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Hello. I'm Brigid and I'm 30 and recently had my first baby.
I'm getting more and more frustrated with mainstream parenting and baby sites and blogs which assume that parents have more money than sense. Most baby things are incredibly and pointlessly expensive, and awfully gendered. This looks like a good and sensible place to get away from that mind set.
I look forward to discussion on this community.
I'm getting more and more frustrated with mainstream parenting and baby sites and blogs which assume that parents have more money than sense. Most baby things are incredibly and pointlessly expensive, and awfully gendered. This looks like a good and sensible place to get away from that mind set.
I look forward to discussion on this community.
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Date: 2009-05-15 07:15 pm (UTC)I use Freecycle a lot. We've got the baby change table from there and a breast pump and lots of other items that I just look at in the shops and think "Oh well, not paying that much so I guess I'm not getting it."
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Date: 2009-05-15 07:17 pm (UTC)We got a really nice, sturdy, wooden crib on craigslist for $25. New it would have run us hundreds of dollars. There's nothing wrong with it other than some teeth marks, which it's only going to accumulate more of.
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Date: 2009-05-16 10:00 pm (UTC)Craigslist would be great if I lived in the US. Nothing quite like it here. Gumtree is a little or trying to be, but still not really.