To buy this without DH permission

[Gracie123]

I know I am but I don't care!! I'm so freaking excited!!

I just bought a Leebruss Premier Lift (see their website) for £150 on ebay!!

DH had semi agreed to let me look at second hand prams (they are sooooo useful with LO on the way and DS buggy is not suitable for new borns) but said he would like me to wait until we have moved house (4 weeks away) because he didn't want 'any more junk/furniture to move with us'.

But this was just too much of a bargain to pass up!! The car seat is brand new, still boxed and the pram seat has only been used once or twice. TBH it's this seasons colours, so can't be more than a few months old!!

Potential problems are:
i) DH asked me to wait and I didn't
ii) seller will only accept collection, no couriers, and as I don't fit behind the steering wheel at the moment, DH will have to drive 1.5 hours to collect it
iii) I haven't told anyone sex of baby - DH wants a surprise, and the colour of the buggy may just ruin this...

Seller has agreed to wrap it in black plastic though so that he can't see it when he collects

Saved about £550!!

The gender thing is a slightly odd one. We didn't find out at the original scan, then I had an emergency scan to check blood flow through the cord and the sonographer let slip to me the gender. I had kept it quiet, but once DH knew that I knew he wanted to know too! I had assumed he wouldn't want to because he didn't before.

He's actually really excited and says he doesn't mind too much about the pram as it was such a good deal. I think finding out we are having a little girl has softened him up a bit!

I've found it on ebay
I have to say it is very pretty!! Not something I'd have personally, but certainly something that I'd admire going down the street.
I'm glad DH isn't too mad with you, it is very exciting when you can buy things rather than hand me downs, we had that with our second, I loved being able to decide what I wanted (still second hand) and not just having what people had spare.
Now go bouce off the walls some more

I also think he is not in too much of a position to complain having spent £75 on black tie dinners (rugby, school etc...) and given £350 to a charity this month!

wow considerable saving

Thanks Nosleep I am truly bouncing!!

Best part is, I have just spoken with the girl selling, apparently she runs a pram shop and this is ex-display she is getting rid of to make room for a different window display. It has no boxes, but has never actually been used!! It's actually brand new! We never have anything brand new!!

It hardly compares Gracie123.

You're telling me that thing sells for £700?????

congratulations on pg,and thriftastic saving on pram

usually £579, but that is the basic one. This has all the fancy upgraded chassis, loads of accessories and the better car seat (although I'm not sure what the difference is).

If I was buying all this stuff separately I wouldn't have got half of it, so realistically I probably wouldn't have saved that much.

Realistically, I wouldn't be able to buy any of it at all at normal prices though, so in my fantasy world I just saved us £500!

I know I am late but I would say YABU based on my experience.
We don't have enough money to be spending over £50 on 'impulse' without checking with the other person, for all I know (and this has heppened) DH might have gone out to buy something on the same day which would put us in the shit.

The driving thing without checking is rude and the sex thing is also rude.
But you are pregnant so I will calm down.
(Dude, seriously though, it's a fucking pram I spent under £100 on all of the 4 mine have had!)

You've had four prams??

Okay, this is only my second.

I know I AB a little U, but I'm lucky to have a DH who indulges me now and then. It's my one little luxury, and it's not like I've bought anything else (LO will sleep in the same hand me down cot from DS that we got off freecycle, have the hand me down clothes from her cousins etc...)

Fact is, I couldn't have spent £5 on a buggy with our first (we were both students when we fell pregnant). We are in a different position now having lived very frugally and worked hard to build up some savings and to advance DH's career.

It's my first ever baby purchase and I'm excited.

Yes it's unreasonable to spend so much on a buggy, but I walk a lot, and it will get tons of use.

As I said earlier, we have to drive 40 minutes to our nearest Tesco, so DH doesn't actually consider 1hr 15 too far.

I'm also hoping that it will hold it's value (wipe clean!) so I should be able to get at least half that money back when I sell it on in a year or two

You were being U, but glad to see we have a happy ending

If you have to drive so much I hope that beast will fit in your car

Well, 4 prams sounds ridiculous when you put it like that
I had an old mamas and papas pram from my sister and a cheapy buggy from argos for dd1 and carried her ina sling for the first few weeks. Then I bought a maclaren buggy 2nd hand off ebay for a tenner which did for a few years. When DD2 was born I bought a £40 obaby and that is still in my kitchen going strong.
So that's 4. DD1 is 4.4.

I'm not having a go, I only think YABU as I would never have done it, but if you can afford it then fuck it. I know you only started the tjread to show off

Scroll down for range of colours - several of which I reckon you'd only get for a girl - so go on, which is it?!?! I LOVE the purple one myself.

And I am one of those who thinks YANBU because it's so nice!!

I find it strange to get so excited over a buggy but could easily do it over a handbag.

It does seem wrong though that somebody who can afford to give £350 to charity in one go can claim the surestart grant.

OK so the fact you tried to contact him makes all the difference IMO. You had to strike while the iron was hot and all that.

YANBU Enjoy your new dd - and her pram (am envious of both)

It's my first ever baby purchase and I'm excited.

Gah - well in that case YAVVV much NBU

Also you walk lots - so did I. People who walk everywhere appreciate good prams. I had a 2nd hand Gesslein that I paid £100 for - it was blinking brilliant. The people I bought if from paid (or rather her parents paid) over £500 for it and she'd barely used it. This was 10 years ago BTW, so pre-Bugaboo. People though I was mad for wanting a "proper" pram back then.

I had a similar Silver Cross.

But I did walk everywhere.

I waned the purple one too, but alas it was still ridiculously expensive.

We got the pink and White one.

As for the money going to charity, DH spent his half term doing labouring work on a building site and was rewarded with some money which he chose to give to charity as it was not part of our regular income and was not included in our bugdet.

We live off £10,850 a year, but live frugally and actually manage to donate to several charities on a regular basis. As we earn significantly less than most people, yes, we are entitled to a grant to help with one off payments (pram, cot, real nappies).

How much you give is down to personal priorities, but there are people earning a hell of a lot more than us claiming grants and I'm sure they spend more than £350 on things we chose not to have, like holidays, or a new car, or branded products/food. The fact that we choose to give some money away shouldn't negate us from recieving the same help as them.

I'm just hoping, for the baby's sake, that the scan was accurate!

Although I guess the baby would be the last person to care.