The second we have a child, suddenly our money isn’t our own. Every purchase we try and make for ourselves is forevermore tinged with, “But you could have spent that on the child you selfish yoke!” That handbag? Good old guilt will force you to put it back and earmark the cash for their schoolbooks – for when they’re in secondary.
So at least when we spend money on pointless, wasteful things for our children it’s a lot better than spending money on pointless, wasteful things for ourselves. Right? RIGHT?
Here are five things we can’t resist buying our little ones. We’re blaming the hormones.
1. Tiny baby trainers
We know they’ll grow out of them in about, oh four days, but is there anything cuter than little miniature trainers? They make our hearts contract when we see them in the shop and before we know it we’re telling the salesperson to take our money and make it quick.
2. Themed baby photoshoots
Anytime we see those themed photo stands in shopping centres with barrels and heaps of hay and costumes we can’t help whip out our purses. A photo of our little dotes dressed as cowboys or Victorian-era children is just too much for us to resist. We are weak, oh so weak.
3. Personalised stuff
God help us but as soon as we have a new baby we can’t help collecting any number of ‘merch’ emblazoned with their name. Blankets, babygros, jackets – you name it, we’ve got it embroidered, ironed-on, practically studded in rhinestones for crying out loud. What can we say? We’re proud mummas!
4. Our favourite books
Yep, our baby can’t talk yet, but that doesn’t stop us from stocking up on all the Harry Potters, the entire series of Enid Blyton’s St. Clare’s books, George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and the classics like Alice in Wonderland. We know, we know, we’re jumping the gun way in advance, but we can’t wait for them to love our favourite books as much as we do!
5. Onesies
Specifically, themed onesies. For St. Patrick’s Day a leprechaun one, a Santa one at Christmas and a fluffy yellow chick for Easter. How are we expected to resist? Are we made of stone? Are we not but human?
You know that famous John Lennon phrase ‘time you enjoy wasting was not wasted’? Well do you think that we can apply the same theory to money we’ve enjoyed wasting? We think we're just going to run with that!
Can you relate mums? What's your #sorrynotsorry purchase?
