Intervention

I fear I might be one purchase away from a full blown Craigslist intervention.  I can't help it.  I love the idea of reusing and saving money at the same time.  After waiting 4 years to start our family hearing our social worker say it was a good idea to have the nursery set up for our home study and adoption profile was music to my ears!  Adoption can be costly so it was time to combine two of my favorite oxymoronical hobbies, shopping and saving money.  Yes this can be done.  Enter Craigslist.  Since I am very proud of my current savings I thought I would share some of my fantastic finds :)  all baby related of course.

Beautiful white crib retails for $210 new, paid $80 for gently used.  Savings $130

Pottery Barn changing table retails for $399 new, paid $75 for gently used.  Savings $324

Carter's Giraffe bouncer retails for $64.99, paid $35 for it still in the box!  Savings $29.99

In Step 5K jogging stroller retails for $99.95 new, paid $20 for gently used.  Savings $79.95

Arm's Reach Co Sleeper mini retails for $149.99 new, paid $40 gently used.  Savings $109.99

Evenflo Pack and Play $99.99 new, paid $25 gently used.  Savings $74.99

Chicco Keyfit30 carseat and base $189.99, extra base $84.99, Chicco infant carseat stroller $99.99, JJ Cole Bundle Me $49.99 Total new 424.96, paid $140.00 gently used.  Savings $284.96

While I'm not sure we will use the car seat as buying one used makes me nervous we certainly needed the bases, caddy and bundle me!  And I paid less for all of these items than I would for a new carseat alone.  For those of you keeping track that's a total savings of $1033.88!!

That number makes me smile and so does seeing all this fantastic baby stuff around the house.  It's making things more real by the day!  Now, back to my Craigslist Ipad app :D