Are you expecting a new baby and wondering if you'll have enough? Ask yourself: am I buying too much?<\/p>\n
The shopping list for your new family life is looooong. And to add to the ordeal, every parent around you will be advising you on what to buy. indispensable!<\/em><\/p>\n Yet few people will tell you about the purchases you can easily do without when your first baby arrives. With the participation of over 200 young parents, we've compiled a list of the least useful purchases for your baby.<\/strong><\/p>\n Save a few dollars, do your part to reduce your consumption and avoid the laborious step of reselling children's items on Facebook groups!<\/p>\n Thank you New Fathers!<\/em><\/p>\n You're welcome, folks!<\/p>\n Do you know what differentiates a standard garbage can from a diaper garbage can? Diapers. If you want to invent a need, opt for the super $50 diaper garbage can. Otherwise, a trash can with a lid will do the trick.<\/p>\n A changing table is nothing more or less than a chest of drawers with a cheap mattress on top... Once baby is potty-trained and the family project is closed, the chest of drawers has a second life. All you have to do is sell the changing table on Kijiji.<\/p>\n Seriously, the small white mattress may not match the curtains in your baby's room, but it's much easier to wash. The little fitted sheet will change color after one or two diaper changes. Unless your curtains are mustard yellow, we swear it's going to swear.<\/p>\n You save 4 cents per diaper if you buy three jumbo boxes? Quite a deal... unless it's like this.<\/p>\n Our child wore the newborn-size diapers for three weeks at most, the same for sizes 1 and 2, and it'll be the same for you if your offspring grows at a standard rate. On our side, it didn't stabilize until size 3.<\/p>\n So, if you manage shopping like we do, you should have a mountain of extra diapers of every size... calculate as you like, you would have been better off with one less jumbo box.<\/p>\n Oh, I wouldn't recommend putting your baby in diapers that are a little too small, because he'll pass them. <\/em>It ends up as a tidal wave in the upper back, not bad for sure.<\/p>\n (yes, we use cloth diapers, but we still buy disposable diapers for travel and overnight... darn you all!)<\/p>\n Every minute, over 7,000 new children's books are printed worldwide. Or 25,000... or 200, I don't know, I'm making it up as I go along. Anyway, that's not the point!<\/p>\n A used book is like a new book, but with more memories for the parents. You're going to get new books from everyone... yet all you have to do is clean out the basement of your family home to collect all the stories from your childhood. Your mother's been telling you to pick up your boxes for years. It's time to make her happy!<\/p>\n It's nice to have them, but the useful life of these pieces of clothing will be short, very short. As for us, we didn't have time to fit him into all the newborn-sized pajamas before he was already too chubby to squeeze into them. New or used, we bought too many, period.<\/p>\n We have two cars (in 2019, that's a horrible affront, I know). The logic, before having a child, was that each vehicle could be used to transport the family. So we bought two used shells (it's cheaper). They're different, and the base of the gray one doesn't plug with the black one. Conclusion? One of the shells has never been used.<\/p>\n It's not complicated: You're taking the baby? Take the family wagon. Going without the baby? Take the other float. Two shells are one too many.<\/p>\n P.S. Your lifestyle requires that both tanks can accommodate baby? Buy two identical bases and a single shell.<\/p>\n When the first teeth come through and your child is drooling like a mushroom, you'll be ready to buy anything to soothe him. Victor had two mittens to chew, three rings to chew, a giraffe to chew... it's not complicated, everything he had was chewable. He was spoilt for choice. Yet he never put anything in his mouth.<\/p>\n There are many schools of thought when it comes to pacifiers. Like the purists who abandon the object altogether, some parents buy every model available on the market. Whether it's a small, pointed nipple, a large, hard nipple, a soft nipple... no nipple is left out.<\/p>\nList of purchases to avoid for your first baby<\/h2>\n
A diaper garbage can<\/h3>\n
A changing table<\/h3>\n
A mattress sheet for the changing table<\/h3>\n
Too many newborn diapers<\/h3>\n
New books<\/h3>\n
Too many newborn-size clothes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Two shells for cars<\/h3>\n
Chew toys (munch mitt)<\/h3>\n
Baby pacifiers<\/h3>\n