So we had our baby shower yesterday, and it was incredible!
We had it at an indoor playground (with a 24-foot slide and an adult sized moon-bounce) and invited people’s whole families so that the kids could play and the parents could play and we could all just have fun.
Well, we did have fun. (Honestly I think the parents had more fun climbing all over the toys than the kids did, lol!)
Anywho, after we all got done playing, we sat down for some sugary treats and played some games and opened the presents.
Every single present we got was so thoughtful and so cute, many of them were things we’d know that we would have great use for, other things were just nice to have.
For the most part our guests were pretty considerate, buying some gifts off our registry and picking some out themselfs. Keeping with our nursery theme either way.
And all of the guests (with one exception) included gift recipts (although I highly doubt that we’ll be returning any of those gifts). the only guest who didn’t include a gift recipt was the one guest who gave a…a not so great gift.
Now, this person obviously tried to pick out nice gifts, went through alot of trouble to do so, they brought more than one present, all of which we liked except one, so I want to be grateful for their time and their effort and especially for their support.
However, they didn’t get anything off our registry, didn’t pick anything that went with our nursery theme…honestly they didn’t consider us at all when they got the gifts.
We’ve had this same problem before. See, the person is my husband’s best friend’s wife. She and I do not have much in common, and she is a firm believer in “everyone should like what she likes.” She is also trying to get pregnant, and is resentful that we are having a boy before she is. So when she picked out the gifts, she chose things that she would like for her own boy, assuming that I’d want them for my boy.
The majority of the gifts she gave were cute or useful, even if they aren’t what I would have picked out, so we will gladly keep and use them…
One gift in paticular is an exceptionally large piece of baby furniture. We have no use for this peice of furniture, we don’t like the way it looks even if we did have a use for it.
Besides that our apartment is very small and we have no place to put it: It’s too big for the nursery, too big for our bedroom, I guess we could squeeze it into the living room however then we’d have no floor space for the baby to crawl and play.
My husband said we should just store it in a closet and not worry about it, but then I pointed out that all of our closets already have things stored in them. (The only way we could make this large gift fit into a closet is to either get rid of some of our clothes so it fits in our bedroom closet or to get rid of our Christmas tree and store it in our hall closet). So my husband looked around in our closets and agreed.
We just don’t have the room to keep this large gift, and even if we did we have no real use for it at all…
As I said above, the gift giver is my husband’s best friend’s wife, she is a very controlling and easily offended woman. And she did not include a gift recipt so we can’t just take it back to the store and be done with it…
so here’s the big question: what do we do now?
what do we do now, now that we can’t keep it since we don’t have the room in our apartment for it,
but we can’t take it back to the store since we have no gift recipt,
but we can’t talk to the woman about it because she is so controlling and so easily offended (if we tried to talk to her about it, she would most likely cut off all ties of communication between my husband and her husband, they are best friends, practically brothers, so we don’t want to do that…)
Any thoughts?
Help us, please, we’re at our wits end with this woman and don’t know how to handle this situation, on top of several other unpleasant situations she causes for us…
Thank you for your suggestions, sorry the post is so long.
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So we had our baby shower yesterday, and it was incredible!
We had it at an indoor playground (with a 24-foot slide and an adult sized moon-bounce…
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Why don’t you give it to charity? If you can’t use it I’m sure that someone who can’t afford it would be extremely happy with it. Plus you would get a slight tax cut for the donation.
Honestly, your husband needs to talk to his friend and simply explain that the piece of furniture was REALLY appreciated and that you, unfortunately, can’t fit it into your apartment. He should explain that you both really liked it but that there is simply no room for it.
Let the men settle this since it is THEIR friendship that is tied up in all of this. I don’t think the crazy woman’s boyfriend (your husbands friend) will get upset if he understands that it is simply TOO LARGE for your living space.
Offer to give it back to them….with no worries about a gift receipt. They gave you other gifts, too, and the most important thing here is making sure their friendship isn’t affected (versus exchanging the furniture).
Worse case scenerio….put it on Craigslist.
Good luck….