Organizing Thursday: Two-Tier Lazy Susan
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The house my family moved into late last year has two cabinets with lazy susans inside. At first, I wasn’t crazy about them, but now I am totally converted. They help make the most of the corner space of the kitchen that would otherwise be unusable. I have also seen them used in many organizing projects, both in the kitchen and office/craft rooms. This is a small version that you can use within a regular cabinet or even on your countertop. It seems like an affordable way to maximize your organization and space. It’s $12.99 at Amazon. Two-Tier Lazy Susan
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Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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?
Does anyone remember the Logical Journey of Zoombinis? I loved it as a 2nd-4th grader in the 90s. It was the only game that my mom would let me play on our family computer, and it looks like the same version is on the Google Play mobile appstore now!
I downloaded it on my phone and it’s a tad too small since I’m squinting to look at the patterns, hairstyle, etc., but would be a great game to download on the PC or even an iPad.
Does anyone remember the Logical Journey of Zoombinis? I loved it as a 2nd-4th grader in the 90s. It was the only game that my mom would let me play on our family computer, and it looks like the same version is on the Google Play mobile appstore now!
I downloaded it on my phone and it’s a tad too small since I’m squinting to look at the patterns, hairstyle, etc., but would be a great game to download on the PC or even an iPad.
This is a frivolous question in these times but with spring coming, what brand rain boots do you like for your kids? We got some Bogs for winter boots, but they seem too big for warm rainy days.
Day 2 “back” from maternity leave and it’s already kind of awful. Despite six weeks of exclusive pumping before I could get her to latch and periodic bottles after that my 4.5 month old now refuses to take any bottle and screams when anyone tries. And she must be going through a growth spurt because she is eating for a significant length of time every two hours. So though my mom is helping with child care, getting into work mode is basically impossible.
Two questions for the wise ladies here: I’m due in mid July with twins, my firsts.
1. Any recs for online birth/baby care classes? Everything in person is cancelled and I need to learn!
2. When would you start acquiring baby gear? So far I’ve ordered car seats and they are taking 6 weeks to arrive from amazon. Should I start ordering diapers and wipes etc in May?
Thank you!
Help – what can I do for a raw nipple? I had what I assume was a milk blister at the base of my nipple. It was painful when nursing yesterday. Now it seems to have popped and the skin is red and raw. It hurts like heck to nurse or pump. FWIW, baby is 8 months and a good nurser so this is out of the blue.
My company just announced 30-50% pay cuts across the board. The company hopes to make these pay cuts short-term, but they don’t know how long the crisis will last. I have yet to learn what my pay cut will be. They want everyone to keep working full hours for less pay, but it sounds like you can talk to your manager to ask to be furloughed, work fewer hours, and apply for unemployment to make up some of the difference. I don’t know what to do and what the repercussions may be. Thoughts?
Can anyone recommend a baby monitor with great range? We have a monitor (Arlo) but I’m not happy with it as it’s failed a couple times. I was thinking maybe an old-fashioned one is the way to go but we live in a concrete house and sometimes have signal troubles inside.
This was on the main page but wanted to share it here – NASA has a site up with proper curriculum up for 10-week lesson plans on earth science. Full lesson plans for languages and science (with slides/activities/quizzes) are like GOLD among my parent group as our teachers are still in the send a link to watch a video and do a worksheet phase. Hope this is helpful for some of you as well!
https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/lesson-plans/survivor-earth
If anyone has lesson plans for Spanish please share! I’m now the 2nd grade Spanish teacher and we’re working on vocab words/greetings/common phrases/conjugations, but grammar is beyond my ability to teach…
I’m new to therapy. DH and I need counseling. I’ve pinged three people on psychology today since last night but no luck with accepting new patients. Any other ideas or do I just keep at it? Do I need to see my own therapist separate and apart from the couples? DH has his own, and has for a long time for unrelated things but it’s been productive all around.
Ideas to engage a 5-year old over video chat? He’s my nephew and I miss him but calls with him, his 2.5 yo brother, and my sister are basically 3 minutes of mayhem.
How early could you feel kicks with #2 (or more)? With #1 I first felt movement at 16 weeks, but I’m now 12 weeks and I swear I’m feeling little kicks. It seems way too early! But it is a bright spot now so I’ll pretend it’s real.
I think I might get my kid a camera. Any ones you love? He’s three but not wild or destructive, just obsessed with taking photos with my phone.
I’ve been reading with interest the ongoing discussions about paying for daycare as this stretches on. Ours have asked us to continue paying, as they are still thankfully able to pay teachers. As this seems like it will stretch until the end of May at the earliest, are you all paying for May as well?
Thanks
Trying to crowdsource some ideas for my 5yo son to cope with social distancing. He’s much more of an extrovert than I am, is pretty bright and typically very happy, but yesterday was so tough and I’m becoming worried about him. We’ve had several high-level conversations over the past few weeks about why we can’t have play dates or go to school, so it’s not like we’re hiding anything age-appropriate from him.
Yesterday, he asked me to pull up a social distancing video story on YouTube his teacher assigned earlier in the week (I think it’s called “Time to Come In, Bear”). When it got to the part about no playdates for now, he paused the video and said “mom, this is why I’m sad,” and started sobbing. He has never cried like this before. I held it together the best I could but I lost it, too. I think his feeling sad was triggered by seeing one of his classmates on a walk we took the day before — we ended up chatting with their family for about 30 minutes while standing 15 feet apart and it was obvious my son relished that interaction.
Anyone have any ideas or resources to help my son cope? We had a decent conversation right then to acknowledge feeling sad. FaceTiming and zoom chats with friends seem to make him more upset than happy.
I know in my heart that kids are resilient and he will be okay coming out on the other side of this, but in this moment I am absolutely crushed with how difficult this entire episode is for him, especially with the expectation that it’s going to be announced soon that schools will be closed for the rest of this academic year.