[Fran27]

We bought things as soon as we got 'in the books'. Well, not right away, but I looked for deals in stores and on ebay and we bought things over 2 months, and we didn't pay full price for most of them.

Right now everything is in the baby room, with the door closed. The room isn't set up yet as we were painting the other room and had to put everything somewhere, but we should set it up soon, although there's no hurry as the baby will live in our room for the first few months anyway. Clothes are washed though (they were from a thrift store, so not like we could exchange them).

That was 5 months ago, and we're still waiting, but at least I know we got everything covered and won't have to go to the store at the last minute and probably not for a couple months, plus we were able to get great deals as we had time to look, when we would probably have got to pay full price had we got everything at the last minute. Also, it's less last-minute expenses we will have to deal with if we end up having to stay in a hotel for 2 weeks (we'll just buy a pack'n play then). And, most important point, we didn't buy for a specific baby, but for 'a' baby. So, even if our first match doesn't work out, we won't have all the reminders.

For the colors, we mostly got yellows, greens, whites and light blues. At this point I don't really care if we get a girl and she ends up in light blue the first 3 months, lol!

But I think it's a personal choice also. Our nursery is upstairs, and we never go there, so it's not like we see it every day either.