When an individual is ready to have a kid, move into a new house, or go through another major life event, they may need to make a number of new purchases. Several of these individuals are appreciative for obtaining some of these products as presents, however some individuals are shockingly fussy about their gifts. Finding the ideal present for a baby shower may be challenging. Read this story and share your views on this.
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My co worker is having a baby in 2 months. She’s been gushing about the SNOO, especially after learning more about mine and watching my SNOO work on the nanny cam and how it rocks my baby back to sleep. She’s been telling people she really really wanted a SNOO but cannot afford the price tag – which is about 1,500 USD for a brand new bassinet. I suggested she can either rent the SNOO or get one second handed on facebook market for like between 900-1100 USD (which is what I did). She said, it’s still too big of a price tag and not even sure if her baby would like it (some babies do not like the SNOO).
Anyways, my baby is almost grown out of the SNOO (weight/age cut off) and would be weaned off the SNOO by the time she gave birth. So she hosted two baby showers – one at work, and one at home with family/friends. I thought about getting one of the cute onsie from her gift registry – but I also thought a better gift would be to give her our SNOO since we’re done with it. Even as a 3rd hand user, the resale value on facebook market would have been easily between 600-900 USD. When she opened my gift, it was a simple congrats card and I wrote on there “We will give you our SNOO in a month”.
(Mind you, my SNOO is in great shape. No pee/poop ever gotten on it, very little wear and tear (complicated to explain, those who own a snoo knows there is a velco sleep sack that can get caught on the side of the bassinet, so there are some peach fuzz there).
Well, later I found out she was angry at me for throwing her my second/third handed bassinet when I no longer needed it and couldn’t even be decent enough to just buy a 15$ onesie. Well, I got pissed, I told her, fine “I’ll keep my SNOO, and sell it on facebook market for 600-900 USD, thought you would like it since you are always gushing about mine and how it’s too expensive to buy even a second handed one. There is no need to be ungrateful – here, just take 15$ instead” – i put 15 dollars in her hand and walked off. Was I an AH for giving her a second handed product (in great condition) and calling her ungrateful?
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