Totally Tuesday: Qeepsake
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Readers mentioned Qeepsake in the comments on our post about remembering the little things as a parent, and I’ve been trying it out and really like it. How it works: Qeepsake texts you a question about your kid(s) each day, and then you text an answer back. You can also send texts that aren’t responses to questions — plus edit the journal entries and add photos. I like being able to text my answers back and to know that there’s only one question a day for each kid. I don’t answer every question they send me, but a few examples include: whether H. has any nonverbal ways of communicating, whether J. has any bad habits, and what H. likes to do on weekends. It makes me feel like we’re preserving some of the little memories (even though they’re not always the things that I would preserve). Right now, there’s a 3- to 4-week waitlist to sign up, but if you get two friends to join the list, you can have immediate access to Qeepsake. The premium plan costs $35/year, and I believe there’s also a free plan that sends you one question per week. Qeepsake
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Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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 for the information. I do the free question and love it ans have been thinking about upgrading to add pictures and get the book but knowing the books layout is limited and for 40 dollars just for a 20 pg book $29 plus $10 shipping I think I am better pulling off the messages. from my phone and making my own.
May repost tomorrow/next week since it’s late in the day, but anyone know of any prenatal/pregnancy/mom classes and groups offered by a local organization or shop in the Raleigh-Durham area? I’m thinking of something like the Happy Bambino in Madison, which is where a lot of my college friends met their mom friends when they got pregnant. Or just general recs for where to meet fellow moms-to-be during pregnancy in this area?
Did you change your diet / lifestyle in early pregnancy (besides the obvious)? I’ve read Expecting Better and don’t intend to put myself in a bubble but I’m just curious if there is anything you did to prepare yourself / feel better or stronger? Any particularly good books?
Eh. I signed up for the free trial and didn’t like it. On the free plan, there’s no way to to order a book or otherwise get a copy of your data. When you pay for a plan, you just get the ABILITY to order a book for $30 (plus more for addl pages), and the layout options are very limited in the book – literally they print one text answer per page. Since the $30 covers only 20 pages, that’s less than half a year if you only do one question per week.
I also didn’t like that you had to buy the highest plan ($96/yr) to add a spouse. It seems to encourage the idea that this baby book crap is only one parent’s job.
I did like the prompts though. They were good and not necessarily things I would think to do. But there’s a journal called “Q&A a Day for Moms” that has similar prompts, and you can get the whole book for $11 on Amazon. You could just periodically open the journal and fill it out, and get basically the same thing.