Coffee Break: Travel Makeup Mirror
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In the “small things that work well” category, I've been liking this mirror I got for travel.
If you've ever tried to apply makeup with a less than great hotel mirror (or overly fancy guest room mirror) then you know it can be challenging, even with great eyesight. For someone like me who does NOT have good eyesight, though, it's almost impossible.
It finally occurred to me that I should bring a little mirror with me, and I couldn't be more delighted with this one. It has a black cover that folds open into a stand. It charges via USB-C (and holds a charge!) and has two lighting options as well. It comes with a magnifying attachment with suction cups, so you can stick it on the mirror if you want to.
It also comes with a green pouch for travel, which is nice but not necessary since the cover makes it pretty sturdy. The whole thing is about the size of my Kindle.
The mirror is under $20, at Amazon.
Sales of note for 8/21:
- Ann Taylor – 25% off fresh fall styles! Also, there's an online-only warehouse sale — $20 tops, $25 sweaters, $30 pants, and $40
- CVS – Epic beauty sale, $10 off when you spend $30 (Walmart is having its “Beauty Event” as well right now!)
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- J.Crew – Last chance summer styles on sale
- J.Crew Factory – 8/21 only: 50% off pants and shorts, and free shipping on all orders
- J.McLaughlin – Extra 40% off sale
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of new pieces added to sale (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new markdowns up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work dresses from Calvin Klein, Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Revolve – 20% off most beauty!
- Talbots – End of season clearance, extra 70% off markdown tops and extra 60% off other markdowns
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
What niche product would you pay absurd amounts of money for if only someone offered it?
I want a semi-automatic espresso machine with two coffee bean hoppers and a way to say “draw x% from this one and y% from the other.” That way, I could easily make half caf coffee or full caf or decaf, depending on the time of the day and how I slept, without switching the beans.
Not relevant to me anymore but I would have paid good money for a breast pump that works while you sleep lying down normally.
For elders who want to live alone but keep having emergencies: whole house cameras like they have on Big Brother, etc.
I felt like I was starting to approach this with front door cam, back door cam, and the watch household pets from a central location in the house cam.
Yea, while we normally only have cameras on the outside doors, we set up extras and pretty much have the majority of our house covered when we go on vacation (really it’s because we just like to see what our cat is doing when the cat sitter isn’t there rather than actual security).
How do you decide how much umbrella insurance coverage to purchase? All the on-line content seems to be provided by insurance companies that naturally have an incentive to sell more coverage. Umbrella insurance is so much more expensive than it was a few years ago. And is there even any value to having umbrella insurance if the lawyers will just find out you have assets and go after them anyway? Or will lawsuits tend to settle for policy limits if those limits are high enough?
Also, can I just say that it’s kind of a scam that you lose ERISA protections when you roll over retirement plan assets?
Often you can roll them over to a new employer’s 401K. It doesn’t have to go into an IRA. What specific protection are you looking at? I’m still mostly concerned with creditors (grandpa drives when he shouldn’t and gets sued to pieces or an accident takes you out and you are drowning in medical debt).
I’m interested in hearing how others thought about it, but I set the umbrella limit to be higher than the value of our primary residence and a rental property we own, combined.
You also don’t get ERISA protections if you work for any kind of government agency, including a state university, which both my spouse and I do, so we have a lot of umbrella insurance. So yeah, I agree that it seems like a scam that we think that you should save for retirement and those accounts should be protected from lawsuits… unless you work for the government, are self employed, or happen to leave your job and roll it over into an IRA. That just seems excessively arbitrary.
i’ve never had umbrella insurance
It’s been a while, so I don’t remember exactly how we came up with the amount, but it was a total of net worth — which included our primary home and a vacation home — plus X years of our combined salaries, then rounded up a generous amount.
If you could have one bag from Bottega Veneta, which one would it be and in what color? I struggle with bags for work (default to lightweight nylon laptop totes) and fun bags (either evening bags/clutches or slouchy nylon day bags for Saturday).
I made partner but had a miscarriage the same day and never celebrated that milestone because I was so upset. A Bottega bag is still a splurge, but I am going in circles about getting a non-work bag for a work milestone or a more general “adult” bag because at this point, just surviving is milestone enough.
I’d want to try them on IRL but I would love the Small Andiamo crossbody in the Tannin color – sized that it can actually hold things like sunglasses case + phone + essentials, but small enough to go day-to-night.
Small Andiamo is a good pick, I also really like the Veneta if you want something with more capacity.
I feel like if you’re spending that much money, it should be something you love and something that is distinctive and punchy instead of basic/workwear-y.
Congrats on making partner!
Agreed! And for me, that would be the medium sardine
Oooh please fix the link! Looks cute
Family of four with a three and nine-year-old. Live in Boston and we’re looking to do a Florida Gulf Coast vacation the third week of April next year. The second weekend of that week we have to be in Atlanta for a family wedding and we’ve toyed with driving. My kids can handle it, even with the one-way rental it’s considerably cheaper than flying, and my husband went to college in a remote town that happens to be approximately midpoint on the drive which would make for a fun/easy stop… so I feel strongly we can make that work.
That said, where do we go in Florida? Clearwater is further north, which would help from the drive perspective. I’ve also looked at Marco Island. I have no experience on the Gulf Coast. JW Marriott Marco Island and The Sandpearl in Clearwater have been on our radar. Any experiences with the latter in particular? I have Marriott status, which usually makes me a Marriott snob, but I don’t want to skip over something that might be really great…. Thoughts? Other recs? Help!
What about the beaches around Destin or Pensacola? Shaves a couple hours off your drive to Atlanta, and there are several highly-rated Marriott properties along that stretch.
Too cold to get in the water on the panhandle that time of year. I’ve been on Memorial Day weekend where as far up and down the beach as i could see it was me and half a dozen or less other people in the water.
I haven’t been personally, but my parents love Seaside (in the 30A/Lower Alabama part of the Gulf). And it would be a much shorter drive than the Tampa/St Pete area
For those of you who are co-parenting in a high conflict dynamic, what are your strategies to not let it affect you and your day to day? I’m coparenting a young child with someone who has previously mostly left us alone aside from a few scheduled visits per year and weekly Facetimes, but now wants a lot more involvement and is moving back to our state. I’m getting a lawyer and will figure out a formal custody plan (not sure what it’s going to look like), but what was once a fairly amicable arrangement has turned very sour and hostile (especially after me setting some boundaries). My priority is shielding my child from all this (I’m never saying anything negative about her dad that she can hear, and always encourage her to go have fun with him when it’s his time) and providing stability for her. I’m also cooperating to get him time to see her, but no longer allowing him into my home.
Would love to hear about your experience, and in particular if things thawed over the years and turned into something more amicable and collaborative. It’s exhausting, and I have a big job to manage on top of all this.