Coffee Break: Meraki Cardigan
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It's finally (sort of) (almost) sweater weather… and this one from Aritzia looks great.
After our recent roundup of classic cardigan sets I've been getting a lot of social media ads for sweaters, including this gorgeous wrap one that's down to VERY lucky sizes — but it made me start poking around Aritzia's pretty extensive collection of cardigans. (Also love this sweater lady jacket and this one.)
I'm featuring this ivory one (above) because it looks great — on trend but also more practical in that the flared, longer sleeves aren't SO flared or too long that they'll interrupt your life. I also like that it's 100% merino wool.
The pictured sweater is $148, available in six colors, sizes 2XS-XL.
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For a lighter note this afternoon, have any of you successfully started a book club? How did you choose the meeting night and recruit members?
I’m in my forties and this feels like an unfulfilled part of adulthood I always wanted to have. I want to give it a shot. I’m a big reader (and most of my friends know that) so it’s a little sad I’ve never been invited. The solution clearly seems to be to start one! So please give me all your advice!
Have you asked about attending the ones that have not invited you? I know of several in my sphere and they are all welcoming of new people, but they don’t usually issue invitations (especially if they are in the middle of a book).
Mmm they’re pretty longstanding and do things like travel together already, so feels a little weird to ask. Maybe I will.
i’ve loved being in a book club, but honestly, the biggest issue is getting people to actually show up. the most successful one i was in was in my late 20s when people were single or newlyish married and no one had kids yet. Now, I’d love to be in a book club. I’m also in my 40s, but between evening kid activities and DH’s work travel, I’m not in a stage of life where I could make it work. Make sure you invite people who can actually commit. also- what is the goal of your book club? if you really want people to read/discuss books, you might see if your local library or bookstore already has a book club people can attend. if you want like 10-20 minutes of book chat and then lots of socializing, starting your own might make more sense
Yes! My book club has been going strong for over 15 years. We have a core group that’s been around from the start, but we’ve had people move away and brought in new people to keep things fresh.
I started it with a good friend. We each brought in three people. Here’s what we do and what I think helps keep things running smoothly:
We have a yearly calendar where you sign up for a month — this helps eliminate the “who’s hosting next?” conversation every month.
We have a shared Google Calendar where we post our hosting dates well in advance.
Hosts choose book options. A volunteer collects book choices from the hosts on a quarterly basis and creates a poll for us all to vote from. That way we have the next three months’ books chosen well in advance.
We maintain a shared spreadsheet of everything we’ve read by month/year.
In December, we take the month off from assigned reading and do an annual holiday tea!
All of this works because a few key organized members are committed to keeping it working. At this point it’s a pretty well-oiled machine, though! It took some time to figure out what worked.
do it! I’ve been in one that’s running very successfully for about 3 years now, we’ve had a few members change but pretty consistent. We basically started it with a reach out to a few different friend groups with openness to bring other friends that may be interested.
things to think about that have worked well for us: we’re on a variety of paths (some single, some married, some kids) but similar work schedules.
we keep the hosting very light. Bottle of wine, sparkling water, chips & salsa or a veggie tray etc. It’s mostly about discussing the book & friend time. I know other friends who the book club night is very much about A THEME, appetizers that tie in to the book, getting cute pictures, etc. So make sure you’re all on the same page with what you want it to be.
we’ve done a few different ways of choosing books. One year, we all put different genres in a hat and drew for our month. Jane is picking a memoir in January, Susan is picking a book by a local author in February, etc. At the end of the year, we read a book for November that’s been made into a movie & then watch the movie for December, which has been super fun and works well with holiday craziness.
for dates, we started with the first Tuesday of the month, for example, but then had to do so much group text shuffling with various commitments. Now we finalize the date the month before (whoever is attending gets a say) and that’s working well.
I’m 40 and started a book club earlier this year! The Bookclubs app is a great tool for starting a book club. It has voting options for day/time and selecting a book, and sends reminders. We use the app a bit but now coordinate mostly through our WhatsApp group. We meet monthly on a Wednesday evening at a restaurant. We try to take turns selecting a book. It’s been great – I’m reading more books now, in genres that are outside my usual go-tos. There are six people in our group and it’s growing. If you want to start a book club and you know a few people who are interested, go for it!
I have never started one personally, but the one I’m in is a spin-off of my Rotary Club. (“Rotary Readers!”) So if you are involved in any other group — PTA, bar assn, even the gym — you might want to see if people from there are interested in a book club. They can form the core group and then you can invite other people as you like.
More logistics: We pick our books for the year in August — people nominate them by providing title, author, number of pages, and a brief synopsis. Our ironclad rule is you have to have read the book before you can nominate it. Then people make their pitches at the August meeting, and we each vote for 12 books off the list (which is usually maybe 15-20 books). Generally the person who nominated the book is the one to lead the discussion about that book. We also set the locations for the meetings at that meeting, and if it turns out you can’t host the one you volunteered for, it’s up to you to find somebody to trade with. The club chair sends out email reminders every month and then people RSVP to the person at whose house the meeting will be held (so they know how many chairs to have and so on). We do a very unstructured potluck. Sometimes we end up with just salads and desserts and wine, and we just roll with it.
Unlike some clubs, ours doesn’t require you to have read the book. On more than one occasion I’ve either not started or not finished the book, and the discussion at the meeting has inspired me to read/finish it.
Another idea is to start a book club where there is no assigned book and everybody just talks about the book they read that month. I am seriously considering starting a club like that.
Also libraries and book stores often have them so that might be a good place to start! I’ve been a member of one at my local bookstore for 10+ years and it’s great.
For those of you who were parental executors, how do you deal with a really wretched sibling while hopefully not burning bridges with nieces and nephews you adore? None of this is worth fighting over and right now, I’m comfortable (so I could buy my own silver or crystal). But it bothers me that my rotten constantly bailed out mean as a snake and of no help at all sibling wants the silver just because I went to estate sales for years and bought pieces here and there. Relationship is just via text. Not local to me.
“None of this is worth fighting over.” Repeat your own words back to yourself as needed.
So just hand over all of the good things?
I’d be worried about it being one thing then another then another. First the silver. Then the 401K. Remind me to die with no possessions, just cash.
Yes. Either it’s worth fighting over or it isn’t, and if it isn’t, don’t.
And trust me (as someone who has willingly given up china, silver, crystal to family members/goodwill) your life will be less burdensome without this. If there are good vases though, maybe negotiate and take those.
Don’t acknowledge the troll, don’t engage with the troll, don’t feed the troll. Grey rock. Stay calm in the moment. Be neutral, professional, and boring.
Boy, I could use this reminder while commenting here!
Go for a long, hard run. Take up boxing. Ask your neighbors if they need any wood split for the winter.
No on point experience. But when I deal with difficult people, I constantly ask myself whether I’d rather be right or happy, and conclude I’d rather be happy. In some instances, that makes me seem like a pushover. But I diminish the stress in my life by not dealing with the person more than is absolutely necessary.
With the example that you gave, I’d walk away from the stuff and let Nasty Sibling have it to buy my own peace. I’d try to remember that I did the work of collecting it to bring joy to my parents, and they enjoyed it – and hopefully I thought that the estate sale shopping was fun too.
My parents both knew that the division of their respective parents’ stuff would get ugly with the siblings. So they long planned to fly in for the funerals and then leave and ask for nothing, which is what they did. They both said that approach was worth it to them.
I’m like this with my spouse: would I rather be right (or “right,” as many interpersonal things are not subject to a right answer, just a strong preference or “what works for me” or “what is easier, logistically” or “what can I reasonably do given time and $ constraints”) or happy.
But I love my spouse and he’s generally reasonable. IDK that I could be like that with a bully (but maybe if it’s the final straw and I’m never ever ever engaging after that). I’d rather my siblings kids didn’t hear that “Rich Aunt Katie kept half the silver and that’s why you won’t ever have any,” but with that type, the kids aren’t stupid and they will probably hear some more trash talked about you. They all eventually figure it out.
How old are the nieces and nephews?
Depending entirely on your goals, I’d just…not engage via text with your sibling and have a relationship with their children separately.
If your sibling is like mine, tell him/her how they can obtain the valuables they want. Eg. “They will be in the garage for you to pick up from X to Y. After that they will be donated.” Mine is all talk and never shows up.
Nieces and nephews are a mix of young adult and teens still at home. So, difficult. And other than my cousins and their kids, my only relatives.
An estate attorney can advise you on this but:
– if something is not a specific devise (Jen gets the silver), then it’s part of the whole estate that is split according to the instructions in the will (1/3, 1/3, 1/9, 1/9, 1/19; etc.).
– if it’s a specific devise that’s valuable, presuming the parent is still around, you can have them build into the will that the property at issue must be appraised, and that appraised amount will be subtracted from the general amount (the 1/3 that person would have gotten). For example, I have only one brother. His wife always covets my mom’s jewelry. So I had my parents write into the will that I get the jewelry, but that “comes off the top” of my share.
However, if your sibling is nasty, and your parent is gone, and you’re the executor, follow the will to the T, keep receipts (in case you have to do an accounting of the estate) and grey rock, as folks have said before. You communicate via email or text (written), don’t engage, and remember, that the decisions are ultimately yours as the executor, even if sibling disagrees, so long as you are following the will.
That’s cr@ppy of you. Hopefully your mom will put aside a few pieces for her daughter-in-law. I’m sure she isn’t “coveting” so much as admiring.
My grandmother gave all of her pieces to her daughter, but you know, her sons had children, too. It would have been nice for a more even division.
I can’t imagine having an opinion over who my grandma chose to leave her things to if she made her wishes clear.
Its very human to have an opinion about why grandma didn’t think of you.
Not the person you’re responding to; that’s a perfectly reasonable way of handling the situation. The insults aren’t necessary or helpful.
Jewelry has both monetary and sentimental value. I get why OP feels strongly if it seems like SIL cares more about how pretty or expensive the piece is than the fact that Dad bought it for a special anniversary. My mom has made it clear that her jewelry is being left to me and I can share it with SIL if I choose to, but I get first dibs. There are no grandchildren yet but she’ll put it in writing if she wants my niece to receive a certain item.
I guess it’s a declaration of “only my daughter and her family get to have things that are meaningful to me.” It’s needlessly divisive, especially when you have grandkids from sons and daughters who want mementos of things that carried meaning. It feels a lot like “sorry, we don’t trust your mom to not be grasping and you all descend from her, a woman we don’t trust.”
Except that people married in come and go (sadly), but the grands are there always. If the grands are complete (barring any remarriages), I’d give out to them directly in my lifetime (as well as to female children, understanding that jewelry and scarves are just unique items with sentiment and utility and there are other things like art or other items they may want)).
What? It’s my mom. My brother only has sons. What would they want with her jewelry? My mom would rather it “stay in the family.” Also, side note, my brother is a biglaw partner and makes MILLIONS per year. hi wife can afford any jewelry she wants, but she isn’t even close with my mom!
My nephew loves my jewelry, and I assume he’ll have a family one day and want things he can pass on to his children. I would never assume these things don’t have meaning to him. I’m not talking anything major, but a few bracelets and gold charms. Things they can touch and love and that will make them smile.
Your mom can handle this any way she wants of course, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for your sister in law or nephews to be interested in family jewelry – maybe she is hurt by being treated as not “of the family”, maybe your nephews would like the option to give something important to their family to their wife/fiance someday, or a daughter, etc.
Yes. My dad’s family treated my mom this way and I think it’s so inexcusable.
Process. Processes are in place for this and you follow them.
“Absent explicit directives to the contrary, the silver is divided as everything else is. We can take the silver to be appraised. We can split it down the middle or one of us can buy the other one out. Please let me know if you would like me to have it appraised.”
my father has been executors a few times and every time he has made a spreadsheet with estimated values — start with the big stuff like accounts but everything needs to be accounted for, and when you get to the stuff that you don’t care to make a guess as to what it costs you can divvy it up however you want to.
I need some advice.
My ex husband is very controlling and I find it hard to deal with his interference and lack of coordination. I have a parent coordinator in place. He is just annoying, it impacts the kids and I don’t have time for it.
Latest example is French lessons for one of our 3 children. Said child is 7th grade and very ADD so immature for her age. She wants to do the lessons. They are offered through school with a very reasonable cost for 6 weeks of lessons. Half the lessons are during my time. Half during his.
What’s bothered me is that 2.5 weeks ago I sent a message through the app to him asking to coordinate afterschool activities. He never replied to my message. He has started communicating with the school saying he wasn’t aware of any of these programs. I sent him everything over 2 weeks ago. Kids are in limbo waiting because school said you need to commit to both.
He has the IEP team doing visual planners etc and yet he can’t bloody communicate anything to me. The kids are not ok. They are confused. I’m stressed out because I’ve asked, been ignored and now I’m sorting it out in a rush with our child missing two lessons and starting late.
How do I not let this stress me out? I’m someone who likes order and this chaos is exhausting.
I would assume this is…what’s it called…weaponized incompetence? He’s intentionally not looking at your messages so this can blow up and he can say he didn’t know. I don’t know exactly what a parent coordinator does, but it seems to me their job should be to go between the parents and make sure messages like this get delivered. For any message you send directly to him, you follow up at 48 hours seeking confirmation.
And there’s no way out of this, I’m afraid, only through. Hang on til the youngest turns 18. Good luck.
I’m so sorry. I lead a Scout troop and have a child in this situation (although in that case the dad is the polite and responsive parent). It’s frustrating for me but I know it’s a million times more frustrating for the child and the responsible parent.
is anyone else annoyed recently by trying to type in Safari? Not even sure what to google, but it seems like if there’s a place to type like a FB comment i can’t see what i’m typing and it’s hard to move the cursor in the comment.
Apple is good at many things, but terrible at browsers and keyboards, so Safari is the worst of both worlds.
Chapter 13 here. How do I gently tell my best friend (who is also my in-law) that I don’t need financial advice from her? She doesn’t take criticism well so it needs to be gentle, but I am sick and tired of her always commenting on my financial situation. Every time I mention something that I’m excited about – whether it’s trying to get concert tickets, planning on trading in my 15 year old car (one day), or buying a small treat for myself, she comments on the financial aspect of it with “how did you pay for that?” or “that’s something to save for in the future.” It’s these not so little jabs and micro-aggressions and I’m so sick of it. I wish I had never told her about my chapter 13. I’m financially fine, I’m 3 years into a 5 year plan so 24 payments from being done (and possibly fewer payments if I double up, which I could do with my new salary). I don’t need or want her financial criticism. What do I say in these situations?
Adding that ignoring hasn’t worked.
I’m not sure, but if you need to tread carefully… “I’m really relieved that I can afford things like this again. Thanks for your support getting here”? Or basically what you just said to us (“I’m financially fine”). I’m not sure how much she knows, but “it’s handled, nothing to worry about anymore” is what I’d be trying to convey.
And I’m assuming that she genuinely is trying to be supportive and is worrying about how you’re doing financially, and would welcome being reassured that you’re on track now.
If it is more that she has hang ups like resentment or something that she hasn’t worked through in her own relationship to finances, that may be different.
+1 to this. It is a kind way to make it clear your past is in the past. If she continues the comments, then address it more clearly.
A BFF should be able to hear that her money-related jabs toward you need to stop. You aren’t an addict who is in danger of backsliding at any moment. Your finances are in order, you are making responsible decisions, and permanent austerity is not the goal.
I’m sad to say I rain a lot on my mom’s parade because her financial situation isn’t fine and she has big, BIG dreams. I’d absolutely support her dreams if they were realistic. Have you updated this person? Does she know your financial situation is fine? Or – maybe are these comments not directed AT you – and she’s just a financially conservative person and she’d say that to anyone?
“Susan, thanks for your concern, but my situation is fine now, it really is, and it’s mine to worry about as needed. Please don’t worry about it anymore. Wanna go get ice cream?”
Use your words! It’s OK to directly address a topic head-on, and you should, if you want change!
“Hi, Friend. I know we’re close and I haven’t been perfect with money in the past. But I wanted to raise something that has become painful for me. When I mention X, you tend to make a lot of comments, including advice. I value our friendship, and I want to be able to tell you things. But if I tell you things, and you make comments or give me advice, it’s become hurtful to me, because even if you mean it differently, I am interpreting it as Y. Could you work on please offering less commentary on my financial situation? I’m doing better now, and it’s in no small part to your help and support. But I find these comments judgy and hurtful. [Pause, hear her out].
“Great–thanks for letting me get that off my chest.”
Being on the receiving end of this long and needy of a speech would have me exit the friendship so fast.
Way too long. Ugh. If I was the recipient, I would dissolve into the floor during this speech, lol.
Step 1: clarify that you are comfortable without giving too many details.
Remind her that you’re doing a full payoff of all debt.
Remind her that with your new salary, you have not-insubstantial discretionary income.
Mention that you are also saving.
Do NOT give too many details. “Hey Sara, I know you’re concerned about me. Just remember that I’m doing a full payoff of all of my debt, and I have room in my monthly budget for extras, even after 401k contributions.”
Step 2: remind her that five years is a long time, that cars need replacing, and budgeted fun money is *normal.*
“Hey Sara, I am not going to have a financially healthy life by going to the opposite extreme of saving every cent and pouring money into a broken-down car. I’m in this for the long haul, and that involves a balance of debt payments, savings, and spending on things that matter.”
Step 3: “Sara, I’m actually really tired of hearing this from you. Stop.”
Agree with others to update her that you’re doing better. If she keeps at it, I would tell her it’s a relief to have everything under control & what she can do for you as a friend is to help you break the habit of worrying over things that are now fine … to enjoy some time without a financial focus. Sometimes friends are there to give us an enjoyable break from the more serious things in life & that’s the best way for her to help, you know?
In a kind tone, “why do you ask” or “why do you say that”? Be genuinely curious as a default and make space to hear what’s going on with her. Because my guess is that this is 90% not about you, so you might as well find out what it is about if she’s actually your best friend.
Because that’s ridiculous. She knows good and well why she’s asking.
OP, it’s fine to say that things are on track and she can let go of any worry she has about you.
Oh yes, god forbid you approach your best friend with kindness and grace. Absolutely ridiculous concept.
It’s not lacking in kindness and grace to reassure a friend that things are going better now.
Saying “why do you ask?” isn’t kindness and grace! It’s clearly meant to shut down the conversation and make the question-asker uncomfortable. Which is totally fine for a stranger or acquaintance asking invasive personal questions, but rude for a BFF imo.
Said kindly, “why do you ask” is a conversation starter, not ender.
My therapist gave me wording to deal with my MIL. Similar to this: “Please keep comments about my finances to a minimum.”
I would do this, after ONE talk in which you briefly explain that things have changed for the better as suggested by Anon at 3:20 p.m.
Agree. Im
I’m the Anon at 3/20 pm. Glad my scripts were somewhat useful!
(I recently ended a friendship of 20 years because she would not stop bullying me and steamrolling me over things that weren’t her business. There were three rather egregious incidents. It wasn’t even like her mandates for my life were good; they were objectively awful, counterproductive, and dysfunctional. Okay chickie, I’m not judging you because you made the decision to quit your partner-track law firm job to help your man-child husband with his poker career, so why treat me like this?)
Yes, you sound like the epitome of non-judgmentalism.
To commenter below: you can judge without letting on that you’re judging. It’s doable!
This is pretty snippy which may be okay for a hostile MIL, but for a BFF?
I know the comments aren’t great, but there are times in life when it is nice to have people who have our back, even if that comes at the expense of maximum faith that we don’t need this.
It’s not meant to be a relationship ending retort. It’s meant to signal a boundary. I agree it might help to explain you are fine financially first, but if the comments keep coming, you can say something like this.
I would end the relationship as much as possible if I received a harsh/snippy comment like this. There are much kinder ways to set boundaries with people you love. I used language like this with my abusive ex, and it was great for him.
Someone asking you over and over about how you handle your finances is rude though! I’ve had close friends who went bankrupt and I never once asked them if they could afford something. To do that over and over shows you lack awareness.
“Please keep x to a minimum” is just not how I talk to friends! You tell them how you feel. You let them know that finances are a sensitive topic. Let them know you don’t need help. Communicate. You’re in a friendship, and you both have a perspective. Am I totally off base?
I know that sometimes we also need to set boundaries with people who are not friends, and the point is just to shut down the behavior that needs to stop. I guess if this had entered bad habit territory, it might make sense to say something like “you’re biting your nails again, Cheryl.” But there’s a difference between signaling a boundary and basically hand slapping somebody for crossing a boundary they never knew you had in the first place.
And saying “Please keep comments about my finances to a minimum” shows you lack awareness of how to talk to people you actually like.
Also I don’t think it was meant to be a word-for-word script. Note the posted said “something like” the suggested phrase. I like the phrasing from Anon at 4:53 p.m., below.
This isn’t comparable to asking someone to stop biting their nails! This is someone being rude to you over and over and not stopping after you tell them they have no need to worry about you. Saying something short and to the point is not as crazy as you make it sound.
The specific language this person suggested is pretty crazy if you like the person you’re talking to!
“I appreciate your concern but please don’t worry about my finances. Things are under control. [subject change.]”
So much better than any of the other scripts given here so far. Simple and clear.
This is the way.
I’m a mid-40s individual contributor. My job was supposed to be 50% public speaking/ 25% graphic design/ 25% business writing. Over the years, it’s morphed into 100% business writing. I am demonstrably worse at business writing…or at least my boss’ version of it. (I have vague memories in my 20s of being the business writing star that everyone took their materials to.) He’s mid-40s, too, and a nice guy. He’ll call me up and say he wants a one-page document about the history of teapots. So I go and write a one-page history of teapots. He’ll return to me and say, “Make the history look like this other one we did.” Oh, ok, so I do that. But it turns out he didn’t mean graphically/visually, he meant thematically, so it ends up that I sent him another useless draft. So he turns my draft inside out and produces his own history of teapots, making all of what I’ve done virtually useless. We have a department meeting about the draft. I stay silent and take notes. He takes different notes right in the body of the document, noting exactly which lines need to be changed. He later sends me the draft with notes like, “Write more about lids,” “Include handle design here,” “Cite Johnson’s Teapot Lore,” and asks me to do so. I try again and my contributions are all wrong again – I don’t use the vocabulary desired, I don’t write enough or I write too much, I organize my thoughts differently than he organizes his thoughts.
This happens on every writing assignment. Every one. But the pattern’s never the same, it’s never the same corrections, oh no, it’s something different every time, where the effect is that I deliver unusable slop.
I feel genuinely stupid. But I can’t be, right? I have a college degree and two graduate degrees. I wasn’t an honor student in grad school like I was in high school and college, but I’m not dumb, I don’t think. This job leaves me wondering if I’ve acquired some sort of mental disability. It sounds stupid, but I don’t know how I can ALWAYS turn in the wrong written product for my boss.
I’m actively job hunting for a job that’s 75 public speaking/25 graphic design and ZERO long-form business writing. Please send job dust. Feeling like a loser all the time is no bueno.
I don’t see you referencing asking clarifying questions anywhere in your description of what’s happening here. Are you not doing that? If you are not, start. It will clarify things for both of you.
Agreed. I’m a writer and it’s very important to get details on what is being asked for before you start in on the work, especially when your stakeholders are as picky as this.
A kick-off meeting might help clarify some of these things (creating an outline together, going over visuals to include, etc.), but it also seems like the expectations of your boss changes too, so that’s its own variable. Some writers also work from creative briefs, which helps define the project more so you do less mind reading. It shouldn’t be this bad, but to a certain degree, a writer’s job is to be flexible and roll with the punches, because some stakeholders don’t know what they want until they see what’s supposed to be the final product, so there are often changes requested that you shouldn’t take personally. The same thing can happen for graphic designers. I am a writer who commiserated with my fellow graphic designers about this a lot.
If you have a cash back card you love, what is it? We don’t travel much so are cancelling our CSR given the fee increase.
PNC Cash Unlimited – 2% back on all purchases, I like that it is a flat amount and doesn’t rotate categories so I don’t need to remember which card to use for what.
I like my Citibank Double Cash Card. Two points on everything.
The Amex Blue Cash preferred (I think that’s the correct name) that gives us a big grocery bonus has made us a lot of money.
Fidelity Rewards Visa Signature. 2% cash back on everything, but you can choose to put your cash back into a fidelity investment account.
+1
I have everything at Fidelity. Investments, retirement funds, and they are my check writing / ATM withdrawals bank.
But I also have a few store credit cards for higher cash back at those specific places: Costco, Amazon.