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If I had 10 kids I'd still have a registry

SeaStar430SeaStar430 member
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Because my mom is bipolar with an obsession with buying and giving me things.  She also has TERRIBLE taste, and I've gotten in more than one war in my lifetime about her mailing me crap that fills up my house (she'd go to the post office every single day to mail me something), bringing me bags of "stuff" when she visits and just bombarding me with things I don't need.  I know I'm going to have to have a serious talk with her right away when we tell her I'm KU, because if not I'll have to move into a 4000sqft house to accomodate all the stuff she'll buy. 

A registry is vital, it's the only thing that will keep her on track.  If she's going to spend tons of money on things, it might as well be on things I want instead of some of the ridiculousness she would buy.

I know that sounds mean, but dealing with someone who has an obsessive shopping disorder can get out of control real fast.  Anyone else going to have that problem on any level?

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  • buggerfly12buggerfly12
    LOL I get sooo annoyed when DH goes out and buys some other thing that's a hundred dollars that won't even fit in the space he has... We don't live together right now, he's in barracks, but when he moves to GA all that useless junk is going to be filling up my entire tiny apartment!
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  • kellimkellim member
    It irks me when people use the word bipolar to make a post more funny. 
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  • SmallandNeedySmallandNeedy member

    imagekellim:
    It irks me when people use the word bipolar to make a post more funny.?

    Maybe her mom really is bipolar??

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  • Tonya_GTonya_G member
    Kind of- I know there will be certain things we'll need, and that my MIL and mom will both want to buy things for the baby- I figure if I make another registry, they can get what I pick out, not what they think is cute (because if that's the case, I'd be a little scared- neither of them have a similar style to mine). And, too, I figure whatever they don't get the baby off the registry, I can get completion coupons and be able to better afford myself!
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  • jnk062602jnk062602

    Hey Congrats!  I recognize the pups in your siggy.  I don't have that exact problem really, but I do know a little about the space issue.  My mom has already bought way more for the baby than us. That is actually keeping me in check not to buy much.  But she has also saved tons of outfits from me and my sister growing up.  As soon as we found out it is a girl she got all excited and said she was going to go thru the bins in the basement of dresses and sweaters and random other girly stuff.  My dad is happy he is getting rid of it, but my DH immediately groaned since he has seen their basement.  We are talking about 10 rubbermaid bins of clothing!

     

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