Splurge or Save Thursday: Power Grip Primer
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To keep my makeup from melting off my face in the heat, I use primer, like this bestseller from e.l.f.
e.l.f.’s Power Grip Face Primer holds your makeup all day while prepping, smoothing, and moisturizing your skin with hyaluronic acid. This gel-based primer has a translucent finish, so it works with a range of skin tones, types, and textures.
The primer is $11 at Target.
Sales of note for 5/8:
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- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
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- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
What have you done to try to instill self discipline or a good work ethic in your kids? Specifically when motivation or enjoyment of the task is not there.
Asking both for myself (Ive personally been struggling here lately) and also for my middle and high school age kids
Favorite recipes for family meals that are tasty but not too time-consuming? My formerly very very picky (like ate-10-foods-picky) 8 year old is starting to get way more adventurous about trying new foods. We’d kind of given up on family meals because she was so picky for so long and now that she’s eating more normally I feel like we need to get back into the groove of real meals together. (Also let this be a lesson to anyone in the trenches that you can do everything “wrong” and your kid will still emerge from the picky eating stage!)
I want to change up our bedtime routine and start reading aloud from longer books with no pictures. My kids keep their eyes open and wiggle around to see picture books and I’m not particularly adept at making up bedtime stories.
But my kids are very sensitive and I am also a ways out on the protective side of the spectrum, and I don’t want any stories with bad guys or fighting. Can anyone recommend long books where people and animals just do things and interact with the world?
I have a vent about financial mismatch among extended family. My parents and I live (separately) in a HCOL city. My married siblings without kids live over an hour away in a LCOL city. We’re all very close – all holidays spent together, family trips together, etc. My family HHI and siblings HHI are all very similar. I have two kids in daycare and 529s to fund. Siblings constantly talk about wanting to move to HCOL city, but then for every house they see, they complain that their mortgage would double. Fair enough. I probably wouldn’t live but for the job market. But then siblings expect that my family can keep up with their financial choices, like still exchanging family birthday presents and doing family trips. My family just cannot afford the gifts and trips that my siblings do. Literally every year I gently bring up that this is expensive for my family, and I suggest that we should stop exchanging sibling birthday gifts for people over 40 (!), or exchange names on Christmas instead of gifts for everyone, etc. I try to tone down the giftgiving from $200+ to less than $50 per person, but it’s hard to give a quality, meaningful gift (which is also an expectation – no generic candles or blankets) to an adult twice a year for 10+ years that fits the parameters unless I stick to books. (I also am just bad at giftgiving, so that’s playing into this.)
I’m feeling this keenly now because my family wants to go on our own first ever vacation, but literally every extended family member has a birthday this summer (so $$$) and has some expectations that we will celebrate it. My parents push the birthday parties, and I feel obligated to acquiesce because my parents frequently help watch our kids, and there’s no other way I can repay them. I want to be close, I want my kids to have involved aunts and uncles and grandparents, but neither my wallet nor my calendar can afford these expectations.
I’m just venting. DH is a workaholic. Like he has a job that lends itself to it (BigLaw) but I’ve seen him in other jobs/roles and this is part of just who he is. The most annoying aspect to me of this isn’t the missed time at home/with kids….it’s that he’s always complaining, saying he misses time with me/the kids, and yet sets 0 boundaries or never (that I see) says “no” to things that could be rescheduled or optional. And we’ve had plenty of conversations, brainstorming, etc…he just does not change his behavior.
I’ve come to terms with it, accept (and enjoy) the perks it allows our family financially, and also know that it’ll likely have negative long-term impacts on his health, and sometimes it all just really sucks.
I like to slip small trinkets into letters I send my daughters at camp. Any suggestions for things to include? Currently have bookmarks, fun sticky notes, and temporary tattoos.
Cued off of question above I am curious what, if any, measures people take to avoid entitlement/keep kids grounded in situations where you could technically afford to do the fancy thing (e.g. you could fly first class, but you don’t; or you could buy the super in demand fancy basketball sneakers but you don’t). Any tips for drawing the line? (yes, first world problems, I realize).
I am joining with my kids my husband for a work international trip. My husband got first class tickets (from work) and we have economy for rest of family. My husband has zero interest in flying first class bc he flies all the time for work so it’s whatever to him. The kids (teen and elementary) and me both are excited for the first class. How do we figure out how to split it with the kids fairly? I am assuming not cool for them to switch halfway through the flight and also the elementary one may not even be ok on his own.