We have purchased our furniture and some clothes, but not much else yet. We thought we would wait until our showers are done and then see what we still need. However, I'm getting worried because we have one shower tentatively scheduled for Dec. 10, and that's it, the other is still up in the air. I'm wondering if I should make any other purchases now, or just wait...I feel like time is going to sneak up on us and we won't be prepared! Silly, I know.
Re: Are you buying the big items, or holding out 'til your showers?
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We are not having a shower for this LO but with ds we waited until after my showers to purchase big items. The 2 reasons I would wait is 1) You may get gift cards and/or duplicate items you need to exchange and can put that towards purchasing something else, 2) Depending on where you are registered, I know Target and BRU will send you a registry completion coupon before your due date.
Of course if you have friends/family that are in the position to purchase big items, you may luck out and get some of those at your shower. We just got small stuff at our showers but in the end it worked out for us anyway. Between gift cards, returns, and the completion coupon we didn't have to put out much money at all for the big items.
This. My SIL (my bro's wife) is throwing a before-baby shower for me and my MIL is doing an after-baby one. My family is small, and none of us could ever afford to buy a big-ticket item as a shower gift for someone, and that's cool. MH's family is of similar financial means, but they are a huge family and quite often several people will go in together one big item, so who knows? Either way, I appreciate anything that comes our way, and most of the stuff on the registry is smaller stuff anyway. We want the big stuff before baby so we will buy it ourselves. We already bought a Peg stroller from a close friend for $75, so that was a big help.
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