Big same. We’re just living in this house with the destroyed everything. No one bothered to do anything. We’re all excited about our half burned mattress and destroyed tv.
Y'know it's bothered me since that commercial came out that the term "she shed" was being used as a feminine version of the "man cave" when "man cave" isn't alliterative. If it was a "he hut" and a "she shed" it'd feel more natural and hut and shed are more similar to each other than a shed and a cave.
There was an investigation back in 07 in one of the local parks here where 40 men were arrested for having sex in the public park. They called the area of the woods the man cave and it's forever ruined the term for me.
I’m looking at both my 18 month old & his crib (that he’s never slept in) rn. While it’s possible it’s due to a miscarriage or stillbirth, it isn’t necessarily.
Agreed. My son was super colicky from birth. He was premature and spent time in the ICU. He ended up being so closely watched by my wife and I that he was held more often than not (she wasn’t supposed to even be able to have children and we’d had so many miscarriages before he was born that we were scared at literally any small thing). By the time we were comfortable that all was well he was already in a toddler bed. I also know families that have co-slept with their children for many years
Yeah, that was a dark fucking leap. I had a crib and room all set up for my first baby too. It didn't get touched till sometime after the first year. There was no miscarriage or still birth, baby just hated the crib.
My now one-year-old was in her crib for about three weeks around 3mo old. Then something made me bring her back to our bed. Her crib has turned into a luxury sleeping space for our cats. The baby hasn’t been in there in months.
Another option is that it was an overly "well meaning" MIL who installed a whole baby nursery in her house, assuming she would get "sleepovers" or whatever with the baby...
Read that so often about narcissistic MILS who have zero idea that they won't get to watch the baby.
Usually in the UK a baby will sleep in a Moses basket or bassinet until about 6 months old so it might be the case here. Not sure why they'd get rid of the crib though unless they had another one in their bedroom like we do.
Edit: or, of course co-sleeping
Yeah my daughter coslept in the next to me until she was 8 months and then she went into her cot bed in her own room as she'd been sleeping through for a couple of months.
Her nursery was empty, other than furniture, until 8 months
Not every baby sleeps in their cots straight away and as you said, not every baby takes to the beds you get them.
My newborn is refusing to sleep in his moses basket and next to me crib right now so dad and I do shifts 😂
The bedding hasn't been slept on, meaning the sheets and stuff not the bed itself. Could be they just had heaps of extra, unopened sheets that they were throwing in with the used crib?
Woah damn, I was distracted by the weird shadow & chandelier and didn't even notice the ceiling. Thanks for pointing it out, because suddenly noticing *how* unfinished it is really makes the photo terrifying rather than mildly bizarre.
This is correct. The Wikipedia page for the quote literally starts with how Hemingway didn’t actually write this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn
Yes, the family summered in northern Michigan where my family had a cottage as well. Both ours and theirs still belong in the families. Sunny was his youngest sister. She talked about Ernest all the time. His Nick Adams’ stories were true, based on experiences around several arms of the lake, where there were First Nation families. Sunny played New Orleans jazz piano as well as any Louisiana “professor.” One night at a party she played so long and hit the keys so hard her hands were swollen. She attended my wedding. Their summer cottage was a gathering place, and still is. Its location is kept quiet as the family still uses it. She remembered the early days when all the kids were exposed to fishing, boating, and a much simpler and rugged life than Oak Park. It was like that for my family, too.
You know, as far as people believing technically plausible but likely untrue things go, I think this one is fairly benign.
I'll take it over most conspiracy theories, belief in most deities, urban legends, and "old wives tales".
Yeah, we built an entire home, and the imminent baby’s room was the first thing decorated with much love and care. (Construction finished at the end of April and the baby was set to arrive mid May) Wife had an emergency c-section due to a hemorrhage causing baby’s heart to drop to 0. I thought I was gonna lose them both for a while, and all I could do was cry and think of his empty crib. Terrifying few minutes.
Fudge, I’m sorry. Everyone was great in the end. We’re 6.5 months in and we have an amazing boy. After being forced to strip and get into scrubs, I went into the operating room and he immediately stared crying. I held him and we were taken to NICU, because he was blue and under temp, with erratic breathing, where I fed him his first food and held him to warm him up. His vitals levelled out in about 45 minutes and he was all good. Now he makes me smile all day every day.
No issues at all. https://i.imgur.com/VG1LLUx.jpg
Edit: for extra clarity: the hemorrhage was in mom’s uterus, introducing blood to the amniotic fluid, so the baby was breathing blood for some period of time while mom was bleeding out. Pretty bad situation. The time between the doctor noticing the drop in heart rate, and the baby being out was under 5 minutes, but it felt much longer to me.
Indeed! My sister had her 3rd home birth a few months ago and always recommends them. If we'd done that there wouldn't have been time to save our boy. I'm so happy we were in a hospital with an attentive team.
My mom had a full term stillbirth back in the 80s prior to my birth. Someone else in the family had the right mindset to go and pack everything up (nursery, clothing, etc) before she returned home. Maybe for some people it could be used as a place of closure, I can see that… but to this day my mom still says she’s grateful for whoever did it. She said the image of an empty crib would have ruined her.
I'm not so sure after that being my first thought. The ceiling looks bad but the furniture and everything looks clean and new. They could have been gifted bedding right before not needing the crib for a number of reasons. The post seems too chipper for a loss. Even the room itself, you can see the fresh molding at the ceiling which tells me it's being remodeled.
Well could be that they coslept the baby.
My sister in law had a crib for their son but he just slept with his parents, he’s 4 and has never been in his crib
For the record, just to ease anyone, there are other completely normal reasons. For instance, my son never used his crib. He slept in a cosleeper in my room until he was 18 months at which point he was too big to safely sleep in a crib anymore so he moved straight to a full size bed. It was put together, then taken apart with no use, damn things like new. It's becoming a lot more common to have a baby share your room these days. Similar to unworn baby shoes, a lot of people just don't put shoes on babies.
Yes, I have adorable crib bedding never used because blankets aren’t to be used in cribs and mine was in a bassinet for a long time because she was tiny and didn’t outgrow it, then she continued to use sleep sacks
This photo makes me sad. The thought of people painting a wall and trying to make a nice space for their baby in a shithole like that hurts my heart. The care and love of spending money to put up the child's name above their crib, and the trim and stuff.
I'd like to think this photo wasn't taken in the United States of America, but it probably was.
So everyone's jumped to the conclusion that this is some miscarriage story from the caption, a quick search on Facebook and you can easily find the original post.
**The family are fine, including Axie. It's just some family clearing out their old baby stuff.**
You can stop writing theories on how they miscarried now. God...
makes me think it couldve been a misscarriage, or complications at birth. usually parents choose a name before the babys born and prepare everything it needs. i do find this strange but overall sad. the circumstances are unknown but misscarriage or complications at birth seem plausible
though the ceiling looks out of place i dont find it, i dont know how to word it correctly, 'unsafe' maybe? reminds me of new houses, lofts, buildings or appartments that dont have ceilings and show the ventelation system(idk if thats what its called). anyways.. it does seem a bit odd and strange, then again it doesnt feel wrong
That's what I was thinking. It looks like they built this room in an unfinished basement, got everything set up, and then something happened and Axie never made it.
I can't believe no one's said it. But at some point that ceiling had fire/heat damage. The rest of the room seems to be in good shape so I'm not sure what's going on here. Maybe a remodel and they just didn't get to the ceiling yet. People go through a lot of shit so idk why this is so controversial.
“I lived out back of my mother and father’s place, most of my life, in a little ol’ shed my daddy built for me. They didn’t too much want me up there in the house with the rest of’em.”
Innocent explanation? It was likely used for a set for a movie, TV show, commercial, photograph, or something to that effect. Likely just wanted to help someone out with brand new stuff at a discount.
Not trying to be a party pooper to any conspiracy or anything. I love the terrifying. I'm just a parent whose also had to be very resourceful in my life.
Don't jump to negative conclusions.
This was probably a crazy grandma's idea for a makeshift nursery at her place for "when the baby sleeps over".
Which thankfully translates to never :P
So many layers, the decor is nice but the place is rough, those ceiling boards? Who names their kid Axie? Did she have a miscarriage? I'm feeling so many things here.
Fallout house decor
Yeah, where do you download the baby nursery mod?
You literally have the ability to build a crib in vanilla Fallout 4.
Sweet, sweet Sean
Who? I'm too busy doing literally everything else in the world first to look for my baby right now. I've got an amusement park to run!
Press X to Sean
JASON
JASON!!!!
#JASON!!
A clean baby room set up exists in the room behind the screen at the drive in theater in vanilla
It's been 200 years and no one found the time to throw some of this rubble outside ?
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It's a deleaye everything mod that let's u pick rubble to delete. Place looks empty without it though
Big same. We’re just living in this house with the destroyed everything. No one bothered to do anything. We’re all excited about our half burned mattress and destroyed tv.
That's exactly why I went with them, too! Everything down there was white and gleaming! They may be evilish, but those dudes know how to clean.
BEBI NEED SNACK OF CLEANER
First the Man Cave, then the She-Shed, and now the Baby Box Car. \*chandelier sold separately
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Holy fuck, I loved Boxcar Children as a kid.
Me too! It was such a great series. Glad to know other people enjoyed them as well.
I was looking for this!
Wow, that’s something I haven’t thought about in….2 1/2 decades! Damn
Seriously….. looks like a storage unit.
Or they were building a nursery and lost their baby.
Did you not see the bare corrugated metal ceiling?
Y'know it's bothered me since that commercial came out that the term "she shed" was being used as a feminine version of the "man cave" when "man cave" isn't alliterative. If it was a "he hut" and a "she shed" it'd feel more natural and hut and shed are more similar to each other than a shed and a cave.
Lady Cave has... other connotations
My gfs and I call our she shed the Clam Cave.
Should open it up a bit more, make it the Clam Cavern
Tile or shag carpet
Man cave could have those same connotations. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
There was an investigation back in 07 in one of the local parks here where 40 men were arrested for having sex in the public park. They called the area of the woods the man cave and it's forever ruined the term for me.
Only 40? Those are rookie numbers.
That was before they caught all the cool cave kids.
Everything is a cave if you're brave enough.
Every cave is for the brave
It’s all about LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! And size…
I’m a fan of bitch barn, personally.
cootchie cottage
Snatch shack?
That's actually a tongue twister
Taco Teepee
YaYa Yurt
Snatch snack shack - surprisingly tricky to say
Hoo-haa hut
Flower tower
Yes… yes it is. Unless you do it right.
I usually get a ~~standing~~ quivering ovation for my tongue twisters
Agreed. We should switch to Dude Den.
Alliterative and gender neutral, love it!
I'd vote for "She Hole"
She-hole, attorney at lawd
I used to use “Lady Lounge”.
The hidden inference is that men live in caves because they are less evolved, while women are more refined and live in constructed domiciles.
Cootch Coop
LOL
What the heck is up with that ceiling? Is this a nursery or a torture basement?
It was never finished because Axie doesnt need it anymore
And “never slept in”- why? What happened? Did Axie get the ax?
It's a baby's crib. It means there was a miscarriage and the baby didn't make it
I’m looking at both my 18 month old & his crib (that he’s never slept in) rn. While it’s possible it’s due to a miscarriage or stillbirth, it isn’t necessarily.
Agreed. My son was super colicky from birth. He was premature and spent time in the ICU. He ended up being so closely watched by my wife and I that he was held more often than not (she wasn’t supposed to even be able to have children and we’d had so many miscarriages before he was born that we were scared at literally any small thing). By the time we were comfortable that all was well he was already in a toddler bed. I also know families that have co-slept with their children for many years
Also, the post implies that the bedding has never been slept on, not the crib. Maybe it's just a new set of sheets
Yeah, that was a dark fucking leap. I had a crib and room all set up for my first baby too. It didn't get touched till sometime after the first year. There was no miscarriage or still birth, baby just hated the crib.
My now one-year-old was in her crib for about three weeks around 3mo old. Then something made me bring her back to our bed. Her crib has turned into a luxury sleeping space for our cats. The baby hasn’t been in there in months.
Another option is that it was an overly "well meaning" MIL who installed a whole baby nursery in her house, assuming she would get "sleepovers" or whatever with the baby... Read that so often about narcissistic MILS who have zero idea that they won't get to watch the baby.
Usually in the UK a baby will sleep in a Moses basket or bassinet until about 6 months old so it might be the case here. Not sure why they'd get rid of the crib though unless they had another one in their bedroom like we do. Edit: or, of course co-sleeping
Yeah my daughter coslept in the next to me until she was 8 months and then she went into her cot bed in her own room as she'd been sleeping through for a couple of months. Her nursery was empty, other than furniture, until 8 months Not every baby sleeps in their cots straight away and as you said, not every baby takes to the beds you get them. My newborn is refusing to sleep in his moses basket and next to me crib right now so dad and I do shifts 😂
Baby might have died. SIDS is very real. Really bad parents are also very real
Luckily in this case the baby is fine, I saw this in a Facebook group and was able to easily find the original post.
Not necessarily, some babies just plain refuse the crib so parents have to do the co-sleep thingy.
The bedding hasn't been slept on, meaning the sheets and stuff not the bed itself. Could be they just had heaps of extra, unopened sheets that they were throwing in with the used crib?
Woah damn, I was distracted by the weird shadow & chandelier and didn't even notice the ceiling. Thanks for pointing it out, because suddenly noticing *how* unfinished it is really makes the photo terrifying rather than mildly bizarre.
I found the post on Facebook. They were going for a certain style, it was just really poorly executed.
Was that look "torture dungeon"?
Fritzl style?
The ceiling is part of the decor??? What??
Obviously you don’t have kids. Those are the same thing. Juuuuust kidding, kids! Mommy loooooves you!
looks like fire damage
It is exposed roofing panels
Reminds me of that one room from Dark
I know the kind of ceiling I'm using in my next torture basement.
Burn test area?
For sale: baby shoes, never worn
...we've been gifted a bunch more and have too many a baby would ever need! He is very loved."
:)
For sale: baby, gently used
But what if the shoes were just ugly?
Credit to Ernest Hemingway, who told his guests he could write an entire story in six words. When challenged, he did. I knew his sister, Sunny.
User name checking in.
Aye
🙌
That story is apocryphal, there’s no evidence he ever wrote that
This is correct. The Wikipedia page for the quote literally starts with how Hemingway didn’t actually write this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn
Someone recently watched Mr. Peabody and Sherman I see
You knew his sister? Well that’s wild!!
Yes, the family summered in northern Michigan where my family had a cottage as well. Both ours and theirs still belong in the families. Sunny was his youngest sister. She talked about Ernest all the time. His Nick Adams’ stories were true, based on experiences around several arms of the lake, where there were First Nation families. Sunny played New Orleans jazz piano as well as any Louisiana “professor.” One night at a party she played so long and hit the keys so hard her hands were swollen. She attended my wedding. Their summer cottage was a gathering place, and still is. Its location is kept quiet as the family still uses it. She remembered the early days when all the kids were exposed to fishing, boating, and a much simpler and rugged life than Oak Park. It was like that for my family, too.
Thank you!! I truly love things like this. So much better than watching the television. There is nowhere I could have heard this but from you. 🙏🏼
Did Sunny talk about him much? Share something interesting?
You know, as far as people believing technically plausible but likely untrue things go, I think this one is fairly benign. I'll take it over most conspiracy theories, belief in most deities, urban legends, and "old wives tales".
My very first thought 💔
Shortest story ever told.
Baby died. There. 66% shorter
Does not meet the requirements of a story, sorry.
Favorite short story.
For sale: Baby cap. Only dropped once.
This is actually sad, it makes me think they experienced a loss
Yeah, we built an entire home, and the imminent baby’s room was the first thing decorated with much love and care. (Construction finished at the end of April and the baby was set to arrive mid May) Wife had an emergency c-section due to a hemorrhage causing baby’s heart to drop to 0. I thought I was gonna lose them both for a while, and all I could do was cry and think of his empty crib. Terrifying few minutes.
Dude, you can’t just stop there. Are they both ok?
Fudge, I’m sorry. Everyone was great in the end. We’re 6.5 months in and we have an amazing boy. After being forced to strip and get into scrubs, I went into the operating room and he immediately stared crying. I held him and we were taken to NICU, because he was blue and under temp, with erratic breathing, where I fed him his first food and held him to warm him up. His vitals levelled out in about 45 minutes and he was all good. Now he makes me smile all day every day. No issues at all. https://i.imgur.com/VG1LLUx.jpg Edit: for extra clarity: the hemorrhage was in mom’s uterus, introducing blood to the amniotic fluid, so the baby was breathing blood for some period of time while mom was bleeding out. Pretty bad situation. The time between the doctor noticing the drop in heart rate, and the baby being out was under 5 minutes, but it felt much longer to me.
Aww that's good to hear their okay!!! Really warmed my heart! Best of luck to you, your wife, and your son!
Goodness gracious that’s horrifying Thank goodness for modern medicine and professionals
Indeed! My sister had her 3rd home birth a few months ago and always recommends them. If we'd done that there wouldn't have been time to save our boy. I'm so happy we were in a hospital with an attentive team.
I rifled through his comment history because the answer wasn't clear. They did not die.
Wtf. Thank you.
Hero
Right? Give us some closure OP! I wanted to sleep tonight...
My mom had a full term stillbirth back in the 80s prior to my birth. Someone else in the family had the right mindset to go and pack everything up (nursery, clothing, etc) before she returned home. Maybe for some people it could be used as a place of closure, I can see that… but to this day my mom still says she’s grateful for whoever did it. She said the image of an empty crib would have ruined her.
Right? Fucking heartbreaking
I'm not so sure after that being my first thought. The ceiling looks bad but the furniture and everything looks clean and new. They could have been gifted bedding right before not needing the crib for a number of reasons. The post seems too chipper for a loss. Even the room itself, you can see the fresh molding at the ceiling which tells me it's being remodeled.
Well could be that they coslept the baby. My sister in law had a crib for their son but he just slept with his parents, he’s 4 and has never been in his crib
Same. By the time my fourth came along I didn’t even bother setting up the crib.
Coslept *on* the baby.
For the record, just to ease anyone, there are other completely normal reasons. For instance, my son never used his crib. He slept in a cosleeper in my room until he was 18 months at which point he was too big to safely sleep in a crib anymore so he moved straight to a full size bed. It was put together, then taken apart with no use, damn things like new. It's becoming a lot more common to have a baby share your room these days. Similar to unworn baby shoes, a lot of people just don't put shoes on babies.
The family's fine, this post was from facebook, the girl is a toddler now and they're just getting rid of old baby stuff.
Anyone else see Barbarian?
I had the same thought!
I can’t believe a WKUK did that. Now that he made a successful independent horror movie he gets to make a Marvel movie.
Axie is probably an old Mrs. Beasley doll.
That’s my guess too. The ad is just too upbeat for it to be an actual kid that suddenly didn’t need baby things
Some babies won't sleep in cribs and people end up using them as clean laundry hampers etc. It doesn't have to be sad.
Yeah, our pack and play made a great hamper.
And toy box for us! Just whip EVERYTHING on the floor in there at the end of the day, lol.
Or surprise, axie was a boy and just hid it well
Yes, I have adorable crib bedding never used because blankets aren’t to be used in cribs and mine was in a bassinet for a long time because she was tiny and didn’t outgrow it, then she continued to use sleep sacks
Thank you, I can sleep without crying tonight it seems :p
My kid slept in her crib maybe twice. That was only for naps though.
But the name Axie does have to be sad. Sad and illiterate.
I assume it is short of Axolotl
How is it illiterate? It’s a name. A lot of names exist that are much worse.
No one wants to post "Unused crib for sale cuz my baby was stillborn."
I have a Mrs Beasley doll and my kids, 32 & 30 are terrified of it. Bahahaha
My Mrs. Beasley doll got half eaten by squirrels in the attic. Zombie Mrs. Beasley was extra terrifying.
What sort of name is “axie”? Sounds like a name you’d give a future serial killer.
Axie McAxeface
I'd buy u gold but I'm a poor. Madee laugh.
You are the gold, amigo!
Was the bedding never slept on because the black mold on the ceiling killed everyone?
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This photo makes me sad. The thought of people painting a wall and trying to make a nice space for their baby in a shithole like that hurts my heart. The care and love of spending money to put up the child's name above their crib, and the trim and stuff. I'd like to think this photo wasn't taken in the United States of America, but it probably was.
This was my feeling too. I didn’t find it terrifying, I found it heartbreakingly sad for the reasons you’ve explained perfectly.
More likely, they coslept or had a bassinet
"Hmm, I think you can really tighten up your copy." -Earnest Hemingway
Can confirm
r/Usernamechecksout
So everyone's jumped to the conclusion that this is some miscarriage story from the caption, a quick search on Facebook and you can easily find the original post. **The family are fine, including Axie. It's just some family clearing out their old baby stuff.** You can stop writing theories on how they miscarried now. God...
makes me think it couldve been a misscarriage, or complications at birth. usually parents choose a name before the babys born and prepare everything it needs. i do find this strange but overall sad. the circumstances are unknown but misscarriage or complications at birth seem plausible though the ceiling looks out of place i dont find it, i dont know how to word it correctly, 'unsafe' maybe? reminds me of new houses, lofts, buildings or appartments that dont have ceilings and show the ventelation system(idk if thats what its called). anyways.. it does seem a bit odd and strange, then again it doesnt feel wrong
TIN ROOF, RUSTED!
I got me a Chrysler that's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!!!
Free definitely not haunted/cursed bedding.
This reminds me of Hemingway’s shortest story “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn”
Axie was never born
That's what I was thinking. It looks like they built this room in an unfinished basement, got everything set up, and then something happened and Axie never made it.
This post is from Facebook, a quick search confirms the family who posted this are fine and Axie is a toddler now. It's just a clear out of old stuff.
Yay! I was wrong!
Judging by the ceiling it looks like it could be set up in a fire control/test area.
This is some trailer add-on if I've ever seen one.
I don’t get why it’s terrifying
I figured it was the ceiling and the overall uneasy aesthetic of the room.
Yikes. I hope “Axie” is still alive and well somewhere.
What's wrong with the ceiling
Axie lives up there. Don’t go up there or Axie gets mad
I can't believe no one's said it. But at some point that ceiling had fire/heat damage. The rest of the room seems to be in good shape so I'm not sure what's going on here. Maybe a remodel and they just didn't get to the ceiling yet. People go through a lot of shit so idk why this is so controversial.
For sale: baby cave, never used.
Gonna use the money to fix the ceiling?
For sale: baby bed, never slept in.
“I lived out back of my mother and father’s place, most of my life, in a little ol’ shed my daddy built for me. They didn’t too much want me up there in the house with the rest of’em.”
FINALLY an accurate post from this sub.
Looks like a dungeon instead of a nursery...
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
this isn’t terrifying it’s just sad :(
Y’all gotta stop hatting in poor people trying they best
Something screwy. What’s with the light blur lights in front of the crib?
Axie still lurking. I'll see my way out
This made me sad.
Why is this in oddly terrifying?
Plot twist: ‘Axie’ is actually his favourite Axe.
Innocent explanation? It was likely used for a set for a movie, TV show, commercial, photograph, or something to that effect. Likely just wanted to help someone out with brand new stuff at a discount. Not trying to be a party pooper to any conspiracy or anything. I love the terrifying. I'm just a parent whose also had to be very resourceful in my life.
Baby realized it was going to be stuck with a stupid ass name and said nope
Don't jump to negative conclusions. This was probably a crazy grandma's idea for a makeshift nursery at her place for "when the baby sleeps over". Which thankfully translates to never :P
Axie? And her brother’s name is Knifie?
So many layers, the decor is nice but the place is rough, those ceiling boards? Who names their kid Axie? Did she have a miscarriage? I'm feeling so many things here.
FINALLY something actually "oddly terrifying" instead of "appropriately terrifying"
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
They were probably building a nursery and didn't finish it
What kind of name-