Washable Workwear Wednesday: Pointelle Polo
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Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+
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?
Any recommendations for a knockoff of the Stokke Tripp Trapp chair? I have one for my oldest (5) and would love one for my youngest (almost 2). Don’t care about color and don’t need it for infant purposes of any attachments. Just want a junior chair so we can phase out the high chair, but don’t have to go straight to a booster seat. I just can’t stomach paying another $200 for a real one.
I need tips for how to better include my in-laws in my toddler’s life. They live long distance, as do my parents, but are wonderful, come to visit and want to be involved. But they are older and less comfortable with caregiving for our daughter when compared to my parents, so this aspect plus my husband generally being the more passive one (vs proactive) means that my husband and in laws defer to me to take the lead on including them. This plays out in big things (planning to visit us) and smaller things (how to engage our daughter during the visit, Skype in between visits). I want them to be included but I am just overwhelmed with a full time job, an active toddler and juggling a newly-diagnosed chronic illness that is running my life right now. Any thoughts on how to be more proactive in including them? My parents just jump in and ask to be included, so they are; in laws need an invitation. If I sat down and brainstormed those invites with my husband, he would execute on it. But I just…can’t. I am tired.
What gifts do you get for a second baby? I’m one and done so not sure how much little siblings can reuse the big siblings stuff. The babies are not the same sex, although I’m not sure how much that matters because the older one was a boy and my friend is not the type to balk at putting a girl in a sailboat or dinosaur outfit (I’m not sure she’d put a boy in a dress but she definitely believes “boy clothes” are pretty neutral, and she’s made clear that she doesn’t want frilly outfits for her daughter). My go-to gifts are board books and clothes, but I think she can probably reuse a lot of what she has.
My life goal is to have my house is a state where I can have guests over on 15 mins notice. That said, we have a front living room/library space that is toy free and generally tidy so if I do get a surprise guest, I’ll bring them a cup of coffee or tea in there and I can relax about the rest of the house being a disaster.
Need a bit of a reality check: I work for a small company and our corporate parent is located a few hours away in a big city. Our legal team has a dotted line to both our company and our parent company (I.e. we report to both). In two weeks, parent company’s legal team is having their annual get together, which is a two hour lunch/ice cream thing behind corporate headquarters. Our small legal team was invited, but we all declined because it is easily a 2-3 hour drive each way (can be 4+ with any traffic), and it does not make sense to drive 4-6 hours for a 2 hour ice cream social. Boss of our small legal department is going because she has a house in the big city. She came back to us today, basically saying that we have to go. Am I/are we being unreasonable in saying that this seems a bit absurd?
How clean is your house? If you ran into a friend on the street, would you be ok with inviting them in?
I would need at least 10 minutes to put things away, make sure the bathrooms were acceptable, and just make things a little nicer. I wish our place was in a state where I could just have surprise guests.
I have an interesting opportunity referred by a mentor who thinks it will be a better work life balance and more interesting work. I’m only 7 months into a new role and have a 15 month old, but I feel like I’ve made a big mistake as my firm has little to no flexibility and it’s a strict 40 hours in the office. My firm does not do work from home or part-time and really values facetime and that’s been incredibly challenging with a young child.
I want to negotiate what I need upfront, so that the new firm can decide if I’m a good fit or not, but I’m not sure what is the most valuable of the below:
1) Work from home – How often, how much?
2) Part-time – I feel like working 25ish hours a week might be great, maybe 9 am – 2 pm daily or 8 hours 3x week?
3) We plan to try to have another baby early next year, so I don’t know how to broach maternity leave or another baby, I probably won’t mention it at all, but it is definitely on my mind.
What else should I be looking for? I was in my previous role for 6 years and while I had hesitations about the actual work and facetime culture of my current firm, I didn’t realize how much of an issue it would be until I’ve been here a few months.
I’m really weary of making a mistake again, so want to be thoughtful in this next step.
Thanks in advance.
Anyone have a learning tower? Worth the $200? Better than using a regular kitchen chair or step ladder? My 2.5 year old likes to try to help us in the kitchen but can’t reach the counter easily. We could probably train her to stand safely on a step ladder or kitchen chair (currently she gets distracted and sometimes loses her balance) but I’m curious if these things are worth the money, or if it ends up just being another piece of furniture to have to deal with. If it makes any difference, we also have an infant who would be able to use it in a year or two.
I’m curious to know what kinds of things you do to help your kids appreciate their privilege. I grew up what I then considered upper middle class, but I would now consider quite wealthy (we went to Europe multiple times per year, my parents paid upwards of $20k/year for me to do an expensive hobby, they paid for my private college in full). I don’t think I was spoiled, in that I was well-behaved and wasn’t demanding, but I definitely took what I had for granted. It was a rude awakening when my parents suffered a temporary financial setback and didn’t pay for my grad program, but I think it helped me grow up a lot and realize that if I want nice things I have to work for them. DH and I are not as well off as my parents, but very comfortable and our kids will want for nothing, especially with wealthy grandparents on both sides. Any suggestions for how to make my kids appreciate how well off they are and not take their parents and grandparents’ money for granted?
Virginia?
Following up to my question posted late yesterday… thanks for the responses and point heard about life insurance. To that end, how do you determine how much is needed (I have an idea – debts + living expenses should surviving spouse be out of work – but is there any hard and fast math?) and should I be using a broker to get a policy or should I go direct? What can I expect from buying a policy – is there a physical and blood work, etc, for underwriting?