LOL…maybe I’m a grump but I don’t like games or opening gifts. But always happy for a celebratory time with friends/family.
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Count me in as another who likes opening of the gifts and dislikes games at baby showers! Baby stuff is so cute.
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I went to a baby shower recently for a work colleague. The hostess put out plain small wooden blocks and markers and we all decorated some blocks for the baby. They turned out really cute!
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I went to a baby shower recently. There was a station to make the baby a headband ( knew it was girl), a station to make a design on a white onesie, and another to make a page for alphabet book ( A is for etc ) to be put together later. I didn’t see much action at any area.
There was gift opening, and one of the gifts was a automatic bottle washer!
I dislike doing any sort of craft project and would hate feeling obligated to decorate some item. It’s just something I am not good at and don’t enjoy.
Even games would be preferable to that.
I just like getting together and celebrating. I do enjoy seeing the cute baby gifts.
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I do not like crafts, probably because I’m SO bad at them. I have friends who organize activities like outdoor planter arranging, sign panting, big yarn blanket making, I’m always like count me out. I have 3 daughters who are so good at that stuff, I always assign them charcuterie boards for holidays (I can’t imagine the disaster I’d make of that).
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I was at one shower where they asked that gifts be wrapped in clear plastic – it allowed the mom-to-be to see each gift and recognize each gift giver without physically opening the presents. This arrangement definitely sped things along.
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I went to a couple of baby showers when I was young. They had games. Death. I never went to another one. Because everyone knew I wasn’t happy to be pregnant, no showers for me.
But, carrying on from the outlaw thread, when my BIL’s fiancée had a shower, and I legitimately couldn’t attend (business trip conflict), I hand-delivered our present early to her parents who were throwing the shower and had a lovely visit with them. My MIL called DH to screech that delivering the present early was unacceptable and the rudest thing she’d ever heard of, family (read “she”) comes before business. I grabbed the phone and told her I’d be in Montreal but was touched that she was so upset about missing me. Click.
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Ooh I’d MUCH rather be in Montreal than a baby shower! 
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I’d rather be in a dentist’s chair than a baby shower.
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I would rather be at a baby shower than a dentist chair!!
(I have a dentist phobia)
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I also gave the first twin ( the one pregnant first) a magnet outfi, also a sleep bag. This one, I towel with hoodie.
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For my baby shower (only 1, two friends from different parts of my life joined together) I think there were about 50 people. I was older and most of my friends had children who were older and had jobs that paid well, so there were a ton of gifts as who could resist a baby. Why buy one cute baby dress when you can buy 3? My daughter was already born, and premature, so everyone bought tiny tiny tiny clothing. She could have worn 3 outfits a day and not worn all those clothes before she grew out of them and before summer turned to fall. Some I could exchange for a larger size but most were just returned.
And much of that summer she just hung out in a diaper and maybe a t-shirt.
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Today I received a thank you note! Very nice, written by the father to be.
Yea for prompt thank you notes! The father to be wrote our other thank you notes so I’m guessing it’s his forte
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No thank you note yet. @deb922 nice that the father wrote one.
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I’m very worried about cards and letters now.
I sent my daughter’s friend a birthday card several weeks ago with a check in it (she’s having a really hard year). I thought it was strange the check was never cashed so I messaged her and she never got it. Said several cards and packages have been missing.
Thought it was her issue.
My daughter asked me on Sunday if I got her card. Thought ‘mother’s day card’ but it was a thank you card from her wedding. Wedding was in March, sent card about 2 weeks ago. Nothing. So maybe it is a combo of my mail and the friend’s mail?
I haven’t sent cards in years, and check informed delivery every day. I’ve had credit cards and check go missing, mail rarely gets delivered every day, and at each of my kids’ universities greeting card theft has been a big issue.
I get mail every day and haven’t had an issue with things going missing, but now I’m worried. I pay bills online so rarely write checks. I also do not use Zelle or Venmo (or even a debit card very often).
Recently I bought tires and got a Visa card for a rebate. Didn’t work, they said they reset it, but that didn’t work. Sent me another. Didn’t work. Sent me a third and it worked and I used about $60 of the $100, and then it didn’t work for the rest! They sent me another and I was so tired of it not working at regular stores that I used a trick I learned here on CC to buy an Amazon gift card with the Visa gift card balance and transfer that to my account. So much easier.
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I’ve used this trick forever, every visa gf turns into Amazon. Coin counters? Amazon gift cards.
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