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I think wipe warmers are a waste of time. I mean really - how cold does your house get?

All wipe warmers do is go and spoil the butt of your baby - so when you have to chance a diaper in a public place, they wail for mercy.  Karma rocks.

The most useless baby item we every had was a cd player that attached to the crib.  It ate batteries.  Batteries are expensive, so it essentially was a money disposal hooked on to our son's crib.  

Later we discovered a boom box works just as well and plugs into a wall. An added bonus is as the kids get older, they can still use the boom box.  As much as we tried to encourage our older son to "use" his crib CD player, he told us he would not "dork out" just because we had made a bad decision with our money.

Kid has a point. At least we're not raising him to be a dumb consumer who buys into marketing hype.  Unlike his parents who fell hook line and sinker.  Can we blame sleep deprivation for our serious lapse in judgement?

The number one most useless thing?  Newborn-sized baby clothes.  The Jillian received a slew of things from people that were NB sized and she never, ever wore them.   Not because she was a huge baby, but because it's waaaaay easier to put a newborn in a onesie.  Especially in August.

Whenever we buy gifts for our friends' babies, we buy 6-month size or bigger.  

The second most useless thing: tiny bathrobes.  The baby goes from the tub to jammies in roughly thirty seconds flat, so when would she ever need a bathrobe?  

I use a baby robe instead of a towel, but I am not sure what shoes for babies under 6 months are for.

I can't even get into the junk we were told "we needed", now it's all sitting in the garage.

Marketers sure know how to freak new parents out who are desperate that there kid won't become a serial killer because they didn't steralize the bottles when they were 3 months old

Before you become a parent, you often needlessly load yourself and your household up with crap , thereby

I must admit to owning (and loving) a microwave steam sterilizer. I bought it after I almost burned down my kitchen while sterilizing bottles in a pan on the stove. I will never forget the smell of melting plastic bottles and nipples so I consider the steilizer a good investement.