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

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fillyjonk · 02/06/2007 22:00

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

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expatinscotland · 02/06/2007 22:37

They're so going to remember their 'nursery'. Yeah!

ScottishMummy · 02/06/2007 22:38

LOL i worked with a wee scottish sweetie wifie when up the duff and she honestly harped on for months advising me just put baby in a drawer to sleep...oooo aye that right

chonky · 02/06/2007 22:43

totally with you filly - dd's just turned 3 and she's only getting her room decorated for the first time now

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unknownrebelbang · 02/06/2007 22:55

We prettily decorated a bedroom (not nursery) for our baby - mint with little rabbits, but then it needed decorating anyway.

We also bought new furniture, but then it needed new furniture anyway.

I loved that room, it had a window at either end, and it was just lovely.

It was also used by DS3 before we moved.

MrsBadger · 02/06/2007 22:59

Now I suggested the drawer thing and DH shrieked neglect and poverty and positively ran to JL for a moses basket.

Met up at the weekend with a couple of expat mates at the weekend (due in four weeks, just arrived in UK, no baby kit at all) and she mentioned she was planning to use a laundry basket at which point her DH shrieked neglect and poverty and ran to JL...

I can only assume tis a Man Thing.

ScottishMummy · 02/06/2007 22:59

to clarify by nursery i mean the room the baby sleeps in- am i talkin everyone language here

and yeah decorated eg

painted it white
bought black out curtains
cheap nursing chair and seat
thats it

MrsBadger · 02/06/2007 23:00

No cot? So you did use a drawer then?

Nemo2007 · 02/06/2007 23:01

we didnt really. Decorated the room in a apple green colour did get some winnie the pooh curtains and a rug but he had laminate flooring. The room is still the same although now has superman curtains and stayed the other way for DD1 to use it. The girls room was decorated for ds in a mustard yellow with blue curtains and he had some bedding and couple of bob the builder bits. When I had DD2 we put some fairy stickarounds up and 3littlebabies bought the girls a fairy mobile which is on the ceiling.

ScottishMummy · 02/06/2007 23:02

lol like all newbies i bought tons o stuff but bottled it with the drawer sleeping thingy and got a cotbed hopin it economical

WelshBoris · 02/06/2007 23:02

MrsBadger I was just talking about you.

Baby names for the son I'm never going to have.

Dennis on his birth cert for when he is called to the Bar and Denny for every day use

You approve?

Disclaimer I am not pregnant or trying or in fact having sex but just dreaming

pootlepod · 02/06/2007 23:04

Nope I didn't for either. DD was in with us and then had her own corner in the spare room. We then moved and she had her own room. DS is still in with us (8 months). We keep asking DD if she would like him in with her

Must get around to sorting it out though, I would love to watch late night telly in bed again soon.

MrsBadger · 02/06/2007 23:06

oh yes, very good Welshy

am having to have Words with DH because he is a fan of Alex but not Alexander...

WelshBoris · 02/06/2007 23:07

Alexander is also on my list. Tell him about the Calling To The Bar Thing.

He'll understand then.

northender · 02/06/2007 23:08

fillyjonk I never did the nursery thing either, didn't see the point.Now they're old enough they can make some decisions about decor! Nurseries are for the parents not the babies! Our two have both had fourth hand cots (or maybe fifth!).

unknownrebelbang · 02/06/2007 23:10

When I said we furnished the room, I meant bedroom furniture, not baby-change stuff and things like that.

MrsJohnCusack · 02/06/2007 23:11

nope me too
not even if DD had her own room when she was born would I have bothered. new DS doesn't have his own room either and will be in with us for the forseeable.

it is all a marketing ploy directed at gullible new parents so that you buy a lot of matching guff. fine if you have the cash but it's not NEEDED

aviatrix · 03/06/2007 00:01

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Flame · 03/06/2007 00:08

We did - but that was because the room was a sh*thole and needed doing anyway so we thought we might as well baby it.

mylittleimps · 03/06/2007 00:29

decided money was better spent on mountain buggies and we were renovating so they didn't have their own rooms very early at all. so they shared a basic package of furniture which was added to a bit later on and when they moved into their own rooms they had some stick arounds which the edlest chose for both, white sheets and plain blankets and then when they got older i co-ordinated their duvets with the stick arounds. they are happy, but the lengths some people go to.

talking to one parent i discovered some people do rooms so their pre-schoolers can turn lights off without getting out of bed, TV the lot in there . not my thing, my poor poor children

beckybrastraps · 03/06/2007 00:32

My children slept in our room until they were six months old. In a carrycot. Why would they need a 'nursery'?

flibbertyjibbet · 03/06/2007 00:41

My little back bedroom needed replastering so we did that and painted the walls white prior to DS1's birth. had 2nd hand cot bed, an old chest of drawers with a changing mat stuck on top. now DS2 is in there too in a borrowed cot so nothing matches anything else. I think a nice plain room is nice and its sort of decorated by the shelves that we put up with books and teddies etc that we have been given for them.
When I was pregnant I kept asking 'do I want everything co-ordinated or do I want to take more of the unpaid maternity leave?'

PregnantGrrrl · 03/06/2007 01:59

all i did was recently get some glow-in-the-dark stars for his ceiling and a stencil and tester pot of paint. Cost me about a fiver, and easily got rid of when he doesn't like them.

ghosty · 03/06/2007 05:40

When I was 8 months pregnant a friend of mine was absolutely HORRIFIED that we would be bringing the baby into the 'spare room' that was the general dumping ground of our house. We had a second hand cot and changing table (given to me for nothing by a family whose children I had taught and they were chucking the stuff on a skip) and a borrowed moses basket. No motifs on the wall, or bunny rabbit curtains.
I said to my friend, "The baby won't care will it?" She was really disgusted
We tried a bit harder with DD - new cot this time and a chest of drawers - but not much.
We don't decorate their rooms either. Bright coloured curtains and nice bedlinen is as far as I go.

Waste of money IMO - all those changing tables, hanging nappy holders, rocking feeding chairs ...

Sakura · 03/06/2007 07:43

I live in a one bedroom flat (with no cot) and we all sleep in there so no, but...

...If I lived in a lovely big house, I canT say I wouldnt have been tempted. The manufacturers are evil, and they know what parents-to-be are like, and even worse are the grandparents to be. I didn`t spend on nursery stuff, but I think I went way overboard on cutie clothes, which is the same principal of overpricing useless goods (clothes get dirty and are grown out of quickly). They know we get all wrapped up in the excitement of expecting, and we buy with our hearts. They just take advantage of that.

bumperlicious · 03/06/2007 08:10

Everyone keeps saying to us "what colour are you painting the nursery (or when we say we don't know what sex it is they say "how will you know what colour to paint the nursery?" It's the spare room and it's pale green and will pretty much stay that way, esp since this is a rented flat. Don't have any baby furniture either (we have a crib for our bedroom, and are being lent a cot) and DH is going to convert our nice computer cabinet into a baby wardrobe by sticking a bar inside it! Let's face it, either our spare room is full of crap (laundry etc) or our bedroom is and whichever one the baby spends the longest time in will dictate which one it is!

I also have a beautiful changing bag (before you all at me for actually having a changing bag and not a normal handbag - it was a birthday present to me and it's pink and I love it! ) and every keeps saying - "it's pink? But what if it's a boy?" the baby isn't going to be wearing it - I am!