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[quote=Anonymous]Of course you don’t have to attend all or give a gift.

I don’t have a SIL but I would think the invitation is out of obligation. If you don’t know anyone else, don’t go.

I don’t even think it is necessary to send a gift at all and not attend a shower. Of course you should give a gift when child is actually born.

I personally love showers and parties in general. I love buying baby things. Second showers don’t normally have the big ticket items and if they do, they would be for family, which you are. There is no obligation for you to buy any big ticket items, especially when you already hosted and gave big items for first shower and offered hand me downs.

We have a seven figure income and love hand me downs. I had a shower for my first and then had a sprinkle for my third. My new mommy friends came to the sprinkle. No one from my original baby shower attended my sprinkle.

I have a friend who gets insulted when her SIL offers her non luxury baby items to her. She doesn’t want it new or second hand. Her kid has all the nicest things. She has 2 boys, her sister has 2 boys and her SIL has 2 boys. My friend’s son wears a moncler toddler coat, has a stokke stroller and a bugaboo. She doesn’t want her SIL’s old Graco travel system or stained carters clothing.

I accept hand me downs from several friends. I have no problems with my daughter wearing cute dresses that my friends’ daughters have worn or princess t shirts. Everyone is different. I have a friend who doesn’t even like to hand down from sister to sister. She actually once told me she doesn’t want the younger daughter to see a picture one day of her wearing the same dress as her sister/ shrug [/quote]

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