon whether to start them in preschool when they are 15 months or wait until the following year right after their 2nd birthday. For logistical reasons we would have to keep our nanny and cannot send them to the schools full time – the schools have too many breaks including no school over the summer, DH travels a lot for work, we’d have to buy another car, etc. (please do not suggest we find a different schools, this is what many of the preschools are like in our area. we visited 4 schools and they all told us that there are a lot of people with grandparents nearby or teacher parents so they make it work), so we would send them three mornings a week. it is a stretch financially for us to keep the nanny and send them to preschool. do you think they will be ok if they stay with the nanny and i have her take them to classes, story time at the library, etc. and they then start school when they turn 2? i know that there will be an initial adjustment when they start at 2 and they might initially be behind in certain ways, but over the long run shouldn’t make a difference? what would you do?
My 3yr3m old sucks her fingers. At daycare it seems only be at nap time. At home, it’s much more frequent (watching tv, cuddling, holding her lovey, etc). I have been talking with her about having to stop soon, because the dentist said it’s important. We have a another dentist appointment in two weeks, and I know it’s going to come up.
Any tools or suggestions to get her to quit? I have the nasty tasting polish ready, but I worry about taking away one ability to cope without her having another effective coping skill to help.
Also, she knows she needs to stop, and I think there is a desire to please and do what the dentist and I say, but last night she articulated that she is sad because she doesn’t know how to stop.
My 2.5 year old, while a great kid most of the time, is a jerk about bed time. I think part of the problem is his dad is home every second week (work schedule). So Dad and I alternate who does bedtime each week. We follow the same routine, but not with the exact precision a toddler demands. We head to the bedroom at 7:10 p.m. for bathroom activities, pajamas and story. But honestly, kid is still up usually at 8, sometimes later. And bedtime, particularly on either parents first night back, is a scream fest. It’s so unlike how he behaves throughout the rest of the day that it is frustrating and bewildering. I’m not quite sure what to do and would appreciate advice.
I gave birth to our first baby in October and during Open Enrollment we maxed out our dependent care FSA, assuming we’d spend way more than that on daycare this year. We’re now deeply considering having my husband stay home after I go back to work in March. Do we just have to eat that $5k? Any loopholes?
The comments above about 15-18 months being a rough age to start daycare have me worried…my baby has been home with a parent or nanny since birth, and we plan to have her start daycare sometime in that 16-18 month window, depending on when a spot opens. Our preferred daycares are all run by the same organization and when you accept a spot at one, you are removed from the waitlist at all of them. So if we start and it goes horribly and we decide to pull her out, we’d have to start all over with the daycare waitlist process, which would probably take a year or more (even though she’s not an infant). Do you think we should get another nanny (current nanny is leaving for reasons unrelated to the daycare switch) so we can delay the daycare start until age 2? Or do you think we should just go for it? Would sending her part-time at first make for a smoother transition? DH has summers off (she turns 18 months in late July) and so it would be very easy to send her for half days or only a couple days a week until she is ~19 months.
We are moving to NYC from the south in a few months, and I am starting to worry about childcare for my 7 month old baby and 5 year old daughter. One idea that we had was hiring our housekeeper to be our kids nannies. I know this sounds odd, but this housekeeper used to be a nanny (in fact, I met her and hired her as a housekeeper when I was interviewing nannies for baby – but she was only willing to do school hours so the hours didn’t work for me), but recently started cleaning houses instead because the old family worked needed her to work 60 hours a week and she wasn’t spending a ton of time with her son. Our housekeeper is wonderful with the baby and will plays with the baby in between cleaning (not part of her job, she just loves playing with our baby) and when grandma (babies current nanny) eats lunch etc, she is just a great person in every possible way and like family to us. I KNOW this sounds insane, but I really cannot describe in a post how wonderful she is as a person and how great she is with kids. I have a lot of fear about hiring a nanny, as in my experience interviewing nannies previously for baby I had a tough time finding a good one and see a lot of meh nannies in parks etc, hence why I am even considering this.
A part of me is thinking go for it and the other part of me thinks this idea is insane. I would love to get your thoughts on the idea of bringing her along across the states.
1. Bad idea to hire someone who is currently a housekeeper? She is wonderful with kids and used to be a nanny, but not a nanny currently.
2. What about her son? That’s what stopped me from hiring her in the beginning… I am wondering if with him being 10 he could come back from school and hang out on his own, or if she would need to bring him to work (this might be a deal breaker with having a 6 year old girl too..)
3. Another fear I have is she would be moving her whole life for us. What if it doesn’t work out? She doesn’t have family here or anything, but still…
4. If we decided to go for it, what would be a competitive offer? We are thinking paying market rate for nannies in nyc ($20/hr) + pay for her move.
I need ideas for what to do with the kids this weekend! After sickness, being off MLK Day and having an extra snow day on top of that, we all have a case of cabin fever. (Doing anything “cozy” inside the house just sounds terrible at this point.) OK, my cabin fever might be worse than the kids’. Bottom line is, I cannot handle more unstructured time inside my house this weekend.