Used to be, you'd see baby showers and wedding showers.

What's up with all this other shit i'm seeing nowadays

Couples Fund Shower

Gender Reveal Shower

Tool Shower

Housewarming Shower

Golden Shower

7/17/2013 6:16:02 PM

Grower vs Shower

7/17/2013 6:16:40 PM

^I too first thought it would be about dongers that just hang out all the time.

7/17/2013 6:23:07 PM

Babymoons

Push presents

7/17/2013 6:25:13 PM

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"Couples Fund Shower"

Have you actually seen this?

7/17/2013 6:28:48 PM

funny you ask that

Just got the invitation for that one today.

7/17/2013 6:53:19 PM

blind date liquor lagniappe

7/17/2013 7:25:24 PM

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"Couples Fund Shower"

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"Tool Shower"

what the hell are these?

7/17/2013 7:26:30 PM

Please tell me they at least got engaged or something. Sending an invitation that is literally saying "give us money" is pretty poor form, but if it's also celebrating some kind of milestone that normal people celebrate, it isn't quite as bad as if they just decided they wanted the cash.

7/17/2013 7:29:48 PM

yes this couple is getting engaged. I'm making the very safe assumption that this isn't replacing their wedding shower. if it did, then OK fine. but it won't.

I'm pretty sure that it basically means give the couple cash for their honeymoon or whatever. the invitation shows an airplane flying around the globe

at the very least, shower invitations (most of the time) aren't sent by the shower recipients. so they aren't fully to blame.


however, my sister-in-law is having (had? i don't even know) a "Gender reveal shower" for their third spawn. she "thought it would be cute and a way to show her appreciation for all her friends" wtf ever that means. this is her third child with my brother. at some point it's like changing socks. a shower for it at this point is a little ridiculous. and I'm assuming she'll also have a baby shower later on. fuck that, don't you already have the all the shit you need? especially so since they'll all 3 be girls.


just tired of all these gift giving occasions, and i'd love to see less.

7/17/2013 8:06:19 PM

I have usually seen the gender reveal showers, kitchen showers, lingerie showers and things like that to be replacements for the other ones. Or at least thrown by different people with different groups invited. There's a lot of politicking that goes into throwing showers for other people, so sometimes I think people end up having more than they really want to because they don't want to tell someone they can't host. But typically you don't invite the people to more than one of them for the same life event.

If they also have an engagement shower, I'm a little speechless.

My MOH is planning my wedding shower now, and I honestly hate that everyone will feel like they need to bring me a gift. I want to have it to play the silly games and eat cake, not to present whore.

7/17/2013 8:14:58 PM

^ It is weird and SAD that you are not in control of your own wedding and related activities.

It is your wedding, you do whateverTF you want, not what other people want.

7/17/2013 8:23:35 PM

When my gf's sister got engaged I went to at least 5 different related social functions.

Each was worse than the one before it and it all culminated in a miserable wedding.

There's no point to this story.

[Edited on July 17, 2013 at 8:33 PM. Reason : .]

7/17/2013 8:30:12 PM

^^never thought I'd say this, but I actually agree with opie

7/17/2013 8:34:11 PM

My wife is having a gender reviling party. That means the husbands or bfs of their invited female gets to go golfing with me. Might go to a baseball game

[Edited on July 17, 2013 at 8:53 PM. Reason : That's the colors light talking]

7/17/2013 8:34:40 PM

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"aging a ender"

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"gets Togo golfing"

7/17/2013 8:35:51 PM

Huh? I do want a shower. What I don't want is for people to feel like they have to buy me something expensive in order to go to it.

7/17/2013 8:38:56 PM

So tell them not to bring gifts

7/17/2013 8:50:17 PM

So just call it a get together

7/17/2013 8:56:11 PM

gang bang

7/17/2013 9:02:39 PM

we had a "reveal party" to find out the gender, but it wasn't a shower... we just had some food and family came over. We had the gender written in a card from the Dr and we all found out together and it was fun. (and it wasn't an excuse for people to bring gifts... in fact we made it clear it wasn't a "gift party")

most of these are ridiculous.

7/17/2013 9:08:54 PM

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"sometimes I think people end up having more than they really want to because they don't want to tell someone they can't host"

herein this hokey pokey bullshit lies the root of the problem

7/17/2013 10:19:04 PM

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""Couples Fund Shower""

what in the fuck is this?

7/17/2013 11:01:08 PM

Yeah I've never heard of this couples shit

7/17/2013 11:03:04 PM