rofl, she sounds soo funny ... i can just picture how all the old baby stuff would look . someone gave me a breastpump that was made in the 80's . it was so loud and it vibrated and it didnt "pumped" it just sucked in my nipple like a vacum cleaner till my boob was sore and it made my nipple swell up so much i couldnt get it out and for about a day it was always on highbeam , while the other wasnt ...
my cousin ( a yourng trendy teenager ) Said i could borrow her bassinette , i thought it was going to be a good new one , but no , it still had the op shop price tag and its plastic weave , when my aunty was giving it to me , she showed me the certain way you had to carry it otherwise the handle would fall off and bub could roll out .. and the frame was ricekty .....
target had a bassinette on special during the toy sale for $99 i didnt think twice about buying it ...i just couldnt put bubs in the plastic one ... it holds the tins of cat food now
LOL! Sorry SJ, had to laugh at this one - kinda going through the same thing here.
When I had DD there was NO money, so i gratefully accepted anythign and everything that i was given. Now, were arent exactly well off, but we DO have enough money now to buy a noce cot and change table. Have you any idea how hard it was to tell DF's parents that we didnt want the old hand me down cot and falling apart change table from their side of the family?
So I made a pact with my mum (woo hoo mum to the rescue ) . Mum knew I hated my old change table and understood that there was nothing that was going to stop me from getting good, strong study furniture this time. So, mum put down the deposit on the cot, change table, mattress (no way in hell she would let me accept a second hand mattress) and the change table pad. Next time <insert dark evil orchestra music> "the cot" comes up in discussion with the in laws I will just be telling them that MY mum has already bought us new stuff and due to the sale price it is non refundable. (white lies you know, all white!!!).
So our little Unit is going to be sleeping and changed in style in/on her brand new Kingparrot CO - ORDINATING (big thing for me!!) furniture and there is nothing any one can say or do about it!
But with your grand am in law - i'd say just accept SOME of it (baskets alays come in handy, maybe to keep all your recycling in before it goes out? LOL), have you got some sort of storage area? Afterwards you can say gently "sorry but it didnt meet the current safety requirements so we accpeted stuff from other people". Maybe just use one or two things so she doesnt curse you forever.....
Girls, I feel so bad for you. Thats is all very stressful stories, funny but stressful. Nope I can't even bring myself to looking at 2nd hand cots etc from ebay, what if the child before had some terrible illness that was still some how contractable from the furniture? Nope I saved well before we even started TTC so I wouldn't have to even think about 2nd hand stuff.
Wow you poor things!
This is such an entertaining thread. That grandma ... wow. She needs a dose of Alzheimer's so she finally forgets who she "gave" stuff to. I can't believe you can't throw anything out. Hasn't anyone ever been caught out having thrown her stuff away when she comes back after 10 years expecting them to still have it?
My nan is a little bit the same. She is 91 and she just moved from her house to a retirement village and she wanted to give everything away, so we've all inherited some weird junk. There's some tables and shelves my late Pa made from unsettled camphor wood that has warped over the years that no one wants, but we have to accept it graciously because dear old Pa made it himself. If Pa saw what had come of his handy work he'd be ashamed and smash it up for firewood.
Luckily for us we live in a small apartment so I refused everything except the antique rocking horse, which needs some serious repairs but it's quite lovely (Pa made it, too, but not from warping camphor). Not sure how to repair it. I wonder if Bunnings do "fixing up your nan's weird junk" ladies workshops on the weekends.
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) . Mum knew I hated my old change table and understood that there was nothing that was going to stop me from getting good, strong study furniture this time. So, mum put down the deposit on the cot, change table, mattress (no way in hell she would let me accept a second hand mattress) and the change table pad. Next time <insert dark evil orchestra music> "the cot" comes up in discussion with the in laws I will just be telling them that MY mum has already bought us new stuff and due to the sale price it is non refundable. (white lies you know, all white!!!). 
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