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#1 waste of time and money: monitor.

I spent hours researching these things and money to match. Turns out our place was small enough that we didn't need one. We could hear our son through the walls just fine. Those monitors are so incredibly sensitive that we could hear every breath and grunt when he was an infant. As a new parent, that's too much. If they need you, they will cry, and you will hear it.

If you live in a mansion with a separate wing for the adults, you can ignore the advice, but otherwise skip it.

Oh, and hit craigslist for everything else!