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.

I'm about to do the exact same with our Silver Cross highchair. It's impossible to clean and the big chunky frame takes up so much space! Very disappointing from Silver Cross. The cheap ones from IKEA which cafes have are perfect.

Came here to write this! Totally useless and overenginered. Ours was a big long bin bag and it would put a twist between each nappy so you'd end up with this huge long nappy snake once it was full up. I don't know why we thought a separate fancy bin was required. We just used the normal bin within a few weeks and the nappy snakes were no more.

The coat one made me laugh 😂

I (and my mum) bought loads of mittens ... all sleepsuits have them anyways and the mittens just fall off 😂

A fancy breastfeeding cover up , such a faff to use and it was useless anyway! Just used an extra large muslin if anything

On of those wrap slings you tie yourself. I could never get the hang of doing it and felt like I’d paid £50 for basically a scarf 🤦‍♀️
some people raved about them but not for me

Oh and a massive padded high chair. The ikea one or the mama and papas bug chair were much better

A seat swing
My son hated it

🤣🤣 you've got to come back once baby is born and update us on this!!

Disposable nappies! Thought we were going to mix them and reusable, but couldn't get over the leaks, or how much they reek the second a poo is done (obviously you change your baby then but just don't love it when walking them to find a baby change if you're out and about). At least they'll be easy to donate.

Also, a moses basket stand for downstairs. We use the moses basket upstairs at night time, but when we're downstairs, he contact naps or sleeps in the pram. Not sure why we thought he'd need so many options for places to sleep.

My daughter is an adult now and it's taken me reading this thread to realise that we really could have done without the nappy snake machine.

Given everybody ditches the expensive travel system in favour of a cheapo light pushchair at the earliest opportunity, it's amazing this isn't more widely known and that anybody still buys them.

Let's see the wasted money list is rather large but here's a couple.

Nappy bin - fucking stank everything it was opened to clean it out. Better to just take nappies straight out

Moses basket - dc one out grew with in weeks

Baby carriers (yes multiple and big branded) and slings both kids Hated them

A stupidly expensive cot because it had a change table top - used it twice. It now holds the baby towels and extra sheets stored under the cot

Baby swing

Breast pump accessories and bulk buying milk bags

Breast pads

Soft toys

White noise machine- alexa works brilliantly for this

Black gro blinds - fucker wouldn't stay up

Gro bedding for the toddler bed

Snot sucker - never worked and had to manually suck snot out. (Still recovering from the episode)

Bibs - both refused to wear them or have anything around their necks

Dummies- baby refused every single one

Dummy Steriliser- because I'm a fucking commercial consumerist whore

Boppy pillow - trip hazard and eldest used it as a foot rest

Jumperoo - baby used ot twice screams if he goes anywhere near it

Ridiculously expensive bath jug for pouring water to wash hair. A baby bowl worked for dc1, why couldn't I do that again...oh consumerist whore...

Same with the cradle cap brush

The million sippy cups and ££s spent on them, when baby loves the cheapie tommee tippee ones

The baby food steamer...

I could go on and on...

A cot.

I was going to say this!! I borrowed one. Great as you’re filling it but emptying the sausage of dirty nappies when full was horrendous! Glad I didn’t buy it.

A potty.

DS was late to train, refused point blank to engage with it. Suddenly toilet trained himself overnight at 3.5 years by going on the actual loo. The potty never got a look in.

Also lots of 'outfits' in the 0-6 month state. Fussy shirts and dungarees sets etc that proved a pain in the arse once on the changing table. Babygros are literally the easiest and most practical clothes ever. I have no idea why anyone would wrestle a 3 month old into dungarees and baby adidas....

Also cradle cap shampoo. It doesn't bloody work! (A dollop of olive oil massaged sorts it out in no time....)

Crying over 'nappy snake 😂 we had one too, although it was a gift. Really did stink and the cartridges were so expensive I don't think we replaced them more than a couple of times!

Same here. Bought a fancypants high chair and ditched the stupid, cumbersome bloody thing for the ikea job, which is the best high chair ever.

I promise I will
They are due next month
(Well she is-hes not pregnant!)
I cannot wait to see how this pans out lol

I bought hardly anything, and certainly hardly anything new.

We barely used dribble bibs, he dribbles loads but doesn't like them.

My waste of money was the tealights and aromatherapy oil for labour (I ended up with a planned c section for medical reasons).

Other people bought outfits 0-3 which weren't used. I'm not putting a newborn baby in a cord jacket or shoes.

My next one is coming up to 2. Cot still has never been slept in.

We used our a few times when at hotel swimming pools. Really not essential baby kit.

Blankets for some reason I brought about 20

A double buggy with a 2year 3 month gap. I bought it when I was still pregnant and didn't take account of how quickly they start walking more independently.

I liked the nappy bin (but I didn't have to deal with the poo snake)!

Anything with more than one button at the back, anything complicated to do up, dressing gown, pita high chair (also swapped for ikea one - simple and easy to clean), wet wipe holder, swaddle blankets, breast pads, breast pump accessories.

Another one regretting acquiring the nappy snake bin 🤦🏽‍♀️

Pippeta breast pump - did not get one drop of milk out of it