I have mentioned my love of Bluetooth keyboards before, but not in a while — and it seems particularly apt to recommend them during these crazy times we’re living in.
If you want to move around your home more when you work but you don’t have a laptop, or if you want to work outside on your balcony or in your backyard but can’t access your WiFi from there, a Bluetooth keyboard is really amazing. It can connect with your phone or tablet, the battery power is pretty good, and this one is only $20.
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I bought this keyboard a couple of years ago, and I use it all the time. (Honestly, I prefer to write on my phone with it, because it’s such an easy way to crank out replies to emails and things like that.)
I really can’t say enough about the freedom that using a Bluetooth keyboard gives you. And when air travel comes back, this is also great to use on your tray table because it doesn’t take up a lot of space. This keyboard is available at Amazon, but you can find similar ones anywhere, including at Target. Arteck Bluetooth Keyboard
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Workwear sales of note for 3.22.23:
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off full-price pants and shirts; extra 30% off all sale styles
- Athleta – 20% off shorts, swim, linen & more
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything; extra 15% off purchase
- Boden – Up to 50% off
- Brooks Brothers – Clearance styles to 70% off. Some pretty serious markdowns!
- Express – Extra 40% off clearance for up to 60% off
- J.Crew – 25% off your purchase; up to 50% off special-occasion styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 50% off everything; extra 15% off 3 styles; extra 20% off 4 styles; extra 50% off clearance
- Sephora – Up to 50% off select beauty
- Talbots – 25% off regular-price dresses, skirts, accessories & shoes
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Anono
PSA: Herbivore is having 25% off of everything sale today! I’ve been trying to refrain from buying online, but that’s a pretty decent sale and I love their products, so I got a little pampering treat for myself. It brightened my day a little at least.
Boredanon
What are your top recommendations for products? I haven’t tried them before.
Anono
I’m so glad you asked. I am bored out of my mind and skincare is one thing I love talking about, so I’m glad to have the excuse to stop thinking about everything going on.
I personally love the blue tansy face mask and the blue lapis oil. I personally have seen a huge benefit to my skin using those products – the blue tansy mask leaves my skin so smooth and really reduces some redness that I typically have in my cheeks. I have tried their other oils (orchid, phoenix, and emerald/cbd oil), and while the orchid oil smells good, I don’t feel like any of the other oils are as good as the blue lapis. The bottle of oil is pretty expensive, which is why this sale was such a good deal, imo. I also have their lip mask, scrub, and tint kit and while I love the color on the tint, I didn’t love the scrub mask for the lips.
Products I’m trying for the first time in the sale: moonfruit night treatment, blue lapis face roller, and amethyst body scrub. Very excited.
Anon
I bought their little sample set (little gems I think?) and I felt like I had the best results with Emerald. Kind of funny in my house because my husband is pro CBD everything, I’m always like “it’s just hype” and then I had to admit this product worked pretty well for me!
Anono
Yes! I had the gems kit too. I think that all of their products are nice, really high quality. I just found that my skin responds the best to the blue tansy and lapis oil. But I think in general, everything they have is good!
Anono
Also forgot to add that their bath salts – both scents smell very good! I haven’t used them but have given them as gifts!
IL
To piggyback off this, both M.M. LaFleur and Pearl Paradise are having sales as well. Been eyeing a pearl necklace because of this site for a while – might finally commit to getting one!
Anonymous
If Trump “reopens the economy” do you think your employers will force you back into the office?
Me: no b/c I always work from home
My husband (in renovation industry) maybe but only if allowed by NY governor and individual buildings – so maybe
Anon
Possibly, and I’m very concerned about that. I am hoping that our governor’s office keeps the Stay Home order in place, as I think my company will abide by that – they generally have reacted very quickly to all of this, so I’m optimistic we can work at home though the worst of this.
In other news, the reports that Trump is going to “reopen the economy” or whatever we’re calling it now are really infuriating me. My mom has been showing symptoms of COVID-19 and got drive through testing done this morning. I’m really freaking out and getting angrier by the minute that the almighty dollar is more important than people’s lives.
Coach Laura
I think if Trump reopens the economy then (1) Governors can still have shelter in place orders that Trump can’t rescind in places with lots of coronavirus; (2) If someone is immuno-compromised or 60+, their employers should let them work at home, given the legislation that is being passed; (3) If an employer won’t let someone work at home who needs to because of health, then I hope public shaming will work on that employer; (4) also hope that unemployment insurance would cover someone staying home temporarily if they need to for health reasons.
anon
what legislation? thank you
chilled coyote
Requiring employers of 500 or fewer employees to offer specified paid sick leave, up to a max of like 12 weeks. Employers would recover the costs as a payroll tax credit.
anon
Yes. My employer is barely OK with us not being at our place of business now. They are open now. They cannot wait for this to be over.
Anon
I wonder how they’ll feel when their employees are taken out for a month if there is an outbreak at your workplace. These businesses are so incredibly short sighted. Is it not better to have workers being mostly as or even more productive at home versus an entire office out sick at once or in waves – and it’s taking people 2-4 weeks to get over this thing.
Anon
My boss hates WFH, but she’s been generous and understanding about this situation. I think she’ll race back to the office as soon as she can, but I’m hopeful she’ll let those of us with health conditions (at the VERY least) stay home. She is no Trump fan and we live in a state with a smart governor.
anon
Our county government is already ignoring the state rules and expecting eveyone to show up as usual, so yes, I’m sure they’d love to have Trump’s support. But the other major local employer sent almost everyone home 2 weeks ago, and I expect they will be proactive about the virus, even if it seriously affects revenue.
Anonymous
I’m not even sure what that means; aren’t most (all?) of the closures on the state level, anyway, and therefore unaffected by whatever Trump does? Best I can tell, all trump did was basically say it’d be nice if you’d stay away from other people for 15 days.
Anon
Exactly. It doesn’t mean anything. He can say “America is open for business” and it won’t do anything. The CDC will just modify its recommendations to apply to “areas with positive cases” to soothe his tiny little ego.
AnonInfinity
It means something in states with governors who follow his lead, and in areas with his followers. Many governors of red states will follow this insane advice until it is far too late.
Ellen
Dad disagrees with any “back to normal” edicts until the virus is done. He values life over $ as we all should.
Anon
My Republican governor is being pretty proactive (we have a stay at home order), and I don’t really see that changing regardless of what Trump says or does. But who knows.
Anonymous
Are you in MA? Because i don’t count Charlie Baker as a Republican governor!
Anon
No, a red Midwestern state that Trump won easily. Our governor is very conservative (not like Baker) but seems to be handling this well so far, and listening to public health experts, not Trump. Hopefully it will stay that way.
Small Law Partner
Probably not. My law firm was implementing a mandatory work from home policy before our state (California) had a stay at home order, and many were already WFH before the firm itself said we should. By the time the order went into effect, we had transitioned everyone to working remotely. I can’t imagine us rushing everyone back to the office. That god I work at a reasonable place.
My husband will likely be forced back to the office. He has a relevant underlying health condition so has been working from home for weeks, but his company overall wouldn’t officially “let” people work from home until the state ordered it and I guess people he works with are still going to the office in violation of the stay at home order.
tesyaa
I’m super grateful for getting laid off in early February lol. But I think my old employer would have been reasonable. My daughter overseas is in a job where no one ever worked from home, and now everyone is working from home, and she’s optimistic that when this is “over” there will be much more flexibility at least at her employer.
Anon
That’s funny, I have the opposite take – I think managers and executives feel people are being extremely unproductive now and there’s likely to be some backlash about WFH when this is all over. Of course, people who are working at home aren’t normally being caregivers for babies, toddlers and school age children, so obviously situation is very different and not reflective of how productive someone could be WFH in a normal situation. But I’m not sure the decision-makers fully process that distinction.
Io
My take has been that once employers realize that work from home is an option at all, they’ll outsource all the jobs they can to India! I’m expecting massive layoffs in the next two years for white collar workers.
Anonymous
Trump didn’t close my state and he can’t open it.
MagicUnicorn
Yes I am very concerned that my boss would try to reason that the president is a higher authority than our state governor and would expect us to be back in the office if Trump makes any sort of declaration she can latch onto as an “official” order, regardless of whether our state is still on stay home orders from the governor or not. I have already decided that I will quit if she is that stupid.
She is currently trying to argue that collecting our office UPS deliveries constituted “essential activity” and thus we should have a body in the office every day even though our state is on shutdown. (Our staff is able to work entirely from home and nothing we do can in any way be construed as essential to society.)
Miserly duck
Not an American (so our rules are different).
We made the decision to pay our paralegals their normal pay for COVID leave for up to two weeks (if they’re in quarantine for symptoms and can’t do their jobs from home). Not a unanimous decision (as some wanted them to use vacation/take unpaid leave). So it’s awkward, made more awkward because the two people who didn’t want to pay responded by email after the decision was made in accordance with our rules.
Locally it’s a whole mix of layoffs, forced vacation/unpaid leave and telling staff to apply for EI. With most of the larger firms going with layoffs and the smaller ones being more supportive.
Just depressing all around.
There’s also no confirmed COVID cases in my city for what it’s worth.
Tiny things you would fix to improve the world?
It’s suddenly a lot harder to handle small irritating things (that’s how you can tell the big things are taking up a lot of space, right?). What daily annoyances would you get rid of?
Mine would be trash bags that are just a little too small to stay up in the can with anything inside them.
Co
I went for a run this morning after a very long time… and spent most of the time pulling my Lululemon Wunder Unders up. Can anyone recommend any other leggings that feel like Lulus luxtreme fabric? I LOVE the fabric because it’s so lightweight and durable but would prefer to spend less money this time!
Anon
Not sure if it feels like the same fabric, but I’m normally a Lulu wearer and recently bought a pair of Sweaty Betty Power Leggings, and am super happy with them. They have sales more often than Lulu too.
Anon
I can’t run in my “normal” (soft, cottony) LuLu pants. I have to switch to the ones made for running, not yoga. They just can’t stay up with all the moving…I think. I really don’t get it, to be honest. I think I have two pairs of the “Fast and Free.” Not cheap. But I love those things and I wear athleisure seven days a week so it’s worth it. (WFH attorney–I change into “work clothes” for client meetings then go home and promptly change out of them :).)
Anonymous
I can only run in shorts. So I have no idea.
Anon
I have to tell you, ladies, this issue did not exist before skin-tight pants became a thing (again) in the otts. With your compression luxury leggings, any little weight or rise or pelvic bone structure variations from whatever model they used is going to get you in trouble. Get yourself a drawsting jogger and call it a day! I can’t imagine spending this much mindspace on sweatpants (not just you! This question comes up almost daily here.)
Anon
How do you manage to make a comment about sweatpants sound so incredibly patronizing? I almost have to admire the level of condescension that you clearly have for other women.
Gggg
Anon,
It’s a frequent problem on this site – women act like someone else’s choices are somehow a negative statement about them!
pugsnbourbon
And the lil dig at all the “mindspace” OP is devoting to sweatpants. She just asked a question about a product that many people on this board are familiar with.
FWIW, pants falling down is an ancient, perennial issue. Otzi the Iceman was found with leggings and a belt. Suspenders have been in use since at least the 1820s and Samuel Clemens held a US patent for a type. Mindspace.
Jessica
Yes, absolutely love my wireless keyboard! I started using this one recently and like that it holds my tablet and phone and I can easily switch back and forth between devices: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/k780-multi-device-wireless-keyboard
Jennifer
Is the bluetooth keyboard that you’re showing above one that “clacks” when typing (can’t stand that!)
Kat G
It’s not totally silent but it isn’t very loud/punchy either, if that makes sense.