Most Expensive Baby Strollers In The World

You will notice a theme creeping in here. All parents need stuff, but who wants to buy it? There are people who must have everything new, every muslin, every last vest, and that's fine, because it means they are buying the stuff the rest of us will later 'borrow' from them. Most parents want to get rid of stuff they no longer need, to make room for stuff they are about to need. You may not know it, but out there are thousands of micro-networks of like-minded parents, all saving each other money by handing things on they no longer want. The system works because much of this stuff easily outlasts any one baby's need for it. For instance:
 

Most Expensive Baby Strollers In The World

1. A baby bath. You can't scrub Junior in your proper bath, or your backbone would drop out. (It's also too big and scary for many little ones.) Showers are good for novelty bath games but little else. So it's nice to have a dedicated baby bath. For newborns a washing-up bowl will do, but Junior will outgrow that in a fortnight or so. In the meantime, go on the scrounge.

Baby baths take up nearly as much room as a pram. I have known parents who have wept with relief when someone offered to take their baby bath away.

2. Bottles and sterilising equipment. Definitely try and scrounge this. Your baby may breastfeed for ever and go nowhere near a bottle, and you could have all that expensive equipment sitting on a shelf for several years. Or until another canny new parent offers to take it off your hands. This feels good, doesn't it?

Every day I look in the mirror each morning and tell myself, "I am a mothwallet. I am a mothwallet and I don't care who knows it,'

Some things you will have to buy. A good sturdy pushchair should give you years of uncomplaining service. Someone else's cranky, rattly old vehicle may collapse the first time you take it more than five minutes' walk away from your home. (As you stand there wondering what to do, baby will poo itself, rain will start pouring and spaceships full of lizard-like aliens will land and enslave all humanity.) But there is also a thriving second hand market out there. Even if you can't get everything for nothing, you should be able to snap things up for far less than shop price. It warms my ventricles just to think about it.
 
Even so, some readers of this blog might be unconvinced. Some readers might come to the conclusion that this is all a bit stingy. That at this vivid and unrepeatable time we should be embracing life, not haggling over it. Consider this story from the Daily Star in January 2004:
 
Russell Crowe turned into the Dadiator after splashing out £50,000 on a cot for his son. The Gladiator star spent over £150,000 on stuff for his boy Charles's nursery. Russell has told friends: 'I want nothing but the best for my boy - whatever the cost. He's going to have the best and coolest nursery in Australia.'
 

The cot is a 19th-century Scandinavian design with ornate carvings. Also on his shopping list were some bedside lamps, and a painting called 'Reflection Of A Boy' - worth £75200 far the nursery wall. A source said: 'Russell chose all the items himself. It's clear he has got a really good eye.' To find out more, you can check out Most Expensive Baby Strollers In The World.