Washable Wednesday: Henley Blouse
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This simple machine-washable blouse comes in a ton of different prints and colors; I’ve pictured the simple blue here to show how nicely it looks with a half-tuck if you want a bit of structure. This is the kind of thing I’d wear a ton with a cardigan or blazer on top in the winter, and by itself in the spring, fall, and, heck, probably the summer too. It was $88 but is now $49 at Nordstrom, and it’s available in regular and petite sizes. NYDJ Henley Blouse
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Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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?
Thanks, everyone, for all the suggestions about how to keep my son dry overnight. I have lots to try and will report back.
Does anyone use an online tracker for kids allowances? I’m wanting to start an allowance for my almost 5 year old, and like the save, spend, give models. But I never have use cash and an online tracker/app/bank sounds useful. I also like the idea of paying interest on the savings. I like the look of the First Kid Bank website, but wondering if anyone has tried anything like that or has one to recommend.
Any advice on (partial) night weaning for a very small one-year-old?
Our daughter is turning one this month but is still waking up to nurse two or three times a night. Her weight has always been at the very bottom of the growth chart and she nurses really well at night, so I’m not interested in trying to cut her off entirely, but I do want to try to get down to just one nighttime feeding. (At her nine-month checkup, the pediatrician said she should be able, even at her size then, to sleep for six hours at a stretch.) Does anyone have night weaning tips / success stories / resources to share?
Sooooo potty training. Still really early stages of thinking about it — kids will be 2 in March and I’m thinking we’ll do it this summer. They’ll (hopefully) start preschool in the fall and in December their au pair will be leaving and we’ll be getting someone new. So I’d like to do it when things are nice and calm in the summer. I realize this is way early but I’m frankly terrified of potty training twin boys. (I assume many things/people/pets will wind up peed on. Hopefully some pee will wind up in the potties.) I ordered the “Oh Cr*p” book and plan to start there. But do potty books/videos for the kids help? My kids adore books and so I’m wondering if Once Upon a Potty is actually a good idea. (Still getting over the idea of a book about going to the bathroom, but hey if you’re 2 years old and have only ever gone in a diaper, you might need help with the idea.)
I’m also wondering if anyone knows of any twin-specific resources. I’m already planning to have two potties on every floor. And I’m realizing that they probably spend a lot less time in the bathroom with one of us than a non-twin would. I mean, if I had just one kid, when I had to go, I’d probably take him into the bathroom with me, right? But with two, I’ve always just secured them somewhere (rock n play, high chair, swing — depending on how old they were) and then gone on my own. They only really go with me when we’re out and about and I bring them in in their stroller. So they just might need more help understanding what goes on with a toilet. Plus they almost never wash their hands in the sink now. It would be too hard to coral one while lifting up the other. So mostly their hands are washed with lots of baby wipes. (These are the things that make having twins different in ways you’d never think of until you have them.)
2016 will be my first year with a dependent care FSA. I understand the process, but I’m wondering how families actually manage the withdrawals and reimbursements. I apologize in advance if this seems like a stupid question, but I don’t have anyone in real life to talk it out with.
I’m maxing it out, but it comes out as equal increments every two weeks. My daycare bills monthly, and the amount is much more than what comes out every month. We don’t have the flexibility in our budget to float an entire month’s daycare bill (so, no waiting ~3 months until the savings account has an entire monthly bill or doing all reimbursements at the end of the year).
I’m thinking the only/best thing to do is submit reimbursements every month, even though I’d only be reimbursed for part of the monthly bill. Is that possible? Does anyone do that or have an alternative?
Has anyone gotten their paycheck withdrawals set up to take out the entire monthly cost until maxed out? For us, that would be ~4 months. I like the idea of doing a few reimbursements and then being done.
Has anyone found this to be too much of a hassle? I feel like it’s going to be a lot of work for “just” $5k off taxable income.
First of all, I love this blouse and have a couple of similar ones from Target (pronounced Tar-jay, obviously).
Just poking my head back up after being off the board for awhile to say I’m going in for my first infertility appointment today, yay! (sarcasm)
I’m going to get the results from DH’s analysis, as well as discuss next steps with my OB. I assume she’ll run some blood tests at different points in my cycle to check hormones (I’ve already had AMH and TSH done). After that, from what I’ve read elsewhere, if Clomid or something is in the cards I should be getting a referral to a RE, correct?
I don’t anyone IRL who’s gone through the process, so kind of looking for what to expect. Is it super obnoxious of me to print out and bring my charts, or is that helpful?
Favorite bath toys?
I always end up buying more-complicated-than-necessary toys that the kids don’t really play with or the water shooters that I hate because they shoot water (duh!) and they get moldy on the inside. The kids’ favorites are basic cups and boats, but I never seem to see those in stores (the ones we have were handed down). Apparently I need links.
Go read the FB page ‘Man who has it all’ hopefully that will give you a few laughs and realize you are not alone in fighting these attitudes.
Also, sympathy on the nanny situation
Just need to vent about my cr*ptastic part of my day yesterday: We are having nanny issues and looking for an au pair. When a colleague asked how it was going, I disclosed some of the details about our current nanny (doesn’t help with kids’ laundry, house is wrecked, does puzzles in the afternoon, etc.), looking for an au pair and my resulting exhaustion. Her response? The loathed: “I don’t know how you do it all. You have so much on your plate.” For some reason, it really struck a nerve. I responded that I don’t do it all, that I have “help” and that some stuff just doesn’t get done. Why do those type of comments always cut me to my core?
I am just here to complain.
I finished breastfeeding in October and have somehow managed to gain almost ten pounds. I didn’t realize it was happening, but I guess I had been used to eating more calories for so long due to pregnancy and then a year of breastfeeding. I am so annoyed with myself. Also I have a terrible haircut that I can’t “fix” because it’s already too short. And my wardrobe is looking shabby and lacking in polish. But I don’t want to buy clothes because I am trying to save more money for a second child and my body is so strange post partum. I know I need to exercise but I just feel totally spent as it is.
I really thought it was reasonable to feel/look like my old self within a year, but that hasn’t happened. I am sure I will get out of this rut soon, but man, right now this sucks!
Did anyone use the Wondfo OPKs and never get a positive? I’m wondering if the problem is that I drink a lot of water, which I’ve heard can dilute your urine too much so that you never get a positive.
Ladies – do you have favorite instagram accounts you follow? I discovered @attorneysonfleek through you guys and am hoping for more suggestions. I also enjoy @extrapetite and (my RL friend’s food account) @ababygrowsinbrooklyn. And @sophiethegiraffe_usa! I’d love to follow a few more related to organizing, cooking/baking, fashion, and parenting.