Remember that post I wrote about stuff I just don’t get? As it happens, there’s a lot more stuff I just don’t get.

This round is all about baby gear. Honestly, why are there so many gizmos and gadgets and crap marketed to parents under the guise of being totally needed when they’re really just overpriced landfill fodder?

Here’s a sampling of Baby Gear I Just Don’t Get:

– wipes warmers
– chairs made to make babies sit who haven’t got the muscle control to actually sit yet (looking at you, Bumbo)
– hard-soled baby shoes (babies don’t walk… why put them in uncomfortable shoes?)
– play yards
– shopping cart covers (if there’s that big a concern over germs, rub hand sanitizer over the handle and be done with it)
– fancy nurseries (ain’t no baby nowhere who gives a crap what theme you choose or what furniture set you’ve “invested” in)
– real rock music turned into baby rock music (I admit it, we had a Coldplay CD like this… it sucked)
–  specially markets buckets to wash infants in (you know a regular bucket would do the same, right?)
– crazy baby bathing contraptions
– baby play mats
– any cream, lotion or potion that promises it’ll stop (or fix) stretchmarks (THEY DON’T WORK. Stretchmarks are genetic, you’ll either get ’em or you won’t, period.)
– blenders marketed as baby food blenders (any blender would do… a regular Bullet Blender is a Baby Bullet without the smiley face…)
– jarred baby foods (have you tasted that stuff? gross)
– diaper genies
– baby gum brushes (who brushes their baby’s gums?)
– video baby monitors
– moses baskets (they last what, a month if you’re lucky?)
– fancy change tables (I used ours maybe a dozen times? ANY surface is a changing surface… like, say, the floor)
– infant clothing that has to be ironed (ANGTFD!)
– fancy little cloth things that cover boys’ penises so they don’t hose you in the face with pee

How ’bout you? Anything you’d add?