If you have the money to spend like that, then I don't think it's anyone's place to tell you you shoudn't. There's nothing nicer than shopping for baby bits and pieces (I too like making lists as well!)
Me and OH have always enjoyed a reasonable disposable income and never had to think about how much things cost etc.
We bought our first house about 14 months ago and even then didn't really have to cut back too much. However, when I fell pregnant we had to reassess what was most important. As the main breadwinner we are going to be very poor when my SMP goes down to £100 odd a week and OH has been told he needs to look for a new job. We also had a new bathroom a few months ago (as it needed doing before baby turned up) but the plumbers came across several problems during the course of the work which ended up eating all of our savings.
There have been times when I have got upset about not being able to buy things for baby but if I look at it logically as long as she is fed, clothed, warm and somewhere to sleep she won't notice the difference.
Babies don't have to cost the earth. Lots of people like to give you things when they know you are having a baby - we were given a lovely playmat which doesn't look like it has ever been used and lots of clothes. We will be putting baby in the moses basket that my 3 brothers and 2 sisters slept in, which as well as free holds lots of lovely memories. I'm planning to also breastfeed and use cloth nappies so once she is here my weekly shopping budget won't get eaten up by nappies and formula.
But as I said, if you can afford to spend like that, no-one can say it is wrong. My and OH lived a very lavish lifestyle before as I was very well paid and I don't regret it. True we would be in a better position if we had saved more but we had a great time and regret won't help the situation now - we're not worse off in any way other than financially, we will just have a different lifestyle. If things were more traditional and OH had been the main breadwinner on my salary I don't think we would have really thought about controlling finances and my list would be very similar!
The only thing I did want to comment on in your list was the Calpol - I wouldn't buy anything like that until baby is at least here (it's 2 months plus anyway and although the use by is normally fairly lengthy there's no point really having it hanging around) and if you think a very young baby is in need of medicine it is better to get them checked over by a healthcare professional as soon as you can rather then dose them up.
Me and OH have always enjoyed a reasonable disposable income and never had to think about how much things cost etc.
We bought our first house about 14 months ago and even then didn't really have to cut back too much. However, when I fell pregnant we had to reassess what was most important. As the main breadwinner we are going to be very poor when my SMP goes down to £100 odd a week and OH has been told he needs to look for a new job. We also had a new bathroom a few months ago (as it needed doing before baby turned up) but the plumbers came across several problems during the course of the work which ended up eating all of our savings. There have been times when I have got upset about not being able to buy things for baby but if I look at it logically as long as she is fed, clothed, warm and somewhere to sleep she won't notice the difference.
Babies don't have to cost the earth. Lots of people like to give you things when they know you are having a baby - we were given a lovely playmat which doesn't look like it has ever been used and lots of clothes. We will be putting baby in the moses basket that my 3 brothers and 2 sisters slept in, which as well as free holds lots of lovely memories. I'm planning to also breastfeed and use cloth nappies so once she is here my weekly shopping budget won't get eaten up by nappies and formula.
But as I said, if you can afford to spend like that, no-one can say it is wrong. My and OH lived a very lavish lifestyle before as I was very well paid and I don't regret it. True we would be in a better position if we had saved more but we had a great time and regret won't help the situation now - we're not worse off in any way other than financially, we will just have a different lifestyle. If things were more traditional and OH had been the main breadwinner on my salary I don't think we would have really thought about controlling finances and my list would be very similar!
The only thing I did want to comment on in your list was the Calpol - I wouldn't buy anything like that until baby is at least here (it's 2 months plus anyway and although the use by is normally fairly lengthy there's no point really having it hanging around) and if you think a very young baby is in need of medicine it is better to get them checked over by a healthcare professional as soon as you can rather then dose them up.
