Splurge or Save Thursday: Snow Leopard Luxury Faux-Fur Throw
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How is it already the end of September? I am ready for pumpkin picking, sweater weather, and hot apple cider. To cozy up my home, I just bought this faux-fur throw.
This large 60” x 70” throw is perfect for my living room couch. After looking at many options, I chose this one because the gray-and-white snow leopard pattern matched my light gray couch (it also comes in beige and white), and the fabulous sale price.
I couldn’t stomach paying nearly triple digits for a blanket that my kids were going to use to build a cave. Some commentators mentioned shedding — however, I didn’t notice anything particularly excessive, especially after running it through the wash. It also comes in a pretty box, perfect for gifting.
Christian Siriano’s Snow Leopard Luxury Faux-Fur Throw is on sale at Macy’s for $44.99 (down from $100).
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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I love the look and feel of these blankets but find myself very overheated when I try to actually use them.
Just snagged a couple of these for holiday gifts.
Hi ladies. I am making a career change to be a government lawyer in an office of general counsel at an agency. The hiring process for this job has been very long (appx 1 year). In the meantime I have gotten pregnant and now will be about 20 weeks along when I finally start.
I don’t have any contact with any of the people I will be working with. I told the HR person about my pregnancy but they are a completely separate organization from the OGC.
Should I try to hunt someone down to give them a heads up that I am pregnant or just show up on my first day visibly pregnant? I feel like it is very awkward either way.
A while back there was a suggestion for a post at a different blog about how to create a capsule wardrobe. It had multiple positive comments. I can’t recall for sure whether it was on this page or the main page. Does anyone know what I am talking about to point me to it? Or another great source for how to put together a capsule wardrobe. I have a general idea, but I’m really looking for some good input on how many pieces to have in the capsule. I’m looking to do a purge soon and think this would be helpful. Thank you!
one of my twins was up 5 times last night sneezing/coughing, which means no school for either and a trip to the doctor today (though i’m fairly certain it is not covid, another kid in their class was recently out with a cold), DH has been working until 1am and somehow I also misplaced my diamond wedding band last night. any ideas for how to search for my wedding band? we live in an apartment so it isn’t a big space and I retraced my steps last night and it still didn’t turn up
My mother and I have a rocky relationship. Understandably ever since I’ve had my son a few months ago, she wants to spend time with him. Unfortunately her love language is blunt unwanted criticism and really nothing else. She’s really been truly horrible. Yesterday she told me that I was a terrible mother (literally used those words) who is neglecting my child (also said that) because my son has cradle cap and was not wearing socks (he was wearing socks, they just fell off his feet). She told me she wants to take my child away so she can raise him because she is such a great mother. Normally I just kind of ignore her ridiculous behavior and generally just avoid spending time with her and say I’m busy with work. But I’m not sure what to do here because it will impact my son’s ability to have a relationship with his grandmother, though I’m not sure it’s even beneficial for him to have a relationship with her and then I feel sad about that too. My husband, though he recognizes my moms behavior is toxic and would like me to have a relationship with my mom for the sake of “having relationships with family is good behavior to role model”. I’m not sure what to do, my preference would just be to spend less time with her and have her come over less. Obviously she will be hurt if she spends less time with her grandson, but it is actively hurting my mental health to have her around. I’m wondering if I should start seeing a therapist to come up with coping strategies to deal with my mom or if anyone has gone through anything similar?
Dropped kiddo off at nursery and then headed out of town for a week. He was very brave and gave me a cheery wave and I cried in the car. It will be fine but this is the longest I’ll be away (normally late Sunday to Wednesday afternoon).
Getting settled into flat toda
What do you all do in terms of separating kids (or not) when one is quarantined for exposure? We are dealing with that now (kindergartener was exposed at school) and realized we should have made a plan earlier. And what do adults do?
Both kids (5 and 3) are unvaccinated and the adults are vaccinated but somewhat immunocompromised (me: pregnant; him: T1 diabetes). I know there’s not a “right” answer here and it depends on a lot of factors, but I’m curious to know how others have handled this.
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My MIL is already begging me for Christmas gift ideas for the kids because she’s worried about supply-chain issues. Which I get, but a) I am completely not in the mood to be thinking about Christmas; and b) it is a sore spot between me and DH that any emotional labor around gift-giving falls to me. I have tried to change this; I have frankly given up on changing this dynamic around gift-giving. I keep a running list of things the kids might like, but dangit, I’d like to pick our gifts first and I’m not ready to do that! Then it becomes a dance of “how much is too much? Is this something she will enjoy giving them? How can I satisfy her need for quantity rather than experience gifts or anything sensible?” Gah, I hate it. I know her intent is good, but it is an ongoing source of stress.
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WWYD? My almost 4 year old’s daycare bestie invited us to an outdoor birthday party, her first birthday party invite ever (and this kid is the #1 person she’ll want at her own party in a couple of months). We have had outdoor playdates with this kid but I believe there will be some neighborhood friends who aren’t in our “school bubble” at the party, which is giving me pause. But my husband pointed out that our school bubble isn’t really a “bubble” because each of my kid’s classmates have siblings and parents and friends and activities so we’re actually exposed to way more people than just her 15 classmates, and the risk of getting infected at school is objectively much higher (8+ hours indoors vs. 1-2 outdoors).
On the one hand, I would feel awful if my kid got a potentially debilitating virus from a preschool party she isn’t even going to remember in a year. On the other hand, school is objectively riskier and I am so tired of cutting literally everything fun out of our lives (she does not do activities or go anywhere indoors or do any socialization outside of school, except outdoor playdates with classmates) to shave off a tiny amount of risk when we’ve already accepted the comparatively large risk of school.
Ahhhhhh. The never-ending risk assessment is destroying me. Please tell me what to do.