What was your daftest baby purchase?!

[Wingingitmum11]

currently packing away expensive outfits my baby has never worn or worn once .... thinking wow was a waste .

it got me reflecting on what others have wasted money on before your baby?!

my worst item was an electric nail file that everyone raved about?!!! It barely made a dent to my babies nails. Immediately had to buy traditional clippers.

The only thing we didn't use were the mountain of dribble bibs we were gifted. Way too sicky and dribbly for the them.

18-24 month vests. I hadn't noticed my daughter had dropped to the 1st percentile so she was potty trained aged 3 before she fitted into them and she couldn't manage the poppers.

We bought barely anything ahead of needing it and nearly everything was second hand so if we did find it was right it wasn't as wasteful

Moses basket.

@Sharontheodopolodous
see, that's sweet 👩‍❤️‍👨

absolutely daft, but sweet.

Does he realise the baby should be in the same room as them for all sleeping/naps for the first few months anyway?

@Wingingitmum11

but they great now you can actually watch them, not just listen it!!

perfect time wasters!!

Peepee teepees for DC2, our first boy. Saw them in a TV series before he was born but irl they just used to fall off so were pointless.

Baby powder, and baby oil. Literally never used either.

Next to me beds. We used them but never really as intended, the side that opens took up a significant portion of our double bed and was too hard to sleep on top of. And it was annoying blocking access to get in bed. Moved it to the end of our bed within a few weeks both times so should have just not bothered buying at all and using a cotbed from day 1 which we will do with DC2.

Snugglebundl- a contraption for picking up your baby if they're asleep in the car seat or somewhere. I'm sure others have used this and loved it but I had one, never used it for Dc1 and then bought another for DTwins as thought it would be more useful with 2, it went on vinted after about 4 weeks of not using it! You'd have to have the baby on it to be able to transfer them so never worked out what situation I'd use it

Baby outfits - they wore babygros until they were nine months

Sorry I'm having a hard time visualising this. What do you mean part of the crib was too hard to sleep on? None of it should be on your own bed?

Also, what is a peepee teepee??

This x10000. We made the exact same mistake and deeply regretted it. After 4 months of trying to make the best of it, we gave in and got the standard IKEA Antilop and never looked back.

When friends of ours reached the high chair years, we tole them our lesson learned so that they might avoid making the same mistake. They ignored us. 3 months later I see their high chair listed on FB Marketplace. Next time we visit, baby's in an Antilop.

We had so many newborn hats! Every newborn outfit/gift set comes with a hat. We had about 15! But the advice is that babies shouldn’t wear hats indoors and it was boiling hot summertime anyway.

Another one with the nappy bin contraption! Who knew that you could just throw them in your wheelie bin 🤷🏼‍♀️
Swinging chair also, on third baby and this one doesn’t like it either!
A sun shade thing for my old pram, it went over the hood and tied onto the handles, sounded great but in reality it either fell off or didn’t block the sun out so completely pointless. I now have a bugaboo and the hood comes so far down I don’t need any more sun contraptions thank goodness!

You reminded me my DD inherited 8 pram suits that went up to a year.

Only 2 were thin enough and the right size to use.

Those were the ones that I ended up giving back to the person who originally brought them as a gift for the person I inherited from. The rest went to charity shops.

Huge expensive pushchair/ travel system. We soon realised that the cheap as chips emergency one was much lighter and easier to use.

Agree about the hats! We had loads that never got used.

Who knew there was such a thing as a baby torture device 🤣

A sort of linen papoose/sling thing with long cloth ties. The hippieish ante-natal woman was evangelical about them, claiming she’d had her (obviously teeny tiny bean-shaped) kids strapped to her 24/7 and just wafted about her business completely carefree - barefoot no doubt.

DS was off the 100th centile and trying to get him into that thing and tie it up was like wrestling a greased pig to the floor and attempting to mummify it. We managed 10 minutes of one shopping trip with him struggling and screaming blue murder into my face before it went to the charity shop.

I did mention that baby needs to be in with them (one bed flat-theres nowhere else for her to go!)

It's the line 'babies are not that loud and we need to be able to hear her' that made me laugh

Along with 'no offence mum,I know you've grown up with babies (my mother was a childminder and nursery nurse),where a nanny before having us and had us (he's no3 of 6) but you don't know much about having babies-my mate has had one and I've been around her once a week or so,so I'm an expert!'

OK son...

(I'm just sitting back and waiting for the phone calls to start,ill wait until shes about 4/5 before bringing this up and having a laugh about how daft he was)

A dressing gown. For my BABY?! I have no idea what the heck I was thinking. It was very cute though, with little duckies on it…….and I’m another one with the weird nappy-twisting-bin-thingy. Seemed essential at the time.😞

Car video camera, so you can have a live video feed of your baby while you are driving. I never drove that far by myself with DS to make it necessary - and for long journeys either myself or DH sat in the back seat next to him.

Also, totally agree about the twisty lid nappy bin!

I did that!
Lovely pink dressing gown and 20 million (or so it seemed) baby towels
And I got upset when someone said she'd just used normal towels for her babies-poor babies,they should have their own towels!

I should have listened-no2 and the rest where badly neglected with normal towels and no dressing gowns in sight

Ditto socks
She just pulled them off-the rest (both boys and a girl) had plain tights under their trousers

My father almost wet himself laughing when I wanted to buy a baby wipe warmer and a potty that played a tune when the child peed in it (I didn't buy either but would have done if he hadn't taken the piss)

My travel system pram ! don't even use it anymore as it is just big and bulky and prefer a more compact buggy !

Exactly the same for us! I was in ikea within a few weeks as I couldn't cope with the cleaning involved with the fancy one.

An expensive cot which converted from newborn to 4 years old. He never slept in it once!

I just came on here to say the same thing
It was really expensive for the refill cartridge and you definitely could still smell dirty nappies

A big highchair. It took up half the dining space and DD screamed every time I took her within a foot of it. We ended getting rid and got one of those attach to the dining table ones, she’d sit in it for hours eating, playing at the table etc. It also fitted ok to the kitchen breakfast bar so we got another and I’d put her in there when I wanted to do kitchen stuff. I still have one of them up the loft despite DD now being 19 and in the Navy.