Tate and I recently have a very serious discussion.
“You’re not going to sell that breast pump in the garage sale, are you?” asked Tate.
“Well, yeah,” I gave him the what-the-hell-do-you-mean look. “I’m selling the baby stuff, I thought we decided we were for sure done having babies. I thought that selling the baby stuff was the whole reason for having a garage sale.” Again with the what-the-hell-do-you-mean look.
“I know, but…” he didn’t finish his sentence.
“If you want another baby, you better say so now because I’ve just priced 320 onesies.”
“No, no, it’s not that I want another baby, it’s just kinda sad to sell the breast pump. And it was really expensive, what if we needed it someday?”
“Unless we have another baby, I don’t really think we are going to need a breast pump. It’s not like I’m going to spontaneously start producing milk, you know.”
“But wouldn’t it be cool if you did? Think of the money we’d save over all that organic milk we buy?”
“What?” I shook my head in irritation. “First, I’m not your own personal milk-producing cow and two, wouldn’t it be kinda weird to pour breast milk on your Cinnamon Life cereal everyday?”
“Oh, well. Yeah. There’s that.”
End scene.
So this upcoming Saturday, we’re having a gigantic garage sale. We’re selling almost all of our baby items, minus the breast pump, JUST IN CASE!
I’ve been feeling really melancholy, sorting and pricing my babies’ itty bitty pink and blue clothes and crib sheets, their baby bathtub and high chair. It feels so…final.
Don’t get me wrong, Tate and I are both in agreement that we feel like our family is complete. We’re a year away from EASILY being able to go to Disneyworld without having to plan around naps, for goodness sakes! If we had another baby, we’re looking at three more years before we could do something like that.
There are a myriad of reasons that we’re done having babies besides vacationing. We live in a 3 bedroom house, three kids means three cars, three college tuitions, another mouth to feed…
Of course, we’re not so sure that we’re Tate’s-getting-a-vasectomy-tomorrow! sure. We’re merely selling a few easily replaceable baby items in a garage sale. We could always change our minds. And luckily we’ll already have that breast pump, you know, JUST IN CASE!
Did I tell you I’m expecting #4?
That’s hilarious that HE has the connection to the breast pump! FYI….we just had a big neigborhood garage sale a few weekends ago, and I made over $500 selling baby clothes….even though I’m not done having babies!
That’s funny. We’re having a garage sale too, as soon as I can get all our onsies priced – and for some reason – I don’t want to sell that breat pump.
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I know exactly what you mean.
Minus the breast pump, which I gave to Cass last time she visited because mine worked better than hers she said.
I promise that if you get knocked up again, I will send you replacement onesies.
(BTW, I LOVE that pic)
I still have some of my daughter’s baby clothes.
She’s 20 years old.
I just can’t get rid of it all. I just can’t.
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It is so hard to part with those little things! I have been giving away things little by little because it somehow seems less final that way.
However, I have found it is getting easier as my two get older and we get closer to making having more kids medically impossible.
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i was looking for the breast pump for a friend the other day … and found out husband donated it.
i was a wee bit perturbed.
i mean … hell … could you at least ask first?
so yeah … hold onto the pump.
but sell the onesies … you’ll need the newest style anyways right?
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I’ve been systematically take all of the boy clothes to the resale shop and I have a panic attack every single time.
Am I sure we’re done? Am I really, really sure? What if we have another baby and it just so happens to be a boy and it just so happens to be born in the same time of year…
On a another note, I wish I lived closer. I would so BUY all of your baby stuff right now.
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awwww…. i don’t know if i’ll ever be able to get rid of the baby stuff. *sigh*
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I gave away a stroller yesterday. And then I cried for a minute. But I got rid of that stupid breastpump as fast as I could….
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Good luck with the yard sale-I am sure you will make lots of $$-even without that breastpump.
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I think you misspelled the title of your post. It should read, “Megan, you are totally screwed.”
You just listed all of the reasons that WE were completely sure we were done having kids… before I got pregnant with this third one. Yeah, the whole, “Whew. We can finally go to Disney!” thing. The car. The college. The everything.
I thought you loved me.
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By the way, I gave away ALL of our baby stuff and all of my maternity clothes a month before I got pregnant.
So yeah, watch your back. Or your vuh jay jay.
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That’s exactly how we are… sure we’re done, unless we’re not.
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I relate. If Matthew hadn’t died we were DONE. Now I have my youngest at 10 with a newborn coming (and facing the possibility that we may really feel like we need to give him a sibling so he isn’t alone growing up. GAH!!!!!).
When I thought we were done I practically mourned every baby item I had. I felt ok with it but it was hard. A door felt like it was closing.
P.S. I am taking all three to Disneyland in August. Am officially insane.
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We have 4 kids and live in a 3 bedroom house, too…I’m just sayin’…good luck!
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I came back to see if anyone was all “Yeah, Jennifer, stop freaking Megan out.”
Liz has officially replaced you as my friend. It’s brutal, I know, but this is what happens when you deliberately try to freak me out even more!
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Be careful! That’s how people get pregnant! Just sayin. I had TWO friends who sold their baby stuff and within months they were both pregnant. So hold on to a few onesies, as insurance.
For me, it ws buying new underwear that wasn’t maternity, momma-type. Both times, before I really got a chance to wear it? Yup. Knocked up.
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I sold all my baby stuff (even the precious onesies that I swore I would hold onto FOREVER) at the neighborhood garage sale before I moved.
Just went to the dr today to get a blood test b/c I’m one of those FREAKS who gets negative pee tests even though they really are pregnant. (I’ll let you know next week…heh.)
Oh, and stop freaking Megan out. Poor thing.
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I’m planning my baby stuff yard sale for the end of the month. Thanks, now I’m starting to freak out. It’ll be worth having the free space and some extra cash…until the unplanned happens, right?
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This truly made me laugh! My husband and I did the exact same thing last summer. Even kept the breast pump…and the exersaucer…and the bassinet. Cause you just never know! HOwever, we already have 3 kids and I think 4 would just put me over the edge! Good luck at you garage sale!
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it’s … uh … an interesting thing for him to be attached to.
just sayin’ …
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Um, if I were you, I’d stash away a few neutral-colored onesies with the breastpump “just in case”.
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Janet, you have to understand how my husband’s brain works. It’s not about the fact that it’s a milking device for my boobs, but because it’s expensive to replace! He is starting to get 2nd thought about selling the big ticket baby items.
We’re still selling it all, though, we could always buy more!
We got rid of the stuff after the post big V checkup. I sold it ALL! (including the breast pump on ebay) Occasionally I get the baby blues, especially since about six of my co-workers have had babies in the past year!
I was a little sad, but ready. That’s been two years ago when Miss A was 2. I’m almost 40 and I’m so tired now I think a third kid would totally send me to the edge of non-hair washing and looking like a bag lady!
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I get all sentimental when it comes to SWMBO’s boobs, too. We never did by a pump, though. She never seemed to need one. You’d say, “Milk!” – and she’d start leaking. The baby would cry – she’d start leaking. I would cry – there’d she’d go! Nope. Never did need a pump. Woulda been fun, though.
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The good news is that you could always buy a cow and use the breast pump to suck up tasty bovine milk. Or not.
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Selling the breast pump was hard. But it was the first thing to go for me… gotta love Kijiji!
We’ll be having a garage sale next weekend and I have a 320 oneies to price. What is the going rate for selling a onesie? I’m not sure where to start. Ugh.
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You are so going to have another child. Mark my words.
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I never dreamed it would be so hard to declare us done. I had my tubes tied because we were sure after our second. Then my husband started waffling in the baby section of Target a few weeks ago. I told him it was too late. Unless he wanted to adopt again. Why is it so hard to give up babies?
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Hahaha! Nice. Hey, you never know when you might lactate again.
You know, there’s at least once a month when I definitely want to sell my uterus, too. Or at least punch it really hard.
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I’ll be 38 in July, and my last pregnancy did not go well.
Still, I haven’t gotten rid of any of the really little baby clothes yet. The bassinet went, the Bumpo. But not the littlest clothes.
I am slowly parting with the baby stuff. It is making the process a little less painful, A little less noticeable. The ripping off of the band-aid doesn’t seem to work in this situation for me…
Good luck with the sale!
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I am about to give away all of our baby stuff. I want another one but I’m getting too old and I can’t see how I would add a baby to this madness that is Toddler Irish Twins. Madness I tell you!
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I guess Tate and I think the same way, the only thing I kept was my breast pump. I just couldn’t bear the thought of spending that much money on a pump again. My kids are 10 and 12 and I still won’t sell it–you know, just in case!
This post has such perfect timing. We just had the talk also. Funny, we scheduled his “appointment,” and yet, I still refuse to seel our baby stuff.
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That is me exactly. I get so sad when I sort the baby clothes so I just toss them in this gigantic pile in the kid’s closets. And the compulsive organizer in me really, REALLY wants to get rid of the baby swing, bottles, pump, etc, etc. but the sentimental me isn’t quite sure.
What I need is for pregnant me from last year to have a conversation reminding current me how much that last pregnancy sucked.
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I can hear it in your voice.
You will probably be pregant by the time you read this comment.
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you are hilarious!
so every friend that I have that sold their baby stuff got preggers shortly after. Oh and one of them got preggers post-baby sale & vasectomy. I kind you not! good thing you kept that pump
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I remember when we donated all the boys baby items. It was so hard for me. I get emotionally attached to things and with every onsie, pair of Robeez, etc I was in tears.
PS. Vasectomies ROCK. My hubs got one if Tate ever wants to talk about it, lol.
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Hehe…”just in case”. Ah…no such melancholy here…I gladly dump baby things…just a small whimper for days gone by…tiny babies and snuggles…but no more kids here! Of course, we already have one more than we’d planned…
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What is it with breast pumps? I’ve got two and even though we’re not having any more kids I still don’t want to get rid of it…
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I have two and I am SO done–I couldn’t wait to get rid of the baby stuff. I do keep a few sentimental items–first shoes etc, but everything else goes. The minute the baby outgrows something I immediately put it in the Goodwill box. Breast pump–gone the week after I stopped using it– and not a tear. That is funny that your hubs want to hang on to it just in case.
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Very funny, you’re husband should meet mine, he thought of having my breast pump bronzed. If I was pumping milk, it meant my boobs were a lot bigger than they are now. Good memories. I still have baby stuff in my closets, my kids are 7 and 4 and we aren’t planning on having any more. But some of the baby clothes are hard to part with. Oh well, it only hurts for a little while.
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There are a million other uses for a breast pump…right;)
I did that — sold and gave away all the baby stuff. Then a few weeks ago I found out… SURPRISE! #3 is on the way. Now I have to retrieve everything I gave away. sigh.
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Hi…this is the first time I have ever left a comment on anyone’s blog that I don’t know…lol but here goes. I was a happy mom of 3. a 15 year old boy and 12 & 9 yr old daughters. Done…right? 6 years after we sold everything (crying while we gave away the crib)and well into going to Disneyland without a stroller and diaperbag. We saw the light at the end of the tunnel right? LOL HA….we now have an amazing 17 month old to add to our collection of gems. YES, life changed…for the better. ;o)
I’ve finally reached the point where I’m ready to sell the high chair and the double stroller. But I can’t let go of my breast pump or some of the really cute baby clothes. After all, there’s always a chance I could have another, even though my rational mind says no way in hell.
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I get it. Totally. There is this part of me that even with the complicated pregnancy that I had,the fact that I have boy/girl twins (which makes everyone tell me I have the perfect family and I’m done…whatevs), the fact that I’ll be 37 in December stop me from kinda wanting a little one.
*sigh*
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