Hubby put my beautiful pushchair in his manky boot when I specifically asked him not to!

[cancantcan]

Bit of background, I'm VERY careful with my pushchairs, and like them to look nice. about 2 months ago, my husband put a pushchair I had sold in the boot of his car (which is filthy as he carries oil etc around in it) without my knowing, and it ended up with a manky stain on it and I ended up scrubbing it clean at work while waiting for the courier. Needless to say I was NOT impressed and forbade him ever to put my pushchairs in his scabby boot ever again.
Fast forward to today. He forgot to pick pushchair up from my mums when he collected DD yesterday, I forgot tonight, I had arranged to get it tomorrow, but then he got time wrong for a meeting at church and thought he would do me a favour and nip up to get it tonight for me, which I greatly appreciate BUT despite me having specifically asked him to put it in the front of the car which I know is clean, he has ignored me and put it in the boot. I have just paid £80 for a new hood and footmuff from poshbugs (he knows this and knows how much it cost me, and that I have saved my own hard earned cash). He cant understand why I am so pissed off that he ignored me.

am I being unreasonable to be angry at him for risking ruining £80 of covers when I specifically asked him to put the pushchair in the front?

Wait until you have banana mush to scrape out of your pushchair's crevices, or sticky patches of apple juice on the hood. Or do you not let your DD have the odd snack in there?

DS's buggy hood has perpetual marks from all the half-eaten apples that he hands back to me and that I then stash in the folded-up hood! Life's too short to worry about such things.

how many pushchairs have you had then? How many dc and how old.

bloody funny thread.

Rollergirl - yes I do use my pushchair as an accessory, some people have bags some have jimmy choos etc, each to their own.

On this occasion, the wheels werent dirty, or I would have told him to stick the chassis in the boot and the seat with the expensive covers in the front.

How often I change them depends on whether I like the pushchair when I get it - I always buy second hand as cant afford to lose money buying new, so that means I cant really try before buying.
Shortest time I have ever had one was 4 days (loola) longest was 4 months (bugaboo)

longest is 4 months

four months! [faints]

I dread to think what would you think of my antique micralite!! It has banana stains that are older than your pushchair

Actually come to think of it, it probably has banana stains that are older than DS2...

we only binned our buggy because it fell apart after 2 years of twins

2 DC's eldest 5, little one is 3. Have had around 20 pushchairs in the last 12 months.
I was a perfectly normal and law abiding member of society until my DD turned one, I have been a prammie ever since.

DD Doesnt really need a pushchair anymore, but her royal person prefers to be pushed than to walk, and since she can whinge for england, its just easier to push her. I have done my time with banana and juice on the pushchair, I now tend to buy pushchairs where the hood fabric all comes off for washing too

Although I fail to understand the pushchair replacing hobby, if you have the money and it makes you happy, then who is anyone else to judge. (Although 4 months for a Bugaboo is a bit )

I don't think YABU, DH should have listened, if he knows you collect them/use them as an accessory it's no different than putting a designer bag in an oily boot.

sorry, but another at 5 yo in buggy

gosh no, the pushchairs wasnt only 4 months old! Cripes I dont have that sort of money!
Everything I buy is second hand, I meant the longest time I have kept the same pushchair (since becoming a prammie that is) is 4 months.

You can't afford to buy new but the longest you've had one is 4 months?!

Theyoungvisiter got it exactly right on page one I think.

Bejesus! You sound a total nightmare and incredibly obsessed about tiny unimportant things.

lmao. ok.. the length of time thing is a bit silly.

I have a 3yo Graco Mirage i dont use.
a 2yo Maclaren Quest i use all the time
a 2nd hand Maclaren Twin Techno i use all the time (interchange these depending on if i've got one or both kids with me, lol.)

They are indeterminatly full of bread crumbs from DS's fruit loaf habit.

But ftr.. i'd still be pissed if DH got oil on them!

20 pushchairs?

You push your 5yo around in a pushchair because it's easier than getting her to walk?

You might be a little bit mad.

Hmmm, I think your DH must have the patience of a saint to be honest. Going through 20 different pushchairs in a year sounds loony to me. Would you be as tolerent of your DH changing the car so excessively?

Well, I think you're mad as a bag of badgers for caring that much about a pushchair, but on the other hand, YANBU about asking DH to respect things you have saved for.

"Hubby" though, I'm really struggling with

LOL duckyfuzz, 5yo wouldnt be seen dead in the buggy, but he does cadge a lift on the back if its a steep hill.

I can see you have all very limited experience of the world of pramaholics.

In my defence, I will say I have only once sold a pushchair for less than I paid for it.

Buy him a boot liner for xmas problem lessened.

Maybe he didn't want pushchair with wheels that have gone over manky pavements/dog poo/etc in the front of his car.

Ok I guess if you always sell them and make money that's totally fine. I don't get why you love pushchairs but I'm sure there are things I love that would leave you cold.

You do need to stop pushing your DD about though!

Oh I thought you had a young baby. The pramaholic thing does become a bit more odd when you have a 3yo and a 5yo, I have to say!

Rollergirl, if, like me, he sold each car for slightly more than he paid for it, I wouldnt be upset at all.

Genuinely curious - isn't this obsession/hobby going to come to an end pretty soon if dc2 is 3? Or are you going to have a 3rd to fill that 5-point harness?

Have read some of this. Cancantcan, you do sound completely bonkers!

YANBU. I really don't understand why people treat their expensive items in such a cavalier manner and don't care about them getting damaged when easily avoidable. "It's only a pushchair" - well maybe cancantcan feels similarly about some of the things other posters feel strongly about and wouldn't care if they got covered in oil - but you would.

I think it's unfair that the OP is getting bashed for taking pride in her belongings and wanting to go out with a nice looking pram. Go back a generation and you wouldn't find people going "well it's only a pram, who cares if it's covered in oil". My cousin is extremely meticulous with her things - which is why I have a beautiful, immaculate old school Silver Cross pram waiting for my baby. Am I glad Sarah is a "take care of things" girl - you bet I am, and I will take as much care of it as she has.

Looking at myself in a lighthearted way - you are all completely right, I am bonkers, but remarkably sane where it comes to anything other than pushchairs.
The one I have is the last one, I really dont need another, and I do love the one I have, which is why I spent the £££ on the covers - I have never done that before, always just washed/mended the existing ones.