Organizing Thursday: Sliding Storage Rack
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Feel like there’s never enough storage? Make use of previously dead spaces in your home with a narrow sliding storage rack.
At just five inches wide, this rack can easily slip next to your fridge, in between your washer and dryer, or even in a small bathroom to keep essentials close at hand. The three shelves can hold more than you imagined, including cleaning supplies, cans, or even art supplies. It also assembles quickly and easily — no tools required.
This narrow storage rack is $26.49 at Target.
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Advice for how to keep my baby safe around other kids? Baby is almost 6 months. I haven’t spent a lot of time around children. We’ve been socializing with more parents lately. Recently, a toddler was quietly playing with some rocks then suddenly picked up a handful of rocks and threw them at my baby. The parents were with him but didn’t react quickly enough to stop him. Fortunately baby was not injured.
The incident rattled me. Toddler throwing rocks at baby was not on my bingo card! Is there something I should’ve done differently?
What do you gift to your kids’ elementary school teachers? My kid has two primary teachers and then specials (art, gym, music, Spanish) and has a in-school speech therapist. There’s no room parenting coordinating this.
My kids attend a progressive private school. For holidays like Diwali and Hanukkah, parents come in to talk about how they celebrate with their families. My 7yo has started asking a lot of questions about the holidays he’s learned about at school, and in particular, he wants to know when I can come to school to talk about the holidays that our family celebrates. We’re Christians.
A couple of questions:
1) Is there any world in which it would make sense for me to talk about Easter at school? Has anyone done this at a secular school? I don’t want to come across as some kind of anti-DEI warrior. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Christians are in the minority at the school.
2) If this is just a terrible idea to pursue, what do I tell him? My answers so far have not satisfied him, and I’m not sure what to say.
Hi, I asked for words of encouragement about potty training my almost 2 son recently. I need more, because I talked with his babysitter (who is perfect in every other way) and she said she has historically struggled with potty training. The impression I got is that she expects kids to start to initiate going to the potty very soon after starting training, which I don’t think is really reasonable for most kids but especially not the younger ones. Should I go through with it?
I’d originally decided to opt out of giving my middle schooler’s teachers gifts, but she seemed bummed about it, so I’ve decided to keep the same “teacher gift” budget as I have for my elementary kid’s 2 teachers ($25 each) and allocate that among my middle schooler’s 7 teachers, so about $7 each.
Is a fancy chocolate bar with a card written by my child fine to give? Other ideas in the $7 range? Obviously I’m not giving them a $7 gift card or cash, and I know teachers don’t want more “stuff” which is why I leaned toward a consumable.
This will out me if anyone I know is on here, but I have to vent. I am mortified! The fifth grade parents chat yesterday was getting juicy – controversy over end of year party location – and I realized DH wasn’t on it. I always end up telling him about these things later, so instead I just decided to see if I could add him to the chat. And it worked and came up as a notification! Right as things were getting juicy! “corporette has added corporette’s husband to the chat” Ahhhhh. I had multiple friends text me laughing at me over it! I mean everyone thinks it’s hilarious but I am a bit embarrassed!
Also how did I not realize this would be a possibility? There was no undo! Gah!
$5 gift idea for a daycare holiday gift exchange for a 2 year old. They are not picking names for the gift exchange until the day beforehand, but I need to get something this weekend.
Right now, I’m thinking maybe a small stuffed animal from Target, since the seasonal ones are only $5 and my toddler loves stuffed animals. But I want to have some other ideas in mind before I run to Target in case they are out.
I’m pretty sure I overfunded our dependent care FSA for next year. My kid no longer does aftercare and summer day camp is going to fall well short of what I put in. There’s nothing I’m missing, right? It seems very clear that overnight camps and extracurricular activities aren’t eligible and I can’t think of anything else. Blergh, and let this be a PSA if you might be in the same situation.
My six year old rides the bus to an after-care program with a handful of other kids in his grade. Yesterday when I picked him up from after-care, the teacher told me that the bus driver told them that another kid (D) was bothering my kid (A) and that A initially used his words and tried to get D to leave him alone, but ended up hitting D because he wouldn’t stop. The teacher emphasized that it sounded like it wasn’t really A’s fault but that hitting was a big no on the bus so the driver had to report it. The teacher said he talked with both boys separately right when they got to after-care. What, if anything, should we be doing about this? We had a big talk about using your words, and moving to another seat if someone won’t leave you alone, but on the bus it’s tough because there’s no teacher to go to, and there might be no way to escape.
Do you have your children give each other gifts on christmas? When I was young, my school had a little shopping day like a book fair, but for gifts, and I would shop for my family members at that store. Not the highest quality stuff, but I picked it out myself (and spent my own money). My kids’ school does not do this and we have not been in the habit (blame covid?) but this year I am realizing I probably need to get my kids to think of each other and buy a gift for each other. Do you do this? What age? Do they spend their “own” money?
My cousin (we’re very close) told me yesterday that her 5-year-old and another kid called a teacher at their Montessori preschool a “cockroach” repeatedly even though the teacher told them it hurt her feelings. She said she wasn’t sure how to handle it (and that they’re dealing with rudeness at home too) and I wasn’t sure either. What’s a reasonable consequence? They lean gentle parenting and a bit permissive but not extremely – she’s said they’re trying to work on more consistency. I’m curious what others would do in this case and didn’t want to pepper her with a bunch of questions about their plans to avoid sounding possibly judgmental (my kid is younger so I also haven’t dealt with anything like this yet).
Hi all – Ok, back needing more advice about my younger kid (5 next week!). Last night he had an epic meltdown. Kid ate dinner, got up to play with the dog, still wanted more food but would not sit down. I put his plate in the sink because he wasn’t sitting down.
He melted down, pushed his water bottle and threw some nuts. I immediately removed him, took him to another room and sat with him while he calmed down. This worked fine, he calmed down quickly. He really wanted more food. We agreed that he’d sit down and I’d make him a piece of toast.
Came downstairs, realized I didn’t have any more cream cheese. Kid then tried to bargain for jelly and I said no. He got upset, pushed a chair that almost fell on my toe and I said “Okay, I think this meal is over.” He continued to cry. I took bigger kid for their shower, and told younger kid “I’m taking sibling for their shower, you are welcome to come”. He was crying but joined us anyway, and calmed down.
Once he calmed down I let him know his behavior was not acceptable, that it is okay to be frustrated but not okay to throw the things he did because he or someone else could get hurt. I told him he would not get dessert this evening (today) as a result. He was upset and tried to bargain (“I won’t yell! I’m being good now!”) and soft threaten his way out of it (“I don’t like you anymore” to which I said “I still love you”).
I’m noticing when this happens it is in the evenings after school when he’s tired. It’s like he’s fine and then he just runs out of steam by 6:30 PM. I don’t blame him! My oldest kid went through something similar but not as intense at the same ages.
Anything different I could do? Advice? I was proud that I stayed calm overall.