Budget Thursday: Metro Luggage Leather Strap Watch
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Every so often there will be a discussion on this site and on Corporette about watches. Some readers think that watches have gone the way of the dinosaurs while others would look down upon a potential new hire if they didn’t wear one to a job interview. Some readers see watches as a reward for a big bonus check and will spend thousands on a classic piece. Others don’t view watches as an investment and feel that as long as they tell accurate time, they’re good enough. Personally, I love wearing a watch but have never felt that I had enough disposable income to invest in a really pricey one. This watch from Kate Spade is fun, inexpensive enough to be an accessory that you can swap depending on your outfit, and yet still professional. I like the combination of the gold with the tan leather, and the easy to read face. It’s currently on sale for $146 at Macy’s. Kate Spade Metro Luggage Leather Strap Watch
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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?
It’s that time of the year where I need a waterproof watch. And last year’s watch is foggy inside, so it’s time to replace. I just need a basic watch, digital is OK. If anything, prefer no complex features. Any recommendations? My office watch is a Skaggen, which I love.
Just wanted to follow up and say thank you to those of you who encouraged me to email my husband who did nothing other than text me for mother’s day. He has promised to redeem himself once he gets back in town. He usually gets defensive if I call him on something, but I think in this situation he realized he messed up so badly that he was just like “you’re right, we will have a full do over”.
Couple pumping questions: 1) how do you take the clean pump parts into work every day? I’ve heard Ziploc bag, but is the inside of a Ziploc bag really that sterile? 2) I haven’t built up a freezer stash and plan to just pump the next day’s milk each day, so what do I do on my first day? I feel like the baby is emptying both my breasts every time she nurses so I’m not sure how to add a pumping session unless I get up in the middle of the night and pump while she’s sleeping,which I really don’t want to do.
Yikes! Just got email about settling in dates for nursery – baby T will be 11 months when he starts. Any tips for starting nursery? Tricks for getting out of the house in the am?
Logistically, it seems stupidly complicated. Nursery is midway between our house and our offices (we work 5 min apart). We’ve arranged for early dropoff but will still have a 15 minute wait between when my husband can drop us off (due to his start time) and the nursery opens. Thought I’d just use the sling and take baby for a walk beforehand. I’ll then have a 40 min walk to work. Husband will do pick up in the evening and I’ll take the bus home a bit later.
Nursery provides milk/food/wipes but we’ll working with them to use our cloth nappies.
I have a question about baby/toddler bedtimes. I have a five month old who is currently sleeping roughly 9 pm to 7 am (we don’t wake her, she wakes naturally). This works perfectly for me because I can nurse her once before work and twice after work. Our pediatrician told us 9 pm is too late and encouraged us to put her down at 7 pm. We tried that and she woke up naturally at 5 am after the same amount of sleep, so we switched back to 9 pm bedtime because 9-7 is a more convenient overnight for us than 7-5. But the doctor says at some point she’s going to want to sleep 12-13 hours and will need to go down by 7-8 pm so she can wake naturally by 8 am (I need her up by 8 so I can nurse and get to work). 8 pm bedtime seems doable, but 7 pm just seems insane – I work pretty normal hours but I’m not normally home until 5:30 and I feel like we’d have to start the bedtime routine basically the second I walk in the door, especially once she’s crawling and needs a bath every day (we’re currently only doing 2-3 baths per week). Can anyone shed light on what your routine looks like with a 7 pm bedtime? Do you eat dinner after the baby’s in bed?
My husband is a VP (department head) at his company, and I think his corporate persona is absolutely hilarious/such a double standard. I’ve decided to lean in and exploit it rather than be bitter.
DH has had to take a bunch of time off/WFH/skip a big work event recently to do Parent Stuff for our kids (we have 2 under 5 and one due shortly). Yesterday he worked from home all afternoon so I could take my 4 y/o to her mid-day dance recital. He took a half day Monday to get our 2 y/o to her checkup. He has been leaving early to be home in time to do childcare pickup because my consulting work has me on the road more than expected.
Instead of his peers rolling their eyes, his peers are smitten with the idea that peer/boss/coworker is Super Dad to 3 girls. He’s taking 3 full weeks of paternity leave and nobody is batting an eye.
The reaction to my taking this kind of time is so, so different. So instead of being bitter, I’m making DH do more. It’s amazing. He’s going to the preschool parent-teacher conference this AM :-).
We had a really bizarre experience last night and I’m hoping someone can shed light on what might be going on or convince me that it’s a complete coincidence. My 14 mo woke up crying at 4 AM, which is unusual (he normally sleeps through the night) but it’s happened from time to time. I go in to comfort him, and he has a bit of a runny nose and a little bit of an intermittent cough. Normally we are able to do 5-10 mins of holding and patting and he will go right back down, but in this instance he would not go back to sleep for over an hour. My husband and I tagged-teamed, and as we were dealing with him all of a sudden our noses got stuffy and we got a little sneezy too. My husband also has asthma and needed a puff of an inhaler. When we woke up in the morning, everyone seemed to be better.
My question is…wtf?! These were all allergy-like symptoms, but the pollen count outside was pretty low yesterday. My worst fear is that we have some kind of mold issue, particularly because we have had some roofing problems and it was raining last night, but we searched the attic and found no evidence of moisture, let alone mold (and our symptoms didn’t seem to get worse when we were in the attic, and they were better this morning). Did we all have some kind of brief cold? Weird coincidence? Help!!!
I have a two year old and one on the way. I’ve always worked full time but have been thinking lately of trying to go reduced hours/part time when I go back after baby 2. My husband is very into financial planning and pursuing financial independence. He feels that if we keep going on our current path we could be there in the next 7-8 years, so oldest would be around 10 and younger 7. Reducing my hours now would delay that. Does anyone have any input in whether it’s more beneficial to be part time or just generally working less when your kids are little or when they are elementary /middle school age? I feel like I’m missing out now but my child likes daycare and seems to be doing great. I wonder if my kids might “need” me more when they are a bit older. I know plans and careers can change and 7-8 years is a long time. I like my job a lot and have a lot of flexibility, but I do have full time billing requirements which is tough. I’m also fearful that going part time before I reach partner level might prevent me from getting there ever (at least at my current firm). Part of me feels like being home more now would really just be for me (which is okay!) but being around more later would help kids more.
Talk to me about weaning. My 18 month still loves nursing. I’m okay with it, but interested in getting pregnant and think this may be interfering. She nurses morning, after work and before bed right now. How do you get the kid to wean that doesn’t want to?
To complicate this, I went away for a week last month and thought it was weaning time. But my body rebelled. I had clogged ducts (despite pumping) and very nearly courted mastitis. The pain was excruciating. When I got home, it was all I could do just to get her nursing again to help me with the pain. I had an horrible oversupply when she was little.
Any tips, tricks or how-tos would be appreciated! I’m going away for a week again in a month and would like to her to be weaned at that time.
How often are you nursing? Is she good at drinking from a cup and eating solids too? My answer will change depending on that.
Just coming to rant. My husband bought our toddler son pink shoes because he loves pink. I was on an important work call and daycare called both my work phone and my cell phone, so I texted my husband to call them and see what they needed. They just wanted to know what shoes we had sent my son with, because there were only pink ones in his cubby.
Sigh. I just got back from a conference, during which I was working for 14-16 hours a day including responding to work e-mails. Several people at the office have now asked me about my vacation, with one even making a snide remark about how nice it is for me to be able to “take time off.”
In the meantime – I’m exhausted, overwhelmed with work backlog, and irritated. This too shall pass, right?
Reading the bedtime/schedule discussion above made me realize just how much I’ve forgotten/blacked out from my first kid, and she’s only 2 1/2! I’m expecting twins in the next month and I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing, and will be relearning everything as I go. Will it come back to me? I feel like even if it does, I’ll still have to adjust it all because there will be two babies and a toddler.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/style/household-parenting-marriage-share-work.html
If I see one more article like this I am going to SCREAM. Why. are. people. marrying. these. people. They are always described in these letters as “great guys.” ARE THEY? I just ranted to my mom friends on FB: “Like IS he great? IS HE???! Is the reason he can’t do the GD effing laundry because he is gently nursing a baby squirrel back to health with a dropper of milk? Or because he is so overwhelmed doing the laundry at the ORPHANAGE???”
I admit I do the “management” of the household: doctor’s appointments; vet appointments; getting our son screened for speech delays; the majority of the meal planning; seasonal clothing swapouts; making sure we take family pictures and do memory-making activities; haircuts; car maintenance; any phone call that has ever had to be made.
In return, my husband does: all the laundry; all the cooking; all the dishes; all the bill paying; 95% of the cleaning; 80% of the yardwork; EXACTLY 50% of the parenting (we have twins– I do a poop, he does next poop, we each dress one, I do day care dropoff, he does daycare pickup, I rant a lot about maternal gatekeeping so he got to learn how to do our daughter’s hair and does it one weekend day). Sick days from day care mean we each take a half a day. I am a bean counter.
We are both fairly low-paid government employees so we can’t outsource anything, but we both work 40-50 hour weeks, so we… split it. It blows my mind that anyone– ESPECIALLY working moms– puts up with doing all of this stuff! But I see it all the time on Facebook, on here… what is this nonsense. I almost blew a gasket over Anon’s mother’s day rant yesterday (I am the one who offered to punch him in the teeth FWIW).
I know part of it is faulty data– like people whose husbands are doing enough are not complaining about them on forums. But still. I just want to note for anyone struggling with this… you can demand more. Other husbands are doing more. This does not have to be your normal…
Word. I’m a bean counter, too, and I think our marriage is more equal because of that insistence that we’re both going to pull our weight.
I thought the columnists gave a great response to the question.