Coffee Break: Anklet Flats

Shopbop has a ton of interesting flats right now if you feel like the older “investment” brands look a little played. I've always been a fan of strappy flats (damn my duck feet), but these anklet flats from Staud look a LOT more sophisticated than most strappy flats out there. I feel like they'd be great with cropped pants or shift dresses.

They're $295 at Shopbop (black), Bloomingdale's (black and a beigey pink) and Staud (also yellow).

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Sales of note for 12.13

  • Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare including Charlotte Tilbury, Living Proof, Dyson, Shark Pro, and gift sets!
  • Ann Taylor – 50% off everything, including new arrivals (order via standard shipping for 12/23 expected delivery)
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
  • Eloquii – 400+ styles starting at $19
  • J.Crew – Up to 60% off almost everything + free shipping (12/13 only)
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything and free shipping, no minimum
  • Macy's – $30 off every $150 beauty purchase on top brands
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
  • Talbots – 50% off entire purchase, and free shipping on $99+

Sales of note for 12.13

  • Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare including Charlotte Tilbury, Living Proof, Dyson, Shark Pro, and gift sets!
  • Ann Taylor – 50% off everything, including new arrivals (order via standard shipping for 12/23 expected delivery)
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
  • Eloquii – 400+ styles starting at $19
  • J.Crew – Up to 60% off almost everything + free shipping (12/13 only)
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything and free shipping, no minimum
  • Macy's – $30 off every $150 beauty purchase on top brands
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
  • Talbots – 50% off entire purchase, and free shipping on $99+

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95 Comments

  1. Just wanted to thank everyone who kindly responded to my question yesterday about writing a DEI statement. Much appreciated!

  2. Has anyone had a sinuva (stent administering steriods in the sinuses) procedure done? This would be to reduce polyps.

  3. Would you ever provide negative feedback about managers or those more senior to you in a 360 review? Personally, I feel safer avoiding criticism of anyone above me, but am curious what others think.

    1. Never. I think you have more soft influence on a day-to-day basis and through praise and asking (that program on OID was great; do you have any other things like it for another one?). Formal criticism, especially if I wasn’t willing to mention in-person? Never, never, never. Not even in an exit interview.

    2. I tried offering some positively worded constructive feedback once and was verbally attacked by the person soliciting the feedback. So, no.

    3. I have provided it with an ‘out’. So at a previous job I said that the boss could improve their lines of communication with regards to work prioritization, but also acknowledged that the problem was above the boss because of how work was doled out (always at these 3PM meetings, so I constantly was stuck at work at 6PM when everyone I needed had gone home for the day).

      Reality: Boss was a power freak and didn’t want anybody to know anything until we had a crisis assignment… next boss would give us a heads up that something was simmering so we could start to get some basic resources together. But yes, the 3pm meetings were the acute issue.

      1. Yep a combo of this and the one below. Either provide it with an excuse, proactively thank them for something they rarely do, or both.

        “I know Boss is often stuck between Group A and B, so I appreciate when she has the time to summarize the decisions in writing for both teams.”
        “I understand how challenging it is to push back on unrealistic deadlines, so this is a bit of a “perfect world” nitpick, but I would love if Boss could somehow get us an extra few hours notice on X project.”
        “I know late nights and long hours are somewhat standard for Boss, but I see how much my team appreciates it when she takes the time to thank them publicly for their long hours and great efforts.”

    4. Know your office, of course, but I have successfully provided non-positive feedback by framing it as “I really appreciate it when you do X” or “This task runs so much more efficiently when you are able to provide the team with Y information” instead of outright criticism. Even if the senior person has never actually done X or Y in the past, pretending to thank them for it does a surprising job of making it really happen in the future.

    5. I did. I feel like nothing is going to change if people aren’t honest. I had a manager who never had my back (or anyone’s back) and his priorities changed daily because he was responding to people above him without pushback. The last person who talked to him was setting our direction, and if he talked to someone else tomorrow, suddenly the direction would change. It was obviously a very difficult environment to work in, and the people who reported to me were very discouraged.

      So I was honest that I thought someone at his level should be setting a consistent path for us and should not be changing it constantly.

      We had a department meeting after the process, and apparently he got that from a lot of respondents because he addressed it directly and came as close to apologizing as I’d ever seen. From that point forward, if I said “we are 75% thorough this project and need to continue to prioritize it instead of this new thing you came up with today” he was more receptive to it based on his past review.

    6. I have very gently and amongst much praise provided constructive room for improvement but only of things I’ve already said to the person’s face so that it wasn’t a problem that it got back to me (e.g. work on not sending edits at 2AM on a person who I’d already directly told I don’t like that and generally thought was excellent).

    7. I did once, because I knew my boss’s manager was looking for reasons to let him go. The only times that 360 feedback was ever solicited at that employer was if they needed excuses to fire. I wasn’t brutal but I reminded his boss that he had shown us who he was in the interview, and we accepted that. His failings were not exactly a secret. The effects had just been magnified due to constant exposure and a seriously constrained budget.

  4. How many vaccine break through cases do you personally know of? And where – geographically?

    Are you hearing about break through cases in passing (i.e. person doesn’t really go any place has no idea where they could have caught it so it must have been walking by someone on a grocery run) or is it more in depth time with people — i.e. members of the same household; offices where you see the same people 40 hours/wk; sharing a vacation house or flights etc.?

    1. The majority of breakthrough cases are unvaccinated people. You sound like you’re just trying to tr0ll or fear monger.

      1. I don’t think you know the meaning of breakthrough… it applies to people who have been vaccinated. It’s not a breakthrough case if an unvaccinated person is infected.

      2. Ah yes, asking people about what’s going on around them is fear mongering. Good to know.

    2. A handful in extended friend group, mostly related to travel over this summer. I am in the Bay Area.

      If my anti vax relatives ever tested positive, they would never tell anyone because that would be admitting some sort of defeat, so I will never know unless someone is hospitalized or dies, and maybe not even then.

      1. I should add, those who were vaxxed and who tested positive were not very sick & only got tested because they felt like they had a cold or allergies.

        One friend of a friend got stuck overseas and had to quarantine at an airport hotel before flying home. Zero symptoms but a positive test.

    3. What I am seeing, which is shocking and also so sad, is young (30s and younger) pregnant women going into the ICU, having to have an emergency c-section, and often dying of COVID. My city has had 2 in the past week and my region just had another. It’s not a HIPAA breakdown, it’s weeping family members on the news begging people to get their shots.

      COVID wasn’t supposed to hit the young this hard, but that was last year’s COVID and this year’s delta variant is just a b*tch. With all the talk of it not hitting kids hard, and my kid being too young for the shot, I am really hoping that this school year isn’t a total cluster. Last year COVID was “mild” for kids and most of them weren’t in FT school (often in cohorts alternating and not starting back in August like we usually do). This year, I will be waiting to exhale.

      1. Those are tragic stories but you’re talking about unvaccinated people and the question was about vaccinated breakthrough. Just wanted to clarify.

      2. I share your concern about schools, but I am hoping against hope that we’ll be able to take the knowledge we have now and actually use it (masks work, use hand sanitizer, ventilation helps, VACCINATE, etc.) . Then again, my school district’s administrators did a crappy job of getting kids back in person until the absolute last possible minute, so I have no trust that they will be able to deal with changed circumstances absent a 16-page pamphlet on how to wipe their own noses.

    4. Personally none, only on the news. I expect that to change as we move into fall and winter.

    5. Zero, New York State.

      I do personally know of one false positive test on a vaccinated individual. It was a false positive on a rapid covid test, PCR was negative. Family quarantined out of caution and nobody else tested positive on a PCR test.

    6. Two, in TX. One person was vaxxed and hospitalized (now discharged). That person gave it to a vaccinated friend who had a headcold level illness.

    7. Zero, Chicago.

      FWIW, I have only known one person this entire time who has even gotten COVID, and it was before vaccines were available. I keep wondering if that will change. Everyone in my circles is vaccinated and has been very careful.

      It is weird to see the news and feel the anxiety and yet not have any cases in my circles. Of course not disputing the fact that COVID remains a serious problem—more pointing out the cognitive dissonance (is that even the right term here?) of on one level being aware of a major public health crisis and taking the necessary precautions, but on another not actually seeing it in daily life.

      1. I’m in NJ and I’d estimate 75% of the people in my circles have had Covid. No one in my household has had it though – we have been fairly careful.

        1. Adding, one young, previously healthy person I know died of Covid fairly early in the pandemic, which had a big impact on my behavior.

      2. I have a couple coworkers who got it at Thanksgiving. Both saw family for multiple days in unmasked environments. One has a husband with a history of heart disease who got pretty sick but not enough so to need to be hospitalized. The other has an elementary school aged son and toddler day. Boy got it mildly, girl didn’t get it.

        A former coworker of my DH has had it twice. First time was in July, 2020. Second time was February, 2021. Of all of the people I expected to die from it, he was at the top of the list. Smoker, 60+, history of other respiratory illnesses. He had relatively mild cases each time.

      3. A number of people I know had COVID before vaccines were available. All but one caught it from unmasked family visits. The last one was a close family member who caught it in assisted living and died.

    8. So Cal — just heard of one this week in somebody who has been working mostly from home (and works with only 5 other people, three of whom including him have private offices, when he is at the office) and has otherwise been out and about a time or two a week for community organization meetings. So not sure where he got it. He has symptoms but it’s like a moderate cold.

    9. Zero. And there’s a really good discussion on the rarity of breakthrough cases and what it actually means on Pod Save America’s 8-2 episode w Dr. Jha, the dean of Brown’s school of public health (about 45 mins in).

          1. My local government is tracking. I don’t know the number off the top of my head, but it was very reassuringly low.

        1. Why are you asking? I’m sure you understand the difference in data quality between anecdotal information collected from an anonymous message board and, say, what the CDC is collecting. The CDC has updated information about breakthrough infections on its website, as of this week I think. Do you not trust the information provided by the CDC?

          1. CDC is not providing information about breakthrough cases that do not lead to hospitalization, so I can’t get any information from the CDC on this question.

    10. I’m in NJ, I have heard of several. I can’t recall if any were symptomatic. I know of one person who tested positive prior to travel. She had been at a family gathering a few days before with high risk people, and no one became symptomatic. I don’t know if any of those people went and got tested or if they tested positive. However, the fact no one got sick is reassuring.

      Breakthrough cases are definitely happening, it’s not a rare phenomenon.

    11. I have a neighbor who is an ICU nurse and now her ICU is all young / unvaxxed. Not that there couldn’t be an unvaxxed person in there, but my sense is that their breakthough cases are mild and they don’t wind up in the ICU or even in the hospital, just resting at home.

      A camp near me shut down for 5 cases, so kids are now getting it and it seems that they are spreading it (camp has adults, but counselors are teens/college kids and kids attending are middle school and high school). So it is still disruptive for those kids and parents who were relying on their kid being at camp for those remaining weeks of their session.

    12. Two – a vaccinated married couple in my friend group but not in my immediate area. One of them works in healthcare and the other is taking classes at a local university, so they had opportunities for exposure.

    13. ooh I actually know 3! All 20’s-30’s, vaccinated who got it through various indoor socializing (for at least 2 I know there were a few unvaccinated people at the gatherings who everyone suspects of being the transmitter). 2 of the 3 lost their sense of taste and smell and still haven’t gotten it back yet 2 weeks later but felt fine overall

      PNW but 2 friends were in the SF Bay Area

    14. what is the purpose of this post? i personally don’t know many people who had covid and don’t know anyone who died from it, but i still believe that it is a super contagious deadly virus and that the pandemic is very real. i know of a couple who had dinner with another couple and couple A tested positive and then couple B did. on Tuesday i had to take my 3 year old daughter to the pediatrician bc she is sick and our pediatrician said that many kids have been testing positive for covid and then their parents test positive as well. i live in Houston, TX. the last time I took her to the pediatrician in May, the doctors were wearing regular masks and on Tuesday, back in a n95. the doc said that based on what he has seen the past few weeks, the CDC should really update their quarantine guidelines, but he recognizes that politically it is challenging bc they want to encourage people to get vaccinated. most (though not all) vaccinated people who get covid will likely be ok, but it seems as though they can spread it to others. and in addition to the selfish people who won’t get vaccinated, there are still a lot of people for whom the vaccine doesn’t really work. the other problem is from a public health standpoint – if the ICU is full with covid cases and you are in a car accident…

      1. The purpose is to figure out what people are seeing, and whether it seems like break throughs are random passing contact or lengthier contact transmission. No one is saying the pandemic isn’t real and yes I DO know people (albeit in other countries) who died from it, as well as people in the US who had it. What is your problem?

        1. What’s yours? You seem very defensive. Are you saying you believe what people are self-reporting here over the information being issued by the government and tracked by many media and NGO entities?

          1. Well the CDC isn’t tracking so there’s that but you go ahead and trust government on this one. As for other data sets, they’re catching 1 in 10 cases if that because people aren’t testing and just assuming it’s a cold or they are doing self tests at home which don’t get reported to their state of origin necessarily. So like the thousands of other questions here, I asked what people are seeing on the ground. I still don’t see what your problem is. You don’t like the question, feel free to skip it.

          2. My problem is it seems like you’re here to stir up controversy or start a fight of some kind, or that you’ll be using this information to start one later. Your aggressive tone and the pop-off answers to follow-up questions are inappropriate and not proportional responses to the questions being asked. Here’s a suggestion: why don’t you get off the computer, take some deep breaths, go take a walk outside. It will do wonders for your mental state, which I think is in need of some adjustment.

      2. So people with symptoms are now going to see their primary care/pediatricians . . . great . . . that’s not going to contribute to spread to others who need to do visits for unrelated things. Are drs. offices no longer asking — do you have symptoms etc. and then telling people not to come in?

      3. I went to the doctor today and it was packed. Like everyone is rushing in due to delayed care and a fear that we may have to shut down again. It was really crazy. I’ve never seen it like that.

        Allergy shot place I went to next looked typical and I’m in there weekly.

    15. Several.

      East central Kansas: friend was exposed during a trip with people she trusted. She was sick for about 4 days

      Eastern Kansas: one of DH’s coworkers was exposed at a foosball tournament. His teammate tested positive. So far, coworker had not.

      Kansas City: the 94-year-old grandmother of a friend, along with her mid-70’s parents, were all exposed at church. G-ma got it, parents have not.

      Everyone of these individuals has been vaccinated.

    16. Surprised at the “zero” answers! My workplace (essential) is in the midst of an outbreak, I personally know several people with breakthrough cases, and I’m close with two vaccinated, symptomatic breakthrough cases.

    17. I’m in Texas. I know of one break through case personally although I don’t know the specifics around the infection. I learned of this in May.

      Not cases I know personally but I’ll share that I work in higher ed and one of our risk management people mentioned to me that they’ve gotten an uptick of reports of breakthrough cases. One of my friends knows of a couple who were vaccinated and got Covid when their kids socialized with other kids who had been a church camp that had an outbreak and infected 100+ kids.

    18. Lots of these answers involve how many people the respondent knows who contracted Covid-19, not how many vaccinated persons they know who contracted covid after being fully vaccinated. Please read carefully to avoid an over-reaction.

        1. Why are you so sensitive about it? Is this your first day reading here or something?

    19. Zero breakthrough cases. I know several people who had exposure after being vaccinated (including a few whose kids got covid at daycare but vaccinated parents tested negative). I probably know 75-80 people who had covid before vaccines were available, including one 40 something year old who passed away. New York City

    20. San Francisco, California. I knew very few people locally with Covid in the first few surges – maybe half a dozen, and nothing serious. Over the past two weeks, I have seen breakthrough infections for two family units – one adult and two kids under 12, another adult and a kid under 12. All adults were vaccinated. The breakthrough infection manifested as a mild cold. The families both think they got it through passing contact in places where there are higher rates of unvaccinated people (e.g., one family had just been visiting elderly parents in very unvaccinated North Dakota). #anecdata

    21. Personally know- one, my coworker. Vaccinated. Currently ill with mild symptoms (he is still working remotely).

      Personally know OF? Quite a few. I work for a very large government type health care employer and we are seeing a big uptick in vaccinated break through cases.

      I’m in the NW.

    22. About ten, including myself. I’m in Jacksonville, FL, which if you read the news, you’ve probably heard how bad it is here.

      1. I should mention I got it from my kid, who got it from summer camp. It is a mess here.

    23. I should mention I got it from my kid, who got it from summer camp. It is a mess here.

    24. I know one personally, and she basically had a mild cold. No way to know how she got it, because she was basically lifting her life fairly normally post-vaccine.

    25. I know 1 personally. They were fully vaxxed. Was WFH and super cautious all pandemic. From PDX and travelled to Sacramento area to see family (also all vaxxed) and caught it there. They believe it was at the bar of a restaurant while waiting for a table as it was the only indoor crowded place they went.

      1. To add, they described their symptoms as a really really bad cold
        Their family (vaxxed adults and unvaxxed kiddos) all tested negative, thankfully.

  5. Ok, help educate me here. There are tons of people quitting jobs – but there are still tons of job openings. I have read that unemployment benefits are basically exhausted, historically our country’s savings rate is not super high, and cost of living definitely isn’t down… are the majority of voluntary quits taking time off and living off savings? Taking a part time gig, remote work, etc.? I’m seeing so many businesses, not just restaurants, close multiple days per week or pull their execs to the floor (my bank’s CFO was working the teller line last Friday, and my wife got a small order of lumber from the local shop and it was handled by the top sales manager). I guess what I’m trying to say is … how are people who quit staying afloat? I’ve tried reading some articles online but haven’t found good ones yet, feel free to share if you have any solid reads.

    1. Here’s my cockamamie theory, which is that it’s a combination of factors:

      – Financial Houses are in Order: Months of enhanced unemployment + stimulus checks helped people get out of debt that was keeping them tied to lower-paying service jobs they didn’t want to do. OR, it allowed them to go back and retrain for higher-paying careers. I saw lots of stories about people leaving bartending and server jobs permanently to go to coding camp or medical assisting school last year.

      – “Money isn’t everything” Values Reorganization: I personally know two moms who are going to stay home now vs. going back to work because in addition to getting some debt paid off, the pandemic reorganized their priorities and they’d rather live smaller and not work than do what they were doing before. Not everyone in the world lives to work or is a careerist, and some people don’t care about climbing professional ladders.

      – Service Jobs Suck: There’s actually a great article in The Atlantic this week about how customer service jobs in America have always sucked, thanks to the whole “the customer is always right” philosophy that is so prevalent, and it seems like there’s just been a general “waking up” to the idea that putting up with endless amounts of abuse from privileged, princessy customers all day for near-minimum wage isn’t the way people want to live their lives.

      Last but not least: Immigration Reform Bit us on the Butt. Many jobs that people are having a really hard time filling were done by undocumented or newly-authorized immigrant laborers, and once Trump instituted his draconian anti-immigration measures (assisted by The Antichrist, Stephen Miller), we lost access to a population of employees that did a lot of hard, ugly, dirty jobs (like cleaning hotel rooms; processing meat; bussing tables/washing dishes in restaurants, etc.) A big question: should we have allowed so many jobs that as it turns out, were critical and essential to business functioning to be filled by undocumented workers, with no penalties being levied on the megacorporations (I’m looking at you, Marriott) who hired them? I always thought it was substantially unfair that we’d arrest and deport the workers and somehow never hold Tyson Foods, for example, or Marriott or whoever else accountable for hiring people in the first place. I am honestly not sure if we should loosen immigration and work requirements so jobs can be filled, or if we should hold firm, hold these companies’ feet to the fire, and make them hire documented workers (who will demand higher pay and better working conditions) to get back to “business as usual.”

      In any case, like all markets, the labor market will eventually right itself and the pendulum will eventually swing back, but anyone who thinks $15 minimum wages offered by companies is going away is kidding themselves, big-time. We’ve set a new floor for wages and it’s $15/hr. If the federal minimum wage never changes, people won’t be working for anything close to $7.25 an hour ever again (and very few people – less than 250k in the U.S. made the federal minimum wage in 2018). CEOs are going to have to find some other way to exploit labor and game the financial system to afford their pocket yachts, so sorry for them. Or not.

      1. I generally agree with you and would add one more thing – anecdotally I hear a lot of people in office jobs quitting, but most job listings are for retail/warehouse/customer service work. So a mismatch of the type of jobs open and the the type of jobs people want or were doing.

      2. I agree with your analysis.

        I will add another issue to the list: Long Term Effects of the Great Recession. The Indicator podcast discussed this recently. The Great Recession’s real estate bust meant that home construction dropped dramatically. People who would have gone into construction jobs or homebuilding-related trades went into other types of work. Now that there is a large need for new homes and home renovation, there are not nearly enough blue collar workers to meet the demand.

        I noticed the same issue with midlevel to senior associate attorneys. When I was in law school and just graduating, law firms were not hiring young attorneys, or hired far fewer attorneys than before. I have many law school classmates who went into JD-preferred jobs rather than practice law. That trend coupled with the normal attrition means that there are not nearly as many experienced associate-level attorneys as firms need.

          1. Thank you everyone! If you couldn’t guess, I have a strong interest in this, partially because I’m just interested and partly because it’s part of my job to understand the labor market and the forces affecting it. I am glad you enjoyed the recap; I sent a less-colloquial version of this to my CEO the other day and he wasn’t quite as enthralled. Mainly just wanted to know when we’ll stop having to pay so much for promoted job postings on the Internet (answer: likely not any time very soon).

    2. The extra unemployment isn’t done yet for another month or so, so that. Plus LOTS of day trading happening at every level. Even waiters/retail are talking about stocks; on a recent home reno job, the guys putting in my cabinets were talking about how they were making so much more money in the market right now than at this jobs that they should quit etc. Though I’d be careful about that one, it’s not people who have a ton of money and this market is making new highs but getting pretty tired and there are debt ceiling and other fiscal deadlines like that coming up in the next month or two that the public knows nothing about (and with prior debt cliffs sell offs of 10-20% were normal).

    3. Lots of dual income families are able to get by on one income. Once you factor in the cost of child care, the progressive tax structure that taxes a second income more heavily, and the stress lots of jobs cause, it can make sense to have one parent scale back for a while. It’s a problem if this is always women, and it’s a problem when career tracks are so inflexible that there’s no path back to a job later, but I don’t think that there should inherently be any thing wrong with people having flexible life paths and deciding that there’s more to life than work. I follow a lot of the financial independence/ frugal living blogs and generally buy into that philosophy, if not the full on early retirement thing.

  6. I posted the other day about dresses for a wedding that my friend asked me to MC.
    I ended up ordering a bunch of dresses yesterday, hopefully something in here works. The first is my favorite by far, but I am concerned it might be “too fancy” (bride has sent me pictures of her dress & the bridesmaid dresses). Will report back when they come in.

    Links for anyone else who wants to look

    https://www.tadashishoji.com/bsv21066md-zera-fit-and-flare-midi-dress
    https://www.bloomingdales.com/shop/product/eliaza-j-illusion-sleeve-lace-sheath-dress?ID=3953247&CategoryID=2910
    https://www.nordstrom.com/s/jenny-packham-flutter-sleeve-high-low-chiffon-gown/5443350
    https://www.nordstrom.com/s/chi-chi-london-oria-a-line-chiffon-dress/5787538
    https://www.nordstrom.com/s/js-collections-illusion-lace-short-sleeve-cocktail-dress/5868069
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    1. LOL I want to see them styled. How exactly is the designer envisioning them being worn in her mind??

  7. For those of you with rich parents, what are they doing to distribute wealth/avoid taxes on retirement savings now? Are there tax credits for things like 529 contributions?

    1. My mother is wealthy but not terribly wealthy. She gives annual gifts to me and my sister as of 3 years ago, which is about when she settled her father’s estate. She always says that these may stop at some point if she does not feel financially secure enough to make the gifts, so we don’t assume they are coming. Almost all of her money is from her own inheritance; she does not have much at all in tax-deferred accounts as she made very little working. Considerations for someone in a different position would likely be different.

    2. I’m not sure what qualifies as rich for this. My in laws are rich. They are 75 and 85 and have million in the bank. I don’t know how many millions, maybe 6-8? I truely don’t know. MIL has $2M in her “fun money” account. They live in a fully paid off home worth $850k.

      I don’t know what they are doing regarding taxes, but I do know that my MIL spends her time wishing she spent more of her money when she was younger, because now she has a 94 year old mother that she doesn’t feel comfortable leaving (despite that she is in a lovely assisted living facility) and a healthy but slow and old husband who won’t travel anymore.

      She spent the past month shopping for a lampshade. I wish I were joking that it was the focus of her time and energy.

      1. I’m not quite that rich but this is why I am forcing myself to spend money and have fun now, while we are “young olds.” We are planning three big trips next year and are doing some big house things this year in lieu of travel during the pandemic. I feel like we’re in our prime fun-having years and I don’t want to waste any opportunities by being tight-fisted with our money. Fortunately my husband agrees.

  8. Is there any way in Outlook to change the default for new calendar meetings to NOT be all day? I never put things on my calendar that are all day and it drives me crazy that I have to uncheck that box every single time.

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