’Luxury’ baby stuff worth the price tag?

Silly Billyz snuggleguard bibs. I thought $10 per bib was ridiculous (considering I have about 30 bibs in circulation at any one time), but someone gave me one, and now I have a fair few. They are awesome!

Also, my manduca and before that, my wrap. My pram on the other hand, a complete waste of money!

We got a quinny buzz pram with the bassinet, capsule and big pram attachment and while it was expensive it has been great.

We have a few outfits from places like nature baby, dimples etc and they do keep their shape and still look like new. I wouldnt buy all DS's clothing from there but a few bits and pieces are OK

Carseat - im thinking of getting a radian which is pretty expensive, but I would rather spend the extra $$ on safety so I dont really class that as luxury.

Mountain Buggy would have to be our most expensive baby item but we really love it as easy to manover and great on any type of terrain (grass, gravel etc) I think we have already got our moneys worth as we do alot of walking and DD just loves it (most of the time!). We also spent money on our cot (was actually gifted to us) I still love going in and looking at the cot (how weird am I?) but I just love how it looks!

I wanted to spend money on cot and buggy as they will do all our children and I wanted good quality items. Plus when your both working its not that big a deal as compared to being on one income! Rest of the stuff I never pay full price for or is gifted or handed down!

Oh oh oh..Awesome thread!!

I buy 'luxury' items 2nd hand
My MB love love love it $110 TM
Moby was new $75 but I totally got my moneys worth plus some. Ring sling same story, BUT i got a meitai then a manduca days later so have hardly used the meitai coz I LOOOOOOOVE my manduca.

GOGO bags $20ea (I have 4) TM but DS hates them so very glad I didn't splash out.
I bought a Hammock off TM for $180 total freakin waste of money he hated it however a friend is gettin great use outta it

Most of DSs clothes are from TWH, PP, JK or farmers
And TM etc.
He has ONE nature baby item
4 Mokopuna items (x3 are second hand and 1 no longer fits)

The most moolah I spend on one particular thing is nappies. Have prob spent upwards of $400.
I got IttiBittis 2nd hand and they didn't work out for us so sold them on.

Can you tell I trademe.
So I guess yeah - some things really are worth the extra money..
I just take advantage of the 2nd half of things lives heh.

Oh things I've bought new (usually on sale) are highchair, P&T metoo, carseat & capsule
Oh and I got a looovely sheepskin from briscoes on 60% off when I was about 17wks pregnant

My only luxury item was DS's Recaro Sport carseat.   Safety is the only thing that I feel inclined to splash out on.

DS's Maclrean pram & stroller were both off TM. Cheap as chips, and I am very happy with both.

I have got 2x gogo bags but both off TM again.

His cot was pretty cheap but I bought a good mattress.




Edited by snooze

Our P&T was the only real luxury thing I think we bought and we love it. DD has a couple of bits of expensive clothes from family friends which certainly look nice but she pukes on them just the same as the T&Tstuff.

I'm also always amazed with the stuff advertised in Oh baby magazine, certainly not the shops that I go to

Im also one who would buy something of trademe rather than buy it new. with each child i had something different as a lux item as money circumstances changed with each one.

with our 1st we had very little money dh was on min wage which was under $10 back then and i was just out of school. out lux item was the new carseat that we managed to buy and change table that MIL bought us, everything else was hand me downs.

with our 2nd dh had a new job and almost twice the $$. my lux item with him was feeding pillow, brand new cot(1st had been in a portacot).

with our 3rd we ttc for a while so money was saved for a while for when i was preg, but since we had all the big items my lux items were his clothes and nursery set. but the item i loved was his MP3 player(playskool).

with our 4th we were in our own home, we had all the big items and the money, so we got to buy those items that i couldnt with the others
we did get a hammock which i had wanted to get with all of them but turns out it didnt get much use and i sold it by the time he was 8wks.
ds4 got nice merino, bobux clothing, shoes etc. which were worth it as i hate putting so many layers on my babies.
I bought sleeping bags but not gogo bags(way to expensive) I just bought them at farmers and baby city when 50% off. i bought a merino bag but he would sweat like crazy in it even if he just wore a bodysuit under it.