am i the only one who never spent a penny on a "nursery" for my kids?

[fillyjonk]

This oogling of mothercare cabinets and agonising over winnie the pooh vs whatever is utterly, utterly lost on me.

surely the money could be better spent on a holiday or a nice pair of shoes or something?

newborns don't care and odds are they'll end up with you anyway for a bit.

Why not save the money and paint when they are toddlers and give a crap?

i thank you

yes you miserable ol' scrote

i suppose if you have the time and money.

we were pretty much like that as well.

Wish i'd thought of that before decorating dd's nursey/bedroom. She never ever slept in it as we moved house when she was 17m and she was still in with us at that point

i didnt with any of my 3.waited till 3/4 with older two.youngest still with us.only thing i did was nice painting each but thats more for my benfit!so i can say look at painting mummy did for you when you were baby isnt it crap

I never did the 'nursery' thing either. As if ds was going to give a stuff at two days old.

But then I am a lazy slattern.

yes i have not much to be smug about, and my decision was in no way related to a lack or spare rooms nor a 4 figure overdraft but

I never did - room was purple anyway and so ready for boy/girl.

A) we didn't have any money to redecorate and it didn't need doing (as only been done 2 years before).

b) I hate decorating.

I don't see the point but maybe I am just

This next one hasn't even got abedroom

Never mind decorating it- will have to build an extension when I go back to work in a couple of years

they care when they are toddlers???
nope, me neither, painted ds1's room lemon well before he was conceived cos it was baby decorated from the people we brought from. it has stayed that way with the same yellow curtains and he is now 4.5, I am thinking maybe it should have some of his personality! ds2 didn't get a room until he was 6mo and I finally nagged dh into putting the cot together as he was tooo big for the moses basket.

I bet people who fret about nursery decoration are the same ones who buy 'Little Princess on Board' car thingys...

Never did the whole nursery thing either, just made sure that their room was habitable and had a cot, never did the whole changing table, cot bumpers, Winnie the Pooh -v- Elmer business at all.

actually ds is 2.7 now and the room is still spartan - well he only sleeps in there and plays either downstairs or in our room.

oooh I LOVED ogling the mothercare cabinets, it was one of my greatest joys in life

erm what did we actually buy? A second hand dresser from the paper, a new mattress for the cot my sister gave me ( that was SO useful) plus a few cot sheets {ditto}

oh and a new mattress for the moses basket we were also given, which was kind of useful for putting him down in

I did love ogling though

I did try to kind of make the nursery look nice but in the event he probably spent a total of about 4 hours in it over the course of his entire life

I used to bung him in the cot with a mobile when I had a shower, which was useful as I knew he was safe and happy

that was it though

we lived in a flat when ds was born and decorated his room even though we moved when he was 4 month old .. then we decorated new room .. (we spent humpty-dumpty thousand on ds before he was born )

but of course NSC has inherited it but sleeps in ds's bedroom

we spent nothing on DD before she was born though

oh god come february there will be three of them (nominally) in that scary room

Made bugger all effort in that department. We co-sleep though and always intended to. Perhaps should have tattooed a mural on my breasts as that's where she spends most of her time and it's likely that she would have gained most benefit from a twee picture etched across them as opposed to the bedroom wall.

yu are not the only one, filly. i bought a hammock for the baby to sleep in and apart from that everything came second-hand. including most of her babygros... i always remember being mortified for my teenage pals who still had nursery-style paper on their walls.

well I did buy her a bed.......

did paint a picture or two, must admit

but small and framed, and a meditation on my pregnancy and the importance of new life

am suitably at the incident now

well nice for u

i was kinda happy to spend my money on frivolities for nursery
largely cos baby squawked when i squeezed it into pair of shoes

a what?!

WTF?

When DD1 was born, we lived in a one-bed council flat in one of the worst areas of town.

Nursery? LOL!

Now we live in a 2 bed flat the size of a shoe box and it's rented.

Next we're moving to a large house, but again, it's rented so we can't decorate how we like.

Life's too short!

Go outside and forget about everything that's petty.

We didn't decorate because we were renting when DSes were tiny. We did buy a bit of nursery furniture but from Ikea, including a lovely but cheap chest of drawers/changing table which I built myself when 9 months pg.