Coffee Break: Perry Tote
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The Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale has started! But it is taking me forever to round up, as usual. (Stay tuned!) In the meantime: this dark green Tory Burch tote is one of my favorite pieces in the sale.
I have always loved green as a bag color — it goes with so many colors, across pretty much all the seasons, and is a great pop of color that is still dark enough to not get smudged if you so much as look at it. But also: the Perry tote has been one of the reader favorite best work bags for years, so you know it's functional.
The bag was $395, but is currently marked to $277 in the sale (30% off). There are a few other “kale” green items in the sale as well.
Sales of note for 5/15:
- Nordstrom – 3800+ items in “new markdowns” — I kind of wonder if they've started marking down stuff for their Half-Yearly sale that usually starts the week before Memorial Day. Good deals on Veronica Beard, Vince, Reiss (esp. coats), as well as Wit & Wisdom and NYDJ
- Alexis Bittar – Vault sale! 100s of re-issued archival styles up to 70% off, plus 25% off all full-price styles too
- Ann Taylor – Extra 40% off sale
- Boden – Up to 50% off with new styles added
- J.Crew – 40% off your purchase and 50% off dresses
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 20% off orders over $125
- Lands' End – Up to 60% off sitewide + extra 60% off sale and clearance
- Loft – 50% off your purchase, and 5/15 only: take 60% off the LOFT Versa collection
- Mango – Weekend exclusive, 30% off everything, and free shipping with $260+
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Supergoop – 20% off sitewide + free Glow Stick (also, free shipping with $50+)
- Talbots – Extra 40% +15% off all markdowns, plus Summer Fridays One Day Sale (5/15), $19.50 pocket tees and $29.50 relaxed chino shorts.
- Theory – 25% off sitewide
- TOCCIN – 30% off select items with code! (You can't stack codes, but on full price items try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off!)
- Vivrelle – Looking to own less stuff but still try trends? Use code CORPORETTE for a free month, and borrow high-end designer clothes and bags!
what would you ask for — telling my husband he should ask his boss for a flexible work arrangement for 3 weeks this summer. we always take this time to visit inlaws and he almost never takes more than a few days off. he has unlimited vacation time and we’re not going anywhere else this year. inlaws both have health emergencies kind of regularly at this point (78 & 80).
i was suggesting maybe like 3 mornings a week 8-12? the thing is he will do work nights/evenings even if he’s on vacation because he’s just a great employee. very small office that works with a lot of overly self-important people (ritzy condo/coop boards).
Can he take two weeks off or a week and then do a week with half days like you mentioned? It it’s truly unlimited and he never takes it, he should do what he can. This is why I hate unlimited PTO. It’s always like begging for benefits you technically own (and you get no compensation for unused when you leave). Instead of calling it a flex schedule, I think you need to actually say vacation. Flex implies just working remotely. And no one wins with that. They will feel like he’s vacationing instead of working and he will feel like he is working instead of vacationing (or actually will). Set the boundary now. It’s harder the closer you get and each day is going to likely bleed into time off a bit longer than planned. So half days are never actually half days. That’s why I think a week or two where he is “out” (even if he hops on at night) is gon to be respected more.
If he has unlimited vacation time, shouldn’t he just take his time accordingly?
I would tell him he either needs to take actual vacation the whole time or reduce the length of the visit.
Why can’t he take the full time off? I’d ask him to stop working during vacation.
Especially since it sounds like the “vacation” is being taken to deal with his parents health issues.
I wonder, however, if there’s a cultural aspect at play. A three week annual trip indicates some distance travelled, and perhaps the expectation where the in laws live is that the daughter in law will care for them.
For three weeks, I would pick one week where he will be off the grid, taking full PTO for that week. This would be the week you do the vacation while there stuff. On the remaining weeks, I would use something like, I can be available between 9am to 11:30am as needed (or pick something that works time zone wise). This is the normal approach at my work where there are lots of home country trips over the summer.
This is hard to crowd source without knowing what he does.
Are there people who will only talk to him? Are their meetings (like those condo/coop boards) that he needs to be at? Does he have objective work metrics he has to hit aside the number of days worked? I was an attorney in a law firm for a lot of years and I could take as much time off as I wanted – as long as I still billed 2100 hours/years, but of course taking time off made those hours much more difficult to hit.
Conversely, are you anticipating that the in-laws will need actual help during this visit or is your reference to their health an explanation of why you are not taking more time off this year?
Great employee, crap husband. Tomayto, tomahto.
This reads like a comment made with minimal thought.
I would butt out of your husband’s work. He knows what he can and cannot do.
But it’s fine to ask him to give it some thought, without dictating that he do something. We all need to make a living.
Most of my bags have handles for going over the shoulder or x-body. One leather one has those coated-leather handles, so I’m not worried about hand lotion darkening the leather. But for nylon or leather handles that you hold that aren’t coated or shiny, do you do anything for the nylon or leather so it doesn’t darken or get any stains? I feel that I put lotion on after I wash my hands so that they don’t dry out and in the summer, I’m slicked up with sunscreen a lot (and slicker than I’d like). Maybe I’m not meant to have nice things?