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Baby Needs!!!

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EvG

EvG Report 14 Jan 2004 23:45

Is it just me or do the babies of today have way to much equipment. What with baby moniters, vibrating and bouncing seats, saucers to sit in, several kinds of seats for cars, home etc. prams, buggies, strollers,, jogging strollers, 4 wheel drive strollers!!! Gap baby clothes, shoes, hiking boots, runners, denim jackets!!! It goes on and on, our children had a crib and a buggy and a couple of pairs of overalls and one good dress up outfit. My grand children need a trailer to move all the equipment and clothes. I am not even going to mention toys. Educational toys, guess what they play with the box. I think its a conspiracy on the part of the big companies to suck people in. Babies need love not GAP clothes and $500.00 cribs.

EvG

EvG Report 15 Jan 2004 17:14

Good going Linda. I keep a supply of rubber boots and runners and sweaters for the grandkids when they visit. I have a high chair someone was throwing out which we rescued and recovered , all the grandkids have used it and sleep in a play pen we've had for years, when they visit us. I agree with you about planned obsolesence, daughter couldn't get a replacement pad for her high end high chair from the manufacturer, that model wasn't made any more, it was only 3 years old, so I made a pattern from the old pad and sewed a new one. I think we all need to fight the trend to throw away everything. I am starting a campaign to reuse old computer moniters, I think its appaling that they are just discarded in land fills, surely some third world country could use them. We need to have some one step up and say NO MORE, when I worked the company replaced all the computers and it must have been hundreds of moniters were trucked off to the dump.