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Coffee Break: Micellar Cleansing Water

Coffee Break

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Burt's Bees Micellar Cleansing Water

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I've been using The Body Shop's Camomile Gentle Eye Makeup Remover for years and years, and I've sung its praises before, including way back in 2015. In 2021, a Body Shop customer service person told me it had been discontinued (my reaction: noooo), though it came back in 2022. A few months ago, it was out of stock again, but this time I found a great replacement, especially because it's $7 less. I'm going to stick with it and not switch back!

The replacement, Burt's Bees Micellar Cleansing Water, works perfectly. lt doesn't have a strong smell, it's gentle on your skin, and it takes off makeup easily (for me, brow pencil and mascara) with only a small amount. (You don't have to rinse off micellar water, but because I wash my face with a salicylic-acid cleanser afterward, it gets rinsed anyway.)

This cleanser is free of parabens, phthalates, and petrolatum, and is designed for all skin types. (Burt's Bees says it doesn't have a fragrance, but it definitely has a mild scent.)

Note: On the Burt's Bees website, the product only has 3 stars out of 5 (from 100+ reviews), but I've never had a problem and have been using it daily for a month or two.

This micellar water is $11.99 at Burt's Bees and also available at drugstores, grocery stores, etc.

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About Kate Antoniades

Editor of Corporette since 2014, Kate Antoniades lives in her hometown of Rochester, NY. A cat person and Oxford comma loyalist, she loves thrift shopping and has too many craft supplies.

Comments

  1. Most Versatile Skirt Award goes to... ???

    For some reason I haven’t worn skirts in years. I found them difficult, would rather wear a dress or pants, etc. I now want to buy one skirt… thinking a black midi of some kind, likely pull on rather than zip/button. What’s your favorite skirt in terms of versatility? Thanks!

  2. Anonymous

    asking again here because i was late this morinng – i’m looking for a DD+ sports bra (~38G) that is primarily comfortable and supportive enough to go for low-impact activities. my current favorite is not doing my girls any favors…

    • NaoNao

      I just got the Knix Catalyst in the 7++ which is a touch big for me at a 38DD/DDD but it’s a soft, comfortable, and stable option and comes in really pretty prints.

    • anon

      Someone on here recommended shefit. Once I got the hang of the velcro, it is very secure. Rubs a little oddly between my shoulder blades when I first put it on compared to a traditional one, but I don’t notice after like 5 minutes

    • Sasha

      I’m a 32G and the Panache wired sports bra oft recommended on here has worked great for me

      • Anonymous

        +1, almost the same size. I use it for high-impact activity but if I bought a looser band size I think I would find it very comfortable. I do love the shape it provides.

  3. Office outfitting

    I need help on where to buy furniture for my new home office. I’d like a lounge chair (accent chair?), 6′ circle rug, and a piece of storage (accent cabinet?) for under $2,000. My home office is deep olive green with walnut faux wood floors and I’m open to ideas, but not a designer – or design inclined. Prior purchases have been from Wayfair (not bad), but I’m wondering if I can go up a price point for something more beautiful, sturdy, and comfortable. Any recommendations?

    • Anonymous

      Is there an Ethan Allen near you? They have good quality pieces and free design advice.

    • Anon

      Caveat that they were a bad match foe me, but I think this is where Havenly shines.

    • Runcible Spoon

      Depending on where you live, you could consider online second-hand/vintage furniture store, like Bucks County Estate Traders, Kaiyo, Chairish, One Kings Lane, or 1st Dibs. This list is not intended as an unqualified endorsement of any of these sites — you’ll need to check them out to figure out your tolerance for dings (or for borderline deceptive advertising of, say, wobbly table legs). But they can be quick solutions with one of a kind pieces. Alternatively, you can get a Poang chair from Ikea, with matching footstool — super comfortable for reading and relaxing.

    • Anon

      I’ve had good luck with Pottery Barn Kids. I know, I know. If the style and color suits you, the furniture is well made and more reasonably priced than “real” Pottery Barn.

  4. Anonymous

    I’m someone who really stays out of others’ relationships because I’ve never thought it my business, and honestly as a long term single what makes me qualified to judge anyone.

    Yet this weekend I had one of those moments where I was left thinking – how is SHE married to HIM? I’ve been friends with a woman for about fifteen years. She’s nice, very calm personality, mild mannered. She is the type who’ll text on your birthday but also check in to see how that car repair worked out for you or if you’re nervous about your first day at your new job – whatever life thing you told her about. I’ve only met her husband in passing over the years – like if I’ve stopped by to pick her up for an event, we’d say hi, but we’ve never hung out altogether as you might if we were couple friends.

    Husband and wife are both doctors, met in med school, married when she was probably around 26 and he’s a few years older and started a family right away. So now they’re in their 50s with both kids out of grad school, one married. We were at a party this weekend and wow the DH. In probably a half hour, I heard about woke people, snowflakes, and liberals. While I can somewhat dismiss that because there are plenty of middle aged white men who are MAGA, he just wasn’t a super kind person – like snapping at the catering staff, at one point mocking a few of the young kids working for catering. Clearly they were college aged kids that the catering company hires and he was all like yeah like fifteen dollars an hour is going to get them anywhere but whatever they’re probably studying womens studies at no name school hahaha. Just comments like that. FWIW it didn’t seem like he was having a bad day or drunk, he seemed like he was having a good time and being himself. My friend did seem embarrassed and just kept moving the conversation along. Like he’d mock a particular religious group, she’d be like so what are your plans for the holidays etc.

    How do people like this end up together?? Or was this just – we were both looking for someone in med school, we got together, settled down, ran around and raised kids and somewhere along the way our personalities diverged?
    Frankly it scared me a bit that he’s a dr. I very much left thinking – wow does a non white kid really get the same care from him as a white kid with well to do parents?

    • Anonymous

      FWIW, I know a few men like that, and they were WAY better before 2016. I mean, they weren’t saints, but they could hold a polite conversation and recognize the appropriate audience for their remarks. All that to say, who he is today and who he was in med school could be very different men.

      • Anon

        +1 there are people (99% men) in my own family who I can’t even have a conversation with post.. well actually post 1/6/2021. They were bad in 2016 and got way worse post-1/6 because now they feel like victims.

      • Seventh Sister

        Yeah, I feel like guys like that weren’t as vocal in social situations before 2016. There’s also a species of middle-aged guy who spends most of his waking hours in a place where people feel obligated to laugh at his jokes (e.g., a small medical practice).

        The complaining about the college kids suggests that maybe he has buyer’s remorse about one or more college educations the family paid for in recent years. Something tells me that not all of their kids are management consultants who went to Cornell or whatever.

    • Anonymous

      I have heard, but have never seen actual data, that people get more conservative as they age. So in her defense, he may have been a Main Street Republican when they met and then drifted further right?

      • Ugh yes

        yeah I mean, my 64 year old white mother keeps saying more and more shit like this every year. It embarrasses the F out of me but she’s my mom?

    • Anon

      I married my ex-H at 23 and when we divorced 15 years later, we were both different people. Who knows why she stays with him, but I bet he wasn’t like this when they got together.

      • Anonymous

        I just had my 9th anniversary with a man like that. I’m staying because I’m not ready to see my kids only every other week.

    • Nesprin

      Its worth noting that some lovely people have horrible views but cover them up in social situations.

    • anonshmanon

      I mean, since we are idly speculating here, I definitely see a connection between all those thoughtful communications that make you feel like she is an exceptionally supportive and caring friend, to a person that puts others before herself in general and bends over backwards to stay with a husband who she has outgrown.

      • anon

        This. This describes my Aunt perfectly. She’s an incredibly throughtful, kind, person. Horribly embarrassed by what my uncle says. Does NOT agree with him. But for a variety of selfless reasons doesn’t plan to leave the marriage. I know she appreciates excuses to see her friends without him.

    • Anonymous

      I mean, it’s entirely possible that he has always been like this. You did say you’ve only ever met him in passing.
      It’s also entirely possible that she agrees with him, at least on some level, and that some of her embarassment was that he was being loud about it…

    • Anon

      I have a friend whose husband is/was a trump supporter and also liked desantis, but they just don’t discuss politics with each other. She is very bright- MIT undergrad, top MBA program and It would not work for me but works for them. Their differences also were less pronounced until 2016.

    • Anon

      The boys keep pushing and pushing and push the boundaries. No one feels comfortable putting them in their place. They get away with it, so they keep pushing. It starts in college if not sooner. They stay boys.

    • Anonymous

      I bet a lot of the class things changed with time. It’s easy to make fun of the $15 worker or even think they deserve a harder lot in life (they chose to be poor) when you’re a wealthy person who has been comfortable for so long they mistakenly think their life is all earned and have been sheltered from seeing how much luck is at play and all your other close circles are similarly sheltered. I think it’s why some people are always trying to point out an “other.” It makes them feel more powerful picking on someone perceived as weak or less than. I feel sorry for your friend. It sounds like she’s married to a pompous jerk.

  5. Anonymous

    If you consider yourself the member of a faith and that faith requires you to do certain things and you don’t do them, either at all or just do things sporadically when you feel it or when life allows, do you worry about that long term like as in sinning, punishment, heaven, hell?

    I know this varies by religion and it’s a question I’d pose to my own religious community, but I’m curious what a broader group of people across faiths and life experiences thinks.

    FWIW I have just started getting more religious in recent years and I definitely worry that I am not doing it all and thus it’ll be a huge sin. My DH OTOH has a more – it is what it is – view of it. Like if I pray five times a year, it’s better than zero so that’s that. And for my DH even making any effort to get more religious is already a plus even if not done perfectly or exactly as required.
    Thoughts?

    • anon

      So I am Christian and consider myself very religious. That said, there is stuff I just don’t get done, even though I should. My concern about that is not driven at all by concerns about hell or damnation – frankly, that has never made a ton of sense to me conceptually, and I fall into the (actually quite long) tradition of Christians who combine orthodoxy with a belief that all shall be saved (David Bentley Hart is great on this, for those interested). But I do feel like God gave those religious mandates to us for our good and the good of the world, and so I would like to do a better job of complying with them. I would be better off, and the world would be better off (in some small, but real way) if I did.

      Guilt has never been a big driver for me – the gift of resurrection and eternal life seems, to me, to be something so big and so beyond human conception that there’s no way that any of us could be good enough to deserve it anyway, if ideas like “good” and “deserve” even make sense in light of something that cosmic. So totting up our sins and good deeds like balancing a checkbook has never made sense to me.

    • Anon

      This is why I left my religion. It was legalistic, even (especially) when it claimed to be grace-based. Going back to the actual source material, including the context in which it developed, and applying a rigorous academic mindset to understanding it made me realize a lot of the “thou shalts/shalt nots” are not relevant today in the way modern interpretations often insist they should be.

      For me, the highest purpose of religion is to inform you how to better interact with the world around you. The religion I was in just made me feel inferior, wrong, used, and guilty. It frequently emphasized how the world was both my enemy and my ultimate proselytizing target, and not to be interacted with unless I kept those values at the forefront at all times. Once I left that mindset behind, I feel free to actually embrace my own personal existence and growth in a way that is healthy for me and better values and respects my neighbor.

      • Anonymous

        this is all so well said

        I left the Catholic church because i felt like my religion was conflicting with my morality. I think grace, peace, and maybe personal responsibility are things i would want to get from religion if I were to look again (ok, connection also). any “shoulds” involving proselytizing or judging others can FRO (as well as being encouraged to vote so you can push your religion onto others).

        that said I tend to agree with you DH on this – if your god is a merciful god why would he send you to hell for trying to walk the path?

        • Anon

          +1000000

          And it hurts my heart to think about anyone who is living in fear of sinning or eternal punishment. I was raised Missionary Baptist, and that mindset was very damaging for me.

    • Anon

      My own mothers’ and grandmothers’ constant obsession with the afterlife and the constant guilt of not doing all the things all the time (like skipping a confession) made them seem less important to me. It’s hard for me to believe in a deity who’s paying that much attention to details like that while children are being killed in wars.

    • Anon

      I try to have some perspective on how my religion has been practiced for hundreds of years including by my grandparents, great-grandparents, and going on back. I’m really not trying to be “better” at my religion than they were. I think in the modern era, religious leaders trying to preserve traditions have inadvertently consolidated power and influence and have used that to try to set expectations and define practices in a way that’s ahistorical compared to times when my religion was practiced by the majority of a community… we have a lot of models and messages from people whose religion is their calling and often their daily full time occupation, who understandably hold themselves to very high standards (e.g. daily prayer), as they should. But I think their perspective on how to practice my religion is skewed; it’s never going to fit into my life the same way it fits into theirs. So I definitely notice the pressure to follow certain rules or meet certain standards, but I consciously try to balance that with more of your DH’s outlook.

    • Anonymous

      When I was a kid I used to look down on “C&E Christians” because that’s the example my family set for me. That’s far from the only judgy-ness that came from my family, as you might imagine. As I got older I realized how horribly negative it is to go around judging other people all the time. And it makes you judge yourself harshly too. You’re always on the lookout for negativity and it taints your entire worldview.

      I don’t think god created this beautiful world and beautiful variety of life so we could live such small, negative, miserable lives that tear down ourselves and others rather than build them up. I think we should do our best and have grace with ourselves when we don’t meet the standards we strive for.

      • Seventh Sister

        Sometimes my spouse will crab about C & E Christians and I always push back because frankly, that could have been me. I spent most of my late teens and 20s absolutely turned off by my denomination (and most others) because of LGBTQIA issues and pretty ready to give up on the whole concept of God, much less a church community. I feel lucky that I found a church I wanted to join and a spouse that is supportive. Not everybody gets that in this life.

    • Anon

      I am Episcopalian so I view much of what my religion tells me as a suggestion and not an order. I try to be a good person, help those less fortunate than myself, and not do bad things.

      There’s a lot less rules in the Episcopal Church (and very few rules that are enforced) so this type of thinking isn’t something I really do. I believe anyone, no matter what they do, is capable of getting into heaven. The types of sins that i think would make getting into heaven hard are pretty heinous things I wouldn’t do regardless of my faith (murder, r@pe, torture). In all of my years in the Church, I’ve never been led to believe that skipping church, not praying, premarital s3x, failure to abstain from certain foods, cursing, etc would keep me from heaven.

      Every week Episcopalians confess for sinning in thought, word, and deed and by what we have done and by what we have left undone, so to me I feel like I’m forgiven for any sins.

      I’m not practicing right now, but I do think my faith has led me yo try to live like Jesus and so I volunteer my time, donate my money, and chose a helping career. Basically I try to just be a net positive in the world.

    • Anonymous

      As far as being concerned about heaven and hell and whether you’re on the right path, what does your religion say doctrinally? I’m not talking about the “shoulds” of your grandmother, your neighbor, or even your local faith leader. But what do your holy texts themselves and accepted official religious doctrine say? Your answer is there. It will require study, but it can be enlightening and rewarding.

    • Anon

      They are just trying to get money from everyone who belongs. Follow the money.

  6. Anonymous

    I just read that Mint is closing – what else does everyone use? I hated YNAB’s focus on budgeting, I just want to see what’s in all of my accounts at any given moment and ideally see the Zillow estimates for my home and car value.

      • Anon

        The NYT article makes it seem like the net worth function will switch over to Credit Karma. I’ll definitely be giving it a try to see.

    • anon

      Also trying to figure it out! I know YNAB is very popular here, but I used it for a while and I just did not like the user interface. I need something where I can categorize expenses and track spending in those categories as the month goes on and not at the end and willing to pay a reasonable price but have not found anything yet. I’ll share back here if I do. (Mint helped me kick some financial bad habits, so I’m taking this hunt for a replacement quite seriously.)

    • anon

      Nooo! i have so much historical data in Mint and visit it almost daily. Will they let you migrate all the data somewhere else?

    • Anon

      Didn’t Ryan Reynolds just sell it to TMobile earlier this year? Did they buy it so that they could shut it down?

      • Anon

        lol. That’s Mint Mobile – a phone company.

        OP is talking about Mint or Mint.com, the personal finance software. Completely different than Ryan Reynolds’ thing.

    • Anon

      I like the pie charts/graphs/comparisons – is there an alternative app with this kind of visualization?

  7. Anon

    Suggestion for hard copy magazine subscription for an 85 year old woman? I like sending her subscriptions where she gets something in the mail regularly. She is mentally/cognitively sharp. Nothing too political. I;m thinking National Geographic (she would like seeing all the photos and learning about different parts of the world). But that only comes monthly. Is there anything similar that comes weekly? TIA.

    • Anon

      New Yorker? I would definitely read that if I were 85, retired, and mentally sharp.

    • Anonymous

      I know you said not political, but the only weekly publication that’s intellectually stimulating and still in print that I know of is The Week. (It aggregates conservative and liberal viewpoints to let you get a broad understanding of the issue.)

      Time isn’t published anymore, right? What about US News & World Report? They both used to be weeklies, but I think they’re out of print.

      • twentytwo

        Thank you for this recommendation. I really enjoy reading The Week when I randomly come accross it and I just got myself a print subscription. I am looking forward to having non-bill, non-catalogue mail again!

        • Anon

          Ah gotcha. I think you can get “weekend only” subscriptions to the big papers like WSJ or NYT. The weekend editions have the fun sections, like travel and real estate.

      • Anonymous

        I’d look for more hyperlocal magazines for her — even in my smallish suburb there are 2 magazines for the city, 2 newspapers for the city, a hyperlocal magazine and a hyperlocal newsletter. there’s another newspaper for the other city we’re close to and probably more magazines too.

    • Anonymous

      The Economist and New Scientist are weekly.

      BBC wildlife is monthly, but can be a nice supplement to National Geographic.

    • Anon

      No suggestions for weekly, but I started reading magazines again recently, and I was honestly so impressed with the quality of writing and editing and presentation compared to random fluff online (and even a lot of light/fluffy books honestly).

    • Anonymous

      Second The Week- it also has a crossword puzzle and sudoko in the back we try to complete. Other monthlies I like are Yankee magazine, Better Homes and Garden, and Scientific American.

    • Anonymous

      I like New York magazine, but it is admittedly probably more interesting for a local.

    • Seventh Sister

      Not weekly, but Town & Country is one of my favorites. Maybe Real Simple (also monthly).

  8. Anon

    New Yorker? I would definitely read that if I were 85, retired, and mentally sharp.

  9. Anonymous

    Favorite dairy-free sides for Thanksgiving? My guests will eat a small amount of unflavored yogurt, but otherwise don’t do dairy – no butter, no milk, no cheese. I’m trying to think of something besides blanched green beans!

      • Anon.

        I do brussels sprouts and carrots, tossed with olive oil, honey, mustard, salt & pepper.

      • Anonymous

        I do brussels sprouts and carrots, tossed with olive oil, honey, mustard, salt & pepper.

      • Gail the Goldfish

        Really pretty much any roasted vegetable with balsamic. Mmmm balsamic.

      • Anon

        PSA: This part takes a lot longer than you think it will: “ Open the lid and cook until ALL the water evaporates.”

    • oldladylawyer

      roasted potatoes with olive oil? any kind of roasted veggie with olive oil?

      • anonshmanon

        or if mashed potatoes is a standard for your table, I fold in some caramelized onions and butter substitute if I want to avoid dairy. Bacon optional.

    • Anon

      Sheet pan veg (brussels sprouts, carrots, parsnips, etc) with olive oil, salt, pepper.

    • Anne-on

      Cube sweet potatoes, roast them in coconut oil and cinamon and then toss them with a bit of vanilla when they’re warm (or brown sugar if you like them extra sweet). I don’t love sweet potato casserole but you could puree them with more coconut oil or oatmilk after they come out of the oven and them top them with marshmallows (marshmallows are dairy free). You could also easily make stuffing with bacon fat, turkey drippings, or olive oil instead of butter. We’re doing the challah stuffing recipe from smitten kitchen this year.

    • Anon

      I’m trying the lentil salad with roasted veggies from real food dieticians. It’s vegan if you exclude the feta and use veggie broth or water.

    • Anon

      I’d just substitute olive oil for butter in everything and hope for the best. You’ll probably have to accept the compromise on taste of the the stuffing/dressing, and green bean casserole isn’t gonna happen. But everything else I cook is already dairy free or close to dairy free-

      Candied yams (easy enough to sub oil for the butter)
      Green salad with pomegranate seeds and candied nuts
      Roasted potatoes rather than mashed
      That weird family jello with frozen fruit and marshmallows in it

      Gravy doesn’t have to have butter in it. Use the fat/drippings from the roasting pan, whisk in flour, slowly add turkey stock from a box or made ahead.

    • Anonymous

      Brussel sprout salad – the ATK recipe. It has peccarino Romano in it, so not cows milk cheese. But we have a family member who also doesn’t do dairy and we just do a small portion with no cheese off to the side and mix the cheese in with the main portion in the serving dish. You could leave the cheese off to the side and people can sprinkle on if they want. But it’s a nice, easy side and is not a hot side dish.

      3 tablespoons lemon juice
      2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
      1 small shallot, minced
      1 garlic clove, minced
      Salt and pepper
      6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
      2 pounds brussels sprouts, trimmed, halved, and sliced very thin
      3 ounces Pecorino Romano cheese, shredded (1 cup)
      ½ cup pine nuts, toasted

    • Anonymous

      Goose fat is looovely on veg, e.g. sprouts, parsnips or potatotes.
      Red cabbage slaw with dried cranberries and orange juice vinaigrette.

      Coconut pie with coconut milk in the filling and toasted coconut flakes. You can use suet, lard or shortening for the crust.

    • Anon

      You can make just about anything without dairy. We’re kosher so none of our thanksgiving sides have dairy. You could look up kosher versions for ideas.

    • Jules

      I usually make a fully vegan thanksgiving dinner, and most traditional sides can be made dairy free with not much effort. In place of butter, use a dairy-free margarine/butter. IMO, Myokos is by far the best – the sticks are good for cooking, and the spreadable version is delicious on bread or anything else you would top with butter. I make mashed potatoes with this and with some kind of non-dairy milk; most any kind would work but I like the Silk Almond Cashew Protein Milk because it’s creamier than most.

      Roasted veggies and salads are good, and I love corn pudding for the holidays, again just use non-dairy milk. And I am a huge fan of Marie Callender pies that you bake from frozen; the fruit varieties are all vegan and so, so good. (For a potluck a year or so ago I made a from-scratch mango-cardamom cake and baked a Marie Callender cherry crumble pie – and the pie got ALL the compliments.)

    • Trixie

      the earth balance “spread” is very good. My DIL is vegan, so I am learning. Also, egg substitutes at Whole Foods are pretty good for baking. There are vegan cheeses that work, too, on a charcuterie board, or as a feta substitute.

    • Anon

      You can roast pretty much any vegetable in olive oil. I also agree you can just generally substitute oil for butter in most things.

      Are eggs ok? I always make challah for Thanksgiving and that’s normally dairy free, but it has eggs.

    • Runcible Spoon

      Roasted cubed butternut squash (buy the squash already cubed at the grocery store), with sautéd garlic, sage, and pine nuts added in. The recipe (available online) also suggests adding crumbled goat cheese on top, so maybe reserve some goat cheese crumbles on the side for non-vegan guests to sprinkle on top. Or leave it out altogether. This dish is always a hit.

      Also, cranberry sauce

    • Anon

      Look up vegan thanksgiving sides. Lots and lots of ideas online. Replace butter with oil where possible.

  10. Cora

    LOL I got a 2FA text today . . . for an account at a job that I left over 6 months ago.
    Before I left I removed myself off what I could and transferred usernames etc. The rest was their responsibility. Since then I haven’t been taken off access to multiple accounts, and since I use these common industry tools for my current job I can still see that. I emailed them once to let them know so I could feel like I had told them, but this is so not my business anymore.

    • Anon

      Can you block the number?
      Or do you enjoy being a voyeur & seeing how much former employer is screwing the pooch?

      I find either answer acceptable.

    • Anon

      Are you using a personal login for business purposes or something? I don’t see how your new login for your current job’s access to these tools would grant you access to the account you used at your prior workplace.

      • NaoNao

        For about 6-12 months post leaving a job a couple years ago I was able to log into WordPress using a single log-in and see my old company’s page that I built, as well as my own personal pages. There’s a handful of tools like that where for whatever reason it made sense for the person setting it up to use a personal or outside address (they had it before, billing, etc) and then post-job they still have access to all the instances. I believe Trello and Asana are other tools like that–I can still see groups/tasks from 2017 in my asana.

  11. Anonymous

    if you’re biking to work what do you do with your stuff like purse or backpack? are there attachments to your bike where you can put stuff (basket? pannier?). TIA! new to this!

    • Anon

      Panniers! Ortlieb panniers are worth the price (check out REI RE/Supply for lightly used ones). Ortlieb also makes what they call their commuter insert that has a laptop sleeve, space for pens, etc that fits in the Back Roller and Sport Roller panniers. I bring one pannier every day that has my commuter insert. If I’m swapping out clothes or stopping for groceries on the way home, I bring a second. Speaking of groceries, the nice thing about Ortlieb and similar pannier bags is that the attachment points also clip nicely into the inside of a shopping cart, so I can fill those as I shop. That’s saved me from buying too much many times.
      Lots of people do commute with a backpack, but you’ll sweat more.

    • Bike Stuff Anon

      I like a rear rack with a wire basket zip tied to the top. I just put my backpack or whatever bag I’m using in the basket, and strap it down with a bungee cord so it doesn’t bounce out. With this system, the rack and basket are well-attached to the bike; some bags and panniers are easy on/off but you have to take them with you when you park the bike or they will be stolen. I also don’t want to limit myself to using that bag all the time.
      Personally, I didn’t like the collapsible baskets – they seem convenient but they rattle a LOT and I was having none of that.
      Depending on your bike, you may be able to get a front rack and basket (so you can see your stuff). If you put more than like 5 lbs in a front basket though, steering gets very wonky and can feel dangerous.
      I am quite knowledgeable in this area – feel free to ask any bike questions.

      • Anon

        Counterpoint in favor of panniers – good ones are waterproof, so no worries about hauling my laptop and change of clothes on rainy days. I may get mucky but my stuff doesn’t.

    • Anonymous

      I’m late to this, not sure if you’re still checking, but I use a pannier from Two Wheel Gear. It’s professional-enough looking that it passes as a briefcase if I hold it in my hand, but on the weekend I can transition it to backpack mode, and bike to the farmer’s market or something. It looks like they’ve changed the fabric so it’s not quite as professional-looking (mine is grey), but it’s still super practical: https://twowheelgear.com/products/pannier-backpack-convertible-plus

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