I'm just curious as to why someone taking their time and money to go and buy you a gift and then spend their free time going to a shower just isn't enough.
I just can't imagine telling someone how their gift must be given to me, which is what you are doing when you make those kind of requests on an invitation.
Still don't understand why your posting on here and causing trouble. Like pp said, you've said your peace numerous times, and it really comes across that you want people to fight back with you. Why else would you keep going on and on about it.
Your not even due in September so why are you even here? Why don't you stop causing trouble here and go back to your own month?
Really? Why? It's been a completely civil discussion. People are allowed to disagree. It happens in the world. The fact that you have to go running to admin over this is seriously laughable and truly speaks to your nature.
Unreal. For a self proclaimed "mean girl" that is. Lol.
I don't get all the animosity towards women who frequent several birth boards. I do this all the time and have for years. I occasionally comment on posts in Aug, Sept, Oct and Nov, why is this a problem? I may have something to add to the discussion that could be helpful, in fact I try really hard to offer constructive advice or opinions on a lot of different issues. I've never had anyone single me out in Oct or Nov because "I don't go there".
I also find it pretty ironic that people who were previously so concerned with negativity and "bullying" are now openly bragging about discussing other posters behind their backs in private.
@CEB37 Actually, the thread exhausted its purpose long ago. The purpose was to help Cate decide how she wanted to do gifts at her baby shower. She decided long ago. It has since devolved into sheer nastiness. If someone spoke to me in real life as some women here have been - especially unprovokedly as it's been here - there would be serious problem. Luckily this is just you hiding behind a screen. In real life I'd just get some stick-up-your-ass, priss face for not adhering to your guidelines that, heads up, were laid out completely arbitrarily and are far and wide without contemporary basis. Maybe we should try that now - I hope it freezes that way. Saves you the effort of trying not to be accidentally decent in the future.
Personally I think a few on here have jumped all over @CEB37. Those people claiming to be nice are in fact not. Many here portray what seem to be a positive glow but yet opinions are voiced by others and the so called clique don't like it their true colours come out. Just like how you've treated ceb37 & many of others that have posted on this thread. The claws & daggers come out because it's not an opinion people like to here. It's doesn't matter if your not from this BMB or not it's open therefore anyone can comment. @mrscaterosales said she wanted opinions. Therefore opinions are what she got weather she liked them or not. Which by the way she handled very well. Just a shame that the others didn't.
@sugarmag0lia I'm curios as to why you didn't inform the others who posted late last night and early this morning that this thread was no longer open for comments? There seems to be an abundance of hypocrisy and one-sidedness here. That's fine, don't expect you won't get called out on it though. Kisses.
Personally I think a few on here have jumped all over @CEB37. Those people claiming to be nice are in fact not. Many here portray what seem to be a positive glow but yet opinions are voiced by others and the so called clique don't like it their true colours come out. Just like how you've treated ceb37 & many of others that have posted on this thread. The claws & daggers come out because it's not an opinion people like to here. It's doesn't matter if your not from this BMB or not it's open therefore anyone can comment. @mrscaterosales said she wanted opinions. Therefore opinions are what she got weather she liked them or not. Which by the way she handled very well. Just a shame that the others didn't.
It was this poster that said shed triple duct tape baby presents. Why do we keep glossing over this? That's not being honest, that's like a scene in a David Fincher film. Although I love me a little dark humour, it's still a pretty creepy thing to say on a pregnancy board!
Personally I think a few on here have jumped all over @CEB37. Those people claiming to be nice are in fact not. Many here portray what seem to be a positive glow but yet opinions are voiced by others and the so called clique don't like it their true colours come out. Just like how you've treated ceb37 & many of others that have posted on this thread. The claws & daggers come out because it's not an opinion people like to here. It's doesn't matter if your not from this BMB or not it's open therefore anyone can comment. @mrscaterosales said she wanted opinions. Therefore opinions are what she got weather she liked them or not. Which by the way she handled very well. Just a shame that the others didn't.
It was this poster that said shed triple duct tape baby presents. Why do we keep glossing over this? That's not being honest, that's like a scene in a David Fincher film. Although I love me a little dark humour, it's still a pretty creepy thing to say on a pregnancy board!
It was a joke. How is that creepy. And what difference does it make if it's on a pregnancy board. I'm seriously laughing so hard at this. Really, this disturbs you? Wow. Parenting is going to destroy you. Good luck, buttercup.
ETA. I'm still dying laughing at how melodramatic and over the top ridiculous this post is. How do you get through the day?
It's not creepy at all. She was putting her point across and used that as an example. Even though she said it, it didn't give people the right to steam in on her. After all (I'm not pointing fingers at you) but put yourself in her shoes for a moment. Re read everything @CEB37 wrote on here and tell me 1. If anything she said was really out of order 2. Do you feel the responses she got were fair & 3. How would you have felt? I'm not having a go at you I'm trying to get you to look at it in another prospective.
Personally I think a few on here have jumped all over @CEB37. Those people claiming to be nice are in fact not. Many here portray what seem to be a positive glow but yet opinions are voiced by others and the so called clique don't like it their true colours come out. Just like how you've treated ceb37 & many of others that have posted on this thread. The claws & daggers come out because it's not an opinion people like to here. It's doesn't matter if your not from this BMB or not it's open therefore anyone can comment. @mrscaterosales said she wanted opinions. Therefore opinions are what she got weather she liked them or not. Which by the way she handled very well. Just a shame that the others didn't.
It was this poster that said shed triple duct tape baby presents. Why do we keep glossing over this? That's not being honest, that's like a scene in a David Fincher film. Although I love me a little dark humour, it's still a pretty creepy thing to say on a pregnancy board!
okay so the comment was maybe a little bitchy but honestly I'm unsure why its creepy or would be "dark humor"? We do this in my family as a joke. Christmas every year someone has a gift thats ridiculously hard or complicated to open, 3 rolls of duct tape, in russian nest doll boxes and possibly in as many pieces as we can break in down into each wrapped seperately. Maybe my family is just creepy.
Lol @hatchback4g I do that with one Christmas present to my brother. I cover it in cello tape. It's kind of out thing he expects it now. So I guess I'm creepy to
@Ivyblue92 lol glad it's not just my family! It's a good time watching them try to figure how to open things or where the tiny gift is in the refridgerator sized box of packing peanuts. We've all had our turn at some point except probably my husband....hmmmmm better start getting some ideas together for this year
@Ivyblue92 lol glad it's not just my family! It's a good time watching them try to figure how to open things or where the tiny gift is in the refridgerator sized box of packing peanuts. We've all had our turn at some point except probably my husband....hmmmmm better start getting some ideas together for this year
Lol love it. I sit and laugh my arse off when I watch him try unwrap it. He always says he'll get me back. So far he hadn't.
*snip because GD the quote trees are ridiculous here*
I didn't know what that silly chunk of letters meant either, but maybe people shouldn't chime in without reading the whole story.
And please don't regret starting this thread. It seems like a lot of people gained from it as you introduced many of us to an innovative way to introduce gifts at a shower. This poster here loves drama threads and comes out of the "wood house" every time one may be on the brink of erupting. I've seen it a bunch of times on other boards and wasn't surprised to see that this one was no exception.
You did well with this and as always handled it like a champion.
Edited for spelling.
It was an abbreviation from the pre-exodus days. You know. From actual OGs.
Of course lurkers are going to read threads that seem to offer the most interest. Why would someone lurk a thread about spotting or cramps?
Most of us that lurk around are fairly polite until someone gets BSC (not saying OP did, it's a "general" someone...right? That's the emphasis?"). I can't say the same for some of your other "regs", however. Thankfully, the worst of it appears to have been handled. albeit sadly probably not permanently. I'm still not getting what is so offensive about triple duct taping. She didn't say she would triple duct tape the MTB. Sheesh.
Personally I think a few on here have jumped all over @CEB37. Those people claiming to be nice are in fact not. Many here portray what seem to be a positive glow but yet opinions are voiced by others and the so called clique don't like it their true colours come out. Just like how you've treated ceb37 & many of others that have posted on this thread. The claws & daggers come out because it's not an opinion people like to here. It's doesn't matter if your not from this BMB or not it's open therefore anyone can comment. @mrscaterosales said she wanted opinions. Therefore opinions are what she got weather she liked them or not. Which by the way she handled very well. Just a shame that the others didn't.
It was this poster that said shed triple duct tape baby presents. Why do we keep glossing over this? That's not being honest, that's like a scene in a David Fincher film. Although I love me a little dark humour, it's still a pretty creepy thing to say on a pregnancy board!
Also don't see what's creepy about duct tape. As a boater, i would contend that it's one of the worlds best creations.
FWIW every time I read MTB - I think Mother of the Bride. Not sure why...
Where I'm from showers aren't done. Ever! For brides or babies. Then I move to the US, where it is. The attention is a lot to take for me, but I was SO touched that people cared enough to do something for me.
My baby shower with dd1 (and I've only had anything for dd1!!!) I think the most emotional part was getting a gift from my mum in the middle of it all. The tears were just flowing. I might have made some people feel uncomfortable at that moment in time, but oh well... If it had been a display shower (which I had never heard of til now) that awkwardness would have been avoided, but then so would the flood of just love I felt over me from home at that moment in time.
I'm a live and let live person and as long as no-one is hurt or killed in the process, whatever works!
This was fun!! Hadn't checked on this thread since page one, and had an hour to kill waiting for hubby to get home. I wish all this had been here on Wednesday while I sat for an hour waiting to have my blood drawn for my glucose test All kidding aside, the matter seems to have been settled. @mrscaterosales, please keep us posted as to how everything goes over! I think this is a neat idea, despite never having heard of it!
I'm an oddball and insanely awkward person - I seriously suck at small talk. Is it weird that I actually appreciate gift opening time, because, although I hate being the center of attention, I know for once what to do with my hands and where to look?
As many have said, to each their own, and whatever floats your boat. I love seeing different and fresh ways of doing showers - there's only so many times you can eat melted candy bars from a diaper or cut yarn to the predicted size of mom to be's belly without groaning (sorry if those are your favorite games!). Anxious to hear how this goes!!!
Re: Opinions on "Display" Baby Shower
Your not even due in September so why are you even here? Why don't you stop causing trouble here and go back to your own month?
This thread has been done, well and truly.
If it's done, then why continue to comment, you're doing it wrong
Unreal. For a self proclaimed "mean girl" that is. Lol.
See ya! Have a nice day now.
It was a joke. How is that creepy. And what difference does it make if it's on a pregnancy board. I'm seriously laughing so hard at this. Really, this disturbs you? Wow. Parenting is going to destroy you. Good luck, buttercup.
ETA. I'm still dying laughing at how melodramatic and over the top ridiculous this post is. How do you get through the day?
Also don't see what's creepy about duct tape. As a boater, i would contend that it's one of the worlds best creations.
FWIW every time I read MTB - I think Mother of the Bride. Not sure why...
Where I'm from showers aren't done. Ever! For brides or babies. Then I move to the US, where it is. The attention is a lot to take for me, but I was SO touched that people cared enough to do something for me.
My baby shower with dd1 (and I've only had anything for dd1!!!) I think the most emotional part was getting a gift from my mum in the middle of it all. The tears were just flowing. I might have made some people feel uncomfortable at that moment in time, but oh well... If it had been a display shower (which I had never heard of til now) that awkwardness would have been avoided, but then so would the flood of just love I felt over me from home at that moment in time.
I'm a live and let live person and as long as no-one is hurt or killed in the process, whatever works!
I'm an oddball and insanely awkward person - I seriously suck at small talk. Is it weird that I actually appreciate gift opening time, because, although I hate being the center of attention, I know for once what to do with my hands and where to look?
As many have said, to each their own, and whatever floats your boat. I love seeing different and fresh ways of doing showers - there's only so many times you can eat melted candy bars from a diaper or cut yarn to the predicted size of mom to be's belly without groaning (sorry if those are your favorite games!). Anxious to hear how this goes!!!