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Did you buy your car seat or was it gifted to you?

  • poll: Did you buy your car seat or was it gifted to you?
    We purchased it : (52 votes)
    48 %
    It was gifted : (45 votes)
    41 %
    other : (12 votes)
    11 %
  1. twodoghouse

    honeydew / 7230 posts

    Both infant seats were gifted! I was surprised and thought we'd end up buying at least one. We didn't register for convertible seats, though, so still have two of those to buy!

  2. HLK208

    pineapple / 12234 posts

    @regberadaisy: so B has had 6 of those. His infant car seat, 2 convertibles (one for DH's car), a booster that only worked when he didn't sit in the middle seat (before N arrived), a booster for grandparents car and a booster that actually fit in our middle seat.
    Then, a new infant seat for E so grandparents could have B's infant seat for their car plus it was boyish. Then a convertible seat for E. Which we traded her old seat in for to get a 25% discount on her convertible seat...before we knew we wanted a third baby! Soo, I had to buy a new infant seat for N, which she has nearly outgrown and the new convertible seat is in my Amazon cart right now since E won't be in a booster for 2-3 more years! Oh and we gave B's old convertible seat to Rainbow Sprinkles last year after B outgrew it!

    ...dang, kids are expensive!

  3. Foodnerd81

    wonderful cherry / 21504 posts

    Other- the infant seat was handed down from my nephew. But we bought our convertible.

    If we hadn't had the hand me down I expect someone would have gifted us the infant seat- it's a popular shower gift for family/ grandparent to get.

  4. yellowbird

    honeydew / 7303 posts

    gifted the first and bought the second

  5. NorCalWayfarer

    nectarine / 2134 posts

    Infant carseat and extra base were gifted at our shower. We bought three convertible carseats (one for our car, one for each of the grandmas who watch DS 2 days a week).

  6. regberadaisy

    GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts

    @HLK208: oy!

  7. GreenThumb

    pear / 1986 posts

    We got a hand-me-down infant seat and two bases from my sister and we purchased our one convertible.

  8. MrsRcCar

    grapefruit / 4712 posts

    Infant seat and stroller was gifted by FIL. We bought all our own convertible seats ourselves.

  9. PrincessBaby

    cantaloupe / 6610 posts

    We bought all of our own car seats.

    We are going to have to buy 2 more Clek Foonfs once LO2 outgrows the infant seat and I wish someone would gift us those lol:)

  10. lamariniere

    pineapple / 12566 posts

    We bought them. I bought the infant seats used because we don't have a car and used each one maybe 3 times. I bought the convertible seat and DS's newest seat new.

  11. Astro Bee

    pear / 1503 posts

    TBD. We've purchased everything so far (nursery furniture inc. glider, stroller), and had registered for them all initially, but started buying things when we decided we needed to IOT be sure that the nursery was complete by the time baby comes. For other stuff, it was a matter if buying it on sale.

    Both my mom and MIL asked this weekend what we needed, even though they've had access to the registry for months now, and I mentioned the car seat. One of them will probably buy it. If they don't in the next 4 weeks, we'll just buy it ourselves. I don't like to leave things to the last minute.

  12. caitlanc

    cherry / 156 posts

    Our infant car seat and extra base were gifted. We bought our primary convertible car seat and use a family hand-me-down convertible car seat for the truck.

  13. lawbee11

    GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts

    Bought all of ours.

  14. psw27

    pomelo / 5220 posts

    Gifted our infant seat by a group of friends and my brother generously got us a convertible car seat (even though we hadn't registered for one!). We didn't even think about how quickly he would need a convertible, so its awesome to not have to buy one now.

  15. Mrs. J

    pomelo / 5132 posts

    My grandma bought the infant seat (technically, the stroller and the seat came in the Britax sale), and we bought all the convertible seats.

  16. pui

    bananas / 9899 posts

    Our infant seat was on our registry, but we bought it ourselves. Someone did buy an extra car seat base for us though (we have 2 cars).

  17. Corduroy

    pomelo / 5258 posts

    We borrowed two infant seats from family and friends. We bought our convertibles and a convertible for my parents' car.

  18. CatchAFallingStar

    nectarine / 2806 posts

    I was gifted a Britax Marathon and we bought another Britax infant seat so we'd have the carrier while she's tiny. My friend who bought the Marathon wasn't happy with me for buying the other one. But, oh well!!

  19. spaniellove

    honeydew / 7916 posts

    We bought our infant seat and convertible seat and still haven't gotten around to buying a seat for DH's car...one day!

  20. Meowkers

    persimmon / 1364 posts

    my grandma bought it for us.

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