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"As I see it, you have you currently have two options:" My wife and I have a 2 year old and we did #1 till we were broke. We're having another in June and hav
by hoopism 11y ago
"As I see it, you have you currently have two options:"
My wife and I have a 2 year old and we did #1 till we were broke. We're having another in June and have used FreeCycle and friends this time around. We have far more useful items this time around and have spent nothing.
New parents are scared and research and buy everything. Smart parents borrow and inherit. We have gotten some amazingly (expensive) and useful items on FreeCycle (including all the baby room furniture. We'll be passing it along when we are done as well).
No offense to the creator. But as a parent of young kid(s), this makes me cringe. I think clutter-crate might be a better name.
- alexhawdon 11y agoSo do you think you might have been a good target for this service? As a new parent, would it have allayed your concerns and been an acceptable alternative to new items? And as a smart parent would this be sufficiently more convenient than sourcing things yourself?
- hoopism 11y agoMy wife spent a stupid amount of time researching everything and then finding the absolute best price (which is like saying you are a savvy lamborghini consumer). So as new parents, I doubt we'd consider it (tho my wife did do a trial of some curated eco-toys... we did not sign up and we did not find it useful). So I would say no. We actually dread parties and holidays as it brings a huge influx in new toys that our daughter will likely never use or clothes she will outgrow in a few weeks and/or never wear.