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Sick of people pawning off their baby crap to me

Lhand11Lhand11 member
in January 2012 Moms

Sorry if I sound ungrateful, but I am due next week and I do not want any more used baby crap from other people. I have everything that we "need", I have a place for it all, it is all organized, and I do not feel like looking through crap just to find a place for the stuff I don't want.

I straight up refused to take any of the stuff DH's great aunt brought for us that was given to her by someone else to give to us. I am sorry that you had to pack it all in your car, but guess what, you didn't ask us if we wanted it before you took it from this mystery person.

Don't need sheets, have about 7. "Oh but you just don't understand that you will go through so many!". Doubt I will go through 7 in a day, and if I did, there is this new fangled contraption downstairs call the washing machine, AMAZING!

Don't need a rocking horse electronic game toy that plugs into your tv, LO won't use it for about 2 years. I am not storing that somewhere in my already packed house for 2 years.

I have enough stuff! I don't want anymore!!!! Especially your used crap that I didn't pick out or want!

Vent over. Thanks!! Lol Smile

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  • bpwife&mamabpwife&mama member
    Ugh, totally understand.  My DH would take anything anyone would give to him and likes to hoard and store EVERYTHING.  He keeps empty candle jars to put change in!  Therefore, he would take anything anyone would give him for LO.  Last week I had to tell him he could not buy 20 GI Joes for our DS because I refuse to store them for 4 years until he can play with them.  Ugh.
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  • MommaWest11MommaWest11

    Haha!

    My inlaws asked if we had a carseat... I am 38.5 weeks AND I babysit. Yes, I have one in every sive that *I* own and have an extra toddler seat borrowed from one of my kiddo's parents (1 infant seat with 2 bases, 2 toddler seats and a booster seat for the 6 yr old). Oh, and I might be picking an extra one up for my mom in March. She has my extra base, but she's deciding if she'd rather have a seat or not.

    MH thought we could use another one & I had to threaten him within an inch of his life if he took this one. When we saw the one they had for us, it was a friggin toddler seat...  they expected us to take it & use it right away... :-( 

    I do NOT plan to give birth to a child large enough to fit in there :-) 

     

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  • fyrefairiefyrefairie member
    my particular experience with this can be summed up in "How many bouncers can one kid need?" apparantly everyone I have ever known has a little bouncer they don't need, whether they have ever had a child or not, and they REALLY want to give it to us.

     

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  • michnthecitymichnthecity
    My mother in law always has bags of crap that she brings over to our house, EVERY TIME SHE VISITS.  It all ends up in the trash.   It's all junk, you'd think that after 10 years she would notice that our house is clutter and garbage free for a reason!
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    imagemichnthecity:
    My mother in law always has bags of crap that she brings over to our house, EVERY TIME SHE VISITS.  It all ends up in the trash.   It's all junk, you'd think that after 10 years she would notice that our house is clutter and garbage free for a reason!

    DHs family tried to give us a 30 year old high chair...i tried to explain that I do believe safety regs have changed since then

     

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  • namara5532namara5532 member
    Yep, FIL definately tried to unload an old crib on us that his stepdaughter used.  She wasn't using it because it was drop-side and was using a safer crib for her own new baby, but he was trying to insist we could zip tie the drop side shut so it'd be safe.  He was just trying to get rid of it and thought we wouldn't care about safety.
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  • luckylindyluckylindy member
    DH's parents are so bad about this! They keep sending boxes of his old, moldy, stained clothes from the 80's as well as toys that are half chewed and moldy. It's disgusting and I have to figure out what the heck to do with them.

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  • anhg80anhg80

    I sometimes take the view that I am a conduit through which some people need to get rid of stuff.  I had a friend who's a border line hoarder, and who just didn't know what to do with the stuff that goodwill rejected.  I took whatever she gave me, and moved it to its rightful home: the trash.  She doesn't need to know where it ended up.  

    I'm all for reducing, reusing, and recycling, and realize that many newborn items get barely any use before the kid has outgrown them, but there are some items that are just done.  I am ok with throwing them away if others aren't.  Our house is just too damn small to house excess items!

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  • mexicolombianamexicolombiana member
    I'm with you and have straight up started refusing stuff too.




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