Coffee Break: Teo Loafer

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1. We are finally moving to an area where Costco will be accessible to us! Talk me into or out of a membership? We have a baby and a dog.

   1. You neeeeed it!! Great prices on fresh produce. Tide detergent is several dollars cheaper at our Costco than anywhere else. Cheap athleisure attire 😂 Their ready-made dinners (just heat up) will save you on busy nights – stuffed peppers, tacos, salmon. We’re now an hour away from a Costco and I miss it so much!

      1. Bummer, Tide is not cheaper at ours compared to Walmart, Target, etc.

      2. I live in Costco athleisure attire.

         Also great for stocking up on paper towels, TP, dishwasher detergent, etc. Just be prepared to spend a lot every time you go.

   2. Dog food and diapers and gas alone will be worth the membership, everything else is a bonus.

      1. I was thinking this! Thanks for confirming my hunch.

      2. Yes, exactly this.

   3. We use it for dry goods/shelf stable foods like dog food, paper towels, toilet paper, pasta, jarred tomatoes, rice, and also for meats which we find to be a good quality – usually buy and then subdivide to freezer. Frozen mango chucks are are great people or dog snack on hot days. I Instacart it monthly. Online store has good deals on kids clothes that actually last.

      Fresh produce at the farmer’s market on Saturdays which we actually enjoy. Rarely go to an actual grocery store.

   4. Bully sticks for your dog are loads cheaper, as are dog beds.

      I also find Costco’s cotton bath towels to be very high quality for the price.

      Bulk olive oil and spices are loads cheaper.

      Depending on how big your dog is, the dog food may be a deal. My dog is 17 lbs, so buying a 40-lb bag of dog food means it’d go stale by the time she ate her 2/3 c/day. But if your dog is larger, their dog food is well-regarded.

      And my friend just had a shower this weekend and Costco did NINE flower arrangements for under $100, and they were packed with pretty blooms. We could not believe what a good deal it was.

      1. We have a Lab who eats 2 cups/day of Hill’s, so I’m glad to hear good things about the dog food!

   5. No-brained. You get one. You will see why.

      1. *brainER*

   6. I will be the naysayer. For me, I buy more than I need, and the parking lot is a nightmare. Lines around the block for gasoline at not that huge of a discount.

      1. I love my Costco, but I can’t handle the weekend crowds so I go on weekday mornings or evenings. Not Monday, though. or Friday.

         1. The gas lines are every day of the week!

         2. Or Saturday — that’s when they do the bulk of the samples. Families of five come in and cluster around the “free food.”

            I have a set routine and I just want to zip from one section to another without the large groups slowing me down. Sunday at opening is good. Come to think of it, there’s a subreddit devoted to Costco with posts about when to go, what’s a bargain, and how to stay out of people’s way! I just looked it up and it’s–shocker–r/Costco. Recommended!

            Also — I haven’t read all the way down, so maybe someone else mentioned this, but with a membership you can order online and have things delivered. When my vacuum broke, I had a new one two days later, for instance.

      2. Same. Diapers were never a deal there compared to the price at my local non-chain grocery store. Most other things were too hard to store due to size or were things that I would not have bought at all if shopping elsewhere.

         We have a non-membership restaurant supply store in our area that I frequent for things like bulk dry goods, frozen fruit and meat, and big packs of sliced cheese. It is a small footprint store that I can get through in under 15 minutes, always clean, not chaotic or stressful, and the parking lot is easy to navigate. They also have free online ordering with curbside pickup.

      3. Also a naysayer. We are not super close to one, but tried it out when we had a baby. Diapers did not seem hugely discounted there, and I hated the mega-store shopping experience.

         1. They have Instacart now but that really wipes out the discount unless the competing stores are also really expensive (my competing stores are also really expensive so it’s kind of a wash).

            1. You can enter your Costco membership number into your Instacart account, and then you get discounted member prices.

   7. I feel like Costco is most worth it if you have storage space and a deep freezer.

      1. Yes, and if you are loyal to certain brands carried by Costco or like the Kirkland version. Costco is a good value on a lot of things, but isn’t always the cheapest version of whatever item (ie target up and up brand might actually be cheaper per oz than Kirkland). It’s great quality for the price but sometimes I just don’t need the best quality, you know? I do like getting bigger versions of things we use a lot of (like peanut butter) just do I’m not replacing jars every week or whatever. But it can wreck your budget with impulse purchases. And i refer to my costco as the 8th circle of hell. It is always busy snd crowded no matter when I go. Signed, don’t go to the store hungry

      2. Agree. I didn’t find it useful for just two people, but maybe it works better for larger families.

         1. Dad loves Cosco, and he stocks up on alot of meat in our freezer. When I was in college, Dad got me a computer from Cosco and he gets vitamins there for Grandma Leyeh.

         2. It is not for those of us who live in smaller homes from the early 60s with no closet space or pantries.

   8. Maybe the diapers will make it make sense? I’d really study that. My husband and I quit our membership years ago. Buying bulk didn’t make a lot of sense for us. Yes, we bought shelf-stable things like paper towels and whatnot, but we grew tired of cabinets and closets stuffed to the gills. It’s just a lot easier to do regular grocery shopping. For whatever we saved, we probably left with an equal spend on things we wouldn’t have purchased otherwise. It all just seemed like a lot of chaos and hassle for deals that weren’t really deals. I think the memberships only make sense for large families or those who entertain a lot. Otherwise, who needs all those huge bulk things?

   9. My friends with small children complain that their kids eat a wild amount of fresh berries. So get it now for the diaper savings and keep it for the produce prices :)

   10. Love my Costco membership. One of the biggest things we use for it that makes it make sense is gas, though — is there a Costco with gas station near enough that that can be your primary gas station?

       I’d also do it if you’re moving to a new area and expect to buy new fridge, washer dryer, etc. They have a 2-5% cashback guarantee so I just got a $160 check from them for everything i bought last year; we’re renewing our membership at $60.

   11. I didn’t love it when I tried it (also with a baby and a dog). I found it not practical to do my weekly grocery shop there because the stock varied so much (yogurt would be there one week but not the next). To me, any savings were canceled out by the inconvenience of having to grocery shop twice.

   12. My husband is 100% WFH and honestly only wears clothes from Costco at this point. Also the produce and frozen foods are great. Diapers and dog food. Cakes for kids birthday parties. So many more items to list. We have a lunch date at Costco once a month. Stock up and eat in their cafe.

   13. If you get a membership and don’t like it, they’ll refund your membership fee. No harm in trying.

   14. We love Costco. But we also live in the suburbs with enough storage space and our Costco isn’t that busy so the lines for gas aren’t bad. When our kids were babies we bought diapers and wipes there. Now that we have pre-teens and teenagers, we buy tons of snacks, fresh produce, meat, oatmeal, nuts, olive oil, canned coconut milk, rice, beans. toilet paper, paper towels, laundry soap, allergy meds, tires for our cars, camping/outdoor gear. Actually we bought a tent from Costco like three years ago that was just damaged in a crazy windstorm while we were camping and Costco took it back and gave us a full refund. Their return policy is really good. We also like the alcohol selection, though we aren’t big drinkers.

   15. I live by myself, and I love my Costco membership. I rarely shop there for just myself – things like toilet paper I usually have to split with a neighbor. I do shop there for parties – party platters for office parties and alcohol (especially the house brand) for parties at home. Their giant bags of frozen fruit are really handy for sangria. Their toothpaste/vitamins/soap prices tend to be good, especially if you look for a sale. Their return policy also is really good, so I try to buy any small electric appliances with a tendency to break there (vacuum sealer, for instance). But what really makes it worth it is the travel site – I usually make up the cost of the yearly membership in car rental discounts alone, and they offer a free additional driver. And of course there is the rotisserie chicken.

   16. I make up the membership price in just gas savings. I try to go mid-week but the lines at mine go fast even on weekends so there is apparently a lot of variability.

       I love it for other things (berries; vodka – which I use to deodorize to I go through A LOT); frozen salmon; salad greens, eggs, flowers; tires. But the gas savings is probably why makes it financially worth it for me.

   17. Their macaroni and cheese in an aluminum tray for parties is to die for.

2. Does anyone else have a problem with “too many tabs open,” both literally and figuratively? Really feeling today how hard it is for me to stay on track with what I’m doing with 80 tabs open.

   1. 100%. For the literal too many tabs, I find it helpful to cluster them into separate browser windows – so all tabs related to project A, B, C, etc. can be minimized/brought up together as needed.

   2. I mean, no human can process thought. The human brain can remember something like six things for a reasonable period of time before it’s done. You just gotta close those tabs and single task. We think we’re good at multitasking, but we aren’t.

   3. Close ’em all, go get a cup of coffee+ some sunshine then get back to work.

      1. I agree. I only have 3 things open on my computer. The breif work I am doing on MS Word, the Internet (now on Corporete), and my billing application, so that every time I toggle, I can just go back and keep my billings current, meaning I bill 20 hours/day.

   4. My coworkers are like you and I get anxious just looking at all those tabs when they share their screens in meetings. I don’t understand how people operate this way! I never have more than about 10-12 open at any given time. There’s no way you’re productively doing anything if you’re switching between 80 tabs.

   5. You need the Snooze Tab extension for Chrome!

      1. Whoops, it’s actually called Tab Snooze.

   6. But so if you don’t have tabs open how do you remember to do things or capture stray thoughts running through your head? Do you just keep a notebook in front of you? (In general I have problems with “oh I should research X” and then i’ve got 400 tabs open. Today I’ve gone down BVD rabbitholes (I totally have it), researched new password managers, looked into therapy for my kid, set up a banking thing, and looked at 5 different projects for work.)

      1. In a word, yes. I keep a notepad next to me that has a combo of to-do list and stray thoughts. Anything that needs to roll forward gets noted more carefully in the to-do list later!

      2. Please don’t do all of those searches/personal activities in your work machine! You don’t want them having access to that kind of info about you— and you definitely don’t want to get a call from IT because your visit to a site accidentally triggered a virus.

      3. I use Apple Notes or Obsidian for stuff like this. I have one note called “Lately” where I put all the random stuff including links to potential new dentists for the kids or research into topic XYZ. Once an item has taken on a life of its own and I believe I’ll want to refer to it at some undefined point in the future, I move my notes and links to a note dedicated to the topic. Because it’s electronic, all the notes are searchable for ease of finding later. And then I close my browser!

   7. Feel like I’m having that week. It’s a slower week at work but there’s about 10 things that could take an hour, could take 12 hours that have popped up since Monday morning. Decided on one action item for first thing tomorrow morning, and calendared myself with the two things I want to try and touch (one for am and one for pm). The rest of it will get it’s time after that and I will resist the urge to try and do all the things at the same time…maybe. sigh.

3. Glass food storage containers? Glass-lock, OXO, Anchor-Hocking, Pyrex? Any strong preferences? The last of my plastic stuff has bit the dust and I want to go glass. I need a few bigger containers, like 8 or 10 cup containers, but mostly need the 1.5 to 2 cup ones for leftovers and to take our lunches in. Some of the cheaper brands on Amazon get bad reviews for chipping, and I’d like a name brand so if I need to buy replacements lids they are available.

   1. Nothing but good luck with Pyrex for me, including replacement lids after some disappeared.

      1. I like my Pyrex but they needed replacement lids after 5+ years of use (cracking). All of my tupperware plastic lids have stood the test of time for longer, so I was frustrated by the seemingly early replacement for Pyrex. I did end up buying the replacement lids on Amazon and still love/use them 3 years later.

      2. +1, but Pyrex has filed for bankruptcy, which likely means poor quality product if someone tries to continue the brand after bankruptcy. Buy now before that happens.

         1. In my opinion it already happened when they switched from borosilicate to lime glass (and also in my opinion they deserve to go bankrupt for that).

            1. Can you go into more detail on this? When was the switch? How does it affect performance?

            2. It looks like things labeled Pyrex brand are still borosilicate

               https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-between-two-pyrex-types/

               and lower case pyrex as an “ingredient” in items made by others may be lime glass.

            3. In the case of Pyrex bakeware it may contribute to shattering incidents. I don’t usually worry about that with microwave-safe food storage though.

   2. Is there a reason glass containers can’t be made to stack like Tupperware? I hate how cumbersome it is to store any glass food storage containers.

      1. I think they are just so thick walled that it doesn’t work the same way. I have some from Costco that stack and overlap for the first half inch, but they don’t really nest properly together like Glad containers. Like in this photo
         https://www.reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday/comments/fdxppj/ikea_container_splurge/

   3. Will Pyrex continue to be available now that the company that owns them has declared BK?

   4. Pyrex have stood the test of time in my kitchen. I have the round ones with the rubber/plastic lids, which I have replaced as needed. I’ve had them maybe 20 years or so?

   5. Glass Lock has free replacement lids!

   6. all I will say is go one direction and then commit. i have both the glass snapware from costco and a few anchor hocking covered bowls (but the AH bowls stack with the SW bowls)… beyond those few sizes we’d be going insane.

   7. America’s Test Kitchen picked OXO smart seal containers in their testing of glass food containers. I don’t have those specifically, but I’ve been happy with all of their recommended items I’ve bought in other categories!

      1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WprgFWLgguM

   8. I have Pyrex and would like to move to Glass-lock. Pyrex are not leak-proof and the lids crack so quickly.

   9. Anecdata, I have both Pyrex with the regular lids, and a couple of brands of the kind of containers that have snap in place lids. I appreciate that the snap lids don’t spill, but usually that’s not a huge consideration for me when storing things in the fridge. What is a consideration for me is how damned hard it is to get those lids on and fully snapped, and getting them off can be just as difficult. I do have some arthritis in my hands but I’m fairly average. I can’t imagine how someone my late mother’s age would have been able to use them.

   10. i have a bunch of the round pyrex ones. the lid and bowl design are very simple shapes with no stupid crannies for stuff to get stuck in.

   11. I highly recommend Anchor Hocking 1932 refrigerator “dishes” with glass lids. I bought my rectangular and stackable square (cube) storage containers from Crate and Barrel years ago, but they are probably discontinued and now you can find them on Etsy or other second-hand sites. Well worth it, although you’ll need to get used to the lids not completely sealing tight, which is usually just find for leftover spaghetti sauce and the like.

4. Help- I’ve taken on an admin heavy task and I am godawful at admin (ADHD). Task is a seminar series, I think its important and I have a few hours of dedicated admin support per week, but keeping track of all the moving parts + emails is more than my bullet journal can handle. Wise hive, how do I either get better at this or cope with things being done less than well?

   1. Do you know the term “scaffolding”? There’s a whole little industry of ADHD life coaching that is all about outsourcing tasks to software or services. Now might be a good time to look some up this up and see what other people are graduating to when a bullet journal isn’t cutting it.

5. Not sure where else to ask for ideas so hoping someone here has one…

   I was going to go to London via Virg!n Atlantic but a c0vid wave and heatwave stopped that. My trip was turned into credit; about $1350. Now I find out that, if i don’t use it by end of year or transfer the credit to another person who would need to use it by 12-31-23, the money is forfeited. I don’t know anyone to trade it for cash and I don’t have the time or funds for hotels and such to travel overseas before then. There seems to be no domestic to domestic flights so I can’t just fly to somewhere to visit a friend in another state. I called and VA basically told me that I’m going to be out of luck if I don’t figure this out on my own.

   Does anyone have anything coming up where they’d want to trade v!rgin atlantic credit for cash? Even if I have to take some loss here to make it worth it to someone, the idea of losing this huge amount makes me ill but I haven’t any idea of how to use it otherwise.

   THANK YOU FOR IDEAS!

   1. What about using the credit to purchase a refundable or changeable ticket, and then push the trip after purchase? also, if you can swing a cheaper ticket, you might be able to use some credit for hotel fees. Otherwise, your best bet is to post it somewhere to see if you can arrange a trade? I’d really worry about scams in that case.

   2. Maybe check out frequent flyer s-tes like The Points Guy for advice? I’m not sure you’ll have success purchasing a refundable ticket because at this point, the actual travel using the money has to occur by yearend.

   3. I’ve had good luck with a different carrier just asking them to extend the deadline by 6 months. That worked for me because I was then able to use the credits for an xmas trip.

      1. +1 I’m not familiar with Virgin Atlantic but US-based carriers are generally pretty reasonable about extending deadlines.

   4. When I had a big credit, I found that I could use part of it and a new credit would be issued. The new one had a new expiration date a year out. So if you can do a small trip with part of it that may extend the life of the credit.

   5. Buy the ticket in December for travel next year. I’ve had credit for airline tickets before that would expire like yours, and I was able to use them for the following year.

6. is anyone else a fan of girl dinners? i feel validated by that NYT article!

   1. I didn’t see the article, but is this dinner with girlfriends? If so, yes, we specifically try to do this once a month in my group of local GFs and then a couple times a year with my GFs in a state away.

   2. So I had never heard of girl dinners before this week but have been eating them my whole life. That said, they are a rare occurrence because my partner and I go to the ends of the earth to be able to eat together most nights.

      Something about a slice of cheese next to sandwich bread and a random cold cut it so much better than a sandwich….

   3. https://shanisilver.medium.com/girl-dinner-is-the-new-girl-boss-c62109bf4bec

   4. Yes yes yes. I love it when I can just put things on a plate and eat and be done with it. I like to cook (for the most part) and I like to have dinner as a family most nights but some nights – Girl Dinner is where it’s at.

      My favorite Girl Dinner:
      Smoked salmon
      Goat cheese with honey, fig or cranberry – some kind of sweet flavor
      Mary’s Gone Crackers
      Sliced pear or apricot
      Raw red pepper strips

   5. I just went and read the article and yep, I eat girl dinners 4-5 day a week. Huge fan! Especially since DH started a couple years ago making his own dinners (because they were super bland and boring), I often will eat girl dinners.

   6. I’ve been trying it this week while DH is out of town, and so far I’m not a fan. I’m still hungry afterwards. Probably not doing it right.

      Also, I dislike the name. DH would probably prefer to eat this way all the time.

      1. +1 to both points. I’m still hungry, and the name is dumb. It’s a snack.

      2. Not doing it right if you’re still hungry!

   7. I just looked up the article. It’s about a plate of assorted snacks and not a traditional meal like a casserold. The pic has some sliced baguette, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, feta cheese, nuts, pepperoncini, and a small amount of what looks like procuitto. That looks like dinner for 2 to me.

      It’s an instagram hashtag thing, I think.

      Anyway, my whole household eats like that regularly. Sometimes we have dinner, and sometimes we have a baguette and some cheese and some seasonal fruit (I am all about the rainier cherries and blenheim apricots right now), sometimes but not usually meat like salami, sometimes nuts or olives but not usually.

   8. DH and I eat that way pretty often so I’m really amused that it’s like, a trending hashtag or whatever.

      1. Same girl same.

      2. Yup. I’ve been doing this since I was 22 and fresh out of college and had to feed myself after a long day at work.

      3. I can’t access the full articles, but it sounds like what we deemed adult lunchables a few years ago?

   9. My BFF and I have done this for 20 years. We call it a picnic.
      This seems like something old and normal that young people think they invented and “branded”.

      1. right?

   10. Here’s a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/style/girl-dinner.html?unlocked_article_code=YuPbluUsi7boSJoLipgdUpfzqkOLxNhgnCdSae-ra2pahJY6ZWvrK8vJruTllcrnAoq2lNqXs1gd3nZ20sUztEMZNWiUrrhK98jJtQnJiLqKVsJKjsCjLwyK6ggvKtGH4e6lbmOJJkhTdqKnCJKfnTE4oR3uKc9UKCDDyI8Z90yhHji6t5iz4_ckFPk9Q3UXYH_BUNX3ARavtWEo7ba8m0XBym6b1YOzqcI0MsOa71OKUrpjJUaEKpIvT3txSwCvxbZIFbBYzTpkTeQ0WeSrxxxviPuNHBylm6DW1u47vJruxs34E1Yf1_dMkULkcpUa8hI&smid=url-share

       My husband and I do this kind of thing on the regular and we call it “Happy Hour Dinner.”

       1. We call it “apps for dinner.”

       2. When we eat this way as a family, we also call it “Happy Hour Dinner.” We do it at least once on every vacation and pick up local cheeses, charcuterie, pickles, etc. to try.

   11. My husband and I do this all the time and just call it charcuterie. It basically is a charcuterie board without the presentation.

       1. That’s how I understand it – a more feral charcuterie board.

          1. “Feral charcuterie board” is just perfect.

       2. As an Old, before anyone called them charcuterie boards, I routinely set out bread or crackers, 2-3 kinds of cheese, maybe some cured meat or pate, fruit, almonds, olives, quince paste if extra-fancy, and just called it a wine and cheese plate! But it wasn’t all curled up and on one cutting board. The cheese was on a little cutting board with knives. Everything else was in their own bowls. I stull prefer it that way.

          And I also thought the term charcuterie just refferred to cured meats, back in the day. At least that’s how it was used.

   12. I call it snacky dinner.

       1. We call it snacky dinner at our house, too! My kid loves snacky dinner so much.

   13. Bahahahaha!! I would die of embarassment if I had to unironically say ‘girl dinner’ in a sentence. What a stupid name.

   14. I was born in 1965. When I was in elementary school, sometimes my dad would say, “how about an hors d’oeuvre?” (which I always thought must be spelled Orderve), so my sisters and I would faithfully cut two slices of bologna into quarters, two slices of store-brand american cheese (the individually wrapped kind) into quarters, and artfully arrange it all on saltine crackers on a green-flower-bordered Corelle plate. In fact, I was embarrassingly old before I realized that Orderve didn’t just refer to bologna and american cheese on saltines.

       1. I love this story!

       2. I also thought it was pronounced “orderves”! My grandma would serve up snacks for the kids before dinner (usually involving cheese) and call it hors d’oeuvre for us. I loved it and think of it fondly.

   15. I don’t mind a girl dinner but I feel like the odd one out here. My bf and I often cook “real meals” like salmon, potatoes and green beans with a glass of wine! He’s worse than me because he will stress the importance of a protein, a carb, and whatever else goes in a meal lol

   16. That was how I feed myself my entire life prior to DH. He is horrified at the idea of eating an unplanned meal, so on the very rare occasions he is away I absolutely own the girl dinner.

   17. I thought we were moving away from gender labels to more inclusive language?

       1. Inclusive language does not mean references to gender are verboten. Respect is the point, not erasure.

          1. Is it respectful to refer to a small meal as feminine? As if dinner for women must be small, because women shouldn’t eat much, because women should maintain a small figure.

7. I am sick and tired of all of the “helping” jobs I come across either paying peanuts or requiring nights and weekends. I don’t need to, or expect to be wealthy but I need to pay rent and student loans. I am fine with some nights or weekends but I don’t want frequent ones.

   I tried to have just a “job” but a) I’m miserable having a meaningless corporate job and b) my company is going through layoffs so im working on a plan b, which would probably mean returning to my old industry. I don’t even have golden handcuffs but it’s hard.

   1. When I think of helping jobs that pay well I think of a therapist or physical therapist because I’ve used both recently and met with both of them at 7am or 8am and occasionally 5pm when I could log off early. I hate to say it, but most people who can afford the “luxury” of these helping professionals work M-F at least 9-5. If you want to do these jobs and get paid well, your schedule needs accommodate your paying clients. Something’s gotta give, time or money. Also, I’m in consulting, paid decently but not well and plan to work Saturday. We all gotta work nights/weekends sometimes if we want a decent salary or are just very lucky.

      1. Yeah, many jobs in my field pay 50-80k and require nights or weekends regularly (as in full shifts every other weekend, working 18 hour days or full overnights (as in working 7PM-7AM). Not the occasional 2-3 hours on a Saturday or an 8pm call.

      2. Most PTs make under 100k, so not really well paying. Especially with the requirement of a doctorate.

         1. This board is extremely skewed in terms of money. $100k is an excellent salary.

   2. Really random suggestion, but I suggest looking at jobs other than the “helping” jobs and the corporate jobs. They exist, and you can find meaning in them while still making a living at normal hours! Specifically I recommend looking at contractors that served your “helping job” old industry. I’m a project manager at a specialty contractor that provides really needed equipment and services for an essential public service. Almost no one in my industry comes in with “industry specific” experience, and the “helpers” that move to the contracting side are really valued and do quite well because they have a good working knowledge of the “helper” side.

      1. Great suggestion. I’ll brainstorm some options.

   3. How about healthcare IT? Something supporting good works. I mention IT because it pays well. Lots of nurses transition to hospital IT after they get sick of the weird nursing hours. (I know two of them.)

      1. And IT doesn’t mean “compute programmer.” I know lots of nurses that go to work for companies that build software for healthcare systems. They need someone who actually…uses….this stuff!

         1. That’s actually a great idea! Someone with a few years of nursing would have a better idea of what’s needed in a software system.

8. Especially during the summer months, I would love to wear lighter makeup. I’m not interested in going bare faced or only using a powder. Unfortunately, I have lots of ruddiness to my skin (rosacea-prone), and tinted moisturizer looks like basically nothing after a couple of hours, even with a primer. Is it possible to find a lightweight foundation that actually lasts on combination skin? I’m currently wearing Estee Lauder Double Wear. Early 40s with some texture.

   1. I have rosacea and can’t wear traditional foundation because it doesn’t sit well on my skin. The two alternatives that work best for me are Dr. Jart Premium BB cream and NARS radiant tinted moisturizer. If nothing lasts, try setting with a translucent powder, very lightly applied with a not-dense brush. I get all day wear from both of these if I set them.

   2. Have you tried using Dr. Jart’s Cicapair color correction as a primer? I feel it lasts really well for me.

   3. Honestly, my rosacea skin looks better with my daily use sunscreen. It does have a slight white cast, but the combination with my skin tone actually evens it out kind of like a primer/BB cream. I use EltaMD, recommended by my dermatologist. Then I use a tiny bit of Clinique loose powder – the one tinted green slightly to help the ruddiness. But I use it sparingly so I don’t appear “powdered” and still look moisturized.

      Sorry if this isn’t enough for you. Otherwise I would recommend trying a BB/CC cream. One thing COVID/work from home has done for me is made me more comfortable with a simplified skin routine, and less make-up – which never held long for me either. I’m in my 50’s. I do try to keep my eyes and lips defined, and use prescription retinoids.

   4. I’m going to suggest the ilia super serum skin tint which by the name sounds like it could be a tinted moisturizer but is actually a light foundation. The skin tint looks and feels light but gives great coverage and lasts all day. It’s the most natural looking thing I’ve never used and I’ve been so satisfied with it. I have some broken capillaries around my nose and sun freckles on my cheeks so I think it would work for rosacea coverage as well.

   5. Similar skin profile to you, and tinted moisturizer falls off after about an hour. I layer sunscreen, then primer (also recommend experimenting with primers because not all are equal), and then a lightweight foundation. After trying several I found that the l’oreal true match hyaluronic tinted serum actually stays really well on top of primer, under powder, and it is really a buildable coverage that doesn’t feel heavy to me. I recognize the drugstore level of this brand might not be in your wheelhouse so you could search around for similar/equivalents to this product from other brands!

9. I own these in the black patent leather and get compliments all the time. They take a little to break in but I wear them with everything besides denim bottoms

10. Kat, these shoes may be comfortable, but someone like me looks schlumpy enough w/o putting on a pair of shoes that only super cute women like you can pull off! I still must wear 4″ heels whenever I meet with cleints, as they enjoy looking at my legs. I would love to wear my Nike Airs, but that is forbidden by the manageing partner, who knows that we make more money if he can show me off to the cleints. FOOEY!

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