As always, when you ask for advice, you get people saying opposites!
I found the angelcare bin great because it has a tight mechanism stopping odours escaping, and holds a lot. We empty ours weekly now.
We used a baby bath for at least a year, if not until around 18 months. It was the sort that sits over the bath and has a plug you pull to empty, so no lifting of water needed. It's much easier to kneel by the bath and reach without bending over.
Definitely don't bother with babywipes or bottle warmers. In the cold winter I sometimes wet a handful of wet wipes on warm water before picking baby up to change, but in the summer everything is warmer anyway. I used the bottle warmer and found it took just as long to heat as if we'd used boiled water in a jug. Not just that but it got too hot, so I had to spend even longer cooling it down again!
I also didn't bother win outdoor clothes until around 4-6 months, and even then it was more for special occasions. But I did have a very sicky baby who kept leaking pooey nappies, so perhaps I might have felt differently if we'd had a clean and tidy baby instead! (Does such a thing exist?) 
I preferred the wilko steam steriliser for dummies and bottles as it is small but packs away 2 bottles at a time, and now use it for my mooncup so it's not wasted!
I found a baby monitor good too, as you really can't hear anything downstairs with the TV or radio on. We got one where the light comes on red if baby cries, so you don't have to listen to a wail if you don't want to.
I also liked the room thermometer because it acted as a reminder to check bedtime layers when I'm tired and busy. Sometimes because I am hot (puffing and panting with the exertion of fighting a screaming baby into bath and bed!) it can be easy to think the room is, but a thermometer confirms whether that's true or not. I wouldn't say j stick to it religiously, as often I've added an extra layer when strictly speaking I should wait for the temperature to drop a degree or two, but my last baby was a particularly cold one and so I had to use common senses too.
I would agree that shoes just fall off and don't get used.
I bought almost every muslin in this country, and used them a LOT.
I was also advised not to use even Johnson's lotions and bubbles, and I agree that it's best to wait until they're older. But then again, I had eczema prone babies, so perhaps we were especially sensitive skinned. We used plain almond oil as a moisturiser.