Frugal Friday’s Workwear Report: Whatever Floats Your Boat Tee
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
I have a handful of Pride events on the calendar this month that I’m attending in my corporate capacity, and I always struggle with looking festive but still somewhat work-appropriate. This cap-sleeved top from ModCloth would be perfect with a pair of ankle pants and some business casual sneakers for all of your parade and picnic needs.
If you’re up for it, there’s also a fit-and-flare dress in a similar pattern.
The shirt is $39 at ModCloth and comes in sizes XS-4X.
Sales of note for 6/2:
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance up to 40% off!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off dresses, jackets, and shoes
- AYR – Ooh, good sale section — but lots on final sale. Readers love these comfy work pants and these jeans.
- Boden – 15% off new women's wear styles with code
- Express – Today only (6/2): all clearance up to 85% off when you take an extra 20-50% off
- J.Crew – 20% off $200, including new styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + 40-60% off everything else
- Loft – 60% off sale styles
- M.M.LaFleur– Up to 70% off, plus new styles added! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the Rack! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work basics from Calvin Klein and dresses from Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Talbots – Buy one, get one 50% off everything!
Maybe I’m being weird here: does anyone else try to eat a different protein each night of the week? To the point where if you have 3 great chicken recipes you try to spread them into different weeks?
We might do one night of leftovers but that’s it. I can’t imagine eating six-day-old chicken after eating five previous nights of chicken – especially if I’m blowing a Sunday meal prepping to do it. Good for them, not for me.
I try and mix it up a bit, but we definitely eat more chicken than anything else. I’d say probably 3 nights a week generally.
i eat chicken more than once a week, eat it the most but no this isn’t weird, i get it.
Yes, but leftovers can make it into the next day’s lunch (either by design or because there happened to be extra).
Nah, not weird at all. I make a larger batch of something for dinner, then take it for lunch the next day. I would not want to eat the same leftover protein for days on end, nor the same protein each day. These days I am eating as an omnivore for proteins and it has been great to experiment!
Getting variety in your diet isn’t weird!
we tend to alternate chicken vs. fish vs. veggie meals but that’s because we know our own appetites as opposed to intentionally thinking “we should vary our protein.”
also, we do the “intentional leftovers” game. We don’t waste weekend days batch-cooking but instead whenever we’re making something involved, we make like 4-8x the servings and freeze in serving-size portions.
Yes, I rotate seitan, tempeh, tofu, lentils, chickpeas, black beans, soy chunks, tvp etc. But I just try and not have the same thing back to back so if lunch is tofu dinner will be beans.
No, but I do find that I naturally adjust the next week if we’ve had a lot of one type of meat in a week. We do eat a lot of poultry so it’s not uncommon for us to have it 2 or 3 times in a week, but it’s usually in different preparations rather than cooked all at once and then used in different ways, and it doesn’t happen every week. So in a poultry-heavy week, we might make an Indian dish with cut-up chicken breasts, a sheet pan meal that includes chicken thighs, and something with ground turkey. We also eat fish and pork on a regular basis. We eat beef and lamb much more rarely, but definitely still have it regularly.
We tend to use leftovers as lunches rather than repurposing them into another meal. Although I will sometimes plan on using the meat in two different dishes if I roast whole chicken – knowing we’ll have the leftover meat, I’ll plan on enchiladas a couple of days later.
I will freely admit here that I’ve never been good at meal prepping or bulk cooking. Kudos to those that do, but it isn’t for me!
No. If the recipes are different enough to have different flavor profiles or different forms I see nothing wrong with eating chicken 2 or 3 times a week. The vision of meal prepping that people on this board have is very strange and not based on reality.
yeah. I said yesterday that we eat chicken or meatless almost all the time at home but to me a pasta with chicken, a salad with chicken, a quesadilla with chicken and a chicken pot pie are all very different meals. I would not want to eat quesadillas night after night but if the base meal is different, I don’t notice or care if it has the same protein.
I eat chicken more than any other protein, but I still prefer some variety and would probably spread out the recipes a bit.
If one person in the relationship has a particular/neurotic way things should be done (let’s say making the bed every single morning, no excuses), do you think it’s on them to execute it since they’re the one with the requirements or should a partner humor them and also try to do the thing the right way? I’ve seen this go both ways (“I have to clean the kitchen every night because I can’t stand when it’s not clean” vs. “I clean the kitchen for my wife every night because she can’t stand when it’s not clean.”
Depends on how many neurotic preferences the partner has! I’m the more neurotic one in my relationship, and there are certain things I’ll just do myself because I care a lot more. But, on the whole, my relationship feels balanced in terms of workload, and there are things that DH is much pickier about so he does those.
I think the neurotic partner should make the bed in your example. Hard to give a blanket answer without knowing what the neurosis relates to.
Making the bed is not neurotic. Not making it is often a sign of depression, ADHD, or other mental illness.
This top is adorable!
Sharing here because I can’t share IRL. I hit a major retirement milestone, I’ve saved 6x my salary! I’m 47 and my plan is to retire when I hit 10x. I’ll also have a federal pension and SS (assuming it still exists in 15 years) to support. I’ve dialed back my contributions to just get the match because every indication is that I’m on track for my goals with that, and I don’t want to oversave in retirement at the expense of living today.
Congrats! Go you!
Does anyone here work in public health? I got into EMT/ paramedic work to try to get into medical school. Shift work won’t be good as a lifestyle forever but I now don’t want the long haul of medical school. If you work in public health, please tell me the good, the bad, and the ugly.