Just adding to the comments— I think you did well! I've been a guest at both types of parties— one where I didn't bring a gift, because I didn't think we had to. The woman opened the gifts and I felt bad for not having brought one. The next baby shower I went to (different person), I brought a gift because I learned…
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You did totally fine. You're only not supposed to host if you're expecting gifts and everyone loves a good thank you note.
No. You did the right thing, especially since not everyone brought gifts. It was your party, you handled it nicely.
Don't worry about it. You're good.
If you're benefiting from the gifts being given, then you should attend. As an equal parent with the mother of the child, you will in fact benefit from gifts that make childcare less expensive and difficult.
OH GOOD I CAN GET SOME INPUT. This happened two years ago but I still wonder if I committed a faux pas.
As a male my friends and I were just discussing the travesty of the co-ed baby shower and co-ed 1st birthday party. When did this change take place? It seems like it was almost overnight. Like some important meeting was held to which men were not invited. Please redact these changes and let men go back to being the…
Just skip the baby shower, and send me a pregnancy announcement with your PayPal. I will send you some money not to sit through another hell where people think that melting candy bars on diapers constitutes "fun".
REAL food doesn't look like the food you see in advertising. OPEN YOUR EYES. Stop food shaming!
I, too, avoided raping people while young. I did bleach and cut my hair while high on mushrooms, gave my bff a blowjob, and ate way too many mozzarella sticks. This was not the same night, but it was the same horrible, confused semester.
PS - I haven't raped anyone as an adult, either!
never apologize
Got a perm and dyed my hair red the same week (my hair was literally a fire hazard at that point), gave my ex my car just so he would move the fuck out of my house, drank tequila from 5pm-2am on my 25th birthday and took a job as one of those horrible people in the mall who want you to take a survey. But nope, still…
Because humanity. On the bright side, we'll all die out eventually.
"Healthy Meal" ?
Ok, let me explain it to you in terms you'll understand. The love for bicycles is not a stereotype when it comes to the Dutch. We actually care as much for our two wheelers as Americans care for the gas guzzlers and guns and invading other peoples countries. We use bicycle paths to protect ourselves where you would…
Highways cost a lot more to build and maintain than bike infrastructure. If you want to complain about misguided spending, there is a lot more to complain about with roads, cars and fuel spending than bikes.
When I weep in a man's arms in Cannes it is because I am in New Haven, and I am usually not weeping, but punching him repeatedly. WHY AM I NOT IN CANNES?
I must be some sort of a sylph-like badass, because I do weights, cardio AND flexibility work . It's the only way to beat back the ravages of aging, IMO. And when I lost 17 pounds after instituting my self-directed program, my friends and colleagues actually thought I'd lost A LOT more. Like maybe 30 or 40 pounds. …
No, it isn't. These are excuses which people use to justify their racism and resentment to themselves and to others. Because nobody can logically say that every single Roma person does not have a fixed address, that every Roma commits crime and does so from congenital predisposition, etc.