Welcome Home Baby Lawn Signs at Party City - only $8, instead of a $70 rental!
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This is a tip for anyone wanting one of those storks or welcome home baby lawn signs. I had mentioned to my husband how great it was last fall when one of our neighbors had a huge lawn stork announcing the babies arrival and that I would love to come home from the hospital to take a photo in front of one when our DD arrives.
I'm 38 weeks and yesterday he mentioned it to me and said, "do you really have your heart set on the stork lawn sign, cause I looked into it and it's $70-$80". He was really sweet and totally willing to do it but we don't usually spend more than $30 or $40 bucks, even on gifts for each other, without discussing it so I guess he wanted to check. I thought that was outrageous and told him to never mind. After taking a 2.5 mile walk and having some spicy mexican food for lunch today (a girl's gotta try to move this along if she can) we decided to check out what Party City had and sure enough you can buy a variety of "Baby Announcement" signs from $5 to $35. We got a great 4-foot wide lawn sign that says, "It's a Girl!" for $8. I think we will get some great pics of the arrival home (hopefully soon)! Anyway I just wanted to share so others don't waste the $70plus on renting a sign. 
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Anonymous
| I have no words. |
Anonymous
| It's not smart to advertise to strangers that you have a new baby at home. |
Anonymous
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Your right having a baby should definitely be kept a secret from your scary neighbors?!?
Seriously what is wrong with some of the people on this site? |
Anonymous
Lol. Really loud. And ditto |
Anonymous
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I didn't say neighbors, I said strangers (i.e. any random person who drives by your house...but maybe you live in a gated community).
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art23443.asp |
Anonymous
| This is so weird. Im sorry. And cheesy. And tasteless. I would never want a baby lawn announcement EVER!!!!!! EVEN IF IT WAS FREE. |
Anonymous
Well, I think the chances of kidnapping are extremely remote and probably not worth the concern. But the article does mention that some sign give the baby's name and birthday. That's probably all some identity thieves need in order to do a lot of damage. PSA of the day: Everyone should periodically check their children's credit reports to make sure there've been no shenanigans. Apparently, identity thieves loves to get children's financial identities because it can be years before anyone discovers the theft, usually only happening when kids apply for college financial aid for the first time. |
Anonymous
I feel the same way. Safety issues aside. It's just plain TACKY. I saw this post the other day and I'm glad I'm not the only one that was thinking this. I wonder if OP makes her friends look at weekly belly pics on FB as well and wears a 'BABY' (w/arrow pointing down t-shirt) all through her pregnancy. |
Anonymous
| I'm not going to go there and say it's tacky, but my concern would absolutely be strangers driving by and seeing that there is a new baby in the house. There are a lot of f-ed up people out there, and I wouldn't want to advertise a child there. Perhaps if I had a security system I would be less nervous, but I still wouldn't do it. |
Anonymous
So t-shirts with an arrow and "Baby" on the front are tacky?!! Crap. |
Anonymous
| Geez, people. OP is trying to be helpful. If you don't wanna wooden stork on your front lawn announcing the arrival of your baby girl/boy, then don't get one. Lighten up a little and appreciate when someone's trying to do something nice. |
Anonymous
I'm this PP and I apologize to you OP. It's just that I'm the size of a cow right now and DH forget to get my brownie sunday that I've been craving all weekend. This is my passive agressive way of dealing with unfulfilled pregnancy cravings. |
Anonymous
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This is OP and I must say I am shocked by just how mean some of you are. I am not a trashy or tacky person by any means. I am a well educated professional who is very excited to welcome her first child and also the daughter of a police officer who takes all reasonable security and safety precautions that are warranted. I do not feel it will be a huge risk to announce to my neighbors at the end of my culdesac that the baby, which they are fully aware of, has arrived. I know I am not the only person who is interested in having a welcome baby lawn sign and I was simply trying to help other avoid unnecessary expense when I'm sure we are all trying to manage the cost of having a baby as best as we can.
Honestly I almost never post anything on this site and have never totally understood why there is a stigma around DC that this site is full of women who are extremely judgemental and think themselves superior on all topics but actually being the one at the receiving end of the attacks I must say I'm starting to get it. I truly hope you will not be teaching your children to be so rude hiding behind a computer screen so they grow up to bully mine and other innocent kids. Seriously, if this was not something that interested you, why reply. To the poster who mentioned that putting the name and date stats out there might not be a good idea, at least this had some basis and thought that I agree was helpful. I don't think its all that difficult to acquire someone's name and birth date information publicly but I understand your concern. As for the rest of you good luck with your babies. I hope you are truly as joyful at their birth as we are going to be. |
Anonymous
| I'm the one who initially said it wasn't smart to put the info out there and linked to the article about safety. You're the one that came back with the snarky remark about scary neighbors. I was just trying to be helpful. |