Make My Life Easier Thursday: Reusable Makeup Remover Pads
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I recently looked in my bathroom trash and saw a mountain of makeup pads. I immediately added these reusable makeup remover pads to my shopping cart.
These bamboo/cotton blend makeup pads from Paula’s Choice are machine washable (they even come with a zippered laundry bag you can toss them into), super soft, and suitable for all skin types. Just like any other makeup pads, you can use them to apply treatments like toner or to remove makeup. (I’ve even used makeup pads to apply blush in a pinch.) The only difference is you can do it waste-free — when they’re worn out, you can compost them!
A set of 10 pads is $15 at Amazon.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- 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
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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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?
Best kid lunchboxes? Ideally insulated but not required. I’d prefer minimal/no loose interior containers, but everything inside should be dishwasher-safe. I have my eye on Bentgo right now but wondering about other options.
a friend mentioned to me last night that their older elementary school kid has a lot of questions about the Israeli Palestinian conflict and i told her i’d ask this board (she doesn’t have time to post today) i realize there is no such thing as a neutral source and that this is an extremely complicated issue, anyone have any resources for talking about it with kids?
In a more lighthearted take on yesterday’s convo about kid’s futures, what does your kid want to do when they grow up?
My kid currently wants to work at the plant nursery, so he can be a “plant expert” and “grow lots of flowers for mummy!” He can identify all sorts of different plants, lives for a garden centre trip, and loves to help me in the garden, so maybe? Before that, it was a bin lorry driver, and before that a pilot (he’d fly with daddy and I could sit in the back and read my book)
I saw this article yesterday, and it made me so angry: https://jessica.substack.com/p/american-moms-are-being-gaslit
I know so many women who quit or leaned out this year. One of my friends who I shared this with said “Women aren’t leaving the workforce because they want to. They’re leaving because America has put women, mothers especially, in an impossible situation.” I couldn’t agree more. Our employers, society, and men need to step up.
Is there a guide to figure out how much to pay a nanny? I need a nanny in the fall for my toddler (and my kindergartner after school), and I have no idea how much to pay.
I posted a while ago about changing my name after having a baby. I got my order and am in the process of changing everything. Only one person who I have told (so far) had a reaction worse than I catastrophized: the managing partner at my firm who is also a friend. Cool, cool. She’s over it now, but still. ANYWAY! One of the fun part is getting a return address label/stamp with our family name. What are your favorite vendors for this? Or maybe it doesn’t really matter?
My 3 year old almost gave my husband a heart attack last night because she was taking these weird gasping breaths and when he asked her if she was having problems breathing she said yes. He called me in all panicked and I realized that she had just watched the Daniel Tiger asthma episode and was just pretending to have asthma. It became totally clear when she held a bottle up to her face and pretended to inhale through it saying “this is my asthma medicine!” This is not even the first time she’s done this with Daniel Tiger. She told her teachers she was allergic to peaches after watching the food allergy episode and they called us all confused because she doesn’t have any allergies on file with the school. Clearly we need to have more discussions about pretend vs real if she’s going to keep watching this show…
Any low key resorts you love in the Caribbean that allow children but don’t expressly cater to them? Daydreaming about a beach vacation this winter once our whole family is vaccinated, but searches for family travel turn up lots of recommendations for Atlantis-type places which is not what we want right now. DD is 3, still skittish around deep water and too young for waterslides and other theme park-like attractions. She’ll be happy anywhere that has sand, literally. DH and I would love a nice resort with good food and a spa. Excellent snorkeling right at the resort would be a big plus, but I know that can be hard to find.
There’s an option for my 4 year old to ride the school bus home next year. She’d be on the bus with ages kindergarten to grade six. I’m nervous about it because of how young she is, but I don’t want to underestimate the benefits of independence. What would you do? Or what would you consider in making your decision?
We had to take the side off my young 2 year old’s (2 yrs 3 months) crib because she started climbing out consistently. Now bedtime is a huge struggle. She was never great with sleep/bedtime, but now she spends an hour getting in and out of her bed before I can get her to settle down enough to go to sleep. How do you get your young 2 year old to actually stay in their bed long enough to wind down and fall asleep?
Related, she’s really interested in pillows. Like she loves laying on the pillows on my bed. So I think getting her a pillow could help her be more excited to stay in bed, but I want something relatively flat/firm since she’s never had a pillow before. It’s so hard to tell online the loft, firmness, etc. Any good recs?
ISO recs for chapter books to read to a (pretty sensitive) 4 year old? We’ve been making our way through Charlotte’s Web before bed and he’s really into it (though I have to edit some as I read). Would love some suggestions that we’d both enjoy!
I need a reality check: I had planned on my kids and I spending this weekend with my mom. We were going to spend the weekend at our family lakefront cabin (about 45 min away). When I spoke with my mom yesterday, she said that she wasn’t feeling great. I checked in with her today, and she texted that she still isn’t feeling great – doesn’t have energy and also has a cold sore. (Note that for my mom to say she isn’t feeling well is probably a vast understatement of how she is actually feeling. She is tough as nails and doesn’t admit to being sick easily.) I said that I was concerned that the kids and I shouldn’t spend the weekend out at the lakehouse because while I do not believe that she has COVID (fully vaxed for a while), any virus – or kid not feeling well – requires us to go through the testing protocol and a negative test before returning to school. She snapped back that this is clearly just a virus. Am I being unreasonable in wanting to keep my kids and I home this weekend?
Based on yesterday’s conversation that it’s NOT POSSIBLE (gasp) to expect employees to be vaccinated because of LEGAL REASONS (shock and dismay), what’s the thought on Saks requiring all staff to vaccinated?
Are they doomed to bankruptcy and dissolution?