Make My Life Easier Thursday: Reusable Mesh Produce Bags
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It may be convenient to grab plastic bags at the store for your produce. However, all that plastic eventually ends up somewhere forever.
Purifyou’s Premium Reusable Produce Bags make it easy to do your part to reduce plastic waste. These bags come with tare weights so you can buy from the bulk section, hold up to 16 pounds (I promise those plastic produce bags can’t do that), and extend the life of fresh, non-leafy produce for less food waste. You can even use them to store non-food items. (I’m personally drowning in play food, puzzle pieces, and building blocks.)
The set of bags is $14.97 at Amazon. If you’re going the extra mile and want to avoid even more plastic (these bags are polyester), Purifyou also makes Premium Reusable Mesh Produce Bags from raw, organic, unbleached cotton for $29.97.
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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- 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?
I bought reusable produce bags in March of last year and have never gotten a chance to use them. The number of plastic bags we get from curbside pickup is truly horrifying.
ISO casual, long button down shirts that aren’t too baggy that look reasonably put together with leggings. I have a chambray one from J Crew that I bought in a “tall” size that fits this description, but having a really hard time finding others. Madewell is always short and really wide and I just tried Summersalt, which is a great length but sooo wide. Any suggestions?
Unsolicitated product rec: I got the Quince premium washable silk cami in ivory (not the stretch one) and I’m impressed! It’s lined really well so it’s not see-through, which I hoped for but did not expect. It says they’re in low stock now, but again, I find not-see-through white tops hard to come by so wanted to share.
Fwiw it’s definitely ivory, not white.
Victory! My local, atrocious, school district hasn’t been open one day in person since last March. Even though every surrounding district is at least partially open. They announced reopening and then the night before, cancelled if. After massive outrage they are now at least getting K-3 back in the building part time next week. (Our last day of school is end of June so I think 8 weeks is better than nothing).
Along these lines, recommendations for reusable bags to replace ziplocs? We have tried stasher but DH doesn’t think that they seal well enough and they are “hard” to close (eyeroll/this dude insists on glider bags).
Where do I start with my research about saving for college? Our financial advisor suggested Bright Directions (We are in Illinois). I just want to make sure I make an informed decision. Our son is 4 (I know we are late!) Please let me know if you have any suggestions/tips besides Mr. Google. Also how much do you contribute?
Happy Thursday!
I’ve been eyeing the Zip Top brand ones but they’re expensive. Has anyone tried those?
I got my annual (errr, biannual) physical today and it went so much better than I was expecting. Listened to my concerns, acknowledged that it’s not surprising I am fatigued right now, and just very compassionate (got a doctor I haven’t seen in a few years, the prior NP I used to see has left the practice). I had been a little stressed about it because I am the heaviest I have ever been right now, but she didn’t harp on my weight at all and is running a bunch of bloodwork to see if my fatigue and stiffness is parenting a 50lb very physical preschooler while working a BigLaw job from home in a pandemic or something else more serious. After a year plus of taking care of everything else and holding on by a thread, it was just so nice to be listened to and have the focus be on me and how I am doing and focus on my actual health rather than just telling me I need to stress less, sleep more and lose weight (which, yes, I do, but it’s not the be all end all of my health!).
Job stress question…I am having trouble handling work stress lately but not in terms of my hours or workload more in terms of worrying about making a mistake/having to make decisions. I work in a “high stakes” litigation job (I’m a government attorney), and the level of confrontation/accusations of misconduct (false) also causes me stress. I am getting to be more senior and so now have a lot of decision making authority which is contributing to my anxiety. I have to respond to nasty letters from opposing counsel today and feel like I’m holding back tears even thinking about it.
I’ve seen a lot of great advice on here for managing stress related to hours/demands but curious if folks have dealt with this issue and any tips for overcoming it. I’m already seeing a therapist but she (obviously) doesn’t work in my field and I feel like it’s hard for me to explain the issue in a way she understands (she keeps suggesting I take time off but…that’s not really the issue).
i.e. do I just need a new job?
I’m interviewing for a couple of internal roles, and today I found out by talking to a colleague that we’re expected to contact all members of the interview panel BEFORE the interview to find out what they want to hear, and if you DON’T contact people, they get offended. Why would know one tell me this?! This feels like one of those old boys’ club rules that you only learn if you’re in the know.
Moms that have sent their kiddos back to daycare – how is it going? We’ve had our now 1.5 year old home since last March and dealing with a toddler is so much harder that we are considering sending her back to daycare. Would love to hear how it’s going if you sent yours already. She’ll be one in a room of 10 toddlers, no mask until age 2. TIA!
H and I just toured a cute little preschool for our twins. We have a nanny who works 40 hours per week and we think preschool will probably be a good supplement for hours when I go back to work at the office. We would probably extend her hours to cover our commutes. Preschool is just Tuesday/Thursday from 830-12:15, we could use those extra hours for more coverage on MWF. My question tho is around when they will (inevitably) get sick. Ideally it would be great to build in some contingency so our nanny can cover them for their preschool hours when they get sick. So perhaps have her on call for sick days (maybe just Tues or Thurs) and give her that time back if they aren’t. Does anyone do this? Trying to figure out a schedule that gives us lots of coverage but also gives her some predictability.
Our newly mobile 9 month old crawled right off our bed this morning when my husband turned his back for a second. Hit our hardwoods and has a bruise on his forehead. We called the pediatrician and they told us what to watch for. Kid only cried a couple minutes and has been totally fine since. Still I’m juggling feeling blame and sympathy for my husband (who is being so protective now!) and feeling bad for my baby and of course a good dose of mom-guilt for not somehow preventing it from across the house..