'Delivery Package'

Back home in Israel, we were always reluctant to buy or prepare anything for the baby beforehand. Totally against the nesting instinct, I agree, and it also takes away part of the fun but who wants to argue with the fear of bad luck?
All the baby products shops there are well prepared to accommodate that and in order to not interrupt with the shopping spree of the new parents' to be, they all adhere to the 'delivery package' concept; you choose anything you want to buy, all the items are packed together and stored (at the back of the store) just for you until the day the baby comes. The most important part is that you don't pay (maybe because most stores in Israel don't have the greatest return policy), but mostly because this is a one sided obligation. They will deliver everything to your house on the same day that the baby is born and the money is paid. It worked great for us as it does with most parents that choose to go this route and in Israel it's probably the majority. But on the flip side it leaves hubby to deal with all the assembly, instructions reading, decorations, package unwrapping, tiny clothing laundry and folding (and much more, the list is pretty long) alone, when he is mostly needed by your side or with the older kids, while you could enjoy doing all that together say a month or two before the new addition to the family. But again, who wants to argue with bad luck... So I thought, to just myself of course, that since the return policy is so great here in the U.S. (at least for the first 90 days), buying everything and storing it at home, in the original packaging of course, could work almost as good as the 'delivery package', only with a different geographical storage location. It does require some degree of creativity in order to sense the similarities but you get to keep the one sided obligation benefit and hopefully keep the bad luck away.