We had been considering purchasing a new car seat for our daughter. Not that there is anything wrong with her current seat, it's great. It's just that with the bigger car in the near future, we wanted to go "all out" and maximize the space we'll get. So we're getting a new hard top carrier to replace our current fabric one (which is worth it, the fabric one is easily broken in to, and gets mucky and needs to be taken inside when we stop for the night, a real pain in the middle of winter when it's iced over), in the future we *may* buy a utility trailer, and we were also thinking of buying a new seat for our girl because her brother will move into a regular booster seat, and we could really make a lot of space in the back, potentially being able to bring along a friend for either child, and occasionally I sit between the kids in the back when we have somebody else to come along in our car (another ungraceful and uneasy feat at the moment).
I was pricing them online, to replace her seat with a smaller, sleeker one, is at least $200. Um no thanks. I think we'll just get another $20 booster seat. That way it can go in my husband's car full time, and we can put my son's seat in there as well (it will be okay for our daughter) giving us both cars with seats for both kids, and then when we bring along a friend, we can use the 2nd booster seat (The vast majority of kids in our group are now over 40 lbs. ) Our daughter is about one year from using the booster herself.. and then we'll have loads of space in the car. Win-Win and another $180 or so saved :-)
Car seats were hard for us to figure out what to buy too. When Chloe came along, Brooke was out of the infant seat. We thought about getting Chloe one of those all in one, but we already had to buy Brooke a toddler seat. So we were looking at spending a lot of money. We got Brooke a toddler seat for 65 dollars at Walmart and decided to keep Brooke's car seats (we have two given to us) for Chloe and buy Chloe a toddler seat when the time comes. Then we'll just buy the booster seats once they out grow the toddler seats. Cheaper to do it that way then to buy an all in one which are like 250-300 dollars. But I don't think for two toddler seats and two booster we will pay that much in the end.
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