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I have not started my registry nor do I plan to until probably around Thanksgiving time. I am just curious what everyone bought before their showers. I am a big CraigsList surfer but haven't purchased much yet. I think you can find great stuff on there for fractions of the price. I was thinking I would buy used a video baby monitor, cloth diapers (to find my preferred type/brand) and dresser and crib set (once I check out the recalls, etc). I have also been given a bunch of stuff from my sister in law like bouncy chairs, bassinettes, infant swing, clothing, baby tub, stroller & carseat (not sure about it's safety rating though) and a bunch of other stuff I have no idea what it is.
What is left for my baby registry?
Baby #1 due February 1, 2011 and shower is only 2 weeks before the due date!
Having the shower so close because that's when my sister (has time and) offered to have it for me. I would prefer to have it after the baby is born that way out of town people could meet the baby and we don't know what we're having yet!
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Well, i have a 7month old and i'm still finding things i need. I suggest getting some sort of toybox/storage system...i really like those cubbies and fabric bins. you won't really need it for a while, but i'm already tripping over all her toys! a hamper. i have a little 3drawer plastic office organizer for her headbands and clips, it's nice for little odds and ends. I agree with a previous comment, it's better to buy a new carseat if you are able to. A soft lamp, so when you go in to feed/change/check on baby you won't wake them up too much. you'll need a finger nail clipper. again, i agree w a previous person...a diaper warmer isn't necessary, just hold it in your hand for a minute. blankets, lots of socks (they always go missing) pacifiers and a CLIP, don't forget a clip to attach it to the baby or car seat. one little gadget i was given, and loved was this timer (from babiesRus or target i think) it has a few timers for last diaper change, feeding, medicine administration, how long they've been asleep. it helped me alot in the beginning to wake her up for her feedings instead of letting her sleep thru them.
Well, i have a 7month old and i'm still finding things i need. I suggest getting some sort of toybox/storage system...i really like those cubbies and fabric bins. you won't really need it for a while, but i'm already tripping over all her toys! a hamper. i have a little 3drawer plastic office organizer for her headbands and clips, it's nice for little odds and ends. I agree with a previous comment, it's better to buy a new carseat if you are able to. A soft lamp, so when you go in to feed/change/check on baby you won't wake them up too much. you'll need a finger nail clipper. again, i agree w a previous person...a diaper warmer isn't necessary, just hold it in your hand for a minute. blankets, lots of socks (they always go missing) pacifiers and a CLIP, don't forget a clip to attach it to the baby or car seat. one little gadget i was given, and loved was this timer (from babiesRus or target i think) it has a few timers for last diaper change, feeding, medicine administration, how long they've been asleep. it helped me alot in the beginning to wake her up for her feedings instead of letting her sleep thru them.
If anyone has read/written a story/novel set in 80s or just knows about the 80s, please answer?
Ryssa
I'm writing a story that takes place in the 80s. Here are some questions.
What was the fashion like? (That includes hair, jewelry, and clothing)
What was the music like? (Artists and general genres)
What was out back then? (Computers, phones, stuff like that. Technology)
Those are just some questions. I know I make it sound like it was a long time ago, but I'm fifteen and living in 2011. I'm not gonna know a bunch about the 80s. I know jean jackets were cool, I think Grateful Dead were cool (not sure. My mom grew up in the 80s, but she hasn't told me a whole lot about it). I'm not sure what the phones were like and stuff like that. Thanks for the help!
PS story takes place in 1988
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Yeah, that's a BIG question.
Regarding technology, the biggest thing to think about is the lack of convenience and accessibility to information that we have today. If you needed a phone number or an address to a business, you had to look it up in the phone book (or call Information, which cost money). If you wanted a specific product, you had to know exactly which store to go to buy it, or call around to different places to see if they had it. If I wanted to know more about a particular topic, I had to go look it up in one of our reference books, or wait until I could go to either the school library or the public library. And we were more or less blissfully free of other people's opinions. Think about how many Internet comments you read on a weekly basis, how many debates you see online, how many dumb opinions and comments you read on Facebook or Twitter -- in the 80s it was very easy to avoid people's one-off remarks and ridiculous opinions!
(Then again, it seemed like people also got together in person more to talk, so not all dumb comments were unavoidable.)
I remember sitting around my room in the summer waiting for my favorite songs to come on the radio ... so that I could rush to hit "record" on my tape player to record the song onto a cassette. And also bugging my dad to let me learn how to program the VCR so that I could record my favorite TV shows. But you had to make sure you had a working cassette handy to do that, and you didn't want to tape over that show from last week you hadn't watched yet.
I was into the Internet and e-mail really, really early (like, early 90s), but the vast majority of people were not, so it was hard to stay in touch with people if you were quiet like me. I would always try to snail-mail my friends from summer camp, but we'd always wind up losing touch. Sometimes I think about how many of those summer camp friends I'd still know if there'd been a way to keep in touch with them online in the late 80s.
Oh, and as for phones, we had three in the house -- two corded phones and one cordless phone. The cordless phone had terribly staticky reception sometimes, and would pick up noise from my neighbor's baby monitor. I didn't know anyone who had a mobile phone until 1991, and that was a phone installed in my best friend's dad's car.
A lot of people didn't have computers at home until the early or mid 90s. If you did have one at home in the late 80s, it likely had a very slow modem or none at all. Our 80s computer had a word processing program and some games (Oregon Trail was my favorite! I was always dying of dysentery). But it couldn't play music or video, and there was no Web until 1994, so Internet stuff was confined to local BBS, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), and Usenet... basically, things that were text-only (and only a small subset of geeks would have been using those things in the late 80s).
Music was all over the map -- pop, New Wave, metal, rap, etc. You will want to do some research on 80s music in general, decide what your characters are into, and then research that genre further.
Fashion, too, was a little bit of everything. Lots of girls had BIG hair, with poofy bangs. And it was entirely acceptable to wear a side ponytail held by a big neon scrunchie. I remember wearing a lot of long t-shirts (with the sleeves rolled up, leggings, and ballet flats. And, yeah, I had a stonewashed jean jacket. Do a Google image search or see if your parents' friends have Facebook pics from the 80s... that'll teach you a lot more than I can describe right now.
Yeah, that's a BIG question.
Regarding technology, the biggest thing to think about is the lack of convenience and accessibility to information that we have today. If you needed a phone number or an address to a business, you had to look it up in the phone book (or call Information, which cost money). If you wanted a specific product, you had to know exactly which store to go to buy it, or call around to different places to see if they had it. If I wanted to know more about a particular topic, I had to go look it up in one of our reference books, or wait until I could go to either the school library or the public library. And we were more or less blissfully free of other people's opinions. Think about how many Internet comments you read on a weekly basis, how many debates you see online, how many dumb opinions and comments you read on Facebook or Twitter -- in the 80s it was very easy to avoid people's one-off remarks and ridiculous opinions!
(Then again, it seemed like people also got together in person more to talk, so not all dumb comments were unavoidable.)
I remember sitting around my room in the summer waiting for my favorite songs to come on the radio ... so that I could rush to hit "record" on my tape player to record the song onto a cassette. And also bugging my dad to let me learn how to program the VCR so that I could record my favorite TV shows. But you had to make sure you had a working cassette handy to do that, and you didn't want to tape over that show from last week you hadn't watched yet.
I was into the Internet and e-mail really, really early (like, early 90s), but the vast majority of people were not, so it was hard to stay in touch with people if you were quiet like me. I would always try to snail-mail my friends from summer camp, but we'd always wind up losing touch. Sometimes I think about how many of those summer camp friends I'd still know if there'd been a way to keep in touch with them online in the late 80s.
Oh, and as for phones, we had three in the house -- two corded phones and one cordless phone. The cordless phone had terribly staticky reception sometimes, and would pick up noise from my neighbor's baby monitor. I didn't know anyone who had a mobile phone until 1991, and that was a phone installed in my best friend's dad's car.
A lot of people didn't have computers at home until the early or mid 90s. If you did have one at home in the late 80s, it likely had a very slow modem or none at all. Our 80s computer had a word processing program and some games (Oregon Trail was my favorite! I was always dying of dysentery). But it couldn't play music or video, and there was no Web until 1994, so Internet stuff was confined to local BBS, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), and Usenet... basically, things that were text-only (and only a small subset of geeks would have been using those things in the late 80s).
Music was all over the map -- pop, New Wave, metal, rap, etc. You will want to do some research on 80s music in general, decide what your characters are into, and then research that genre further.
Fashion, too, was a little bit of everything. Lots of girls had BIG hair, with poofy bangs. And it was entirely acceptable to wear a side ponytail held by a big neon scrunchie. I remember wearing a lot of long t-shirts (with the sleeves rolled up, leggings, and ballet flats. And, yeah, I had a stonewashed jean jacket. Do a Google image search or see if your parents' friends have Facebook pics from the 80s... that'll teach you a lot more than I can describe right now.
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