Woman Demands Guests Bring Expensive Gifts To Baby Shower, Student Refuses Because It’s Expensive, Sparks Family Drama
When you have an important occasion combined with entitled family members, it’s a drama not unlike a soap opera waiting to happen. Though usually the room temp soars during wedding planning, birthdays and baby showers can also put a lot of pressure on guests.
Especially if there’s also a generous gift registration list involved, and you can’t really afford getting them. Such a story comes from this 26-year-old university student woman who was invited to her cousin’s second baby shower.
The author who shared the incident on r/AITA said that she was planning on making a handmade blanket for the child, since it’s “a nice personalized gift that you can’t get anywhere else.”But the cousin, Beth, was less than impressed with the idea.
In fact, Beth went as far as telling her “it was homemade [and] it looked ‘tacky’ and it made her look cheap for not having a tag attached to it.” Let’s read the full story right below and let us know what you think of it in the comment section!
A 26-year-old student has recently shared a story of how her cousin demanded all the expensive gifts she couldn’t afford for her second baby’s shower
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The author of the post later shared this update on the story
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And this is what people had to comment on the whole story
My aunt made my son a beautiful blanket when I was expecting him. It is my most prized possession in my son's mementos. This ungrateful woman is materialistic and greedy.
Agreed I still have a blanket from my grandmother and love it
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I was always told baby showers are only for the first baby. She is just plain greedy.
I was told the same, but I have heard of "baby sprinkles" now, which is generally meant to provide only disposable, needed items (wipes, diapers, I would imagine even nipple cream) that obviously you couldn't reuse from the first baby and would generally be much cheaper on the guests. I don't really have a problem with that, but demanding brand new supplies is bordering on tacky; requiring a set price is definitely well into tacky. I had my first baby shower and made sure that there were cheap things (under $10) as well as the aspirational gifts in case anyone was feeling very generous.
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Depriving her child from needed supplies...: if you can't buy the needed supplies for your own child. Just don't get kids... it's not someone else's responsibility to buy necessary baby stuff
My aunt made my son a beautiful blanket when I was expecting him. It is my most prized possession in my son's mementos. This ungrateful woman is materialistic and greedy.
Agreed I still have a blanket from my grandmother and love it
Load More Replies... I was always told baby showers are only for the first baby. She is just plain greedy.
I was told the same, but I have heard of "baby sprinkles" now, which is generally meant to provide only disposable, needed items (wipes, diapers, I would imagine even nipple cream) that obviously you couldn't reuse from the first baby and would generally be much cheaper on the guests. I don't really have a problem with that, but demanding brand new supplies is bordering on tacky; requiring a set price is definitely well into tacky. I had my first baby shower and made sure that there were cheap things (under $10) as well as the aspirational gifts in case anyone was feeling very generous.
Load More Replies... Depriving her child from needed supplies...: if you can't buy the needed supplies for your own child. Just don't get kids... it's not someone else's responsibility to buy necessary baby stuff
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