How many of you (us)

have either a closet or a box (boxes) of baby stuff that you've bought? Just curious to see if I'm the only one that does this. Wishful thinking I know but sometimes I can't help myself. I've tried to stay neutral in the outfits so once we manage to have a baby, whether it's a girl or a boy, they can wear it!
The reason I ask is I've been cleaning our guest bedroom/office ALL day and I was in the closet organizing it and I came across a bunch of baby outfits, bibs, etc... and it got me to thinking I wonder if I'm the only one.
On a happier note, I convinced DH that since I'm a disney nut and he's not so much that we can finally hang my snow white, bambi, dumbo, etc... stuff that's been sitting in boxes for forever!! I'm so excited. I told him it'll be less work in changing it into a nursery someday! Besides, the only guests we ever have are our neice and nephews so they'll be so excited!

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I have tons, but only because this is secondary IF and slowly I have been throwing stuff out.

I dont think I bought any baby stuff before DS was born.

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Nope, never bought anything

I have a bin in the garage of freebies I got from shows I worked (I used to work for a children's store) but we are cleaning out the garage soon and I told DH to toss them

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I never bought any baby stuff but I got all of my sister in law's maternity clothes in my closet!! lol I also have her bassinet from her last baby....Wishful thinking...
BOTB

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No... I'm jewish and I will not bring any baby related items into my home until I bring my baby home after giving birth. I will also not be having a baby shower if and when the time comes. The only thing we will do when the time comes is paint the bedroom which will eventually be the nursery.

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I have never bought anything, but I do have some favors that I have gotten from baby showers that I recently attended. I didn't want to throw the stuff away. I read an article, I think it was posted on here once, of a husband and wife who had a room filled with baby stuff and were suffering from infertility.

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Yes, I have a HUGE tote full of baby stuff. I used to work at Babies R Us--I was the Customer Service manager. Girls would come in after their showers to return stuff without the receipt. Sometimes, a GORGEOUS outfit would come up being worth like, $2.00, and they'd still return it!!!!! So, I'd always snatch it up to add to the "someday" tote.

The best thing ever was when BRU changed the packaging on their onesies. A woman returned about 8 packages of them--but they were the ones in the old packaging. I picked them up for 80 cents each!!!!

I'm determined to use them one day!

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Mrs Rivera your post cheered me up- I just checked this and was starting to think there was something wrong with me. Most of the stuff I picked up at carters and osh gosh when I went to either shop for a baby shower or for my neice and nephews and I couldn't pass up the deals.

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No baby outfits for me but I am in the process of knitting a baby bib, booties and bonnet from a kit somebody gave me at my wedding shower. I figure by the time I actually finish these I might actually have a baby to put them on

ETS:

Although it will only be helpful if the baby is a since the yarn is pink

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I wont buy a thing. Major Jewish superstition. Not one thing for a child will go past the door until a child is born.

However, my mother is very excited at the idea of giving me an afghan/sweater set that my grandmother had made. None of us 4 kids or the already existing 4 grandchildren used this yet which makes me wonder what my Mom was saving this for. It has to be over 40 years old. I just hope there are no holes in it.

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I have no baby stuff whatsoever...when I did get a BFP, I went and bought a bib that says "I love my daddy" to tell DH.
So far that's all I've bought yet...although I am starting to look now.

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No, I haven't bought anything. Although I was with my mom in Target after Christmas and she found 2 onesies in the clearance section for 79 cents each!! So she bought them (I refused to) and she has them at her house "just in case". I almost bought this adorable sweater and I wish I had, but I would have had it for over 6 months now and that would have been hard for me.

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I have never bought any baby things. I'll admit that I glance at them in the store, but I have never bought anything. I don't like to do anything until I know its for real. Kind of like the same thing that I wouldn't look at any wedding related things before I got engaged.

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Posted by MrsMessina

Mrs Rivera your post cheered me up- I just checked this and was starting to think there was something wrong with me. Most of the stuff I picked up at carters and osh gosh when I went to either shop for a baby shower or for my neice and nephews and I couldn't pass up the deals.

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My best friend has twins and a smallish house so I have an infant carseat, swing, graco pack n play(that I also use fo rmy neice when she comes to town) and a couple of other thing. She's got clothes stored for me if I have a girl..

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Yes I bought a ton before I got pg. w/ my DS- Neutral, boy and girl- Im a shop-a-holic so for me it was easy to go crazy- Especially when I saw Harley Davidson stuff, (my DH rides) I couldnt resist...Now that we are trying for #2 maybe we will get to use the girls stuff I bought !!!!