Weekend & Family Friday: Striped Cashmere Wrap
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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?
My son is going through a nursing strike in the evenings. It started after I returned from a work trip last week. My supply is lower in the evenings and I think he’s frustrated by the slow flow (and probably overtired too). He just cries and pulls off. After about 20 minutes, DH then gives him a bottle. He still nurses well in the morning. Any tips on how to get through this? Is this normal? My first was bottle fed so I have no idea what’s typical.
Anyone in NYC taken their kid to the thanksgiving parade in recent years? I went as a kid but not since then. I’d like to take my 4 year old this year, and would love some tips. We live in NYC but in an outer borough.
I posted yesterday about lice advice — turns out my daughter and I both had lice. I threw money at the problem, three hours a Lice Clinics of America to get everything killed (I HOPE) and removed, along with liberal use of our dryer on high heat. And my H is out of town, so that adds to the fun!
On the plus side — the 2 hours of treatment was the most relaxing time for me this week. This may be a sign I need a kid-free vacation!
Hanna Andersson sale 50% off on basics!
Thanks everyone for the advice yesterday on toddler rejection. I took my son to Pret for a snack before nursery (this kid will bankrupt me with his exotic fruit salad habits) and we had some lovely quality time watching the traffic and pedestrians out the window. Nursery drop-off was easier today and we’re planning for a kid-heavy weekend.
Anyone have recommendations for packing & moving services for an upcoming move from DC to Philly? Thanks so much!
I’m on mat leave and the partner I work for just sent me a posting for a job in- house at a client. I shouldn’t take this as a sign they don’t want me back, right?
I just need to vent, and am doing this here because it’s wrapped up in me being a mother. I feel terrible about myself a good chunk of every day and am stressed about money a good chunk of every day and it mostly stems from the fact that I’ve been trying to find a new job with higher pay for the last two years, albeit way more focused/intentioned/serious for the last year. And nothing is happening. And I don’t know what else I can do. You know how often, people here say “this time next year things will be better” when people are going through tough stuff (admittedly tougher stuff than this)? It is “this time next year” for me and it’s not better. Networking, applying, getting help with my resume–I am doing all of it, and so far it’s been either nothing or situations that seem like great chances and then just go up in flames. I feel like an utter failure. I leaned out to a law-adjacent job in local government after my last kid was born and now I’m afraid I’ll never be able to get out of my job and the horrible pay scale.
Meanwhile, I know moms who totally stepped out of the workforce for a few years and are getting back in with better jobs than mine. I know moms who work part-time and make more money than I do. I have the same education and basic qualifications they do. Look, our HHI is fine, we are financially fine, but I worry about money because my job pays crap and has no raises and no bonuses and I just do not feel I am contributing enough to our family pot. I cut my personal spending to almost nothing–I spend on my kids, and my husband spends money, albeit not crazy, but I am just in a vicious cycle where since I am not making more money, I have to/want to spend nothing in an attempt to be less stressed. I am capable of earning more, I just can’t seem to figure out how. Why have I kept working full time this whole time if I’m now stuck? What has been the point? The point was to be more present for my kids when my husband was still in biglaw. He’s not anymore. It’s time for me to relaunch my career, and I’m stuck on the pad.
I feel so bad about all of this a significant portion of the time and I hide it from everyone. Many people know I’m looking for a new job. But no one knows how often I cry about it, or scream alone in the car, or the hamster wheel constantly running inside my head. It feels like my inner mental and emotional life is worlds away from my external presentation. For some reason I’m tearing up at work today so I figured typing this out here would help me get myself together. Good lord I hope I get an interview or something soon. I’m like a dam, and the dam is still strong, but I don’t know how much longer I can go without a crack.
Thanks for listening.
Gift ideas for almost-three-year-old boys? All set on Duplos, trucks, magnatiles, etc. thanks to big brother. Don’t want to add something huge to the house and he doesn’t have a current singular interest to build on.
So, due to a recent reorganization, I learned I’m getting a promotion and being given leadership responsibilities for my team (as opposed to being the second in command). I’m also expecting our 2nd child next spring and haven’t announced my pregnancy at work yet.
I’d usually have no concerns about announcing to my usual boss, but now reporting lines have changed and I think I have to tell our CEO, just a few weeks after they’ve handed me these new responsibilities. Any advice? I’ll likely be out 4.5 months for maternity leave.
Candidly, if I had known all of this would happen at work, I likely would have postponed TTC for another year to give me a chance to get my bearings in this new role, but it was only communicated after I was already in the throes of first tri misery.
Gift help please!
Recommendations for a dollhouse for my 4 year old that will last until whenever it is that kids grow out of liking dollhouses? Would prefer something wood, etc, not plastic. Budget is up to $150 I guess? But cheaper would be great.
My 1 year old is in a phase of climbing on the living room furniture and jumping — not allowed because of danger (he has no sense of it) and to prevent damage. Any ideas for managing this besides time-outs for jumping? (We only use time out at this age for dangerous things like hitting and standing on furniture.) My older child, also a boy, just … didn’t do this, ever, so I have no tools in my arsenal. At the moment the level of supervision required at all times is overwhelming and not what I remember from older kid. Is the only solution one of those play yards? I imagine that would just lead to screaming to get out…
First-world problem, here … I need Santa gift ideas for my 5-year-old girl. Ideally $100 or less. We bought a lot of gender-neutral toys for the older kiddo, so we’re good to go on the classics. Bikes/scooters/wheeled things also covered. If she played with dolls more, I’d go full-on American Girl but she is only moderately interested in them. Seems to be more into her princesses and all things Disney. Last year we ended up getting her sleds and snow toys because they needed to be replaced anyway.
Christmas makes me feel like a gross consumer sometimes because my kids want for nothing. We don’t buy tons of extravagant stuff but between birthdays and what they receive from relatives … it feels like enough already. I feel simultaneously guilty for having so much and Scrooge-like for not really wanting to bring more into our house. I dunno, it’s a hard balance.
I may be a little late to the comment party for the weekend, but does anyone have suggestions for a baby congratulations gift? I already got them a gift for the shower, but now the little one is actually here. They live in a fairly rural area, so my usual food and grocery delivery is not an option and I’d like to do something other than flowers.
Budget around $50