Typically, when I create my
Thursday "Best of Baby Design"
posts, I do not think about price
point. I like to find THE BEST
designed baby items whether it
be a revolutionary set of $110 Tegu
blocks or an equally awesome $18
backpack from Skiphop. But more
often than not, the well-designed
items that I come across exceed
what any sane person would or
should pay for them. Not that the
items aren't beautifully crafted. It's
just that kids are fickle. And dirty.
And have a tendency to break
things. And smart parents should
consider eventual snot and saliva
coverage before making a baby purchase. All this is why I have decided to create a feature called "Big Ticket, Little Ticket". This way I can highlight well-designed items at a price point we can all swallow while also showcasing the really gorgeous BIG TICKET items that are most likely only found in the carefully curated bedrooms of Miss Suri Cruise and Lord Barron Trump (pictured top).
Let's open with an $800 doll pram from Silver Cross, shall we?
Just so there is no confusion. This is a DOLL pram. Not a pram in which to put your regular breathing baby. This is a pram in which your breathing baby puts their fake unbreathing baby. Clear? And no, it doesn't come with a doll that poops hit pop songs inside. If somebody knows a person that would pay for this, please enlighten me. Scratch that. Call me. Then tell me where they live, so my baby can beat their baby with a free stick she found in the street. Cause nobody and I mean nobody (I'm talking to you Katie Holmes!) should let their child play with an $800 anything.
Which brings me to the wooden Haba Heart Doll Pram
Adorable isn't it? So tasteful and precious and at only $170.99, it's a— wait, WHAT? That seems ridiculous too! These manufacturers are aware that babies can be entertained by a cardboard box and a wooden spoon, yes? Alright, my bad. The wooden Haba pram just became THE MIDDLE TICKET. I'm going to give THE LITTLE TICKET to this affordable pink polka dot doll pram from Badger.
The Badger 3-in-1 Doll Pram
Love this! Will look forward to these posts for sure.
Thanks, Ilana. Now I know what Sophie is getting for her birthday (can you guess which one?)
Wow. And my kid got the $8.99 doll stroller I found at Toys R Us. And she has no clue she was deprived of anything. Great post!
You win:)
There must be plenty of people out there who fall into the “more money than sense” category otherwise manufacturers would just not bother making such ridiculously priced items.
I’m willing to bet Emme Lopez-Anthony has a Silver Cross, don’t you think?
great post. my friend’s five-year old has her own ipad. will forward address in two years so mazzy can cudgel her with her Leapster. Or your iPad.
If it’s the Silver Cross, please invite Mazzy to Sophie’s next birthday party. I have high hopes for the goodie bags.
Other than my daughter’s play kitchen I REFUSE to pay more than $30 for any toy for her. I know that sounds cheap but it seems that the more I spend on a toy the less she plays with it. Her current favorite toy? A set of meausuring spoons that she commandeered from the kitchen cabinet.
Actually, the Badger one is my favorite anyway! I think I’ll bookmark that for Christmas next year. THIS year, I guess. Whatever.
Besides doll stuff, Badger also makes a few items for regular, breathing babies. We have their high chair and love it!
“Commandeer” is now my new favorite word.
A friend just told me that inevitably the child sits in the doll stroller herself which usually results in the thing tearing so her daughter is currently on her third doll pram. You never regret not buying a Silver Cross:)
Mazzy has already “commandeered” my iPad. (see response below). It is a problem. We have to hide it from her or else she goes crazy trying to play with it.
Holy crap. My real breathing baby will not have an $800 stroller, much less my child to play with. But that $30 one, pretty damn cute!
I wish I could say that my real breathing baby does not have an $800 stroller but that is a story for another time. (Just to whet your appetite— it involves trickery and fraud).
I’d never heard of Badger before but I’ll look into it— thanks for the regular breathing baby tip:)
All of the above would be more then I would want to spend on a doll stroller for my toddler to bang on the ground, run into multiple walls and throw rocks into. So I bought a little tikes one for $5 at a garage sale, scubbed the hell out of it and don’t care if she throws rocks into it. Am I a cheap parent?!? Although the Haba Hearts one is totally adorable, would it be weird if I bought it for me to play with?
There was a documentary on women who ‘adopt’ doll babies. Like they can’t have children. Or it isn’t feasible. So they just play pretend. Literally. I think maybe that first pram might be geared toward them.
Or those families with too much money than sense.
heh.
In all honesty, I’m with you. But none of the REALLY cheap options had any good pictures. Maybe next time I’ll do Big Ticket, Middle Ticket, Little Ticket, Littler Ticket:)
Not cheap. SENSIBLE.
That is weird. If you have $800 to spend on a doll pram, then I’m sure you have enough money to convince someone to sell you their REAL baby.
Little ticket all the way on this one!! Actually, little ticket on everything! $800?? Craziness.
Um…if I could maybe get on the top, I mean VERY top of the list of first people to see Mazzy beat a wealthy-overly-entitled-child-with-an-$800-pram using a stick, I would be extremely grateful.
Yours sincerely,
An interested party
Done. Your name is right below Adam Sandberg. I am going to invite him to the occasion as I feel he would be an interested party as well.
This post was sooooo funny! About as funny as my kids opening their (approximately) five billion birthday gifts last year (joint party as born in same month) then promptly ignoring them all to play in the huge box one of them came in. And my eldest has been known to convert random boxes into TV watching cubbyholes, racecars, robot costumes … my theory is modern consumerism is killing imagination, kids instinctively know this so are bringing back old school play! But the spoiled rich kids shouldn’t despair, it is onlu a matter of time before the hottest toy is a gold plated empty box … 😉
We got the $14.99 stroller from Build-a-Bear 🙂
It’s difficult to find knowledgeable people in this particular topic, but you seem like you
know what you’re talking about! Thanks