Weekend & Family Friday: Men’s Ultra Lux Polo
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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?
With all the $2,000 dresses that are featured on the main site, I am just so charmed by the inclusion of an $8 Costco shirt that is deeply loved.
Happy Friday!
Looking for recommendations for a new couch. The last one I bought was from Restoration Hardware, and it started to look worn quickly, despite the lack of use (pre-kids and I was in biglaw so I wasn’t home much). Any recommendations on brands that are comfy and durable? We do not have an IKEA close.
we are working with an architect on a mudroom and the initial design had the bulk of the wall dedicated to hooks. I had her change it to a big closet. What do you all think a family would use more? A closet or hooks? (keep in mind we are in a house built in 1930 with virtually no closet on the first floor and have been making do with 2 over the door hooks on our basement door.) My boys are 3 and 1.5 years old.
I always doubt myself when I change something that a professional chose to do
I have a one week old who wakes to nurse every hour and nurses for half hour. I can’t remember this with my older daughter, I seem to remember her waking every 2 to 3 hours. He also requires bouncing and shushhing to get to sleep and I am so beyond tired. I try to rest when u can during the day but it’s my h harder now with a toddler. Is this just how it goes or anything I should be doing at this point? We have a snoo but it hasn’t made a difference at this point.
Basing this question on the thread from Wednesday (and countless others) about husbands who don’t pull their weight regarding home/childcare and emotional labor. What advice would you give a younger person about how to feel out how a potential partner would be regarding these issues, prior to marriage/kids? Books to read, conversations to have, things to look out for?
My much-younger sister (23) and I had a heart-to-heart the other day about whether she is going to continue a relationship with her generally awesome boyfriend. They would be long distance for at least two years, as they are entering graduate programs in different cities. She does want to have kids eventually, and doesn’t want to commit to a long-distance relationship if he is someone she doesn’t see herself marrying and having kids with in the future.
Her concerns:
– He’s a self-professed feminist and generally nothing about this has given her pause, but she did say that they had a conversation about hypothetical future kids’ last names and he was pretty set on them having his last name (for no particular reason, just that he’d always imagined it that way). This really rubbed her the wrong way, as it would me, to be honest.
– They haven’t had a chance to live together (they’d be open to it, but circumstances haven’t really allowed for it), so she doesn’t have a great sense of how he would be in terms of sharing household tasks, etc. Due to graduate school, they won’t have the chance to do so in the near future. Also, in his family, the women are strong, capable, and career-oriented, but also responsible for the vast majority of childcare and emotional labor and household management (like, his Mom basically won’t let anyone help cook or clean). My sister would want a much more egalitarian set-up.
FWIW, my DH grew up in a similar manner (MIL was a stay-at-home parent doing cooking, cleaning, and basically around-the-clock care for DH’s sister, who had severe disabilities), and I would say we are pretty equal partners. He couldn’t cook when we met, but now does half the cooking and all of the grocery shopping, though I do the bulk of meal planning, for example.
Thoughts?
How do you wash your young toddlers’ hands? We’ve just been using a wet washcloth before and after meals but our 14 month old is starting daycare soon and at daycare they wash hands at a sink when they enter the room. I’d like to start a similar practice at home to minimize how many daycare germs we bring home (though I realize it’s unavoidable to some extent). My friends are telling me to get a learning tower but I think they’re hideous and don’t want one cluttering up my kitchen. Can I just use a step stool at a bathroom sink? Any recs? She isn’t walking yet and doesn’t stand that well either (she will stand up to get a toy she wants but if we try to force her to stand up when she doesn’t want to, she’ll just sit back down). But I’m hoping daycare will get her in the habit of standing at the sink for hand-washing.
Any thoughts on nanny share v. daycare for an infant who will be starting at about 4 months old? In my city, it seems like nanny shares are more expensive than most daycares – probably an extra $500/month – but I’m starting to wonder if that’s worth it. I’ve been touring daycares, and while many of them are perfectly pleasant and seem to have caring, engaged staff, it just seems like a bummer for the little babies who don’t get as much attention and for the older ones who don’t have as much room or opportunity to get taken outside, etc. Does that stuff not matter so much for babies?
My 3rd and last little girl turns one in 5 days. I of course in true parent of 3 kid style haven’t gotten her anything.
Of course she won’t know, but the siblings will.
What are some good memento-y type things I can get her that aren’t dependent on Etsy or other customization? Or…clothes I guess? Maybe a picture frame?
Siblings got her stuff already.