I love The Frugality’s house, and her hallway is
, though she’s lucky to have a baby that doesn’t seem bothered to get into all her trinkets and bits and pieces. My two are whirlwind. I can’t have anything vaguely stylish going on
The thing is, they probably don’t even like half the things they are gifted, but presumably feel beholden to use them. I don’t like those Stokke cots - they would have been too big and cumbersome for the smaller bedroom my twins share - but had I been gifted two of them I would have thought ‘bloody hell, now I have to use these things, at least for a little while’ and then gotten rid of them as soon as it seemed appropriate.
Should an influencer feel required to use the things they are gifted for the long term even if they wouldn’t have ordinarily? Should they use them for an ad if they still like the brand but just wouldn’t have that particular item? Should they just say thanks but no thanks?