I screwed myself out of a baby shower, but at least we have the trading fair.
By switching continents. Here in spain they just don't do baby showers, and I haven't been able to drum up much interest in adopting the custom when talking to the few (although very good friends) that I have here. Apparently, my family is also unwilling to host a party in my absence and send me the plunder (which is understandable).
But at least we have the trading fair!
It's a yearly gathering where everybody takes there old stuff and tries to trade it for different old stuff from other people. We took 4 sweaters, 2 men's jackets, a man's shirt, and some of my husband's drawings and came back with all of these baby clothes.
I could have gotten more if I would have taken some old clothes of my own, but unfortanately i donated everything i didn't want before we moved.
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I kinda screwed myself out of one by being totally underwhelmed by having one -- I generally dislike parties that are all about me and opening presents (I refused to have a wedding shower or bachlorette party too eeeekkkkk). Then again, I am a don't want a lot of stuff kinda girl, especially the big-ticket items that people tend to get at baby showers, strollers and the like. Mostly we relied on the grandparents for the big things we did get.
The swap thing sounds awesome! Looks like you got some great clothes and those hangy-downy toys.
They apparently have these kinds of things (swaps) around here too, but every time I look up where they are, they're always in the suburbs and I'm too lazy/too much of a city snob to lug my butt out there. One of my friends has a chain pass-along-baby/children's clothes ring that is nifty, we've gotten a bunch of stuff that way.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
You want to do what you think is right and what matters to you, and if other people don't like it, as my father would have said, they can go fuck themselves. -- Amy Bloom
That's awesome. Avast, ye non-baby-showering lubbers! Eye this beauty's plunder! 
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