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#1-BFP 08-22-09 ~ M/C 08-31-09 at 5 weeks 6 days
#2-BFP 08-6-11 ~ Due 04/18 ~ born via c-section April 22, 2012
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Clicky- Expensive gifts from Parents
Did your parents give you expensive gifts.. as in something that would cost over $400?
#1-BFP 08-22-09 ~ M/C 08-31-09 at 5 weeks 6 days
#2-BFP 08-6-11 ~ Due 04/18 ~ born via c-section April 22, 2012
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Re: Clicky- Expensive gifts from Parents
Yes - my parents have gifted me plane tickets on occasion. That's the only ones I can say cost over $400.
My parents are known to take me shopping, etc. when I'm around because they feel they need to make things even between me and my brothers who they see all the time.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
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jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
omg I'm stupid. darn! My first ruined poll
I said never because well, my parents didn't give us expensive things growing up. I don't feel bad or resent them for this because a) we weren't rich and b) I remember being happy and appreciating everything.
BUT I totally forgot that my parents gave me my car for my 21st birthday. Lots of reasons behind this that make it 'different' from a 16yo kid getting a brand new car, but it was very generous and H and I wouldn't have a car otherwise, lol.
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my parents bought me a brand new car for my 16th birthday.
They are also buying Caleb's bedroom set (crib, dresser, changing table) and stroller/car seat.
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LOL. i'm going through historic nestie clickies. this is far from the first time you ruined a poll
. still puffyheart you though.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
LOL ok, well I guess that makes it better?
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Not as much as I've gotten older, but when I was younger I got 2 brand new cars from my parents (I totaled one and then they got me another), a house, and some cash here and there.
Now, for most occasions, it's $200 cash for me and H.
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
My parents bought my first laptop that was around $600. Still have it, but it's become more of a desktop since it's about 5 years old now...They've also bought me plane tickets on more than one occasion. That's all I can think of right now...
2010: 41 books, 2011: 31 books, 2012: 100 books
oh yeah, my parents also bought me a laptop....but i don't consider these "gifts"....they bought it so i could use it for school...it wasn't "presented" to me or anything...it was just "hey, you're in college, do you think you'll need a laptop?"
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
If my parents spent over $100 on regular occasions for us that was lots! With our wedding they may have spent more than $400 but if they did it wasn't much more than $500.
After all they have 11 kids that they need to give gifts too, and they aren't loaded by any means.
#1-BFP 08-22-09 ~ M/C 08-31-09 at 5 weeks 6 days
#2-BFP 08-6-11 ~ Due 04/18 ~ born via c-section April 22, 2012
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My parents express their love through money and money-based gifts. It's rare that it's something any of us (my siblings and I) want or need, but if we refuse, it leads to cold shouldering and the silent treatment for sometimes over a year. So I get that they're gifts. It's just sometimes hard to think of them as such and not like a mandatory noose around our necks.
High end "gifts": A car, the down payment for my first house (as well as funds from a stock portfolio my dad started for me in my name when I was a baby for things like buying a new house :P), the wedding, my college education, the maximum yearly gift amount every year, my first laptop, a karaoke machine, and a pair of sapphire-diamond earrings last year.
can i be adopted?
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
Haha. If you want to deal with my parents. Sure. XD DH had no idea what it was really like until he 'officially' joined our family. Now, I think he's slowly wondering how I'm not more effed up in the head. :P