Festive Friday: Star Wars Ugly Christmas Sweater
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Ugly sweaters have been huge lately, and if you have a post-Christmas get-together that requires one, do consider this Star Wars version. I think it’s pretty cool — I’m a Star Wars fan and my boys are as well — and I can easily imagine Darth Vader saying, “I find your lack of cheer disturbing.” I also like that instead of a sweater it’s actually a sweatshirt. It’s available in three colors at Amazon for $31.99 Star Wars Ugly Christmas Sweater
Sales of note for 3/15/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Spring sale, up to 50% off
- Ann Taylor – 40% off everything + free shipping
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles + extra 50% off sale
- J.Crew – Extra 30% off women’s styles + spring break styles on sale
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything + extra 20% off 3 styles + 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Friends and family sale, 20% off with code; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off 1 item + 30% off everything else (includes markdowns, already 25% off)
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?
So I am struggling with trying to say no to my son’s coop preschool. We have funding from a city agency that involves lots of mandatory professional development workshops for school staff, and this year, applying for a new contract and now negotiating the contract. Since the preschool has no actual staff other than teachers, parents take on a lot of this work. My regular coop “job” is related to dealing with the agency, but this year working on the contract application was a special added component that I thought was mostly going to be managed by another parent. She spearheaded the effort but delegated some big chunks of the application to me. It is hard for me to blame her though, as last year she was roped into being one of the coop’s leaders, which is definitely a bigger job, so she’s paid her dues. Anyway, I am now being asked if I can go to this orientation meeting for contract negotiations the first week in January. I feel like I use up all my PTO doing crap like this; meanwhile, I have never managed to take time off to do things that might actually be meaningful to my son, like chaperone a field trip or come in to school for a “family day.” Adding insult to injury is the fact that we have been in the process of renovating (lots of it ourselves),packing, and moving for the last 6 months and I need an actual day off that does not involve manual labor so badly I could scream. I just don’t know what to say. I could go to the meeting – I do not have a reason I MUST be at work that day. But if I go to it I can’t do something else I want to do. The other candidates are also working parents so probably are in similar boats, although some may have more PTO or flexibility than I do. UGH!!!
Ugh, a referral source just asked me to come to a pitch 3 hours away the day after New Years. It feels like a huge ask, and I’m struggling with how to respond. Theoretically, I could make it there and back within day care drop off and pick up times as long as the meeting is less than a couple hours….but then why do it? We have technology and phones and webconferencing and all that.
Also a little bit of imposter syndrome. Like, what if I get all the way out there and it turns out I can’t add any value to the potential client? Then I’ve lost a whole day of billables for nothing, and I feel like an idiot.
Request for Kat: Can we book-club that series of Atlantic articles next week? For those of us who will be bored in an empty office, at least.
Obviously, the reason one can imagine Darth saying that is because he ACTUALLY said “I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
Survey/question for everyone – what do you spend on groceries a month? We just started tracking our finances via a budgeting app in December (more than a bit disheartening during the holiday spend btw) and our grocery budget is right now set to come in at about $1400 this month.
We’re hosting Christmas Eve/Christmas dinners, as well as having baked loads of cookies/candy for the holidays, so I know the ‘real’ number is probably $1000 but that still seems awful high to me. We live in a HCOL NorthEast town, and are a family of 3 (plus a teenage au pair, who eats like, well, a teenager). My husband brings lunch about 3x/week, and I work from home so we’re also not eating lunches out (for myself or the au pair).
Reasonable? Crazy? I don’t think I cook outlandishly pricey meals, and we don’t go out to eat much with 4 people so I guess I can sort of justify it.