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The average baby costs more than $9,000 during his or her first year of life. Given this, parents are faced with tough budgeting decisions when it comes to their newest family member. Where can they save money? On which items should they avoid bargains in the interest of safety?
1000 Best Baby Bargains answers these important questions and more while providing parents with one thousand proven money-saving tips. Author Kimberly Danger, owner and operator of Mommysavers.com, has pulled together the essential tips that help parents save in all areas of their budget, including:
€ The nursery-what to buy, what to borrow and what readers can live without € Baby food-breastfeeding saves money, but so does pureed adult food € Baby clothes-don't buy anything to size and borrow if you can € Maternity clothes-thrift stores, garage sales and girlfriends € Financial planning-budgets, college, wills and insurance
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By renomazdamom
It's not too bad. There were a few helpful tips in there, but some of it was common sense and a lot of it you can find on online forums instead of buying the book. It was also missing a lot of information I got from online forums so overall it wasn't really worth it.
By Sorted Out (Plano, TX)
As a mother of twins, this book has given me so many different ideas on how to save money with raising my two girls. Everything from buying diapers, wipes, and clothing this book has helped me out so much! Any parent or expectant parents should buy this book today! Tips on babysitting options is well worth the purchase price!
Tonia Tomlin
Owner of Sorted Out, LLC
Author of Chaos 2 Calm: the moms'-of-multiples guide to an organized family
www.sortedout.biz
www.chaos2calmbook.com
By A. sayers (NY)
This book wasn't what I thought it was. Alot of the info in here is common sense and advise, but there is plenty of useful info reguarding free stuff and crafty ideas on how not to waste money on useless things that everyone tells you you need.
By Naomi's mom (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
There are many problems with this book ranging from harmless to disconcerting. If you have done your homework by reading other books/leaflets, you will probably wish that this book was entitled "Do It Yourself Baby Rearing At Your Own Risk" instead of "1000 Best Baby Bargains". Here's a short list of the most troubling aspects of the book:
1. Overpriced for something that can be quickly read in an hour or two. Especially since most of the info is available for FREE if you go to Planned Parenthood (re: WIC), your OB, or your hospital's FREE intro sessions (e.g. in California they will give you a First 5 kit with even more valuable local support resources).
2. Even many of the do-it-yourself suggestions are not novel. If you're into sewing, you couldn't possibly miss the baby sections of the pattern catalogs. If you're not already into sewing, now is probably not the time to start for most people given that there is a learning curve, shopping, raging hormones at play, and perhaps unrealistic expectations about how great the final product will look on your first try.
3. The safety suggestions lack explanation and completeness. It is even shallower than what you will find in the FREE parenting magazines at your doctor's office.
4. Some info is downright wrong. Reusing breastpumps is not recommended because some of them, like the super popular Medela Pump-In-Style is not a closed system and thus there are some parts, exposed to breastmilk, which cannot be replaced. The replacement tubing offered by some hospitals cost upward of $70 (so new but simpler pumps may be cheaper). You can find this info for FREE at retail websites or through Medela's own FREE literature that is handed out at hospitals.
5. Some of the recommendations, e.g. modifying the holes in bottle nipples runs directly contrary to the manufacturer's recommendations printed on all nipple packaging. Sure, you can try to do it carefully as the book suggests but I think your baby is worth more than the $1 or less that you will save per nipple. Certainly you'll feel like an idiot if something truly awful happens.
I didn't read the entire book but what I read would indicate that one should be reading other books... in which case, why bother with this one? Btw, I found this book at my local library for FREE.
By Meg (Mount Arlington, New Jersey)
My husband and I are on a tight budget right now and this book has been very helpful, especially for first-time parents. It provides lots of practical advice and while some previous reviewers may claim it is all common sense, that is just not true. They have suggestions of things I would never have dreamt of (but are creative and useful from people who have already been there and have good suggestions to share.) I choose the tips that will be most useful to me and I am sure that I will come back to this book again and again.
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