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aunt's shower gift -- funny story

HelloAnnie!HelloAnnie! member
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We are having a girl, but we are not into the whole pink-for-girls thing.  In fact, LO's nursery will be baby blue and white polka dots, which I view as a totally gender-neutral choice.  Anyway, we had our family shower this weekend, and one of DH's aunts told MIL that she just "couldn't bring herself" to buy any of the things we registered for because she didn't think a little girl should have trucks on her towels.  We registered for blue towels with whales on them; they're adorable.  (And so what if they actually were trucks...?)  Anyway, she gave us a box of diapers and some hot pink "princess" towels.  The funniest part is that she gave us a gift receipt for the diapers (in case we aren't doing that particular brand) but not for the towels.  She wants to be sure that we keep those, I guess.    

I'm not venting, in fact we're really grateful that she loves our LO and bought us gifts...I just find her devotion to rigid gender division kind of amusing.

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  • FutureMrsWittigFutureMrsWittig member
    lol.  My MIL is the same way.  Doesn't understand why we don't want a pink nursery.
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    LOL!  I love the story.  I love all the pink though :)  I registered for a lot of gender neutral stuff because I figure when we have a 2nd, we're not going to buy a new bumbo, carseat, pack n play, etc.  I do appreciate that people seem to have bought the gender neutral stuff off the registry and added in a few pink outfits, toys, etc.
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  • ejs207ejs207 member

    The amount of consternation among my family for painting Baby Girls's room light blue has amused me to no end. The glider is also blue. The quilt and rug both have lots of light blue, light pink, white, yellow and green. I just think blue bedrooms are the most soothing. There's plenty of other pink stuff :)

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  • mbritto4mbritto4 member
    My MIL complained for weeks out nursery was teal and seemed determined to smother DD in pink (she only had MH). I lol now that DD has opinions and likes purple more than pink. Wink
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  • Arwen31Arwen31 member
    I got strange comments too because I am NOT on pink overload! I would like some things that are yellow, blue, green, etc. We painted our nursery a blue-ish green and it has bugged some people to no end. I don't get it!!
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  • ShyVi826ShyVi826

    That is funny!  It reminds me of when we registered for our wedding, my grandma wanted to buy us towels but when she saw the colors we registered for, she decided to buy us something else because she didn't like them.  Personally I will buy people whatever they register for, even if I think it's butt ugly, because clearly that's what they want!  It's funny how people can be so weird about these things!

    I'm glad we're having a boy first because I am a pink-hater, and fully intend on using a lot of the blue stuff we're getting for LO for any future DD we may have.

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  • llcoolayllcoolay
    I understand you dont want a "Pink Overload" however refusing pink princess towels for your baby girl is sort-of strange to me....I mean being so anti-pink is just as bad as being pro-pink everything-overload in my opinion. A happy medium is always the best!
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    imagellcoolay:
    I understand you dont want a "Pink Overload" however refusing pink princess towels for your baby girl is sort-of strange to me....I mean being so anti-pink is just as bad as being pro-pink everything-overload in my opinion. A happy medium is always the best!

     

    I am way more anti-princess than anti-pink. (I actually love Pink, I just didn't want too much pink.) BUT,Princess, Queen, Diva, etc written all over everything drives me nuts. To be fair, most any writing/cartoons on clothing/towels/accents bugs me. Even "Mommy's Little Girl."

    I wouldn't return pink towels, but I would totally return Princess towels!! (I would never refuse them as a gift, just accept graciously and figure it out later.)

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  • HelloAnnie!HelloAnnie! member

    imagellcoolay:
    I understand you dont want a "Pink Overload" however refusing pink princess towels for your baby girl is sort-of strange to me....I mean being so anti-pink is just as bad as being pro-pink everything-overload in my opinion. A happy medium is always the best!

    I feel like my original post has been misunderstood here.  I'm not refusing them -- they just aren't our style so I didn't register for them.  FWIW, I'm not anti-pink, I just don't want EVERYTHING to be pink.  In this case, I preferred the whale towels that we actually registed for.  Nevertheless I accepted them graciously and am truly grateful for her gift. 

    Sorry this wasn't clear in my earlier post.

    Edited for spelling and to clarify.

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  • ladymcpladymcp
    I LOVE a blue room, I had a blue room...it is very French to me.
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