MOTC worth it?

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It's $25/year.  I'm most interested in getting stuff (posting on the message board asking about cribs/strollers for sale) and going to the big sales in spring/fall.  Maybe after the babies are here I'll want to hang out with other twin moms, but at this point I don't see it happening.  Is the sale/message board alone worth it?  I know members get into the sales a little early, if I waited would everything be picked over?

macchiatto

I signed up back in December and I haven't made it to any meetings yet, but I've benefited from the online forums and classifieds, and DEFINITELY by getting into the sales earlier! I went to a sale last August when I was 20 weeks pg and wasn't a member yet. We showed up right away when it was open to the public. There was a lot of stuff left but the things I was looking for--a DSNG, another double stroller, cribs and other gear--were all very much picked over. The only DSNG was $100!

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i'm planning to join mine - i think it's $30/year. I just want the newsletters with info and access to sales, etc. I doubt i'll make it to many meetings since i'm already very involved in other activities that take up a lot of my time... but i figure it's not that much money - if i don't "use" it much - i just won't join next year.

i also feel that as a mommy of a non-twin that i don't want to get too involved in it- b/c i'm not JUST a MoM... I'm Griffin's mom, too - and i feel like getting all gung-ho about the MOTC club would be making him seem less important in some way... might be silly- but that's how i feel...i  don't want my life to be all about just being a MoM.

jlc071903

yes..as a member, knowing what was avaliable for ME to shop vs. what was avaliable for the public to shop, it is soooooooooooo worth it. Then, as the years go on you can sell your stuff through MOTC..and I enjoy getting ot meet with other twin moms who understand what my life has been and now is like.

jlc071903

I JUST received an e-mail with our fall sale date...it is August 29@ Lindbergh High School.  Members get in at 11:30 and the general public gets in at 1.  At the last sale, the line to get into the sale for the general public was out to the street from the door to the gym (VERY VERY LONG). If you want to get in as a member, you'll need to join by our next meeting...just look up St.Louis MOTC online and it will give you an e-mail address to send information to. 

Ex: IF you went in with the general public looking for a double snap N go...it would be gone way before you got in. Last year ALL the bouncers and swings went before the general public got in. There's always TONS of clothing left, but not all the gear and other stuff you'd find there.

amygdala

yes worth it.  After the babies are here, you will want to meet other twin moms.  It is a world like no other & it helped me tremendously to talk to others going through the same things.  Even if you don't feel the same, the sale/message board will be worth it imo!

nbjenni

I just joined mine and have already made so many new friends. Totally worth it for me!

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i'm planning to join mine - i think it's $30/year. I just want the newsletters with info and access to sales, etc. I doubt i'll make it to many meetings since i'm already very involved in other activities that take up a lot of my time... but i figure it's not that much money - if i don't "use" it much - i just won't join next year.

i also feel that as a mommy of a non-twin that i don't want to get too involved in it- b/c i'm not JUST a MoM... I'm Griffin's mom, too - and i feel like getting all gung-ho about the MOTC club would be making him seem less important in some way... might be silly- but that's how i feel...i  don't want my life to be all about just being a MoM.

This is how I feel too.  Expecting #2, I was already afraid that DS would feel replaced (even though that could never happen obviously), but now with have #2 and #3 at the same time, I know everyone's going to be all over "the twins", I don't want to make them more special (bad way to explain it, but pretty much the same thing you said).

cands

I think it is completely worth it, from a financial point of view, I've easily saved the membership costs in items purchased from the sales.  But I've also gone to free events like a info session from a potty training expert, and a Halloween party that the girls really liked.  And this weekend we're going to the summer picnic where they will have a petting zoo and bounce house, both of which I think my girls will love.

I wouldn't worry too much about your singleton feeling less special by you being part of a multiples club.  My mother was a member of a mother of twins club when my twin sister and I were 1.5 until we moved when we were about 3.  Apparently they had a bunch of park play events (no electronic message boards or back then), and it wasn't until my mother and I were discussing twin clubs around my older sister about a year ago that my sister realized that it was a twin club.  My older sister would have been 2.5 to 4 when we were going to the events, and she remembers a few things like the time they had a pony ride there, but because at that point in her life twins were just a normal thing, so she didn't even pick up on it being a twin based club she just saw it as a playgroup. 

lajolla09.30.06

I met all of the moms in my playgroup through my local club, I think it's definitely worth it.