Would you pay £50 to attend a baby shower next week

[Donewithit888]

£50 includes the baby shower room hire, present (collective) and transport costs to get there, as it's around an hour from mine.

@HELLITHURT

Fuck me what happened to buying a mothercare outfit when the baby was born?

Well, Mothercare went into administration in 2019 so if you’re asking for a specific date then that’s probably a good starting point.

Asking guests to sub the venue costs is not good but OP has completely misrepresented the cost. It costs something to go literally anywhere beyond walking distance from your front door. You might as well start a thread asking if your employer IBU for expecting you to pay for your own rail ticket to get to work.

@WitchWithoutChips mothercare are online and now operate in Boots!

Keep up!

Er, no

I wouldn't mind giving a good friend £50 as a gift for their baby but no doubt it's funding some cheesy insta moment wanky event

"Why are you celebrating someone being pregnant? Celebrate the babies birthday with a gift?

So nothing to do with wealth but everything to do with being grabby."

So now us poor people can't even decide what we're allowed to celebrate??

Celebrations in general I suppose. I'm keen just to have a catch up with people again (not UK, so not sure how different lockdown/restrictions have been).

Some of my family and friends have achieved great things, but in our social circles very few would be in a position to host a celebratory event for them. Most could afford 20 quid for a celebration meal tho and a bit extra to cover dinner/drinks for the person we're celebrating.

Perfect.

No, happy to attend and bring a gift but that is something that the host pays.

The original intent of baby showers wasn't meant for new mothers to be greedy. It was meant for the community to gather around and support new families--like an Amish barnraising, if you will. To help the new family get on their feet. Older, more experienced mothers would know what a new mother would need. So they would bring their little gifts and their wisdom (and perhaps some nosy unwanted advice, but hey nothing is 100 percent free) and everyone would tell stories and have cake and look at baby things and think about the new life to come. It wasn't meant to be some glitzy, showy, fifty pound a head occasion.

@mysunandstars

When I was pregnant I was so worried someone would throw me a baby shower I booked a couple of tables at Slug & Lettuce, paid for some finger food & invited my friends & family just to come & spend the afternoon with me. Didn't want a penny spent on me or baby, just their company. Was lovely. I

I think that sounds lovely. I see it as different to visiting to see the baby, your afternoon was people coming to spend time with you before your life changes. Nothing wrong with that. I think the name is unfortunate, "baby shower" seems to indicate an expectation of being showered with gifts, maybe we need a new name indicating it is about spending some time with the mum to be.

Like fuck I would!
Never enjoyed a baby shower. If someone was paying me £50 I might go though

This had better not be a new thing- hen nights have become out of control and now baby showers?
Also, I thought the shower was lots of little baby presents- surely one massive present from everyone is not as much fun.