More Stuff for our Collection

I have been bargain hunting for a while now. I keep an eye on Craigslist and Kijiji. It doesn't always work out, though. A few weeks ago, I had found a really inexpensive crib. I phoned and asked for it to be kept aside until later that same week, when I would have time to go pick it up. When I called back the night before I was going to pick it up, the guy had sold it to someone else... Oh well!

This weekend, however, I had two good finds.

I found an umbrella stroller for $5.

 

 And a set of 8 glass bottles with different size teats for $25.

This weekend, there was also a sale for used baby and children items. I was hoping to find used furnitures. A crib and changing table maybe. But it was mainly clothes and toys. Still, I found a few good items for the space behind our washing machine (did I tell you that's where we're storing our baby stuff while we wait?).

For a total of $75, I got:

• 2 sets of crib sheets
• 2 receiving blankets
• 2 washable diapers (different designs, to try them out)
• 2 bibs
• 5 onesies
• 5 pajamas
• 1 pair cotton pants
• 1 pair jeans
• 1 short
• 1 sun hat
• 5 little cardboard books
• 1 bath book
• 1 grown-up book on baby development during the first year (it even talks about adoptive parenting!)
• 1 sippy cup
• 4 baby spoons

The clothes are all sized between 6 months and 18 months. It turned out to be really difficult to find gender neutral clothes for 6-18 months old! There's a lot of gender neutral stuff for newborns, but it seems like as soon as parents know they have a boy or a girl, it's all blue tractors and pink butterflies! As soon as I saw something yellow, green or white, I'd get it :D

 

I've made a little back-of-the-envelope calculation and we would probably have paid right around $350 for all this, brand new. It cost us a total of $105 used... It's definitely worth the trouble of buying used stuff, especially since we have nothing but time in this process!