Most Ridiculous Baby Shower Presents
What's the weirdest thing you got at a baby shower?
Baby showers are awesome. It’s a chance to celebrate your baby’s upcoming arrival with all your friends and family and to get some nice baby items that you can use after your baby is born. A lot of people give really excellent and useful gifts at showers.
However, after talking to some moms, I’ve realized a few people give, ah, gifts that are a bit on the ridiculous side. So I asked people to tell me the most ridiculous gifts they received at their showers…the answers may surprise you!
“Leather pants” — Krysten
“A leash” — Jennifer
“Candy cigarettes” — Lacey
“A three-piece suit” — Molly
“Some outfits with the tags still on that were, on closer inspection, infested with moth carcasses” — Sara
“A wipe warmer” — Amy
“Condoms. It was meant as a ‘stop having kids’ gift.” — Alaina
What are the most ridiculous baby shower presents you’ve heard of or received?
Top image by Liz (persipicacious)
I love my wipe warmer!! Love it!
sara, i love mine too. it may seem frivolous, but it makes things nice- especially in the middle of the night
I had an “inappropriate baby shower” and celebrated the occasion with gifts of Jack Daniels with baby bottle tops, tampons, and cigars. It was the best thing ever!
wow those are bad ! but wipe warmer is a good thing especially for cloth wipes
I LOVE my wipe warmer too!
We use cloth wipes and it is not a frivolous item at all! I had to purchase mine though, wish I had gotten it as a gift!
My friend was given a stuffed pony the size of a real live pony. Her pug took one look at it and went to attack it. Needless to say it went back to the store!
I LOVE my wipe warmer as well….especially for the first month or so….newborns don’t scream as much while being changed if the wipes are warm. Not sure why that is a ridiculous gift?
Why does everyone bag on the wipe warmer? We used ours with all 3 kids. Who wants a cold wipe on their bottom? I have given this as a shower gift too-not trivial at all to parents of sensitive babies!
When I lived in the Arizona desert climate, I thought my wipe warmer gift was ridiculous and never used it on my babies born there, BUT THEN I moved to north central Indiana where it is awesome to have that wipe warmer. My baby born in Indiana hated having his bum wiped with shockingly cold wipes, so finally I could see why someone invented wipe warmers, which I still use everyday, even now, in June.