funny repost from July BMB....crazy bad baby shower etiquette

Re: funny repost from July BMB....crazy bad baby shower etiquette

• Cutiecruz327 member

  March 2014

  Wow! Entitled much?
  
  My husband and I registered at Target for our wedding. We registered for a couple of expensive electronics & things, not because we wanted anyone to buy them for us but because we got 10 or 15% off whatever we didn't get off our registry.

  Me: 33 - PCOS & Hypothyroidism DH: 35 - SA is good Married since 2010 (together since 2006) TTC since June 2009 (we knew we would have issues and wanted family right away after we got married). No pregnancies yet. May 2013 - started first round of Chlomid & ovidrel cycle.

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• Yaz14 member

  March 2014

  Hahahaha! That's awful. I was once invited to a girls baby shower. We were friends in high school but hadn't spoken in years. She said in the invite to not bother with a gift for the baby but to get her a gift instead. I thought that was kind of rude. I never went to the shower.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Me(24) DH(26)/Married since March 2013

  BFP#1 February 18th 2014/EDD October 27th/MMC discovered at 10w/D&C April 7th 

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• archi35 member

  March 2014

  pinkshades05 said:

  The mommy-to-be must not have many friends and I can see why! Those poems made me angry.

  Agree.  I had a similar situation, though not at all as hello-kitty stupid, with someone's wedding.  Didn't know the girl well (work group) and didn't go, but got a note saying they wanted to let me know they didn't find a gift.  Well good - I hope not!
  

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• Mnerani member

  March 2014

  My first thought was, "there's absolutely no way this is real." But then I thought "did the poster really have that much time on her hands that she'd come up with two fake poems?" 

  
  

  I'm still on the fence about whether a real, actual, honest-to-goodness human being would do such a thing. And that no one would stop her. Does she have friends? Does she have a mother, sister, or half-cousin-once-removed?

  DH and I are Americans living an adventure in Kenya since 2011

  DX: PCOS (annovulatory)

  Feb 2012: IUI #1 w/ only 1M sperm and a single follie = BFP! 

  Nov 2012: Little buddy born in Kenya

  Nov 2013: Trying for a second, still w PCOS

  Dec 2013: IUI cycle canceled for non-response

  Jan 2014: Break cycle BFP!

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

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• mbcgirlie14 member

  March 2014

  @yaz14 that is incredibly rude!  Buy her a gift instead???! WTF!  I HATE when people try to dictate what to buy them.  Its so freakin rude.  You should never ask for specific presents on invites unless it is to bring no presents at all. Create a registry, some will buy from it, some will not.
  

  

   

   

  

   

  

   

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• Mlewis2319 member

  March 2014

  ADH0906 said:

  @Mlewis2319‌ I'm with you...people are dicks...but what's so wrong about registering for a grill? ETA: woah, there's a drop down menu when tagging people now, so you don't have to remember numbers in screen names. Nice work, TB.

  I guess I was shocked with the grill on this registry b/c it was her second wedding, of which the first marriage didn't last 7 months. She was going through the whole big wedding again, another bridal shower, another big wedding, another big honeymoon. it was a hot mess. Maybe since I was pregnant with DD I was a little hormonal (maybe, maybe not LOL). At the bridal shower, the mother of bride put out luggage and she had some poem on the tables asking guests for their change and to put it in the luggage to help pay for their honeymoon. 

  
  

  OH and then the icing on the cake, at the wedding, they did the apron dance (did it at the first wedding), and NOBODY was participating in the dance (guess I wasn't the only one who thought this was crazy) so the bride took the mic from the DJ and said to all of the guests "Come on everyone, this money is to help us pay for our honeymoon!"

  
  

  Um, excuse me? LOL DH and I left shortly after that announcement LOL
  

  
  

  
  

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• keenkamsmom member

  March 2014

  Wow, glad I don't have "friends" like that!

  DS #1  1/10/2004

  DS #2  2/1/2006

  EDD #3  10/5/2014

   

   

   

  

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• mrsRisell member

  March 2014

  I read this this morning in bed, and DH just sent me a hilarous Reddit thread about it. Our favorite response so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/206x8p/the_ultimate_example_of_entitled_behavior/cg0h6dj
  

  Me: 25 DH: 29
  Married: September 2011
  BFP #1: 6/6/11. EDD: 2/12/12. Baby girl born 2/12/12 [9lb 2.5oz, 21.5"]
  Began TTC 12/2012
  BFP #2: 2/3/14. EDD: 10/14/14. Baby girl born 10/19/14 [8lb 4oz, 19"]
  BFP #3: 1/10. EDD: 9/11/16. MC 1/17/16. (7w)
  BFP #4: 4/1/16. EDD: 11/27/16.
  

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• AlliBalleza member

  March 2014

  Whatttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.... LOL!

  I would have sent a shiny penny and told her that I returned my gift because of the rude ass poem.

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• ladybug0088 member

  March 2014

  As I mentioned above, I read the story to DH and he was cracking up.

  
  

  He send me an e-mail today because it made it's way on reddit.com and someone came up with a pretty awesome reply poem. I would post it, but I already deleted it. 

  
  
  
  

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• Yaz14 member

  March 2014

  @mbcgirlie14 RIGHT?! I know it was so like her though really.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Me(24) DH(26)/Married since March 2013

  BFP#1 February 18th 2014/EDD October 27th/MMC discovered at 10w/D&C April 7th 

  BFP#2 July 24th 2014/EDD April 4th 2015/Please be our RAINBOW!

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• WiFiMom2be member

  March 2014

  Can anyone else not open the link? It's saying I need to register?

  
  

  

  DH and I have been married 3+ years. This is our first PG, and we are thrilled! 

  Can't wait to meet our baby BOY, Mateo in October!!

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• daffodil428 member

  March 2014

  I can't open the link either! I wanna read it! How do I fix this?

  

  3rd pregnancy -- 1st baby -- praying for a rainbow

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