5 Products We Haven't Used the First Five Months

One thing I learned very quickly is that Beck doesn’t cry often but when he does, it is loud. So loud, that I can hear it from any room of the house. Add that with mom ears and you don’t need a monitor. Of course if your house is sprawling and your baby has a soft cry, you will need one. Your call.

This one is pictured here.

Instead of taking up valuable space, we decided just to use plastic shopping bags to easily dispose of the diapers. We do it often so that there’s no lingering odor.

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We have a bassinet and crib and haven’t stayed over night in too many places since Beck was born so the playard has stayed stowed.

This one is pictured here.

The fact that we don’t own one of these was out of a little bit of laziness on my part. I couldn’t find one that didn’t take up way too much space, was reasonably priced and didn’t require batteries so I gave up. And I’ve found that if you don’t own it, you don’t miss it. You make do without.

This one is pictured here.

I knew that a table was unnecessary but I thought I still wanted a pad. Then when Beck was a couple days old and my frugal husband went out to buy one and thought that $30 was too much for something we could just use a towel for. Yes, it’s cheap of us but it works.