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ginny
08-22-2007, 09:17 AM
I thought you might like this one.

Yesterday my mom got a baby shower invite for a family friend's daughter. The invite included the usual, date, time, place. And then two little sentences that made me and my mom go wth?!

Here's what it said,
"Please include gift receipts with the gifts in case she receives two of the same thing, so she can exchange it for something else. Thanks!!!"

"No Winnie the Pooh, please"

:wow2:

So me and mom either decided we aren't going to go, or we will buy a Winnie the Pooh item and not give a gift receipt, hehe. :iminn:

No, we aren't that bad, but still I can't believe someone had this in their baby shower invite!
Maria 05
08-22-2007, 09:27 AM
WHAT?! :jawdrop: how could someone not like Pooh?

Oh yeah and how dare they ask for gifts thats bad really bad
ginny
08-22-2007, 11:59 AM
WHAT?! :jawdrop: how could someone not like Pooh?


I know! That's what we said!
Christa
08-22-2007, 12:03 PM
I don't like Pooh :hide:

I would never say "no Pooh" though. That's just rude
~LeAna~
08-22-2007, 12:35 PM
Very tacky! I would "have other plans" for that day...
Robyn
08-22-2007, 01:46 PM
DH can't STAND WTP (and I personally think it's "overdone" for babies, just me though). So we had told random people like my sister (people who wouldn't offend, and most joking anyway) that DH didn't want anything Pooh. What did my sister buy us? A Pooh teether! LOL. But whatever. DH just didn't want EVERYTHING WTP. Anywho. I didn't have a shower, but we still got gifts. We never told anyone that we didn't want WTP, or that we wanted receipts. That's very pushy! And I am the same way! I would give them WTP stuff with no reciept!!
Trinia
08-22-2007, 03:56 PM
Wow. That is crazy and rude and ridiculous and all that stuff..
jillian
08-22-2007, 07:50 PM
I can't stand Winnie the Pooh either. A lot of people I know don't. My general rule is: if you don't see it on the registry don't buy it. Meaning if you don't see themed stuff don't go by the baby that. I probably wouldn't put No blank blank on an invitation though.

As far as the gift receipt, most people will put it with the gift anyway. They aren't stupid.

Don't go to the shower.
ginny
08-22-2007, 08:55 PM
I know some people don't like Winnie the Pooh, but they should have dealt with that in a different way. Like if we called to see what they wanted, they could have said, oh, yellows or blues with safari animals or something. Not tell us in the invite that basically if we get them something winne the pooh they'll be upset and return it immediately. I think we're just going to send a card and gift card, seeing as the shower is September 16th, a week before my wedding, I think I'll have enough to do already.
Jaci
08-22-2007, 09:35 PM
Ginny, do you know that the soon-to-be mom wrote the invites out? My friend is hosting my shower and I'd be mortified to find out she put something like this on the invites.
~*Kate*~
08-22-2007, 09:36 PM
I think it's sad that the mom-to-be will suffer b/c the hostess had the gall to write that! (Assuming, of course, that she's not throwing herself the shower, or that she didn't tell the hostess to write it... which it's fairly likely she did...)

ETA: Jinx Jaci! :lol:
ginny
08-23-2007, 08:55 AM
I'm sure it was her mother who wrote the invites, but knowing them, I wouldn't be surprised if the daughter told her to say "no winnie the pooh, please" on the invite.
Sabby12s
08-23-2007, 08:57 AM
I don't like Winnie the Pooh either, but you don't put that on the invite. Just thank them and return it later!
Winter_Bride
08-23-2007, 09:33 AM
I'm sure it was her mother who wrote the invites, but knowing them, I wouldn't be surprised if the daughter told her to say "no winnie the pooh, please" on the invite.It always makes me SO ANGRY when people are so picky about GIFTS they recieve!! I got things that weren't my taste for Tara, but I'm so thankful that the gift-givers thought enough of me and my daughter to want to bring me a present for her. Will the items get used/displayed? Maybe not. If I really didn't like the item, I might try to ebay it. But that's for me to deal with later.

I hand out wishlists to my parents and ILs for Christmas, but I don't dictate what they do/do not buy me, nor do I demand for gift recipts. How is this different?
Jaime
08-23-2007, 10:15 AM
I agree that that was rude of the person who wrote the invitations.

If they get too much WTP stuff, perhaps they should donate it to women who have nothing for their babies. Lord knows I know a bunch of them :disbelief:
~*Kate*~
08-23-2007, 10:27 AM
I agree that that was rude of the person who wrote the invitations.

If they get too much WTP stuff, perhaps they should donate it to women who have nothing for their babies. Lord knows I know a bunch of them :disbelief:

:yeah:

Ooh! You could give them one of Jaime's certificates that says, "A gift of xxx has been donated to the women's shelter in honor of your baby"!
Jaime
08-23-2007, 10:32 AM
I have seen women in my shelter cry when they get an old, used baby item just because they don't have anything for their babies :shrug:

And yeah, you can give them one of those nifty certificates Kate is making me :hehe:
ginny
08-23-2007, 10:40 AM
Ooh! You could give them one of Jaime's certificates that says, "A gift of xxx has been donated to the women's shelter in honor of your baby"!

:hehe:

It's like Seinfeld with "The Human Fund"
~*Kate*~
08-23-2007, 05:40 PM
:lol: Well, only Jaime's shelter is real. :laugh3:
~Lizzybeth~
08-23-2007, 06:07 PM
That is crazy. As much as I have no desire for WTP, I would NEVER write that on an invite. I will say though that on my registry site, I did ask people NOT to buy us pacifiers because the will NOT be used. :dontknow: I would never write it on the invite though.
Raychel
08-23-2007, 09:42 PM
I don't know how people can be like that. I would be happy w/ anything I got.

I mean at the very least...spread those kind of things word of mouth.
butterfly_kissings
08-23-2007, 10:01 PM
I hate winnie the pooh. Actually a lot. And it was spread by word of mouth but it wasn't on the invites. People will get you what they want to get you and you will grin and accept it. Secondly to that, as tactless as it was, she just might hate winnie the pooh as much as I do and the shower host/invite maker may have thought she was doing her a favor and didn't realize that it would come across as a total no-no. Again I wouldn't do it and would hope that people wouldn't do it for me but I wouldn't be offended by it because I really don't like Winnie the pooh (sorry Erie and Trin!)

ETA: My son now owns maybe one WTP outfit BUT he has Huggies Supreme diapers which all have WTP on them so I got screwed anyway.
Jaime
08-24-2007, 10:27 AM
Yep, my shelter is real, and I've got a woman ready to pop a baby out any day now.. and she loves WTP :giggle:
Jaci
08-25-2007, 05:52 PM
I think it's sad that the mom-to-be will suffer b/c the hostess had the gall to write that! (Assuming, of course, that she's not throwing herself the shower, or that she didn't tell the hostess to write it... which it's fairly likely she did...)

ETA: Jinx Jaci! :lol:

Great minds!