Weekend Open Thread
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This seems so excessive, but so necessary.
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Sales of note for 11/16/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 50% off your purchase with code
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off 250+ styles + extra 60% off all sale
- J.Crew – Extra 60% off sale styles + up to 40% off cold-weather styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything + extra 70% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Extra 20% off sale with code + try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance up to 40% off
- Talbots – 30% off your purchase + 50% off T by Talbots + extra 50% off all markdowns
Just ranting into the void- my sister is married to the most useless man. Normally, I do a decent job just ignoring the imbalances because it’s her life and her decisions. This past month, however, their kid has had a major medical crisis. My Mom and I have been dropping everything to be there for them and it’s so hard to ignore that the jerk is nowhere to be seen.
Long post about friendship drama if anyone is reading. :/
My third grader has been misbehaving and acting out all week, both at school and at home. It finally came out tonight that she’s having a lot of issues with friends at aftercare. She had two longtime friends there that she used to play with pretty much every day but recently one of them has started telling her sometimes that she doesn’t want my daughter to play with them. My daughter had mentioned this in passing but seemed pretty unfazed by it and said she found other friends to play with when it happened, and it sounded like they still played together a lot. Well, apparently earlier this week this girl invited pretty much all the girls in their grade at aftercare to her birthday party, as well as a couple of my daughter’s other good friends who don’t attend the aftercare program. My daughter’s feelings were understandably hurt and apparently even their mutual aftercare friend was shocked and confused about my daughter not being invited since they’ve basically been a trio for such a long time. And then to add insult to injury, the other large group of friends she’s been hanging out with at aftercare has one girl who’s decided my daughter can no longer play with them, and this girl now proactively approaches my daughter and says “you can’t play with us” before my daughter even asks. When that girl isn’t there (I guess she’s only at aftercare twice a week?) my daughter plays with that group, but they go along with it when this girl says my daughter can’t join them.
I feel really sad for my daughter, of course. I don’t think she’s overly sensitive to minor friend slights and she normally rolls with the punches of not being able to join a group or not getting an invite to a party, so to see her actually upset about being excluded is hard. And I am kind of side-eyeing the birthday girl’s parents tbh – she basically invited most of my daughter’s friend group except my daughter, which feels unnecessarily exclusionary at this age. But on the other hand, the common denominator here is my daughter. I know no one can be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m a little worried that she seems to be alienating so many people. I’m wondering if we need to be doing more to help her make and keep friends – but if so, what? Appreciate any thoughts.