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Gift Idea: Saffiano Leather Initial Apple Watch Band

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I've been looking for a new watch strap for my Series 3 rose gold Apple Watch because I believe they're not making my size anymore (42mm) and I'm a little worried that the many accessory options are going to go away. I want to buy a new strap before they do, and this brand, CASETiFY, caught my eye. Nordstrom has some of their things, but the brand's website has a ton more.

This watch strap is made from Saffiano leather, which is very durable, and it's interesting to note that you can customize the strap entirely — choose your base color and either have a single big stripe of one color or two stripes of different colors. You can also choose the hardware, e.g., rose gold to go with my watch. They've got a lot of other cute things, and I wound up ordering a plaid strap.

Readers, if you've bought extra straps for your Apple Watch, I'd love to hear which ones you love, so do tell! Saffiano Leather Initial Apple Watch Band

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  1. Anonymous

    Any Microsoft Word or Outlook tricks you recently learned – or recently learned aren’t common knowledge? I was complaining to a fellow associate yesterday that I’d asked my assistant to replace all instances of Jane Doe with John Smith in a word document (and to highlight John Smith so I could confirm), which I thought would take about 5 minutes. Then I found out that she had printed it and manually looked for each instance of Jane Doe, which took about 5 hours. I said “I can’t believe she didn’t use the Replace function and automatically highlight everything” and the associate said “the what?”

    So apparently, Ctl + F –> Replace –> Format isn’t universal. Now I’m curious what I don’t know that everyone else is doing.

    • Vicky Austin

      Not quite what you asked, but I once blew my boss’s mind by suggesting we use formulas in an Excel file.

      • Anon

        I asked my old boss once if he thought that thing on his desk was a TV. He responded that it didn’t get any good shows.

    • Anon

      I’m an actuary. I know so many keyboard commands that I can’t even list them all. People who use excel all the time rarely use the mouse.

    • CountC

      I didn’t learn until recently that Outlook allows you restrict permissions for your sent emails. . . but our asst. general counsel didn’t know either, so I suppose I don’t feel all that bad about it?

      • Miss

        This is mind blowing. I’m also a lawyer and would love to prevent certain people from forwarding or copying my emails. (Insert evil genius laugh here.)

    • Anon

      Not quite what you’re asking, but the FindTime app/plug-in for Outlook has been a game-changer for scheduling meetings in my office.

    • AIMS

      I don’t know if this counts as uncommon knowledge but you can create shortcuts in Word for common used symbols like section or paragraph so you don’t have to go to insert and find symbol each time.

      • Anon

        I’ve used these extensively since law school! Makes me so happy to see multiple paragraph symbols appear when I type “paras”. It’s the little things… ;)

    • Inspired by Hermione

      I didn’t know until a few years ago about the table of contents tool in Word. Now I use it any time I’m writing a brief but at the time I was blown away.

      I also use the keyboard shortcuts on my iPad and like them a lot.

    • Anon

      Find/replace has some ‘advanced’ functions that are helpful: match whole word only, match case (e.g., if you want to change May to June, you could find “May” and match the case, so that ‘If X happens, Sally may do Y’ wouldn’t be changed to “If X happens, Sally June do Y”), use wildcards, change suffixes, etc.

      • Anonymous

        You can also change formatting in other ways other than highlight (I work for a theater and often need to italicize or capitalize the names of plays throughout a document, or switch from one format to the other) with find and replace in Word. And you can find and replace line breaks/paragraph marks with a space, which is very useful if you are converting text that has been copied/pasted from a PDF into a word doc.

    • Cb

      Control Alt M allows you to add a comment to a highlighted text. This saves me so much time when I’m grading student papers.

    • Anon

      I’ve found that lawyers are really bad at shortcuts/doing things efficiently in Word and Excel (no offense to you, but there was an actual typewriter in regular use at the law firm I used to work at). It’s not something that can be fixed with a few handy shortcut tips.

      • CountC

        I loved having a typewriter in the office, it made envelopes super easy instead of having to figure out which way to put it in the printer, which size it was, whatever. But, I also own three of my own typewriters so I may be biased.

    • CBG

      I”m all about the @ mentions in Outlook emails. especially when I’m sending an email to several people with action items or questions only pertaining to certain people. I also like it when people @ me in emails so I don’t miss it when someone is expecting a response.

      you can also set a rule in Outlook to turn emails in your inbox that are sent to you directly a different color than those you are cc’d on.

    • anonshmanon

      Not Word, but Gmail: they introduced snoozing recently. I use it to send myself reminders, especially stuff I need to do/pack at home, but I think of them at work (or the other way around). I do inbox zero and the unread email popping up when I’m on my couch is somehow a better prompt than a phone notification.

    • Anonymous

      One trick I learned in Word recently that I use a lot is the paintbrush tool. Need to change a bunch but not all paragraphs to have the same style (e.g., fully justified from left justified, applying hanging indents, etc.)? Choose one paragraph that has the style you want, click on Format Painter (under the Home tab, Clipboard section), then click on the paragraph you want to match. Want to do this to several paragraphs? Double click Format Painter the first time, then single click each paragraph to match.

    • Anon

      I’m sorry to tell you but ctrl+F is universal – at least amongst secretarial staff. The fact that she wasted so much time doing that is mind boggling, and frankly a sign of incompetence. Computers have been around for 30 years, Microsoft as a common word processing at least since I was in middle school (20 years), there is no excuse. Even if she didn’t know shortcut, she should be able to find “Find and Replace” in the navigation menu.

      • Inspired by Hermione

        Universal-ish. Yes, it should be something all secretaries know. But for incompetent people who are in positions they’ve done for 20 years and are pretty certain they’re never going to be fired, learning this stuff doesn’t always seem like a priority. I once asked a legal assistant at my office (who also probably doesn’t know Find) to review a document. Her computer had somehow zoomed out so instead of, you know, zooming in, I walked into the copy room to see it printing the document. She came in and said “The font was just so little I had to highlight it all and make it bigger.” She had NO IDEA you could just zoom in. And didn’t really want to be taught. She doesn’t know how to open files except by going to Word and opening files from there. Even if they’re PDFs.

    • NYNY

      In MS Office programs excluding Outlook, you can repeat your last action by hitting the F4 function key. Great for applying formatting that doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut to multiple items in a document.

      • JB

        Ctrl + Y works the same way. I use it all the time, when I only want to apply one item and not paint format

    • NOLA

      I used Find/Replace today to actually remove something. The paragraph had some formatting that I didn’t want or need and wouldn’t translate to the system I was pasting it to. I put in the information I wanted to remove and left the replace with blank. Worked like a charm! I used Word as an intermediary between the two proprietary systems.

      • NOLA

        I also use COUNTIF in spreadsheets to grab dollar amounts associated with particular object codes in multiple funds. It allows me to create two summary sheets – one by fund and one that shows how we spent the money in each fund. It works automatically from the data entered.

    • Gail the Goldfish

      I discovered the snipping tool in Windows a couple of years ago and that was lifechanging for pasting snippets of documents into things.

  2. In-House in Houston

    Hi Ladies, I asked this question late last week but I don’t know if anyone responded. If you did, I didn’t see it so please respond again. Does anyone have the Dyson hair dryer? Is it worth the money and live up to all the hype? Any info you can share is appreciated. TIA!!

  3. Adulting

    I read an interesting article on adulting in The Cut today (link in follow-up post), but disagreed with the conclusion and was wondering about others views, especially since we recommend outsourcing so much here. I feel like being an adult means covering your own financial costs and managing your own life, not necessary doing everything yourself. And I also thought the author misrepresented how those services are used: the average person isn’t having a single ingredient delivered to them and uses Ubers to replace cabs, not as a car replacement. What do others thing?

    • Anonymous

      I totally disagreed with that article (if it’s the one I think you mean)! Upper middle class people used to all have domestic servants; that certainly did not mean they weren’t “grown up” or whatever. People have always sought out conveniences to the extent they could pay for them. One person postmates-ing a $30 onion does not mean that everyone who takes Uber needs to grow up. So frustrating.

      • Lana Del Raygun

        Ooh this is a really good point. And I think for people who can afford postmate single onions on the reg (does anyone, though, even if they can afford it?), these apps are a way to have the convenience of domestic servants without the awkwardness of feeling like you’re exploiting someone to do your scutwork … but you are; we’ve just rebranded exploitation as “hustle.”

        • Anonymous

          I think it’s often more about sharing a domestic servant because you can’t afford to contract someone full time or even part time.

    • Anon

      I’m Gen X so adulting wasn’t a word we ever used, we just adulted, I guess. If you’re not relying on your parents or going into debt, if you’re managing to pay your way and save a little for retirement, I don’t care who makes your food or drives you places. You’re living as an adult on your own.

      The world has changed, and I order delivery on my iPhone and take Lyft too. I have teenagers. I have saved enough for their college without a trust fund. I pay my bills. No one could argue I’m not “adulting” just because I use modern conveniences.

    • Lana Del Raygun

      I think it’s really annoying that so many “Millennials” pieces focus on millennials with gobs of money. It’s absolutely not typical to use these services like that, and it feeds into the “Millennials think they’re poor but really they’re just irresponsible” narrative. And it gets in the way of discussing the real economic challenges facing millennials of normal means. And it’s dumb and annoying! Thank you for listening, this is my pet peeve.

        • Anon

          Yeah – though I will say that as much as I understand when Millenials complain about other generations generalizing and dumping on them, I also notice that the articles written by Millenials about Millenials and shared widely by Millenials tend to be the same.

    • Mpls

      So, if being an adult is about being able to “feed, clothe, and shelter’ oneself, then we were already outsourcing a lot of that stuff. Most people haven’t been growing all their own food, making their own clothes, or building their own houses prior to the “millennial” era. We’re just able to outsource more of the process.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t think that going grocery shopping or rotating your tires makes you an adult, I think managing your finances RESPONSIBLY does and that’s where many — not just millennials — are failing simply due to the ease of buying convenience that they can’t really afford. Seamless was huge in the NYC market 15 years ago — aimed at investment bankers and lawyers, working 70+ hours/week. For them it made sense to continue billing time and not leave their desks to get dinner (and typically firms paid – but even for lunch, it made sense). These people were easily making 250k+ so a $30 lunch was NBD. Now those services are expanded all over the country. That’s great. Why should they be limited to the high earners alone — same with laundry and basically anything else you can get by app. Great. Except now you have people making 80k splurging on $50 dinners or $30 carrots after they’ve paid all the convenience fees. My apt building has a deal with a car washing app — they come to you and wash your car right in the garage — for something like $50. These things — if you were willing to step out of your home would cost — $15 (dinner), $5 (carrots), and maybe $20-30 for a car wash and in some places less than that.

      But here are all the regular earners making 80k or whatever splurging on these things — fooling themselves into thinking they are investment banker level busy when they work 40 hrs a week max (and many less than that in the gig economy). Even that is fine, except the CONSTANT complaining re — OMG it is SOOOO hard to get ahead, it is SOOOO Hard to save for a down payment or pay off loans, the older generations had it SOOOO easy. Uh maybe they did but they also weren’t paying $30 for a carrot.

      And for those that say — so what I want convenience even if I’m not in biglaw. Great. but are you really putting 19k into your 401k + another 5500 into an IRA + saving 25%+ of the rest of your net salary? Because if you aren’t, I don’t see how you can claim to be a responsible adult.

      • Anon

        Wow that is so classist. Honestly your paragraph is just dripping with snottiness.

      • DCR

        I was with you till the last paragraph. I don’t know anyone who recommends saving that much, yet alone advocates it is a standard for being an adult. The standard I always heard was that you should save 10% of your income, including amount you saved in a 401K. I’m not saving that buying a $30 carrot is a good idea, but I don’t think it’s good to create a standard that is also unattainable for the vast majority of people.

        • Anonymous

          If you’re even contemplating $30 here and $50 for random conveniences, you SHOULD be at 19k 401ks and 25% of net. If you aren’t there/can’t get there, maybe march yourself to the grocery store or Chipotle and spend $10-20 without spending an extra $20 in convenience fees.

        • anon

          Right? The $80K earner she mentions would have a net salary of around $63K. If that person saved what OP thinks they should, they’d be saving about $40K, leaving themselves $23K to live on. It’s pretty hard to live on $23K per year, even if you’re not availing yourself of any convenience items. That’s some MMM level frugality there. (Not that there’s anything wrong with it if you can achieve that, but it’s unreasonable to hold everyone to that standard.)

          • Anonymous

            Yup. I make 50k a year in DC. It’s literally impossible to save enough to be considered an adult in her eyes

    • anon

      I think there is a difference between deciding to outsource because it streamlines your life vs. simply not having the know-how of basic household and life tasks needing to hire someone to “take care of” your life instead.

      One small example: I hire biweekly cleaners because I’m “buying back” my time. But, actually, I can do the job just as well on my own, and should my financial circumstances change, I know how to clean my damn house.

      I loathe the term adulting. I’m on the cusp of Gen X/millenial, and my god, just be an adult and stop complaining about the life tasks that literally everyone has to do. Or feigning dumb, like you’re just too evolved to know how to take care of yourself.

      • Anonymous

        +! on “adulting.” Taking on adult-level responsibilities and habits is just a normal thing everyone needs to do, not some unusual, surprising demand that blindsides you. Maturing means taking responsibility for yourself and (generally) others. Always has, always will.

        If you’re surprised and flummoxed by it, then the issue isn’t that it’s a surprising task load you’ve been given, but that your childhood and teenage years weren’t a good prep for the normal life ahead of you.

      • Vicky Austin

        I also loathe the term adulting, especially as it gets used on social media. “Adulted today and bought a car.” “Adulted today and made Kraft macaroni.” STOP. Neither of those things make you an adult and there’s a case for both of them being childish things to do in some circumstances, and you’re not special for doing them at 22.

        • anon

          My DH’s 26-year-old cousins are constantly posting this crap on FB and it drives me batty. Both cousins have good jobs but are seriously lacking in basic life skills. It’s not cute that you’re just starting to make your own medical appointments. It’s not cute that you can barely prepare yourself dinner. It’s not cute that you bring your laundry home to Mom most weekends, and when you do your own, it’s Facebook-worthy. FFS. I see it as a huge parenting failure, honestly. There’s almost this perverse pride in not being able to do really basic things. I just can’t relate. It is so different than my life at 26, that’s for sure.

          • Anonymous

            I also don’t get why these 26 year olds want to be SO close to their parents?! You’re an adult, if something hurts down below — do you want to tell mommy? Wouldn’t you rather keep it to yourself and then tell a dr??

      • Anon

        I also hate the term “adulting.” Us Xennials used to call it “being responsible,” and many of us wanted to be responsible adults from a relatively young age. It also seems like I’ve long been at the point in my life where I should be responsible for other people, not just myself.

      • Lilly

        I despise the term “adulting”, because I think it makes it sound like people want some sort of major recognition for doing the ordinary responsibilities of life. As if “childing” (?) and not taking care of business were really an option. It’s pay attention to me and laud me because I did Ordinary Responsible Life Chore. But then, I’m an Old. Get off my lawn!

    • cbackson

      It’s a bit of historical amnesia, I think. The technology is different and the way the services are delivered have changed, but until the middle of the last century, virtually all upper-class women had all their groceries and household needs delivered, had most housework handled by staff, and had someone else who cooked at least some of their meals, if not all. Upper-class and even middle-class men outsourced even more (to their wives, if married; to hired help, if single). I collect antique etiquette books and one of them has a whole section for new homemakers on how to set up your accounts with “tradesmen,” how to handle the deliveries, etc.

      Sure, now you’re summoning meals from UberEats instead of having your cook or landlady prepare them, but that’s a technological difference. I’d argue that what we’re actually seeing is a reemergence of an existing historical pattern, but because of those technology changes, a wider segment of society is living that way.

      • Anon

        +1. Until the 1950s, most upperclass women didn’t work outside the home AND had full-time household help. This is really nothing new.

      • anon

        +1. The author of the article doesn’t seem to recognize the inherent class-ism here (and in most articles characterizing millennials generally). In many of the examples, the technology associated with outsourcing is really just brokering the deal/connecting the buyer with a service provider. On the other end, there is most often still a human cooking your food and another delivering it to you, or doing the actual driving, or showing up to repair your faucet. Those cooks, drivers, and plumbers include millennials and people of all generations.

    • Anonymous

      I agree with your last sentence–the average person is not having groceries delivered and only uses Uber in place of a cab. The “millennials” to which the article refers who are buying all these services and don’t know how to plan or do anything for themselves are a particular species of affluent, urban millennials.

    • tesyaa

      I read something like “omg millennials can’t sew on buttons” which was meant to mean they aren’t really adults. I gotta laugh, I’m an older GenX and I can sew on buttons, but most men of my generation can’t and I’m sure they’re adults. Is it weird to pay a tailor sew on a button? It is to me, but I don’t think it means you never grew up.

  4. Anonymous

    Anyone have any fun spring break plans? Busy season for me at work so let me live vicariously through you!

  5. Vacation 101

    Where do you start planning a vacation?? How do you start planning a vacation?

    I’m looking to take a girls beach trip in the fall for a milestone birthday and have never planned a vacation before. How do I got about this? Are travel agents still a thing?

    Any advice is much needed. I’ve perosnally set my budget and have run it past a couple friends to gauge interest/budget needs but that’s all I’ve gotten so far…

    • Anon

      Travel agents are still a thing but are really unnecessary for a beach trip, and they operate on commission, so they’ll likely just send you to a resort where they get a kickback. I’m not saying it will be terrible, but odds are not great that it’s anything special or better than what you can find yourself just by searching online. Start by asking your friends if anyone has destination preferences, someone likely will. If no one cares where you go, look at where people can fly to easily, some beach destinations are way more accessible than others. Once you have an idea where you want to go, use TripAdvisor to find a good resort.

    • Anonymous

      Two very separate questions here!

      One is the planning a vacation- I’m usually guided by season and budget. Then I research options- how much is a flight here or there? How much is this pretty hotel?

      Two is the coordinating with friends. Unless you’re hosting a trip, it’s gotta be full buy in, everyone communicating, cash up front as soon as things are reserved etc.

      • Inspired by Hermione

        Why wouldn’t it be? Not everyone has planned a trip before. It’s not unheard of.

    • Lilly

      Travel agents are still a thing if you want them to be. I did all my own planning and booking for domestic and international trips for decades. I still do my own if it is only for a hotel. Any thing more I turn over to a travel agent. After she was able to beat my costs for a trip where I specified which resort or hotel and which airline and airport to book, twice, I quit spending my time going to the end of the internet trying to find the best option. It’s worth doing enough research on your own to figure out what you want, generally speaking, and what it should cost, generally speaking, and then turn it over to a travel agent for specific options and a hard line cost. Plus, if your airline effs up your connection, I’m looking at you, United, or you get to your destination and the room is not as advertised, you can just text the travel agent and they will sort it for you.

    • Anon

      Look at trip advisor to start – decide if you like any of the hotel options. You can look at air bnb or home away or VRBO if you’d rather rent a house – usually my preference. Read the reviews carefully. Know all the fees (just because it says the rate is $250 per night doesn’t mean the total for 4 nights will be $1000 – there are other charges.)

      Trip advisor is also good for figuring out what to see, do, and eat at a given location.

    • anonshmanon

      Figure out how much everyone is willing to spend, and when they are available. Then pick a rough location. Is everyone traveling from the same place or are you meeting in the middle? Are you willing to fly there? How long is the trip, how long could the flights be?
      If you have that, you can ask for recs here (good destination for girls trip in Mexico/within 5 hour flight from wherever you are/with a spa/with good night clubs/whatever you prefer).
      Then just pull up some hotels, read some reviews, find one that you like and that is available for your dates, book that, arrange travel, done.

  6. lsw

    I got a band from this brand as a gift, and while it’s comfortable and fits the watch well, the design has started to wear off slightly. (It’s a black and white geometric print on leather.) I’ve had some success and some misfires with A m z n bands. I would love recommendations for anything nickel free!

  7. LinkedIn PSA

    Did you know there’s a limit on the number of LinkedIn search you can do in a month before having to pay for the premium account? I just found out in the midst of my job search.

    • Houda

      Happened to me when I was searching. Got the free trial, maybe paid one more month and then canceled when I got a job

  8. Little Lawyer

    Ever have one of those days, no…weeks (hopefully not month…) where you come to strangers on the internet asking for good vibes and prayers? *sigh* If you’re having one too, I feel for you and I’m here for you!

    • Anonymous

      Its been that kind of…2 months. My wallet hates me though for all the stress shopping I put it through, although I at least have viable options for a new spring wardrobe rather than a beer belly or days of hang overs from failing to cope. Factually its been – mom diagnosed with cancer, getting a major tooth sprain and eating poorly as a result myself, all the while doing ambivalently bad at work like a lump on a log.

  9. Throwaway

    This is embarrassing, but I think my feet smell once I’ve been wearing shoes for a while, even if they’re not sweaty or anything. It could be from my feet or from the couple pairs of shoes I wear regularly – not sure. Any suggestions on where to start?

    • Pj

      I use Summer Soles in all my shoes. Google to find their website. Makes a huge difference.

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