AIBU to get a new Bugaboo when I have a perfectly serviceable Britax travel system?

[kitsmummy]

My dear MIL has offered to buy us a new Bugaboo (Gecko or Cameleon) for baby due in 3 months time. This is my dream pram and it's such a generous offer, but I don't know whether to accept or not as we have a 5 year old Britax Travel System from first baby, it was only used for 3 months, so is immaculate and to be honest it doesn't even look particularly dated. The bugaboo will cost about £700 with car seat and I feel really quite guilty about accepting cos strictly speaking it is unnecessary. I am, however, yearning for a Bugaboo. Or would we just be better off using the original travel system and just getting a new Maclaren from the MIL for when baby is a few months old? What would you do? Would the longing for a Bugaboo win over the guilt of accepting?

i love my bug and it would have been even better if someone else had payed for it

Get the bugaboo, you no you really need it lol

i have a 5 week old loola that is soon going to be replaced by a bug....

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YABU!!!!!!!

There are better prams out there! My bugaboo carry cot only fitted DD for 10 weeks!! and after a year she was uncomfortable in the seat which is really really small and i used my maclaren chavalong buggy ever since. So they look good and are a dream to fold down, but thats where it ends. My mother brought mine for us too, but i wish i'd gone for something else on reflection.

Oh, im selling mine by the way - only used for a year

Lovely MIL! Say "Yes please" and don't look back

oh yeah and the maxi cosi wouldnt go in our car!!! so we had a britax car seat - i dont agree with pushing babies around in car seats when they have been sat in them for ages. The pram was good for that.

I agree re second hand, although i rather wish we had gone down that route instead - £700 for a pram?? I must have been mad

I think the carrycot on my older Frog was better than the Chameleon, friends had the Chameleon and didn't get much use out of the carrycot.
Agree totally about car seats- they shouldn't be used as prams IMO.
I've got a carrycot for my Micralite, with new pushcair, for my next baby. The whole thing cost us 150 pounds!
I think 700 pounds for a pram is quite . My mum paid 500 for our frog, which I thought was an outrageous amount of money- but I didn't argue as my Dad is soo stingy I thought I'd let her get on with it.
Sold it for 350 after two babies so it did last well, buyer was very pleased with it.

YANBU I did same and am very pleased I did (and I was the one who spent the cash, as MiL had bought the original one - now handed over to friend in need) I work part time and looked at it as being a month's maternity leave pay or annual leave well spent

I could never feel any love for my Maclaren. It tips, too. But I love my Bugaboo Bee (my 9th stroller). Get a Bugaboo and enjoy it! You can eBay if you don't like it!

Get the Bugaboo, but you wont get a Gecko new as I don't think they sell them anymore.

get the bugaboo, have a frog, got it when i had ds2 after having a britax travel system for ds1 that was shite.

the bugaboo frog i have is still going strong nearly 8 years later, i am using it for dd, who is baby no 5!

Icook they probably did sell them 3 years ago! Does mnhq throw up these old threads or do people look for them?!

I've just posted on another old bugaboo one

Oh shit didnt look at the date the thread was made.

The kid's probably walking now lol