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What was the biggest waste?
Since it's slow. What item did you buy or receive as a baby gift (ever) that you never or rarely used or regifted?
Mine was a Diaper Genie...I just use a regular trash can. Too much hassle when I was a FTM.
DD#1 11.7.07 - DD#2 11.2.10 (3rd Tri Loss)- DD#3 4.18.12
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Re: What was the biggest waste?
Bottle warmer
mama roo. i was all, "oh man my baby neeeeeeds this thing!" $200 i think and he sat in it one time and screamed the whole time.
confession - i saw it here when i was a newb, and now that i think about it, it was probably a stupid bump kathleen post. that biitch tricked me.
2 years, 2 surgeries, 2 clomid fails, 2 IUIs, 1 loss, IVF #1 - 10/25/10 = BFP!, DS is now 3.5yrs!
TTC #2 - 6/12 surgery #3, FET #1 & 1.2 = BFN, 12/2012 FET #2 = BFP! DD is 1.5 yrs!
Surprise! 12/16/14 BFP, loss #2 12/31/14
I can't wait for the "im getting a divorce" post in 5 years or so because your husbands were fed up with your disgusting chair asses from playing on the knot all day and getting fired 4-5 times for not doing any work. you guys are all winners!! ~ Laur929
This makes me curious. We lived in an apartment until DS was 15 months old so we always changed him in his room. We have a house now (2 floors) and we still ALWAYS change him in his room. Are we oddballs that we trek upstairs for all diaper changes?
Many!
Her crib-never slept in it
Her swing-rarely used it
Her exersaucer-rarely used it
I would say yes, but I am also lazy. I change them where they're at, just lay a waterproof pad down first.
We only change DD in her room while at home also. So, if you're an oddball, I am too.
WTF?!
We still change DD in her room, on the changing pad on her dresser, every time. Our house is only one story though.
bfp#4 3/19/2014 edd 12/1/2014 please let this be the one!
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munchkin deluxe dishwasher basket
baby gown (we use onesi or sleep & play)
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B*tch.
The swing was a waste. She didn't hate it, but it wasn't worth even the half price I paid by buying the floor model. I was hoping she would nap in it, but she never did. It didn't do anything for her that the bounce chair didn't. Luckily it was travel sized and folded nicely.
I hadn't thought about a lot of these but so true - bassinet (gift - she would never sleep in it), changing table (I think we used it 10 times otherwise it was just storage), burp cloths, nursing cover, moby wrap (never got the hang of it), waaaaay too many clothes.
This! We have changing items on both floors.
This. Plus the diaper genie. Those things get so gross. Oh, and NB sized clothes. My kid came out at a 0-3 size... and my BFF told me I should get a few preemie sized things... HA!
Our bumbleride stroller. Just looking at that thing makes me feel stupid. We've probably used it five times.
Moby-I used it 2x and never felt secure with it.
Bouncy seat- DD hated it
Travel swing-we bought to keep upstairs because she loved the pappasan one downstairs so much. Turns out she only liked going side to side.
It's a long story.
We had it on our registry, not because we expected anyone to buy it, but just because we used the registry as a way to organize what we needed. A couple of months before B was born we went ahead and bought it, but not from our registry--we found it on sale somewhere else. Then literally three days after it was delivered, a second one was delivered. Turns out someone bought it for us, after all. And we couldn't figure out who. There was no gift enclosure, Amazon wouldn't give us any information, etc. We couldn't return it, I can't remember why--maybe because we didn't want to offend whoever bought it? And we had already put together the one we bought ourselves, so we couldn't return that one, either. So we had two bright pink $400+ strollers. We tried to sell the gift stroller on craigslist but it was the previous year's model and again--bright pink--so no one wanted it. I finally sold it at a consignment sale, still in the box, for only $150. Meanwhile, we weren't getting much use out of the other one because we just don't do a lot of walking. And it was months before we found out that one of DH's clients had gotten it for us. So they probably thought we were the rudest people alive for not acknowledging such a lavish gift. The whole scenario just makes me feel stupid.
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