Suit of the Week: M.M.LaFleur
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For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. Also: we just updated our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2025!
This M.M.LaFleur suit is such a pretty color.
I love the fact that it's made of washable wool twill, and I think the kick flare pants would look just as lovely with sandals as they would with higher-calf boots in the winter.
Ooh — and I love that there are a number of matching pieces — the pictured blazer and pants, plus a full length trouser and a shorter collarless blazer.
There's even a matching blouse which, I think, would be cutest with a third color in the mix. (Example A — column of color — blue shirt, blue trousers, and a black tweed blazer on top. Example B, something I've called “top top bottom” before (yes, I know, catchy!) — but a blazer, the matching blouse, and then a pair of black pants on the bottom.)
The pieces range in price from $279-$529.
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I have a “casual, informal” interview for a part time side gig on Saturday. What should I wear? Side gig would be as a staff member at a local, indie vinyl record shop. Interview is with the owner. The clientele is typically young people with some older collectors mixed in, and location is the trendy area of town. It’s also going to be 95 degrees where I live (southeastern US). I want to stick to casual wear that is weather appropriate but somehow still look sharp??
A better version of what you would plan to wear to work. The boss wants to know how you will present yourself to customers.
Something that shows you care – maybe chinos and a short sleeve top – a touch nicer than a t shirt? Even if you can wear t-shirts to work, I would not for the interview.
To me, this sounds like jeans, a band t-shirt, and a blazer with cute shoes that you also could stand in for awhile. As someone else who lives in SEUS, I realize this is a very warm outfit to wear this time of the year. But I’m hoping you’re going from a car with AC to a building with AC. Good luck on the interview!
This is the time to let your inner hipster out. Disagree with the advice to wear things you wouldn’t wear while working there, like chinos or a blazer. What do the employees there now wear? What’s the most similar thing you have that you feel cute in? Record stores sell a vibe, and you need to show that you get what the vibe is.
+1 Don’t dress like you work at Best Buy (no shade to them, but different vibe.)
Yeah, chinos make me think Jake from State Farm, not indie record store.
Agreed. I was also going to ask what the current employees there wear.
Agree that you should wear an elevated version of what you plan to wear daily.
I would wear a cute boho-ish skirt with a cute top or band tee, fun earrings, and cute sandals.
No toes to an interview!!!!
Band tee and dark jeans or pants, a casual unlined blazer that you can shuck if it turns out you’re overdressed. I think you could wear sneakers honestly, just nice ones.
I have a dramatic question for the chat:
Have you ever had a close friend that you suspected of lying about something important/substantive? If so, what did you do? What made you suspect?
For context, my BFF has been having multiple medical issues (nothing major), and lately there’s a feeling that something is not adding up but nothing that I would actually voice out loud (which is why I’m coming to an anonymous forum). I think her mental health plays a part, and I am worried for her. I don’t believe she is doing anything malicious. And to be clear, it’s not a case of omitting information or avoiding subjects that are private or uncomfortable. I think she is making up elaborate stories to me and others about medical issues that may not exist.
Has anyone experienced this in real life? This is a real person in my life and not a cartoon villian from AITA. I have no idea what to do or say.
I have a theory that because we’re not empathetic as a society, people having things distressing to them aren’t adequately supported (or their friend network is too thin). Some people are scammers — putting up a GoFundMe for cancer that they don’t have. But the distress of other people is very real and can spill over because our minds are parts of our bodies and they affect each other. So she could actually be making herself sick. Or she could feel that she needs a medical label on something to get any attention. “That sounds really hard.” is something you can say that isn’t indicating agreement, but acknowleding her feelings and keeping an open door.
My former bff did something similar to this. It wasn’t malicious, and I don’t think she was lying. But she was basically not dealing with grief and the stressors in her life, and was having all these random medical problems, and was in the ER all the time. Allergic reactions, mystery abdominal pain, etc. Doctors couldn’t figure it out, and it almost seemed like Munchausen syndrome. I didn’t confront her about it because I didn’t know what to say. She is not a great friend for a variety of reasons, and I’ve stepped back from the friendship because of that. So, basically nothing helpful for you lol, but I have been through something somewhat similar.
This is definitely a thing and it’s worsened in the age of social media. Some people are sick, some aren’t, but the attention and validation can become very important.
https://www.thefp.com/p/hurts-so-good
I have a kid with a diagnosed developmental condition (which you as lay people would cue in on in about 5 minutes). We went to a social skills group and my kid stood out as being in a regular school (vs home schooling or out schooling or anything else) and actually attending (many kids who weren’t in school also refused to leave the house). It was so stressful for me to even hear about and I wanted to get my kid out of there because of social contagion concerns. “Pathological demand avoidance,” which goes by some other things but seems (to me) to be a bunch of untreated mental health conditions like anxiety and its related conditions. Anyway, it gets a lot of validation and attention and a free pass on kids who could be preparing for adulting or the eventuality that they will have to live separately from their parents from moving forward at all or ever.
PDA is very real in autism. Your body basically goes into fight/flight/freeze when people expect things of you. That said it’s totally manageable and you can become a function all adult with it.
That what this group wasn’t getting. PDA was the end of the sentence. It wasn’t a challenge that you could or should move past. We were told to accept and accommodate it and nothing has freaked me out as a parent more than this. The thought of my kid shut in a bedroom, never leaving, just having perpetual screen time and never doing life basics like shopping for the food you need to eat or going for a walk or holding a job or finishing your education (in a way that might prepare you to be independent) was just not a thing. There seemed to be no path forward and no one cared that this was just going to be a perpetual state.
What an absolutely terrifying prospect. That’s accommodating anxiety to a dangerous degree.
What will happen when these kids are 50 or 80 and they parents aren’t here any more?
There is an influencer mom who keeps popping up in my feed talking about how PDA children must be waited on hand and foot, nothing can ever be expected of them, and they must be allowed to disrespect and mistreat their parents. I always wonder whether she plans to continue being her son’s servant for the rest of her life.
I know what you’re getting at. PDA is sometimes brought up in the context of ADHD, too. And I think the free pass thing is real, and it will not serve anyone in the long run. As a parent, my goal is to help my kid work within the boundaries of his condition and still become a fully functional adult. FWIW, my teen niece has anxiety, and while I don’t want to downplay the very real problems, I have seen some very bad consequences from her parents basically not making her do anything at all. I have no idea how this kid is going to launch in three years.
It’s always hard when available schools are actively harmful, since the burden falls on the parent to find something else. But finding something else is pretty crucial (vs. nothing at all!).
My mom has done this for most of my life. It is infuriating. I have always thought she was doing it for attention. I do not engage on the grounds that that would only encourage her. FWIW, I’ve not found that to be an effective strategy.
I feel like this could be written about me, and the missing piece is that I’ll tell my BFF about symptoms and appointments but not actual diagnoses (yay genetic conditions!). I do make a point to ‘prove’ certain symptoms that are easily visible though so my BFF to prevent people from assuming I’m lying
Yeah, this thread makes me sad. I have been diagnosed with multiple rheumatologic conditions in the past 3 years. It has been rough. I have stopped talking about it with anyone.
That’s sort of the opposite of what OP is saying though. It’s fine if you don’t want to talk about it. I have a chronic condition that I’ve had 5 surgeries for and I just keep on keeping on. But I feel that the opposite is very much a thing, especially online.
People don’t understand anyway. I had one friend (who is a lovely person) somehow conclude it’s psychological and start being really supportive and understanding on that assumption. It’s genuinely supportive too, and not intended to invalidate at all! No stigma or anything. But it did make me think about how even a lot of doctors initially assume that any chronic condition at all is probably psychological (vs. autoimmune or genetic, which happens to be what my actual diagnoses are).
I’ve sent MRIs to friends and doctors to demonstrate that I am not, in fact, lying.
Love it! I popped a joint out of place once mid-meeting because a colleague did not seem to buy that I had an immovable appointment with a specialist. The shock and horror was fantastic.
I’m sorry it came to this, but this really doesn’t help with the perception that people with these health issues are crazy, even if it helps with the perception that we’re lying.
The person who was accusing me of lying ended up getting fired. It was a very extreme situation. I’ve only done that once and unfortunately it was necessary.
That helps me understand that it was all proportionate in context; I was picturing something much more out of the blue. I’m glad they were fired!
OP here, I’m honestly shocked by the comments. I thought it would go the other way and commenters would tell me to be a better friend. I have been feeling a lot of guilt for thinking this.
Thanks for sharing your “missing piece”. This does not sound like my friend’s situation, but still a helpful reminder that maybe I don’t know the full picture.
I would be very leery of saying that medical issues don’t exist. Medicine is as much an art as a science, and stress can physically change the body. (That’s why people in high-stress professions have heart attacks at higher rates than normal.) Doctors might be struggling to diagnose and treat a complex case that is worsened by stress or autoimmune issues.
Pain also has subjective and objective components. I have an unusual ability to push through pain, so it can be true that I’m in screaming, mind-numbing pain, and also true that I will (so long as it won’t do permanent damage) keep going. Other people are different.
Pain can also be referred throughout the body or caused by a problem elsewhere in the kinetic chain.
Your real question is about boundaries: what you’re willing to listen to and what you’re willing to do to help her as a friend. Decide what about this whole situation bothers you. Support her if she needs treatment for her mental health issues.
My mom thought I was being a picky eater for attention and that me having problems with gluten were all in my head. Turns out I had colon cancer and early signs were a lot of bloating and diarrhea with certain foods. It’s possible your friend hasn’t been diagnosed yet or hasn’t shared the diagnosis (I didn’t tell anyone at work about my cancer until I was two years past treatment and on my way to another job). Truly, better to err on the side of believing. Even if it’s psychological, they are suffering in some way–folks don’t normally feel such a deep need for attention. Do I roll my eyes at folks who post hospital pictures with no discussion of what’s wrong with them? Of course. But more often I feel sorry for them that they feel so starved for attention or support since there is no need for all of that.
I had a friend who faked cancer in college. Solely for attention; never to raise money. She also claimed to have had a horrific miscarriage after a teen pregnancy. I don’t know if that was true and she wanted to experience that level of sympathy again, or if it was false, too.
Signs that it was fake included:
Her “treatment plan” changed very frequently and kind of based on if there was something she wanted to do. Like she’d miss class every Thursday for an appointment but she was able to go to a matinee play on a Thursday?
Everything else was dramatic, too. Car broke down a lot (but never with anyone else in it), for example.
She claimed to be vomiting uncontrollably from the chemo but like…we would’ve heard it and didn’t.
She didn’t lose weight or hair despite multiple rounds of chemo, and even when she was “exhausted,” she didn’t seem like it.
I could go on and on. Ultimately, our friend group called her out on it, and she half admitted it but then claimed it wasn’t cancer but was a different disorder and she’d said it was cancer because the other disorder was too obscure? Idk. The year was basically over then, and we all went our separate ways.
I hope she’s doing well now. It was painfully obvious that whatever was going on with her was the result of a serious mental health issue. We were 19, and I don’t know that we handled it well as a group, but I also don’t know what else we could’ve done. It’s hard to watch.
How did she get found out?
The stuff I mentioned above, along with many similar things. It took about six months for someone to say something to her, but it just really didn’t smell right at any point.
Just an FYI that not all chemo is the same. Some drugs don’t have hair loss as a side effect. So using that as a barometer isn’t actually telling you anything.
(Not saying the person wasn’t faking–but merely mentioning since I think that’s a common misconception and folks should be aware.)
Thank you for correcting me! She 10000% was faking it (she straight up admitted it wasn’t cancer), but I don’t want to spread misinformation so will nix that from this the next time I tell it!
My aunt did this. We suspect grief over her mom’s death kicked it off (timing-wise). She started complaining of pain and got diagnosed with a rare illness. She kept pursuing treatments for the pain had lots of surgeries and pain killers prescribed. If you have that many surgeries, eventually you will have complications from the surgeries, so her quality of life deteriorated, etc.
There was definitely a mental health component– possibly Munchausen’s. She kept switching doctors, so I don’t think most physicians put together what was going on until after they’d done surgery on her. She would switch doctors when they started telling her things she didn’t want to hear. Eventually, she had a hard time being taken seriously by doctors when she actually did have serious medical issues.
What made us suspect this was mental illness– First, we very much believe my aunt felt pain and believed the pain was real. We just don’t believe a medical condition was the cause of the pain. We realized she didn’t have a physical condition causing the pain when her symptoms started veering away from her supposed “diagnosis.” The pain also kept spreading or showing up in random areas of the body. My aunt also had a lot of obsessive or eccentric behaviors with her weight or food or former boyfriends, etc.
What did we do– It took years for the family to realize she needed mental health treatment, and I think the ship had sailed by that point. Her symptoms also seemed to get better when she had friends or something positive going on in her life and got worse when her marriage was not doing well etc. Her symptoms were definitely a proxy for social situations.
I really can’t tell. There are medical conditions that cause small fiber neuropathy that causes real pain from real nerve damage, but it spreads and shows up in random areas of the body. Some conditions that cause small fiber neuropathy pain also cause cognitive and psychiatric deterioration including poor stress tolerance. I think there aren’t many medical conditions whose symptoms don’t get worse when people are feeling stressed or isolated.
Stress makes physical illness worse! When you are happy you tend to hurt less, crazy, and absolutely true.
Yeah, I have/had a friend who clearly has a mental health problem she won’t treat. Instead she self-diagnoses with different diseases and treats them with alternative methods because she thinks “doctors suck.” This only became apparent when it became a pattern. I wish I had pushed her harder towards mental health treatment early on (and I definitely encouraged her to get actual medical treatment) but that probably would have ended the friendship. It’s tough to watch but I’ve distanced myself and she cycles through internet friends in disease support communities until she decides it’s not a certain disease after all and moves on to the next one.
I hate this situation. I also wish I could get all the hours I spent supporting & encouraging her back & direct them towards my own self realization because it did not do any good whatsoever.
I see a lot of this in my SIL. I truly believe she has some degree of untreated mental illness. I keep my mouth shut and nod sympathetically when my brother talks about it because I can guarantee you that speaking up would not end well. Just … trust me on this.
I wonder how much of all this would go away if people treated mental health care as health care and addressed those issues? I feel like there is no stigma to most physical ailments (maybe not STDs?), but saying “I’m anxious” is hard and treating it is harder. But not treating it is just going to let it fester and that may have physical manifestations.
I think this is a naive take. I think whether mental illness or physical illness is more stigmatized vary a lot by social circle. But in my world, people are pretty open about well managed mental illness. I think they want people to understand it when it manifests in personality traits. I think some offices are also pretty amenable to mental health issues that are “worth it” in terms of productivity (e.g. anxious people who are therefore conscientious and do more than their fair share is absolutely a pattern).
In comparison, there are thousands of physical ailments out there. Most of them are scary unknowns to most people. And if they haven’t heard of a condition before, they may think it’s fake or imaginary anyway, and I think there’s a lot more stigma for “chronic disease no one has heard of and that people suspect the patient doesn’t really have” than there is for the kind of run-of-the-mill mental illness that may cause suffering, but is perceived as common and manageable, or even relatable.
Now consider that a lot of physical conditions can physiologically cause mental health symptoms that may not respond well to mental health management, and nearly all of them are causing some amount of stress (not to mention “navigating the American healthcare system” stress in the USA).
There are so many reasons your friend may be exaggerating or lying about her health, but if you care about her and have the mental and emotional bandwidth to deal with it, maybe just ask her what kind of support you can offer. You can tell her that you don’t understand what’s happening with her, but that you’re concerned and that you love her. Then see what she asks for.
She could be having legitimate medical issues but is struggling to get a diagnosis. She could be having mental health issues that she’s covering up, or that are manifesting as other things. She could be struggling with addiction. But if you offer your support without judgement, maybe she will let you in.
What a perfect answer. It makes me sad that it took us so long to get there.
This thread is making me feel guilty. I have several autoimmune issues (one of which was misdiagnosed for a handful of years) and then had a major medical event (think heart attack) so I’n always seeing one doctor or another. I have a primary care doc, a rheumatologist, a neuro Opthamologist, a regular Opthamologist, a neurologist, a cardiologist, and a dermatologist that I see fairly regularly. I would prefer to have none of these issues but it seems like just when I get one area under control, another flares up. I wonder if people think I’m faking it!!
I have a dear, dear friend who has said some things that I suspect are embellishments of the truth. Things that are maybe 70-80% true, not 100% true. But she’s dear and kind and we’ve been friends forever. I’m not going to fact-check what are mostly reminiscences.
One of my daughter’s high school friends turned into a compulsive liar during their senior year, and it accelerated during their freshman year of college. The lies were mostly non-medical, but they seem to stem from a mental health issue as well as shame over some bad decisions she’s made and the consequences thereof. It’s really quite sad. Her dad is a work friend of mine and as far as I can tell the parents don’t realize the extent of the falsehoods. She has lied to her professors, her friends’ parents, and just about all the other adults in her life along with her peers. My daughter and most of their high school crew have been keeping a polite distance, which I might consider doing if your friend’s stories don’t add up.
Telling lies is different from only revealing part of the story, and the difference is pretty obvious.
Someone hit my very old car and it’s time for a new one. What is luxe but not a giant SUV or sedan (something like a Kia Soul in height but a bit larger size)? I haven’t shopped for cars ever and my budget would allow for something fancy. I’d at least try a bunch of cars out while dealing with a meh RAV4 rental.
I’ve always driven Toyotas, and would get a Lexus if I had the $$. Probably a hybrid.
To add-to me, a Lexus (or Acura) seems to be slightly below a BMW/Audi/Mercedes, and that would be my sweet spot. Assuming repair costs would be lower as well. Volvo’s also seem to have become fairly high-end.
I would go with Lexus because they’re fancy Toyotas and can take Toyota parts for repairs. The people who I’ve known who have had the small Lexus SUV have kept them well over 100,000 miles each with good maintenace – and then replaced them with a new Lexus SUV. BMW, Audi, Mercedes, and even Volvo are far more expensive to repair.
I have a small Lexus sedan that I love.
My friend just got a slightly used Acura small SUV. I can’t remember the model name, but it is nice. I would look at that or Lexus.
I have a Lexus SUV PHEV (NX450h+) and love it. I wfh so I almost never have to fill up the gas tank, the 40 miles on EV mode are more than enough to get me through several days of driving. I did consider BMW/Mercedes but as someone who has only ever owned Asian brand cars I figured I’d rather not deviate from that now since all my previous Hondas and Toyotas have worked out wonderfully.
I can’t afford it, but I love the Audi station wagons. I drive a Subaru Forester Sport and like it a lot.
I also drive a Forester Sport that I really like. It replaced my Subaru Crosstrek after that was totaled by insurance when I was hit by a car, then my car hit a parked car head on. I walked away with only a mild concussion. I am Subaru for life now, the safety is top notch.
I had a Volvo XC 40 as a rental recently and fell in love.
We have a Volvo XC60 and I love it, but it definitely isn’t a budget car. We got it used, and it is 10 years old, so it wasn’t that expensive, but not all mechanics will work on it, and it is not easy to DIY repairs if that is a thing you are into.
That’s good intel! OP did mention that her budget would allow for something fancy :)
I insanely love my Ford Explorer. Like, love love. It’s the best selling SUV in America for a reason.
Acura mdx or Rdx. They feel luxe but are priced like higher end Hondas.
I just bought a Lexus UX, which is their smallest “suv” but is more like a hatchback. It ended up being close in price to Mazda, Toyota, etc. at the trim levels I was looking for. It is not super luxe, but I buy new and keep cars forever so I care more about maintenance costs and liked that it was like a “nicer” Prius. I test drove some of the other vehicles suggested here, but they all seemed too big to me. It is small though, so probably won’t work if you have more than one passenger regularly.
The new high end CR-Vs are wonderful.
I want to get e nice gift for my father in law, who is leaving after staying with us for a week. Any ideas? He likes whiskey…
Check out Cocktail Kingdom. You could get him a nice set of rocks glasses. Of just a nice bottle of whiskey that he doesn’t currently have.
If he doesn’t live in the same region as you, maybe a nice whiskey that is from your region (assuming such a thing exists).
You can get whiskey tastings either done at his home (if there are people who would join him!) or you can get like 5 whiskey tastings sent to him with info cards. My husband got a sake version of this and he LOVED it.
Any advice for government attorneys looking to lateral to private practice? I’m aware that the market is currently saturated and I’m not necessarily looking to leave immediately. But I’ve realized that I miss private practice, and I’d like to start planning in a concrete way to make a change. I’m also curious whether anyone has recommendations for a career coach who might be helpful in strategizing about this type of transition.
I’m at a midsize firm in the Midwest after more than a decade in government, and I just started reaching out to firms either that were hiring on LinkedIn/our bar’s job board or asking around my network. The market here is not saturated at all. Most of the firms are desperate for early career laterals. It is harder if you have a lot of experience and no book, but not impossible if you’re willing to come in as counsel or an associate.
I’m very curious to see other people’s thoughts on this. I am close to someone who is looking to make the move from the public sector to the private sector with 20 years of government legal experience and a t-14 legal degree, and no one seems to figure out a “book of business” equivalent for him.
Find jobs and apply. We would love to have a resume for an experienced lateral come through our door right now.
Because I could use a little mess to distract me from a very boring all day meeting: what’s the wildest take you’ve seen someone seriously offer, either in person or here?
Mine is: I once dated a man who cut avocados horizontally around the pit instead of vertically, and he genuinely thought that was the superior way to do it. Had a whole set of arguments for it!
Ha! I don’t got into a very lighthearted argument about the best place to park at Costco with a guy I was dating. We each had sound reasoning behind our choices.
*once got into
A co worker and his girlfriend broke up over ketchup. The girlfriend would only use Heinz and refused any other brand. Apparently he bought a bottle of off brand ketchup and she was so put off by it that she broke up with him.
They got back together years after and are married with kids now. Haha. I can never look at a bottle of ketchup the same way.
French’s ketchup is superior, fight me.
Really? I feel like Heinz is such a category-killer. I’ve never even been tempted to experiment or sample.
Heinz has too much sugar. French’s is sweet and smooth but still with an acidic tomato bite.
The best ketchup is Whataburger’s ketchup, which you can buy in the store where I live. ;D
I’ve never had Whataburger and tbh probably never will. The ingredients and composition of their ketchup looks almost identical to French’s though
You are all wrong. Red Gold is the best ketchup.
What’s the closest to McDonald’s ketchup? I like that one.
Let’s just say I am recently divorced from a husband who was 100% sure his was always the superior way of doing things and yet he never did anything. And by the way, I’m delusional, according to him, because he read a book about it. So I’m glad this is lighthearted for you.
Congratulations on your divorce. Maybe if you listed out some of the pettier things he’s “right” about, it would seem absurd someday. Did he read a book about the right way to pit an avocado or about how to diagnose delusions?
Then along came Debbie Downer!
It is, thanks!
Pretty much anything that came flying out of my father’s fourth wife’s mouth.
I had a colleague who was adamant you did not need to prep for painting. No drop cloth, no washing walls, no painters tape. This person was known for their lack of attention to detail but let me tell you the sloppy lines and dirt painted into the walls was apparent.
His argument was that ‘the paint hides everything anyways’
I am twitching. Wow. That is not how you get a nice paint job!
Talk to me about washing walls. This is a thing? How high up do you go? With water? Do you scrub? My parents rented, so maybe we just weren’t going to improve an apartment we didn’t own. I get power washing the outside of a house because it gets crud and pollen on it and the north side looks icky (vinyl house siding). But inside walls?
What else don’t I know?
Yes, you wipe down the walls, top to bottom, with mild soap (like a 1-2 drops of dish soap) and water. You would be amazed how much grime can collect over time!
Personally I use a mop, but you can use a rag, sponge, etc. You wash all the walls, right up to the ceiling, anything that you will paint. There is a product called TSP substitute which takes all the build up and grime off the walls so they’re clean for a new layer of paint. Inside walls accumulate a lot of crud especially in kitchens/bathrooms that are subject to cooking oils, humidity etc. Plus and random bugs or pet fur.
Just a damp cloth that you run over the wall – we use a Swiffer mop but with just damp washcloths attached rather than the cleaning pads. Dust does settle on walls a bit, obviously not as much as on flat surfaces, but it’s good to get it off for the smoothest fresh coat.
You wash them before you paint them! You don’t really need to wash them regularly otherwise unless you live in a dusty area.
How long do you let the walls dry?
You shouldn’t be getting them that wet that they need significant drying time.
i’m going to think on this because i’m sure i’ve had conversations that left me reeling I just… can’t remember. blocked them out, i’m sure.
Hm…. I could see how someone would argue that you could spoon put the flesh better than way, like an egg…
But it’s still weird.
Spoon OUT. Jeez.
Here’s one for you:
My dad has Alzheimer’s and my mom recently passed. Dad needs help taking his medications, and he tries to self medicate with whiskey.
My nephew is very much against pharmaceuticals but is a big believer in marijuana. So, when he is watching dad, he doesn’t give him his medications, allows him to self-medicate as much as he wants, and (after dad is inebriated) starts giving dad some reefer.
When my sister and I objected to this regimen, our older sister told us that we should trust her son’s knowledge because he had been through drug court.
ROFLMAO! Oh my, what a defense.
I don’t think your sister has grasped the purpose of drug court…
This is the funniest thing I have heard all week.
my husband and I have to just agree to disagree about Katie Couric v Meredith Vierra. I stan Meredith, he acts like she’s just a poor-man’s Katie.
Katie’s instagram is excellent.
I can remember when Kate Couric pushed Jane Paulie off the couch and I am still bitter.
DH and I finally had to stop fighting about Apple v android. We each have our own tech and accept they’re not as compatible as they could be if one of us would capitulate.
#teamandroid
I am 100% team iPhone. Everything is supposed to be technically the same but it never quite is. Kind of like how VHS won out over BetaMax.
iPhones are the lowest common denominator of technology.
My husband and I have running jokes with certain things. He thinks there is a “right” way to fold bathroom towels. I do, too. Just not his preferred way. Thankfully we have separate bathrooms.
We also disagree on whether the metal lid seal thing on cottage cheese or cream cheese should be removed. We have two things of sour cream in our fridge right now where one has it and the other doesn’t–and I made a big production out of eating from “the good one” the other night.
I love the separate sour creams! I have a separate sour cream from my partner too, but that’s because we’re both being oddly brand specific right now. I keep the foil on.
Very LA, but I have a friend who swears up and down that the Century City mall parking lot is fine and prefers that mall over similar malls even though he lives nowhere near the place.
The parking lot is a subterranean hellscape, to be frank, and this is universal knowledge among Angelenos. Super confusing, poorly marked, badly lit, and to add insult to injury, expensive. I feel like the New York equivalent is liking the mascots at Times Square. He is so, so wrong. I have driven to the Valley for a movie instead of using that parking lot. I will do online returns instead of going to a store in that complex. And I’m 100% fine with parking at the Flower Mart complex in DTLA. But Century City? Nope. Not interested.
does anyone here own investment properties? how did you get started in that area?
I kept mu house when I moved in with my husband, so now its an investment property. the rent is enough to generate a small positive cash flow.
My husband owns a triplex that he and his late wife bought many years ago. We’ve spent a lot of money on it on the past few years due to deferred maintenance but it’s also cash positive these days.
Including our primary residence, we have about half of our net worth in real estate and I like being diversified in that way.
how much of an AH am i being here – paid for something last week that I’m supposed to pick up tonight from “6-9, I’ll text you that day to let you know more details.” All I know is porch pickup in an area 40 minutes away from me. The product is time sensitive (beneficial bugs which apparently start eating each other after a short while).
It’s 5:24 and I have messaged her 3x on 2 different platforms that I have really tight timing tonight because it’s my dad’s 75th birthday and would like to get it at 6 PM exactly and… nothing.
So I posted in the local gardening group to see if she’s legit. I feel bad about it but damn, this is really sucking.
Just tell her Nevermind. Idk why you agreed to this knowing you have a conflict.
If the person selling this item is available between 6-9, that means 6-9. They may be working, traveling, or whatever. You also created a risk of this double booking by ordering this item, knowing delivery may occur when you had another time sensitive appointment to keep with your father. You goofed on this one. Sorry.
clearly this was a horrible idea, but just for the record i’m supposed to be picking up from her from 6-9.
She might be in a scif or something.
maybe she’s been detained by ICE and sent to Sudan despite being a citizen. who knows in Trump’s America. Great again!
I think the person doing the driving gets the flexibility, and I’d be annoyed too!!
Update: I finally heard from seller at 6:30, I can pick up tomorrow. Still don’t have address but that’s a tomorrow problem.