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As in wedding and baby. I've never heard of anyone actually liking them. It seems to me that if nothing else, they're more for the mothers/in law and female family members... so why not just take your mother, mother-in-law and sister out to lunch instead of forcing your friends to sit with people they don't know while you're huddled with them in the kitchen?

... oh FFS, misaim.

Sounds like you have terrible friends or social anxiety.

It was a misfire. It makes sense in context.

Remember: it's okay not to go.

It was meant to be a response to the "odd/normal" thread.

RE: Baby Showers, I hate going to them too. The cake always tastes awful (idk why, it's not like they all go to the same bakery) and it always smells strangely chalky.

I'd rather go to a birthday party than a shower. At least at those there's usually something decent to eat.

Can't say much about weddings.

With baby showers, the point is it's an opportunity to give expectant parents gifts. They're about to have a baby, and there's a lot of stuff they'll need to buy, and even more stuff they'd love to buy but can't because they're busy buying all the stuff they *need* to buy. Obviously, anyone who wants to could get them a gift on their own, but it's nice to have a set time to come together *before* the baby's born to celebrate and to contribute to the stock of things they'll need to start this little person's life out.

So why do people have showers for a second/etc kid then?

Because people are greedy and it's a way to guilt all your acquaintances into buying you things. It's the same reason why gainfully employed people who have lived together for 10 years before getting married still participate in wedding registers so they can upgrade their home furnishings on their friends' and families' dimes.

+1. I get the concept, but the execution is often more towards the "whoo hoo, gimme the gifts" bonanza.

Instead of getting mad at people who marry older and have registries, we should ask why we rush to shower young couples with a lot of stuff they don't need right away and will be able to afford themselves within the next couple of years anyway.

Yeah! I need designer towels, dammit. The fucking millennials can eat off paper plates for a few years.

MTE. I'm not drying my precious skin with peasant towels.

Yeah my cousins keep popping out kids and I keep getting invitations and it's like, "Dude, you barely say two words to me when you deign to come to family get togethers (Christmas/Grandpa's barbershop shows) because I'm not married with kids (and have no interest in either, and while I don't dislike kids, I'd like conversations about more than what your kid shat out last diaper change)."

I hate both. Boring and stupid. Hated my own, try to avoid any if at all possible. Blech.

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