Coffee Break: Lounge Tote
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Net-a-Porter is offering an extra 15% off select items — including this fabulous tote bag from Toteme. (There are suede versions with an even lower price, as well as handbags and more totes.)
This looks like a great, classic bag — the whipstitch trim is different enough to make it unique and luxe but not so distinctive you can't wear the bag all day every day, and I like the “belt” detail. It's 5.9″ deep, 11″ tall, and 17.3″ wide.
The bag was $1690, and is currently marked down to $1014 — try code FLASH15 on it.
Also: love this red Versace bag with a vintage vibe.
Psst: we just updated our picks for the best luxury bags for work!
Sales of note for 6/12:
- Another Tomorrow – Seasonal sale, 50% off select styles
- Ann Taylor – Last day 6/12: Extra 60% off sale! Readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Athleta – 40% off tees, dresses, tanks, linen, and swim
- AYR – Ooh, good sale section — but lots on final sale. Readers love (LOVE) these comfy work pants and these jeans.
- Bare Necessities – Semi-annual sale, up to 60% off, plus get an additional 40% off clearance swim. Readers have sung the praises of these cooling pajamas and their bra-sized swimwear
- Boden – 15% off new women's wear styles with code
- Glossier – 20-25% off almost everything (including subscriptions!)
- J.Crew – 50% off tops, dresses, skirts and more
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 20% off 3+ styles
- Jenni Kayne – Semi-annual warehouse sale
- Loft – 50% off everything + free shipping
- M.M.LaFleur– This weekend only, 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom – 6900+ new markdowns added – nice selection from Boss, Vince, Veronica Beard, Theory, Beyond Yoga, and Zella
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new arrivals up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work basics from Calvin Klein and dresses from Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Talbots – Tons of markdowns, extra 60% off 2+, 50% off one
what is your preferred messaging platform for things you’re tangentially involved with? an alumni group i’m with uses whatsapp, i’ve heard of other groups using discord and so forth. the whatsapp notifications are kind of annoying.
I don’t join messaging groups for things I’m only tangentially involved with. To me that’s what FB groups are designed for – you can check it or not check it at your leisure, and you don’t get notifications. My husband uses Discord for some pickup sports groups.
E-mail unless you’re a small local group or a friend (then you can text).
I hate checking group me, band, and the millions of other platforms. I just want to look in one place (and even still, have about 4-5 e-mail accounts I need to monitor).
email, hands down. I train gmail to keep all that stuff out of my primary inbox and then I check it when I feel like it, vs. annoying notifications.
Various groups I’m in use groupme, Slack, discord, and whatsapp. I don’t really have a preference. I guess I would say Slack or Whatsapp is the best. I have been known to mute Whatsapp notifications for a period of time when a chain is particularly active about things I don’t care about.
+1 to email. I’m not downloading any new apps for group messages.
I love the World Cup memes and human interest stories. What is an accent (local or from abroad) that you like listening to?
And if you speak (American) English with a mid-Atlantic accent (so I think I sound like a newscaster — fairly neutral), in what languages do we have an accent that is considered attractive (if any). I took Latin in school and then a couple years of very basic Spanish (which I was told was with Colombian pronunciation, but who knows really?).
My car’s Siri is an Australian male voice.
Scottish and Australian accents are delightful. I’m from the Deep South (like, my northern husband has a hard time understanding my dad sometimes deep south). My best friend from high school (so, equally southern) married a Scottish guy. I don’t think either family understood half of what the other was saying at the wedding (but it was a great time). I still need to be around him for a few days before I understand everything without having to think about it. Interestingly, neither I nor most of my high school friends have very noticeable Southern accents (someone once told me I sounded like I was from nowhere). My theory is no one on the TV we watched growing up had accents, so it counterbalanced whatever accent we would have picked up from our parents.
I love listening to English spoken with any African accent.
Our French friends swear up and down that when Americans speak French, the accent is very sweet and charming. I still don’t really believe them, mostly because the hard American “r” sound sounds so harsh compared to the throaty French “r”.
Has anyone here done a moxi laser treatment with micro needling? I am considering for old acne scarring. The nurse described the downtime as your skin feeling like sandpaper for 5 days and that makes me a little nervous!
I have done, and continue to do, many moxi treatments, but none with microneedling too. I need to stay home for a few days after treatment because my skin looks so bad and I just cannot seem to get sunscreen to apply in a way that it doesn’t just sit on the rough skin as though it wasn’t rubbed in at all. If you can do so, I’d get it done on a Thursday afternoon or first thing Friday morning and then plan to stay home until Monday. By the fourth day, I can put makeup on, even if it doesn’t look completely normal.
Make sure your provider gives you a thick layer of numbing cream and lets it sit for 30-45 minutes before the treatment starts.
thoughts on this dress? i got something similar a while ago and am trying to decide if i’m too young for it (i’m 50).
https://www.nordstrom.com/s/eileen-fisher-cap-sleeve-silk-maxi-dress/8721743?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&breadcrumb=Home%2FAll+Results&color=444445UE2Q
I don’t love it. I don’t think it’s aging, just blah.
Frumpy, can’t imagine who that would flatter.
present for a very youthful 60 year old woman. $100-$150. Preferably somewhere she can return or exchange easily. She plays tennis and gardens and is generally very vain so thinking maybe products. have bought tennis and athletic clothes before so looking for something else.
It’s kind of a cliche but I love Diptyque candles. They also have hand soap.
Similar, but I’d recommend Hotel Lobby candles. The labels come off really easily so you can reuse the vessels, and the scents are more neutral.
Just curious: how much time do you dedicate to cleaning your house (self or others), what’s your cleanliness standards, and what’s your housing situation?
I’ll start – I don’t mind dishes in the sink or drying as long as the sink is still usable, same with some clutter on the table. But I have pretty firm lines for stuff like no sticky splatters or crummy floors. 2 bedroom townhouse shared with myself, husband, and toddler. I probably spend ~30-40 minutes a day wiping crumbs or counters or picking up floors or dishes or laundry or what have you, and we have cleaners come for a couple hours every 2 weeks for deep cleaning tasks. I think my house is pretty clean most of the time but never spotless.
Daily – probably about 20 minutes total.
– kitchen fully reset after breakfast (counters cleaned, anything that soaked overnight fully washed, anything that is both clean and dry put away, just-washed items are air drying in the rack)
– wipe up bathroom counters after yourself, like if I spilled a drop of makeup getting ready, it’s not left to sit there.
– make bed, but let it air out first – toss the blankets back when we get up; make it when I come back upstairs after breakfast to shower
– basic tidy of things like mail, putting away any packages/breaking down boxes and putting in recycling
Weekly – vacuum, wash sheets
Every other week – cleaner comes and does the bathroom scrubbing, mopping, dusting, general heavier cleaning
The one thing I miss about apartment living is the ability to run 4 loads of laundry simultaneously. With a 4bed/3 bath house just the sheets/towel changeover is 4 loads every weekend, more if it’s the monthly quilt washing weekend.
oh yeah, I should have mentioned above, we are DINKs with no pets. So laundry is about 4 loads a week — towels, sheets, more delicate light colors, more delicate dark colors.
We have weekly cleaners, and I probably spend about 30-45 minutes a day cleaning (mostly centered in the kitchen, bathroom, and our entryway). I have a very high tolerance for pet hair (2 dogs, 1 cat) and we regularly have tumbleweeds on our floors. I realize that grosses people out.
On the other hand, I simply cannot deal with a messy kitchen/island or gross smells (litter, food smells, stinky dogs, etc.). The majority of my daily cleaning is ensuring litter boxes are clean, bathroom sinks are clean/uncluttered, toilets are clean/neutral smelling, kitchen counters are clean and wiped down and the kitchen table/appliances aren’t covered in fingerprints/sticky/crumbs/random piles. We also do a load of laundry nightly and I run the air purifier/range hood regularly to air things out. Beds are made daily and I ‘close’ the kitchen nightly though sometimes dishes hang out in the sink overnight if people snack after dinner.
No dishes in the sink for more than an hour or so, but I don’t clean the floors or bathrooms as much as I should. The work will always be there and I want to be outside doing other things.
“Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.”
I don’t feel like I spend that much dedicated time cleaning daily but it’s mostly worked into my routines, relatively high cleanliness? Townhouse, myself, husband, small but high shedding dog.
We always have a rag to wipe down bathroom counter after washing face or brushing teeth, whoever gets up last makes the bed, dishes are done after meal (with reasonable clean up during). One of us usually sweeps the kitchen while the other is doing dishes.
I used to be a ‘do 1 thing each day’ vacuum/bathrooms/etc person but lately we do a dedicated deep clean sesh over the weekend and actually preferring that. Love having a house that feels fully sparkling clean. I think if we had kids that might change, but we’re just as likely to have plans on a weeknight so the weekend morning clean doesn’t cut into our fun plans.
How much time do you spend on the weekend deep clean? Sounds like it’s in the morning? What do you do when you have plans?