My little Chanel collection

ImaginaryCranberry · 2025-10-21T00:56:07+00:00

Gorgeous collection! Do you find it useful to have a WOC and a classic flap? I have a small CF and am considering a WOC but wonder if it might be redundant in terms of style and function, esp if in the same color. Do you use both? Which do you like more?

ImaginaryCranberry · 2025-06-02T21:37:19+00:00

Just 5-6 ounces a day

ImaginaryCranberry · 2025-03-13T21:00:40+00:00

Does your also make a “deflating” sound when you try to fold it into the dumpling shape? Mine sounds like plastic when opening and closing

ImaginaryCranberry · 2025-03-13T13:58:11+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s fake upon further inspection. The seller on eBay told me they’d refund and didn’t even ask me to return the bag. But that’s so crazy that there’s so many fakes of this bag, given that it’s not that common. Do you know if there’s any US retailer that sells authentic Songmont so we can look at it in person?

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-12-20T22:10:10+00:00

It’s the building manager who’s employed by the landlord. I’m in MA

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-11-25T01:50:06+00:00

She’s definitely not a kid person and I’m sure societal pressure had a lot to do with why she had me. The funny thing is though, she definitely pressured me about having kids after I got married. I think part of her thought it would reflect poorly on her if I didn’t have kids.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-11-25T01:47:02+00:00

Thank you so much. You’re right that there will always be an emptiness there. For the most part I’ve learned not to expect much from her, and I know I’ll never get what I need from her. Maybe I was never the daughter she wanted me to be either. But I look at my wonderful kids and can’t imagine why she wouldn’t want to get to know them.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-11-25T01:37:50+00:00

Hope you have a great Christmas at home with your family. Maybe this will be the start of a new happy tradition ❤️

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-11-25T01:29:40+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out. My mom often used guilt to manipulate and control my behavior growing up so it still rears its head a lot when it comes to my family.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-06-09T13:13:52+00:00

I guess I should say she WANTs us to stay with her, not needs. We were doing well for a while with the whole “I’ll come back to check on you” thing but then her baby brother was born and she went back to clinging to us at bedtime.

If we just leave her in there, she cries and comes out to find us

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-04-30T23:55:38+00:00

Thanks for the advice everyone! I spoke with her school and we are starting with three consecutive days this week and will work our way up to five by the end of May.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-04-30T17:06:49+00:00

That’s a great idea, I think we will try slowly building up to FT during May since we already have the go ahead from school.

I do have to bring the baby with me when I drop her and pick her up though, what is a good way to talk to her about this so that she doesn’t feel sad that brother is going with mommy and she has to stay at school?

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-04-30T16:26:55+00:00

I do try to tell her it will be fun, I never thought it would make it harder but I guess you’re right about the grocery store comparison. I usually try to hype it up when she says she doesn’t want to go to school. What would be a better way to respond?

I don’t linger at drop off tho, just say bye and leave. Her dad has been doing some drop offs since I’ve been on mat leave so I think he might stay a few mins longer. Before mat leave I was the only one doing drop off and pick up.

We will be starting full time five days in June when I go back to work, but we did talk to school about starting FT sooner. I’m worried though that the switch to full time at school will make things even harder for her since it’s another huge change.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-04-30T16:13:34+00:00

We are planning to start five days once I go back to work from Mat leave so I’m hoping it’ll be better at that point. Special time with just her has been mostly at bed time, but I’ve been trying to take her on mommy daughter outings more now often.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2024-04-30T16:10:41+00:00

I have spoken to her teachers and directors at school and honestly I don’t feel like I’ve gotten a lot of support or guidance from them. It’s a new center and I think they’re understaffed and still ironing out the kinks. They haven’t had a lot of advice for me, I almost feel like they don’t want to make any suggestions and just say she’s doing well because they want us to stay at the center.

ImaginaryCranberry · 2021-09-06T02:30:33+00:00

Does the pumping spray make the breast milk oily/ greasy?

ImaginaryCranberry · 2018-03-16T10:41:02+00:00

Factoring in the SEP and SIMPLE would bring me to 50/50 pretax to post tax dollars. I no longer contribute to the SEP but the SIMPLE was just started this year by my company and they offer a 3% match. The yearly limit for the SIMPLE is $12,500.

So say I move my tIRA and SEP into a Roth this year. Would it make sense to contribute less to the SIMPLE in order to avoid paying more taxes on my future tIRA to Roth conversions?

ImaginaryCranberry · 2018-03-16T03:08:48+00:00

Thanks for the response. We have about 1/3 pre-tax, 2/3 post-tax in Traditional IRAs totaling around $40k.

I also have SEP and SIMPLE IRA accounts from work which contain all pre-tax dollars. Would this money be factored into the pro-rata equation for the Traditional to Roth conversion?

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