Make My Life Easier Thursday: The Necklet
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Sales of note for 4/24/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 7,710 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including 100s of new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Spring Clearance: Up to 75% off + extra 50-60% off sale
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Up to 60% off sale styles + up to 50% off summer-ready styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100 + extra 20% off $125
- M.M.LaFleur – 3 pieces for $198. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off entire purchase, includes markdowns
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?
Few things this am that I’d love your thoughts on:
1) can you recommend a car seat for my 2 year old? We have the Britax Boulevard in our family car but my husband will be driving her to school occasionally and it’s only a 5 min drive. I don’t want to be cheap but the Britax is so expensive that I’m wondering if I need another top of the line car seat for such occasional use?
2) daycare lunches, talk to me about what your kids will eat and what’s, easy to pack night before? My kid will eat all the fruits and veggies and some carbs but hates all meat and eggs with the occasional ability to sneak in chicken if mixed in with veggies. Can a 2 year old spoon feed herself something like max and cheese? She eats some stuff on her own at home but we also feed her stuff like pasta and rice since it makes such a mess.
3) on that same note, what kind of cups do you use for milk for a 2 year old? She’s started lifting up the silicone on the 360 cup and spills it all and it’s driving me nuts. We have a new let’s dump my food or drink on floor when I’m bored with it and it’s infuriating.
Many thanks!
Okay, you guys are really good at questions about stains. This will out me but I accidentally left a gallon of milk in our car while we were away for a week (we have a new baby, I’m not sleeping enough, I was still an idiot). It spoiled and spilled and there was mold. The whole car smelled terrible. We took it into the dealership and got that part of the carpet replaced. It still smells. Two questions: suggestions for getting smells out of a car? And would you let your kid ride in it?
I’m worried I basically totaled the car by being a sleep-deprived careless grocery shopper.
My 14 month old has sweet, delicious, chubby feet. I’m having trouble finding shoes for him for summer that squeeze over the chub comfortably. Any tips? He’s just starting to toddle around so I’d like something with support. New Balance EEE? :) . Thanks!
Please remind me: what are the service/platform options for paying a nanny on the books? +/- reviews appreciated! I’m in NY if that makes a difference, and this will be a part-time (15hrs/week) job.
For those of you who have more than one child, do you feel like you are able to be as good of a parent to two as you were to one? I’ve always assumed I would have 2-3 kids, but now that my daughter is two, I can’t figure out whether I want to have another. DH does, and there’s definitely family pressure to have another. I just don’t know that I have the capacity to be the type of mother and person I want to be if I have two kids. Plus, I really felt like I lost my sense of identity when I was pregnant and for the first 18 months of my daughter’s life, and the thought of returning to that, perhaps indefinitely, gives me pause.
Has anyone had their parents go a bit nutty as they transition to retirement? My parents are in the midst of retiring and they keep making really odd, impulsive decisions. They keep bleeding money with realtors and contractors, making poor decisions and getting ripped off. I’d call it senility if it was one parent, but they’re both just north of 65 and it seems impossible that it would hit them both at the same moment. It seems to be more related to them not being able to cope with the transition of retiring. My dad made similar odd choices about 20 years ago during a midlife crisis, but that only lasted a short time and my mom stopped the worst of it. Right now they are entirely resistant to any advice (often intentionally doing the opposite), so all I can do is listen and nod. Is this going to get better? I think they’re too with it to even discuss getting POA over their finances, but if they continue making such bad decisions they may have nothing left in retirement for the long haul. It’s so frustrating to watch them melt down like this after a lifetime of working toward a happy retirement.
just occurred to me that will fall approaching, now that i have walking twins they will need socks to wear with shoes. any recs for socks? they are girls if that matters. ideally i would love to buy a bunch of one kind so i don’t need to deal with missing socks. are there certain features that make some socks better than others?
IDK if this really makes life easier. It feels like more ‘stuff’. I’m trying to have less ‘stuff’ because taking care of/cleaning/organizing stuff is tiring. Is it that time consuming to close aa few necklace clasps that we need a gadget to help?
this is expensive for what it is but cheaper amazon dupes have terrible reviews. Boo!
I am moving into a new house soon and need to find blackout shades or curtains for my child’s room. Usually I would spend an inordinate amount of time researching all the options, but that time is not available. I thought about buying roller shades from a big box store as a stop gap, but the windows are not standard sizes so it will be expensive and wasteful to do so. If you have had any recommendations on where I should shop (or avoid), I’d love to hear them!
Yesssss now I can wear three saint medals at a time without looking like too much of a dork. Right? Right?