What was the biggest waste?

Wufroggy79

scoutkate:

nbeseau:

scoutkate:

Our bumbleride stroller.  Just looking at that thing makes me feel stupid.  We've probably used it five times. 

I'm curious on why you didn't like it?  I see them all the time, and I usually kick myself that I don't have one.  It looks like a good stroller.

It's a long story. 

We had it on our registry, not because we expected anyone to buy it, but just because we used the registry as a way to organize what we needed.  A couple of months before B was born we went ahead and bought it, but not from our registry--we found it on sale somewhere else.  Then literally three days after it was delivered, a second one was delivered.  Turns out someone bought it for us, after all.  And we couldn't figure out who.  There was no gift enclosure, Amazon wouldn't give us any information, etc.  We couldn't return it, I can't remember why--maybe because we didn't want to offend whoever bought it?  And we had already put together the one we bought ourselves, so we couldn't return that one, either.  So we had two bright pink $400+ strollers.  We tried to sell the gift stroller on craigslist but it was the previous year's model and again--bright pink--so no one wanted it.  I finally sold it at a consignment sale, still in the box, for only $150.  Meanwhile, we weren't getting much use out of the other one because we just don't do a lot of walking.  And it was months before we found out that one of DH's clients had gotten it for us.  So they probably thought we were the rudest people alive for not acknowledging such a lavish gift.  The whole scenario just makes me feel stupid. 

tl;dr

There is someone selling one on my mom swap group board for $100, so I have been debating, but I don't know if I really need to invest in another stroller.

bearfootz

Hmm, my experience must have been a little different because our bouncers and bumbos were practically worn out.

Dishwasher basket - everything went in the microwave sterizer, never waited around long enough for a full load of dishes to use the basket.

Grooming sets - they gave us those at the hospital

Fancy burp rags - the white cloth diapers were the best to use and you could get a lot more for the same price as the fancy ones.

There were plenty of late night Amazon purchases that made sense at the time that looking back I didn't get my money out of - like the Moby.  Maybe with one, but could only fit two in for a little while.

The breast pump would have been the biggest waste financially given that I never got a supply - but just in case I had returned the one I got as a gift and rented from the hospital.  That is one thing I tell people to wait to get.

mrebecca

Diaper Genie also. 

I donated it to the women's enrichment center.
...I'm so nice.

mhaas28

JerkStore213:

mama roo. i was all, "oh man my baby neeeeeeds this thing!" $200 i think and he sat in it one time and screamed the whole time.

confession - i saw it here when i was a newb, and now that i think about it, it was probably a stupid bump kathleen post. that biitch tricked me.

Same here. We just moved and it made the move. I hope that the next kid I have will LOVE it or I will cry 

ThePolishHammer

Receiving blankets and burp cloths. We got a bunch as gifts. It's not that they weren't useful, we just had too many,

mommytosam011011

The swing. He sat in maybe three times.

synchrosally

Microwave bottle sanitizer. DH insisted on buying it before I gave birth. I ended up EBF and DS rarely had a bottle; no need for sanitizing. 

Oh and a Snugli someone gave me. I hated it, DS hated it. I really wish I had bought my own carrier for him.

isacdimi10

swaddler.

My kids slept sprawled out even as newborns. 

isacdimi10

elmoali:

This makes me curious.  We lived in an apartment until DS was 15 months old so we always changed him in his room.  We have a house now (2 floors) and we still ALWAYS change him in his room.  Are we oddballs that we trek upstairs for all diaper changes?

I want to say yes.

We do diaper smack downs on the living room floor. Right now it is most certianly diaper show downs. 

When I'm still recovering from my c-section we have a changing table in the living room. When I can get up and down without help we're floor or couch people.

synchrosally

RayRay007:

We never used burp cloths.

We never used the actual burp cloths. They're too freaking small. I made my own out of flat cloth diapers. I needed them that huge too. DS projectile vomited a lot! 

quidditchcapn1120

BostonKisses2:

Microwave steam sterilizer for bottles.  I ended up with a couple of these and never used any of them.

Really?  I used my steam sterilizer every.single.day.  I was obsessed with sterilizing bottles, pacifiers, pump parts, etc.  I think I was a bit over the top. 

quidditchcapn1120

Igoo0304:

A friend gave us a bottle warmer, bottle sterilizer, and a set of Dr Brown bottles. The cute little card that came with them said "for when bf'ing doesn't work out". We gave them to the local women's shelter.

OMG.  What is wrong with people?? 

quidditchcapn1120

myself1nme:

Manual breast pump.  I still don't know WTF I was thinking.

OMG, I could not do this.  I don't think I would have survived if I couldn't Bump while pumping.  I did everything possible to make that chore as easy on me as possible. 

quidditchcapn1120

I am surprised by a lot of these- our swing, PNP, bumbo, nursing cover, microwave sterilizer, and bouncy seat were all completely worn out by the time we put them away.

I would say wipes warmer.  I also ended up donating the sample formula that came in the mail because I BF'd, but that wasn't really a purchase.  It did suck getting all that junk mail though from the formula companies.