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Baby showers are a time to celebrate the little one on the way and give special (and needed!) gifts to the mom-to-be. So imagine you were invited to one. And that means you gotta find a gift. The reality is that expectant parents already have so much on their plate, so you want to get them a gift that’s going to be actually useful. A quick Google search shows thousands of baby shower gift ideas, from cute little toys to useful gadgets, the options are endless.

So picking up a present shouldn’t be much of a challenge. But many moms out there who received pretty questionable stuff from their baby shower guests claim this is not exactly the case. “What is the worst baby shower gift you received?” asked one Redditor on the Baby Bumps subreddit. The question seems to have hit close to home for many moms out there as they shared the weirdest and most inappropriate stuff they got to unpackage during their baby showers.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread I got a kids size 10 shirt… like, one that a big kid could wear. We were really confused but said thank you and moved onto the next gift… the friend pulled me aside and apologized because he didn’t know anything about babies. We had a laugh about it and it’s still in my (almost) 4 year old’s closet. We have him put it on around his birthday every year and send a picture of him to our friend who gifted it to us. It’s tradition now lol

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When asked what is the best baby shower present a guest can bring, Tiffany said it’s hands-down diapers and wipes. “Babies go through an astronomical amount of diapers, having a stockpile of all different sizes ready to go is magical. There's nothing worse than going to grab a diaper when your baby has a blowout, and realizing that you're out. Taking a newborn to the store wrapped in a towel for diapers is always awkward,” she explained.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread I was super excited to find a turquoise pottery barn crib on craigslist for $75!! Made a fb post and everything.

Well for my shower my BiL and SiL decided to buy me a crib! Not so bad, but when I opened it she goes "this is so that you don't have to use that street crib, cuz let's be honest, it's a street crib". In front of everyone!! I grew up on second hand items and it was such a slap in the face, I wanted to just cry

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A cross…for my Jewish child. Yes, they knew.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom had a friend who was Turkish. We are German. In their culture (she said) it is normal to gift a new baby a necklace or bracelet made of gold. It is lucky or something... We didn't know this tradition and mom was very confused when her friend showed up with jewelery for me, then 2 weeks old. I mean it's nice, the necklace got a big "L" on it and the bracelet spelt "Laura". But for my mom it was weird. She put it on me when we visited this particular friend and otherwise never. Now I'm thinking about selling it. I mean solid gold...!

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A giant bag of sexist girl clothes from Target from my MIL, after we specifically had a discussion about how much we hate sexist baby clothes and will never put our daughter in anything like that. We tried to return them but they were so deeply discounted Target couldn’t even take them back. They all went straight to Goodwill.

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Another great idea to bring to the baby shower is baby clothes in larger sizes. “My babies grew like weeds and would only get to wear an outfit a handful of times before it became too tight,” Tiffany said and added that “Having new clothes in bigger sizes already in the closet is incredibly helpful.”

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“ZIPPER pajamas,” Tiffany added to her go-to baby shower gift list. However, it should never be snap-button pajamas. “I learned this the hard way. Waking up exhausted at 3:00 am to change a diaper is hard enough... Trying to snap 64 buttons back together while your kid thrashes around like a baby alligator is like the eighteenth level of 'Jumanji,’” she told us.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread My MIL gave me this beautiful "sleeping bag" that was handmade and my SO used it when he was a baby so it actually ment a lot to me cause we dont really have the best relationship. The day after my baby shower she told me she wanted it back and I can borrow it from her if I wanted to use it. felt very awkward about it because I told everyone of this lovely present...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's one awful MIL. I want to know what your husband said to his mom about it.

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WilvanderHeijden
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really do not understand why husbands do not stand up against their parents when they are treating their SO badly. Seems to me that it's better to let them know from the start that it's their choice if they ever get to see you again or not.

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Kimberley Gayle Thomas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Replace Husbands with Mammas Boys. I don't date them anymore because of that reason. Do Daddys Girls have the same issue?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Been here with family that didn't like my wife. Not mom or dad thank God. My response was basically I chose her to be my family, i didn't choose you. If you put my back against the wall in this who do you think I'm gonna side with?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is such a wonderful response. My sister's ex was unfortunately not like you, and I'm certain your wife appreciates it.

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april jenkins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well tell everyone again, that you no longer have it and why.

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Dorothy Parker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish the OP could see these responses. Take a really great set of photos if the blanket and hire someone to copy it. Give back the original asap, of course.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell her you'll hang onto it for her and she can have it back when she has another baby.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the MiL is doing with it every day then that she needs it? Sleeps with her head in it?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would NOT have given it back. It was a shower gift for YOUR baby. She has no right to ask for it back.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like she just wanted to look good in front of everyone. Wench.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So she gave you it and then took it back? And your SO has done nothing about it? Hmmm. There's more than one problem here.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A gift is a gift. Once you opened it and accepted it, it was yours to do what you pleased. If your MIL didn't want you to keep it, then she shouldn't have gifted it to you. I hope you didn't give it back!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obviously, it wasn't actually a present. Gotta wonder what her Hub thought of that...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s unbelievably rude! I would definitely tell everyone about that, because that’s just wrong on so many levels! 🤨

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like the typical MIL to me. I have bad experiences with MILs.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry what?? Yeah, no honey that's not how this works

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does she want to with it?? She'll be a granny - she should be joyful not spiteful.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, just wow. If anyone asks about the lovely present, all you have to tell them is the truth, that your MIL want it back. Don't feel awkward about it, either, because it's your MIL's doing.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She could have a personality disorder.. giving someone a gift and then taking it back like that hits along the lines of Narcissism or Histrionic. Considering how abnormal this is for a psychologically healthy human being to do.. something is off. Also if this is a mom of your spouse, I'd also wonder if they too didn't pick up some personality disorder traits. All that repeating the cycle stuff.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope you didn't give it back. I wouldn't have. She gave it to you. It is yours now! B***h!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Response, "I was intending to use it but of course, I was surprise as I never expected such a nice present from you. So what is your present?"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I would post this on my FB and let everyone know what happened to your "gift". Thanks for nothing MIL.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have told her to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. False people sicken me

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course, just keep using it and let the MIL know you will return it when the baby outgrows it--

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll venture a guess that this is typical behavior for the MIL. No surprises here.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact: if you rearrange all the letters in 'Mother in law' it actually spells 'Woman Hitler'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a terrible thing to do, but to give the benefit of the doubt, maybe she only wanted to make sure the item remained in the family and wasn't given away with other outgrown baby items? Even so, unless her SO had siblings, there is very little chance granny will need it again. I like the response of making a copy of it... I would make it "in colors I like a lot better" and send photos to grandma when you return the original.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to hear the MIL story. We don't know what happened.

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Maybe MIL want to keep it as sentimental value... after the baby overgrown it?? My family always did that... lending baby clothes, using them, and then returning them to the original owner. I don't see how this is bad?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This obviously isn't the case here. It was given as a gift. The choice is now the new mom's. She shouldn't have given it back, because the MIL was not using it for the purpose your family did. The "family lease/lend system" doesn't apply to this family.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread First baby... A card from my sister in law, pretty much saying I'm not ready to be a parent and that she hopes i "don't damage the child." It came with the "What To Expect," book series for birth through age 5. Lol. Also... She spent the entire party ragging on me to everybody. I had met her once prior to this. She was excused

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread MIL had a shower with all her friends and gave me the presents afterwards. I wasnt even invited

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have heard of this before. It's a bit odd, but generally just celebrating a friend becoming a grandmother. In the times I have seen it, usually the friends don't really know the mother to be, and it is just an excuse for friends to socialize and have fun.

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For those guests who are in for a splurge for the expecting mom, the best expensive gift is a gift card. “Sometimes moms don't realize what they need until they are already knee-deep in motherhood, remembering you have a gift card to use for it is a huge relief later on.”

Although according to Tiffany, any gift is a nice gift, there are a few that aren't the best, if she’s being honest. “A baby drum set, for example—is not a fun time for the mom. Toys that make a lot of noise or take up a lot of space aren't the greatest. Definitely don't get her a gift certificate to a gym, and I'd skip the lingerie.”

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread My husbands family thought it would be funny to give me a box of condoms, this was a shower for our second son. I was NOT pleased as a 38week pregnant woman. 1 because sex was the last thing on my list, and 2 how tacky and rude can you be. Oddly enough nobody fessed up to who brought the gift when I asked? I know my face indicated I would be murdering whoever it was.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blow them up as balloons for his first birthday party and make sure to invite them all.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A gift set of baby medicine that all expired before she was born

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you even give baby medicines as a baby shower gift? You get them for free from your health care insurance if they really need medication.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread Fisher Price Rockn'Play bassinett...we got lucky but the headlines were so true. After I told the gift giver about the near deadly encounter with our newborn, she became annoyed that we returned it through the recall claim. We're no longer friends.

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When asked whether guests are always expected to bring in a gift, Tiffany said that there is definitely an expectation to bring a gift, “since that's pretty much the main purpose for a baby shower.” She added that “I do think some people just enjoy being around others and feeling like the center of attention for a day as well. I wrote on my invitation that they didn't have to bring gifts, I just wanted to celebrate. They brought gifts anyway, of course.”

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread My mother in law got us an ugly bookshelf after asking us if we had one and after we told her we did (and had it all set up in our small nursery). She also got us a wipe warmer after she knew that we were against using one (don’t need babe getting used to warm wipes when we are on the go so frequently). She then made a loud comment about how this other babe in the fam is probably much more protected from Covid because of all the breastfeeding (and I’m vaxed AND freshly boosted). She knows we’re not breastfeeding and just took it as a chance to give a jab. I made up for it though - after opening all of the gifts at the shower I proudly announced and thanked my mom for giving us the best gift of all - several weeks of sleep (via a night nurse). Everything she does is deliberate - but two can play the game.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A wipe warmer!? You've got be kidding me. I can't even believe such a thing exists.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread So when my son was born, my brother in law gave me a card. When I read the card, he wrote that he bought 2 football game tickets. One for him and one for my husband…… And he got me, the one who had a baby in her belly for roughly 10 months absolutely nothing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cute that Dad got thought of, but in general it would have been even nicer to give a gift to both ( football tickets for Dad and a day of babysitting for Mom). When I had my Son the only gift I got was a diaper service for 1 month. Everything else was 100% geared towards the baby.

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Moreover, Tiffany said that she’s noticed lots of her friends doing "virtual" baby showers nowadays, “which is cool. They put out their 'wishlist' on social media a few weeks ahead, then on baby shower day, they go live and open the gifts.”

“I think moms feel like they need a ton of gadgets and contraptions and baby furniture and the latest carseat in order to bring a baby into the world,” she said and added that “The truth is, babies don't need nearly as much as we initially think. All they really need is food, a place to sleep, something to catch their poop, and love. The rest is just a bonus!”

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread My own mother gave me a notebook for my baby shower that was supposed to be filled with supportive messages from people who attended. Except that her own message was so scathing and pretty much just repeated in different ways how much I was going to struggle as a mother. I got good mileage out of passing it around and laughing at it with my husband's family, who are well aware of how insane my parents are

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as they know that their parents are insane, there's nothing that the parents can do or say that will hurt or upset them.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A onesie that said “they did not stay 6 feet apart”

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread My sister got me a random basket from target that says "Baby" on it with a target grocery bag with random baby goods like wipes and such ._. Not wrapped or anything. The gift itself wasn't so bad but then my mom went on a 15 minute speech about how beautiful her gift is and how wonderful my sister was to take the time to make me a beautiful basket despite her busy schedule.

They came to the baby shower for a full 10 minutes, complained about the party, my sister only talked about herself and her pregnancies and how much she had it worse than me.. asked how much I weighed and tried to compare. then left. I was glad they left before other people showed up.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't get why OP let them stay for 10 minutes. She should have thrown them out after 5.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A box of uncooked pasta and girl stuff ....FYI I don't know if its a boy or girl and made that clear to everyone that the gender is a surprise.....and the pasta i can't even explain

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A “my first 5 years” memory book, with a kids name already in it and the “when we found out we were expecting” says Thanksgiving 2013

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread Not me but my SIL received a “time out chair” from a relative when she had her first. It was a children’s rocking chair with a clock imbedded in it and lots of s**tty sayings on it like “you have to think about what you did” and creepy stuff like that. Also it was clearly for an older child and not a newborn. We all had a good laugh about it after then donated it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing like a new coat of paint in primary colours to give it a new purpose.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A dirty teddy bear that smelled like cigarettes. When we called for the story, thinking maybe it was a childhood toy that had been saved, he said “ohh no, I just found that at the thrift store”

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread Used and open items. came from my SIL’s brother in law and his wife. I am all for hand-me-downs, but like..open containers of baby power and butt cream that are half used, as their present…lmao. Oh, and it was all packed in a dirty, used diaper backpack.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why do you get gifts from the bil of your own sil? sil is the sister of your partner or the partner of your sibling. so the bil of sil is even one more away? i don't even know the sil of my sil (sister of the partner of my bf's sister :D)

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My friend’s BIL got them a giant abstract painting meant to personify the terror of a nightmare for their nursery….it was literally the scariest thing I’ve ever seen and he was not at all kidding. He really didn’t get why it freaked them out…

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A onesie that says "every dog needs a baby" and I have two cats. Zero dogs.

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I have a pretty “crunchy” friend who marked a bunch of stuff as purchased on my registry and then gifted “natural” versions of the items…I have to think it was just her being thoughtful (as in, she was thinking she got the “better” version of the thing I registered for) but a lot of the stuff she got is just packed with essential oils. I also put a good amount of research into the items I wanted so it was just kind of annoying and I don’t really believe in herbal tinctures or organic always being better. I just want diaper cream and soaps/lotions/nipple cream that works! Oh and a lot of it wasn’t returnable.

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My best friend got me a 50 cent machine ducky and five dollars. I wasn’t upset until she asked for the $5 back for gas money.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This story is missing the word "former". As in "former best friend" - if this is a blip in behaviour, I'd ask her if she was ok, but if it's a pattern, she needs more than $5 to drive far, far away from me

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A dog toy that I’m fairly certain had been used (no tags, and there was a stain).

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A homemade blanket with a sewing needle stuck inside it that we discovered when baby was a few months old.

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An absolutely hideous baby onesie dress in black, bedazzled with the words “My First Little Black Dress” in pink.

I think I threw it in the garbage instead of donating it.

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A thing to hang on the wall of the baby’s room that was covered in ribbon strung with loose beads. Nothing was knotted or secured in any way. Several beads fell off as I lifted it out of the box. So… they gave me a choking hazard for my baby

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People who don't have children in their lives sometimes don't understand. They see something and think it might be something nice for the kids room without thinking of repercussions.

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MULTIPLE pillows for the tooth fairy. Like, what?? And they were shaped like teeth or had a pocket shaped like a tooth, no denying that they were designed as tooth fairy pillows.

Not offensive, just hilarious.

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Those puff snacks that expired before the baby was going to be old enough to eat them.

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a box of smoke infused dirty books

we seriously left them in the garage they reeked of smoke so much.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think smokers just don’t realise how much the smoke gets through to everything if they smoke in their home. My mum smokes and every time she gives me something I have to wipe it down, air it or wash it.

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My grandma got me a can of beans and canned enchilada sauce... pretty sure they were from her pantry and they were like 10 years old.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless Grandma is always stingy, I'd like to say Grandma did her best. Be kind.

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread Got a onesie from someone that said “best younger sister” when I’m a FTM with only one baby. I gave the onesie away.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I assume it was second hand and the fabric was still okay? People are giving an awful lot of clothes away for stupid reasons. It is not that the saying was offensive or anything, it just does not fit (same as the one with the dog). Is it really that important? The baby will grow out of it in a matter of weeks! Be glad that you have another set of clothes to change the small one into after a carrot or spinach accident and be done with it...

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35 Moms Share The Worst Baby Shower Gifts They Ever Got In This Honest Online Thread A pink Sonicare electric toothbrush, for my newborn son.

renchcoatweasel , Regina Report

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Turtle42
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pink is the new blue. Plus it's a toothbrush. Let him decide if he wants it

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