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What's the worst baby gift you've received?
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Re: What's the worst baby gift you've received?
A friend made this knitted bunny lovey thing for my shower. I had no idea what it was when I took it out of the bag. It had no eyes or anything like this one does, but it was the closest thing I could find to it.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Bunny-lovey/
omg. That looks so evil.
Yes. I threw it away.
Lol. My MIL doesn't do yard sales. She saves EVERYTHING. "Why buy new when used will do?" The woman is married to a doctor and saves and washes bread bags to in case she can ever use them for something.
This sounds like my MIL. I am waiting for the deluge of all her used and worn out baby/kid crap (she watches kids for a living). I certainly don't mind things that are used and still in good shape, but this woman saves everything...I mean things that should be thrown away.
She came to our house for Christmas two years ago and we made turkey for christmas dinner. Two weeks later I open up my freezer and there is a baggie full of the gizzards and neck. Disgusting.
She is bordering on becoming a hoarder.
My MIL bought 2 girl outfits, they look to be around 9 or 12 months. One is adorable, the other looks like a mini-me clown costum.
And no ... we don't even know what we are having yet.
A guy I work with was super excited when he found out I was having a boy. He said he wanted to give me a bunch of stuff he'd been collecting for his grandkids (his son decided he didn't want kids). I assumed he meant NEW stuff....boy, was I wrong. He showed up to work the next day with litterally a truckload of the scariest, rusted out baby gear I have ever seen. It was all his son's original baby stuff, more than 30 years old, and it appeared to have been stored outdoors. I felt like I needed a tetanus shot just from looking at it. I told him in the most polite was I could that I couldn't use any of it.
Eww!
This is my MIL too! I'm amazed by the junk she finds and gives us(even down to the notepads!). I swear it all feels 'dusty'. I asked DH to tell her to shower this baby with all her love and no gifts-please. With DD she even bought us a complete bedding set in pink, when we specifically said we were not doing pink and had everything we needed.
My MIL 'allowed' me to go through her kids' old clothes to pick out some outfits for DD. Her youngest is 28. This was in front of the whole family (in law side) so I felt like I had to get one or two outfits. So on top of all these clothes being almost 3 decades old- they are yellowed, dry rotted (had been in trash bags up in the attic), moth eaten, stained (and I mean STAINED), in no condition I would ever put on DD (not to mention the hideous styling). I foudn 2 outfits that were the better of the bunch. I told MIL I didn't want to take too much since we were tight on room for traveling and also maybe her other kids would want some too.
So I have these 2 outfits put away. fast forward a few months (the above event was at Christmas 2008)- I start gathering clothes to take into consignment shop (I shop at consignment and I sell too), DH says 'you're not going to consign those outfits from my mom are you?' I told DH that the consignment place wouldn't even take them even if I was to try to take them in and explained why. DH then just says 'oh.'
Another littel gift I got was when I was pg with DD. One of my mom's friends gace to me at my shower was a toothfairy pillow- for when DD loses a tooth to put the tooth in and put under her pillow. So obvious if we were to even do the toothfairy (which we aren't) DD wouldn't even be able to use ti unitl she's 6ish when she starts to lose teeth!
I did thank the lady for her gift and not mentioned that we won't be doing the tooth fairy thing- but the pillow made its way into the Goodwill pile.
Someone gave me a sign to hang in the baby's nursery that says "All because two people fell in love."
Oh...boy. That's terrible. I like cheese as much as anyone but wow!
aaaaaahhhhh its going to give me nightmares!
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It looks like a voodoo doll. lol
LOL, that's awful and hilarious at the same time. I am sitting here wondering, could you sing different words to it or something? Possibly in Hebrew?
but who on earth gave it to you? Did they not know it played music or not know you're Jewish?
When I was PG with my 1st, a coworker gave me a VERY OLD bottle of Johnson & Johnson baby wash. Like, it clearly came from the depths of her linen closet. I don't remember where, but I eventually found the date.... and I kid you not: 1992. And this was 2004 when I was PG. Couldn't believe she did that!!! Needless to say I threw it out immediately.
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Mommy to 2 boys, ages 7 and 5 and a little girl who is 1.5