Why is baby furniture SO EXPENSIVE?!
Seriously... Freddy and I have been to three different baby stores to look at, among many other things, furniture. 98% of the sets we looked at were more expensive than our bedroom furniture - and we have a King sized bed, two night stands, an armorie, a short dresser with a mirror and a tall dresser!
My initial thought was: Spend the money. The crib converts to a bed and this could last the kid until college!
My second, more rational thought: After baby and before high school grad comes toddler, pre-teen and teen. What are the odds of this expensive furniture making it 18 + years without a permanent marker incident? or worse?
We're still undecided on what to do. Tell me about your angelic furniture-respecting children OR about your Sharpie disasters.
6 comments:
Haha, I WILL take a picture of what my kids have done to the crib. Baby teeth on dark wood is NOT good- even if it's a $600 crib!!!
We were lucky with Landri....she never chewed on or even climbed out of her crib....It is now converted to a full size bed and she loves it....For us, it was worth the investment!
We had the baby furniture sticker shock about the same time my boss said her son was going to sell their baby furniture! Totally took the hand me downs! Perfect timing for us and now Claire is the 3rd child to use it! I won't even tell you (unless you really want to know) how much we spent/saved on the crib, dresser and changing table...we bought the mattress new and of course a glider!
We ended up buying Nate's crib off Craigslist. It was in perfect condition, and after we bought it we saw the EXACT SAME crib at Toy's R Us for $500 more than we paid. But the good thing about that was that we were able to buy the matching changing table there, so it all worked out!
We were lucky and had a friend give us a crib that turns into a bed, a dresser/changing table and a glider. We bought a mattress which alone was $180 and we are buying a gilder ottoman off of ebay. In the store it was $145, and on ebay we got it brand new for half of that. We have tried really hard to re-use stuff from other people, makes me feel like less of a consumerist and of course helps us financially. Ask around, you may find it way more satisfying to use something a little broken in and loved rather than spending what could start a college fund on severly overpriced furniture!
I'll tell you that we decided not to get the crib that converts to a big bed so we could use it with all the babies. We spent about $500 at BrUS and didn't get our favorite baby furniture, but got something we could live with that was neutral for both genders. We're glad we did that. When we bought Cassidee's big girl furniture, we bought it with the intent of it lasting forever....
Sharpie disaster...you really can't avoid those! It'll happen, unfortunately!
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