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What did you waste money on?
I'm not asking if it was a bad product, but if there was something you you spent money on thinking you absolutly HAD to have it, but turned out that you didn't need it at all. Or your baby didn't like it, there are many different reasons it may have been useless.
For me it was a Bumbo. They are a great product, but DS HATED being restricted like that.
Jolly Jumper is great fun for DS but pain in but to move toys of rug move stand then put DS in sling then lift him up all for 10 mins play!!
we have been learnt an exersaucer and it is fantastic and he jumps in that!
An Angelcare breathing monitor. Charlie slept in a cradle in our room for 5 months, then moved to his own room with a video monitor and I never ended up taking the Angelcare monitor out of the box even.
this maybe sound a tad silly but i wasted alot of money bibs and my DS hardly used em. but i guess lucky now i get to pass em on
Have to admit Sushee, that we are the same there! Angelcare Breathing monitor! Never turned the breathing sensor on!
And Maturnity Pads! I was told I would need them for months....never opened the packet!
oh lots of blankets also, as we ended up in swaddle me wraps covered with 1 other and then straight into grobags!
Way too many clothes....newborns just dont need ample floral dresses.....1 or 2 is enough. Not 12 like my DD#2 had.......
Oh, I LOVE my Angelcare! It has been a saviour for a paranoid mum - I will hear no evil spoken against it! LOL
For me it was actually Grobags - DD hates not being able to move her legs, and has from very early on. And I bought such a beautiful pink padded one for 6m up in advance *sigh* It's still in the bag.
Tommee Tippee Nappy Wrapper. When we used disposables it was a waste, even more so now we use cloth!!
I love my AngelCare monitor too - definately helped with the new mummy paranoia.
So far I have wasted lots of money on food containers and drink bottles - I would buy a drink bottle and DD wouldn't use it, or it was too hard for her. Finally found one she likes to use after trying 4 others :rolleyes:
I love my angelcare moniter!!!!!!
I also have wated money on sippy cups! so far we have 3 different and tupperware ones on order Lol
You know, I can honestly say we haven't wasted money on anything. DH and I are very discerning consumers; we love hand-me-downs, second-hand and found (on council clean-ups) stuff. But Geeezzz, the grandparents drive us completely NUTS with all they money they have wasted on toys, TOYS, TOYS. There is so much to choose from but I think the massive blow-up pirate ship would have to take the cake. And for the record, DS loves sticks and dirt.
I love my angelcare monitor too LOL I still have the sensor on every sleep time :redface: although I admit, I never once used the breathing sensor for DD when we used it for her... sounds like I didnt care, I did but for some reason didnt feel the need to monitor her breathing?
For me it was a hug a bub sling (sorry ladies, I know they're very popular!) I wore it a few times & I admit it was lovely having DS while newborn all snuggled up to me but I just find it so much easier putting him in the pram & throwing my bag etc underneath so I dont have to carry anything. I'm happy I bought my HAB off ebay so I will probably sell it soon, its all washed & ready to go to a new home LOL I guess some people prefer slings & others, like me, prefer prams/strollers.
ETA I think the mastering of tying up the HAB put me off too, I never quite got it perfect :(
For us it would be ... burp pads and breast pads.
Baby bath on stand. Only used it for a week it was an absolute pain to empty. Much easier to pull the plug in the bathtub
Great thread Lisy!
Mentioned so far:
Bumbo - DS loved his! But it only got used for a couple of months. Was very handy for camping though.
Jolly Jumper - Borrowed one, thank goodness because DS hated it.
Angelcare monitor - Best thing ever! I have weaned myself off it though but gave me peace of mind.
Bibs - We got given loads, only used tem when he was teething. Redundant now.
Grobags - Another favourite, it's DS's sleep cue.
TT Nappy Wrapper - Really? I was thinking of buying one! I am a sposie user though.
TT nappy wrapper, I had to have one now i dont want to spend the money on the refills because they are so expensive. Now i use it as a normal bin. what an expensive bin.
The Tommii tippee breathing monitor, i never used it but used the baby monitor. I should have just bought that instead of both.
Too many bibs, i rarely use them
My ds loves the jolly jumper but we bought the jolly jumper musical mat
Used it once. He wasn't really interested in it
Too many baby blankets. I couldn't get through them all
Defiatly too many blankets as well. Because you have to wash so often you just don't need that many. And of course clothes but i'm a bit of a clothes fanatic as well.
My 2 biggest wasted items were 2 of the most expensive. I brought the Bummi's cloth diapering kit ($230) and found them hopeless. They never fit Olive properly and leaked and gave her nappy rash, terries are much easier.
The other thing was my Ergo baby carrier approx $200). It was only a waste cause I only used it a few times when Olive was a newborn as she hates it! I tried 2 different types of slings in the shop the other week but these didn't go down well either.
I WAS going to buy a napper wrapper. We never got around to it.
I said to DH recently, thank goodness we never bought one of those. It would have been a huge waste of money. We've used sposies all the way through.
LOVE my Angel Car monitor, Sound and movement one, we used it in the basinett of her pram and now in the cot.
Got the Nappy Wrapper, I have been only getting the cartidges when TRU has them on sale, when they do a really good special. But we use a mixture of cloth and dippy's so don't need to change it as often ;)
We are trying to find a second hand Bumbo as DD loves to sit up but she is no where near supporting herself yet and pillows aren't helping, but hopefully soon I will have one!!
We used a lot of wraps in the early days, but now I have a drawer full of them and not sure what to do with them all, and we had a couple that we used all the time as they locked her in nice a tight as she was a bit older. I use the flannel ones foled on her change mat to make it nice and soft and comfy :)
Suits that do up at the back - 00000-0000 (she was in them for 4 - 5 months), this was a nightmare, we used them maybe once of twice, don't bother getting tiny things that do up at the back, just a total Pain in the bum!! Fine when they are a bit older/bigger.
The Real Nappy System, we bought a started kit and they were too big for a long time, then when they did fit the leaked all the time, her legs just weren't fat enough so no chub to help them fit better so I need to sell them on EBAY!!
That is about it ;)
Same here, waste of money even though it was a gift as that money could have been spent on something better or in the girls bank account.:
Hmm our JJ goes on the door frame ;), soo much easier, no frame to worry about, I agree that would be a real pain in the bum!!:
the pram! we sling it pretty much all the way.............. should have just kept dd1's stroller and forgotten about a pram style for the baby, waste!!
oh - and all the 0000/000 sized clothes given as gifts, even when people were asked to buy size 0 or bigger, such a waste
little laaa has been given 2 Polo Ralph Lauren outfits... cute but just not practicle, i doubt she will ever wear them
I had to have that fisher price jungle babygym thing?
ds never warmed to it at all (I thought he'd love the lights and sounds)
Used it maybe a couple of times and then passed it on, cost me an absolute fortune!
Old house had no usable door frame and this house has only good one (level changes happen between most rooms). Even with an accesible door frame it is stil a complete PITA to set up just for a short amount of time.:
Clothes.. and toys.... simply far far farrrrr too many.
Being in Queensland - my kids usually run around (well DS anyway, she can't even sit up yet) in just singlets during the day - and night. The only time they get dressed is when we are going out - which isn't THAT often... LOL So I have all these clothes.. just sitting there.
Nothing better than looking at your bub in just a singlet and a cloth nappy ;)
For me, its been jars of baby food that DS takes one spoonful from and then spits out and won't eat anymore (even the yummy custard ones!!).
BLS is the way to go for us!
BTW, we leave our JJ set clamp thingy up over the doorframe, just pushed to the edge when not in use. Still a bit of a PITA when you have to stretch up on tippy-toes to move it (grrr, shortness), but generally fairly handy.
JJ was no good for us either, DS didn't like it too much.
The walker that we bought lasted about 2 weeks before DS started crawling and preferred to do that!
A baby swing given as a gift never got used either!
Oh and the baby bath and bath seat, DS hated them too and preferred to be in the bath with me!
clothes, clothes, more clothes! i couldnt help myself throughout pregnancy... she's worn pretty much just a nappy for the last week...
got a sling off ebay,is too big and bulky (nojo sling) so havnt used that...
nanna gave us dummies and a whole bunch of soaps and powders that are collecting dust,
so much stuff! but as a first timer i cant help myself in shops like big w,i just go strait to the baby section even though i know i dont need any of it!;)
primma pappa high chair to big and bulky, should have just bought bumboo seat with table
we saved money on buying a pram that layed flat and used that as the bassinet as it was removable form the base of pram.:)
FisherPrice Sea creatures bath. DS HATED!!!!! it set him to fits of SCREAMING. It has a sling for new borns, and a suport built in to the bottom of it.
I ended up puting him in the big bath with me. Loves baths now.
But we do use the toys still....bloody expencive toys!