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Part of a series of post ideas I need time to sit and flesh out.
Buying a pram for your first child is like buying a car without ever having driven one before.
It can cost an arm and a legal and in some ways one may feel they are outsourcing the thought by buying a more expensive and therefore well designed pram, but much like cars, more money may mean a better car but not always.
Things I learnt buying a pram:
1. Unless you know the seller or you see it directly don't buy second hand.
Things get rusty and old in the garage and a pram is no exception. It has levers and springs and breaks and you want all those moving parts to work smoothly. Nothing is worse than a jolty pram with poor stearing and breaks that stick and have to be sawn off to function. You know those shopping trolleys whose wheels stick when you go outside the mall? A shit pram is akin to driving one of those.
Funny until it happens to you.
2. People will throw out anything.
Just as people will try making a buck selling a shit pram, people also throw out perfectly fine prams that are of amazing design. A few weeks after Moe purchased her much thought out new lighter pram with amazing steering and great canopy, she finds the same one on the road side with nil issue in full working order.
It now sits drying in my. Courtyard after I agressively washed it using laundry detergent and a backyard hose.
3. Check the design features. A large canopy may seem obvious but it's not until you have one with a small canopy you realise how your poor child is suffing with the bright Australian sun in her face. Even in winter at 11am, prams with shit Canopy Will just shine right in her face. Never mind the smooth ride, that'll ruin anyone's day poor baby.
Who makes a pram where the canopy is useless in any weather except night or cloudy?? Clearly someone does...
4. Get the bigger undercarriage basket.
You know your going to need it.
Don't over fill it though. Like an overfilled bag your just going to break it.
Don't be that 20 year old trying to stuff 10kg of groceries into a bag that can probably only handle 3kg. Carry the backpack you little shit or just put less stuff in the pram. Your pram will thank you by not breaking.
Buying a pram for your first child is like buying a car without ever having driven one before.
It can cost an arm and a legal and in some ways one may feel they are outsourcing the thought by buying a more expensive and therefore well designed pram, but much like cars, more money may mean a better car but not always.
Things I learnt buying a pram:
1. Unless you know the seller or you see it directly don't buy second hand.
Things get rusty and old in the garage and a pram is no exception. It has levers and springs and breaks and you want all those moving parts to work smoothly. Nothing is worse than a jolty pram with poor stearing and breaks that stick and have to be sawn off to function. You know those shopping trolleys whose wheels stick when you go outside the mall? A shit pram is akin to driving one of those.
Funny until it happens to you.
2. People will throw out anything.
Just as people will try making a buck selling a shit pram, people also throw out perfectly fine prams that are of amazing design. A few weeks after Moe purchased her much thought out new lighter pram with amazing steering and great canopy, she finds the same one on the road side with nil issue in full working order.
It now sits drying in my. Courtyard after I agressively washed it using laundry detergent and a backyard hose.
3. Check the design features. A large canopy may seem obvious but it's not until you have one with a small canopy you realise how your poor child is suffing with the bright Australian sun in her face. Even in winter at 11am, prams with shit Canopy Will just shine right in her face. Never mind the smooth ride, that'll ruin anyone's day poor baby.
Who makes a pram where the canopy is useless in any weather except night or cloudy?? Clearly someone does...
4. Get the bigger undercarriage basket.
You know your going to need it.
Don't over fill it though. Like an overfilled bag your just going to break it.
Don't be that 20 year old trying to stuff 10kg of groceries into a bag that can probably only handle 3kg. Carry the backpack you little shit or just put less stuff in the pram. Your pram will thank you by not breaking.
