Tacky Time

[frecklesinside]

Ok, so let's have another tacky post. Because I just saw something in a FB group that I HAVE to share. Tell us your tacky/etiquette destroying stories. 

[frecklesinside]

This woman was SO proud to have set up a cloth diaper shower for her friend or sister or whomever. But get this, she told the guests not to bring anything but to bring money and buy things there and hired a retailer to bring in CDs and CD supplies for guests to purchase!! OMFG!!! I died. Then I saw the invitation and died even more. I didn't blur anything out because the OP shared it willingly in a very, very large CD group on FB. The address is of a business, not someone's personal address.



Please tell me someone else is having to push their mouth closed right now??

"Just don't forget your checks, card or cash!"

Andandandand everyone is like ZOMG THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVARRRRRRR!!11!!1!

[earthian]

Barf. That is awful.

[ashleyrh661]

I can't even!! I saw a picture on FB from a baby shower today for a mom who's had three kids in the last 3 1/2 years! I know it's because this is her first girl and people think that's a good reason to get all new stuff. Barf.

[chilibeansm0m]

I dont know if i have anything to add but gah i don't think i would ever have the guts to tell people to bring cash let alone put it in writing on the actual invite??

[skrittens]

Wow. frecklesinside - no words.

[annebanan]

Is this a joke? Who the hell does that?

[stellarsoundz]

Oh wow... *vomit*

[issytex03]

I dont fully understand baby showers as we dont do them where i live but this just seems really wrong :/ you wouldn't throw a birthday party then tell everyone to bring money and buy presents there? Kinda seems like the same concept.

[mel7806]

The only time it's ok to mention something like that is if there are going to be strippers!

[ashleyrh661]

Jan 25, 2015 2:46:49 GMT -5 mel7806 said:

The only time it's ok to mention something like that is if there are going to be strippers!

Haha! Yes! As in "bring your ones, and have some fun!"

[racegurl87]

frecklesinside that's horrible.... and the worst part is that people actually think it's a good idea. Gross!

Last year a friend had her second (a boy) and her sister threw her a "sprinkle" I definitely wanted to barf when seeing posts about it on fb.

[busterrose]

WTF?

[luckystarz]

Eww. I'd purposely buy some random baby item and mail it if it was someone I was close too. If I wasn't close to them, "oops we're busy, sorry."

[bnizzlebizzle]

frecklesinside not only is it tacky but it's also impractical. You don't really know what's going to work well for cloth for your baby until the baby's here. We just bought newborn stuff at first then we did a trial with lots of different kinds of diapers when she got bigger. I'm glad I did because a bunch of options leaked!

[jennypm]

Wow, wow, wow. Why not just ask for cash so that the MTB can buy whatever she needs? No need to bring gifts, just bring cash and/or gift cards to give so that she can buy whatever her little heart desires. /sarcasm

[mango]

Disgusting.


I need to learn how to gif here.

[frecklesinside]

Jan 25, 2015 9:27:41 GMT -5 mango said:

Disgusting.


I need to learn how to gif here.

mango copy the URL of the GIF and type [img*]PASTE URL HERE[/img*] Just take out the stars and don't leave any spaces.

[katydid2015]

Wow thanks for making SC look even worse than we usually do! What a tacky bia!

[starsailor26]

Yikes that's awful.

[coleybug13]

Oh dear lord

[pele]

Holy shit, that's awful. I wonder why so many people in modern times have zero grasp on etiquette.

[babys2015]

Yeah, that is a bit absurd.

[snarkysparklefart]

Jan 25, 2015 10:17:09 GMT -5 katydid2015 said:

Wow thanks for making SC look even worse than we usually do! What a tacky bia!

Sup neighbor! I'm in NC. 

[frecklesinside]

Yea, so I couldn't help myself and commented on the thread and everyone was like "my mom, who is an etiquette queen, said it was great" or "oh, it is the same as a registry" the girl came back and said "we had things from 5 dollars up, no one was pressured" .... I'm on my own planet over there!! Only one person liked my comment. WTF?! I think this is SOOOOOOOOO tacky.

[luvsponies]

I just look at that invite like this



Seriously tacky. I'll admit that my sisters (planned my shower) were like, this is so exciting, your first baby shower! I had to explain to them that it's my ONLY baby shower .

[melissat2742]

All I have to say is....wtf?

[citybee]

The fact that so many people think this kind of shit is ok now is pretty much a huge bummer.



It will be one of my missions as a parent to make sure that my children grow up to not be tacky, expectant assholes.

[cwbandthenewbie]

I don't understand how someone is comfortable being the guest of honor for something like that. Ugh.

[frecklesinside]

Jan 25, 2015 17:34:04 GMT -5 cwbandthenewbie said:

I don't understand how someone is comfortable being the guest of honor for something like that. Ugh.

She was alllllll about it. The guest of honor ended up posting in the thread and defending the idea and squeeing about how much everyone loved it. I died because no one agreed with me. At least I know I'm not nuts since I have a lot of people agreeing with me here...