your nursery furniture

Did you buy it or was it a gift?

My other 2 daughters never had their own room (with our 1st we were in an apt in the basement of my parents and we were still there with our 2nd)
we moved to our house when my 2nd child was 15 months old and they share a bedroom. We are a week away from their bedrooms upstairs being ready

so their bedroom now that is on the main floor will be the babies nursery.
so I would like to get furniture like a matching crib and dresser
I dont know if we can afford all this stuff though
I am hoping my parents get the crib or the dresser but they dont have the money either

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My parents said they are buying the nursery furniture and my mom said she even plans to buy the bedding (I think she is crazy, but I just say thank you)

Maybe you should look at economical options and maybe your parents will split it with you.

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we purchased the crib and 2 dressers. my parents bought the glider and ottoman as a gift...

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Yes...our furniture was a gift. My parents and DH's parents split the cost of it. We are very grateful.

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My in-laws just bought our crib for us. Once we get out of the one bedroom apartment my Mom and them plan to buy the furniture.

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Mil bought the crib, glider was a gift, DH purchased the changing table/ dresser unit.

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We bought all the furniture (crib, changer, dresser, glider and ottoman) ourselves. Neither of our parents really have the money and they are throwing the shower.

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My Parents and ILs offered to buy our set, but when we found out how much it was, we decided to go three ways with them. DH and I felt better about choosing the set we liked, once we offered to go 3 ways.

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it was a gift from my mom.

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we were so lucky to get our crib and changing table/dresser combo from dh's friends whose daughter now has a "big girl" rm.....and they don't plan on having another and wanted it out of their shed...we bought the glider and another dresser ourselves!!

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we bought our furniture and glider/ottoman ourselves

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We are lucky, my parents purchased the crib, changing table/dresser and a tall 5 draw dresser from Behrs. My mom is also buying me the glider and ottoman. I didnt want them to do it but they insisted. cost was 2300 for the crib, changing table/dresser and tall 5 piece dresser, mom also got the extenders for the converter to a bed and the mattress.

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My dad bought the crib and my il's bought her dresser with hutch. we bought her changing table. my mother bought her bedding.

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We bought it but my parents gave us some money towards it.

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My ILs bought the crib, we purchased the other pieces.

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Our parents haven't said anything about gifts yet. So as of now, we are planning on buying our crib, dresser, and glider.

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ours is a gift as well - my parents and DH's parents will be splitting the cost

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The set we wound up getting was fairly expensive, $2700 for the crib, dresser and armoire. So my in-laws put $1000 towards it and DH and I will pay the rest.

ETS- my shower is this weekend so we're waiting to see if we get any cash gifts, because we will put that towards the furniture as well.

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Considering we are having two we are buying two cribs but just using other furniture we have for the rest of the nursery.

I'd rather save the money and buy good quality furniture when they outgrow the nursery. A set each that they will have until they leave for college.

I'm sure we will need the $$$$$ for a double set of a lot of items.

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I think we are buying it.

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It is a gift

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We bought all of our furniture. Neither of our parents have the money and my famly is paying for the shower. They will probably get us our big stuff like the stroller etc.

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We bought the crib but it was a hand-me-down from a friend who we purchased for $100 even though it was an older VERY expensive Bellini crib. We also purchased the changing table for about $70 on clearance from BRU -- it was supposed to be more but they made a mistake and gave us an extra BIG discount. We had the bookshelf that was in the room already and just repurposed it there -- and my mom and dad bought us the glider from BBB.

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we bought the changing table/dreser.

my parents bought the crib

DH's aunt bought the rocker