I love the idea of giving fire extinguishers and smoke alarms and that’s an amazing story about your cousin! Sometimes the most practical gifts are the best ones you can give. I joke about it, but one of my favorite presents at my baby shower was a set of baby hangers. Lots of people gave me clothes, but without those hangers I wouldn’t have had anywhere to put them. Funny how a $2 gift can provide such happiness. Thanks for commenting!

I crochet the baby a blanket (inexpensive to make, but takes around 40 hours of love to make). I either do the babies nursery colors or the stand pink or blue. If the sex is unknown, then I go yellow and mint green. Then in the gift bag I add baby powder, socks, shampoo and a smoke alarm for the babies room and outlet plug safety caps (because I am a firefighter EMT…)I also stick in any coupons for baby items. It usually cost me around $25

For weddings or wedding showers, we spend more, and usually give smoke alarms, and several fire extinguishers. In fact, we have had couples tell us over and over how much they needed them and didn’t have them.

My cousin didn’t open their gifts at the wedding, but took them home to open. Their smoke alarm went off before it was unwrapped–they had an electrical fire, and they used one of the extinguishers 3 days after the wedding. Told us later it probably saved their home and lives.