Do you secretly judge parents by their strollers??

[Anonymous]

IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE! <hurries off to resurrect other classics, like Onesies = Trashy>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I own a bugaboo and I don't give a damn if you all judge me. We live in Gtown and it's been great on the bumpy streets. Just had #2 and got the bob double so I guess I am guilty in all your thrifty minds. In fact I also wear quilted jackets as do my children and drive a Tahoe.

Tahoe??? If I had money I wouldn't drive a Chevy.

[Anonymous]

I had a Britax Vigor, a Maclaren and a City Jogger. All for one child, different stages. Where does this put me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, I would never in a million years depend on what people TELL you they make. If you see someone with a cheap stroller and a NICE house, yeah, they're probably doing much better than anyone would expect.

Not always the case. Have you heard of "house poor"? I know some people who live in a NICE house, but can't afford decent diapers because it's so expensive.

[Anonymous]

No. That's ridiculous. I haven't seen anyone who has the particular stroller I have. Don't care what people think of me because of it, and don't think anything of people no matter what stroller they have.

[Anonymous]

I have the city mini and a Graco, Gotta say, the graco is much more confortable for DD and has more bag space underneath.

I think i pre judge people based on their ridiculously expensive strollers, They just don't look as useful. The newish ones where the seat is super high and almost on a pole on wheels, has no basket, why would you want a stroller like that?

I also judge clothes though. I go to Gymboree and dress my DD is gap/old navy/gymboree/childrens place/H&M. For gymboree though she wears leggings and a tshirt, Its gym.......There are a couple of Moms whose kids wear super expensive designer clothes/dresses with frills etc, I think to myself, They must have money to burn.

[Anonymous]

I judge mostly if the stroller is part of a bigger picture/problem.

I have a neighbor who brags that she gets her children's clothes at her church's clothing swap, yet she and her husband are both lawyers who each drive luxury cars. This same mom pushed her newborn around in a boxy, 80s-paint-splashed graphic stroller in 2004. Yuck.

Another mom I know kept upgrading her stroller so that her kindergarten-age boy could hop in the stroller to "ride" home from school along with her baby. Weird.

[Anonymous]

A store clerk once told me that that the amount of time spent with a shopper depended on what kind of stroller their kid was in.

Not a surprising fact but I was surprised that she told me. But I suppose she felt comfortable because DD was in a Maclaren.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE! <hurries off to resurrect other classics, like Onesies = Trashy>

Ooh- onesies are trashy? I've gotta look that one up.

[Anonymous]

Yowza. I thought it was only in middle school that women judged or even noticed such minutiae as this.

[Anonymous]

I have a bugaboo bee. It was the only stroller that worked well from birth for our apartment with a very narrow front door (at the time). I measured countless ones. All too wide. And since I rode the bus, a big heavy stroller was out.

It also served as our "car" because we walked everywhere and it needed decent storage space for groceries and had a very smooth ride for a tiny newborn. It was a good purchase for us, but we did a lot of research.

I didn't live in the US when I bought it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE! <hurries off to resurrect other classics, like Onesies = Trashy>

Ooh- onesies are trashy? I've gotta look that one up.

Me too! Why are onesies trashy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I lived in Ireland for a year and everyone there seemed to have very expensive strollers/ prams/travel system/pushchairs,etc. or really high-end like Maclaren umbrella strollers. Now in my hometowm huge Graco, Baby Trend and Chicco Travel Systems Rule! Along with cheap umbrella strollers. In my opinion strollers in Ireland and Europe, look so much nicer, have better features and are classy compared to what I see at home back in small town USA. The other day I saw these two trashy dressed, Ghetto, low socio-economic looking woman walking together pushing their children in a Stokke and a Maclaren in my local Mall, I almost had to double take! It did just not add up and made me wonder how they knew about or were able to afford those types of strollers from the way the looked and acted.I guess in a way I was judging, , I found myself questioning their lifestyle and stories, it just seemed so out of place!

I work with homeless women who push their children around in very expensive (donated) strollers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I lived in Ireland for a year and everyone there seemed to have very expensive strollers/ prams/travel system/pushchairs,etc. or really high-end like Maclaren umbrella strollers. Now in my hometowm huge Graco, Baby Trend and Chicco Travel Systems Rule! Along with cheap umbrella strollers. In my opinion strollers in Ireland and Europe, look so much nicer, have better features and are classy compared to what I see at home back in small town USA. The other day I saw these two trashy dressed, Ghetto, low socio-economic looking woman walking together pushing their children in a Stokke and a Maclaren in my local Mall, I almost had to double take! It did just not add up and made me wonder how they knew about or were able to afford those types of strollers from the way the looked and acted.I guess in a way I was judging, , I found myself questioning their lifestyle and stories, it just seemed so out of place!

I work with homeless women who push their children around in very expensive (donated) strollers.

In a way?

[Anonymous]

Why in God's name did someone revive this thread?