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While clicking around the WWW to write my master list of bridesmaid duties, I stumbled across "the sex pot" on a Pinterest board named "bridesmaid jobs!" I can't decide if it makes me grin or groan, but I'm leaning heavily toward the latter.
The premise, if you're too freaked out to click the link, is that a bridesmaid is supposed to present the bride and groom with a "sex pot," an empty fish bowl or vase outfitted with a note that encourages the newlyweds to toss in a quarter every time they do the deed during the first year of marriage. Then, for their one-year anniversary, the couple can use the cash to pay for dinner.
So, yeah, I'm decidedly lukewarm on this for several reasons:
1) Bridesmaids have enough jobs, damn it.
2) Even if you hit the sheets once a day, every day {and--spoiler alert--you probably won't } you'll only have about $90 after a year. That's kind of a sad anniversary dinner, at least in the greater NYC area.
Plus, logistically speaking, who wants a sex pot lying around the house? Even if you take the note off, you KNOW your bridesmaids are going to be giving the fish bowl a sideways glance every time the visit.
Perhaps I'm overthinking this. (Wouldn't be the first time.) But I'm going to go ahead and declare the sex pot a big ol' Don't. Save your quarters for laundry, instead.
Thoughts on the sex pot? Would you make one for a friend? Would you like to be gifted a sex pot?
That's another thing: I would NOT want to open a sex pot at a bridal shower, in front of my mom and future mother-in-law. Just...cringe.