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post #21 of 27
10/10/07 at 12:45am
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Originally Posted by Curlita View Post
Yeah, I had that thought too. We know you, Gina! Feeding moldy cheese to starving orphans! Don't deny it!
Why not? My kid tells me all the time it's okay to eat moldy things. Eeew!!!
post #22 of 27
10/10/07 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by mittendrin View Post
But just think you live in a very hot climate where the seat get heated up to over a 100 degrees 6 months out of the year the plastic would probably in way worse shape after a few years.
also, if you store your car seat in the attic b/w kids... the attic gets WAY HOT
post #23 of 27
10/10/07 at 2:20pm
Just chiming in again, the reason I have always heard for the 6-year expiration is plastic fatigue. I don't think it has anything to do with the actual straps, just that the plastic might not hold them in the proper place once it gets old and brittle. A car seat definitely goes through a lot, there is the constant heating and cooling during the summer months as you go from blazing sun to a nice air-conditioned ride. Then the opposite during the winter months, where the plastic goes from below freezing to warm and toasty over and over again. It makes sense that would begin to have an impact on the plastic even if you can only see that impact under extreme circumstances.

Now, I did have a big dilemma earlier in this PG, because our infant seat is a bit over 6 years old so it is expired, yet it has only spent about a year of its life in an actual car and the other 5 years in a temperature-controlled part of the house. So I do believe we or someone else could use it again safely. But OTOH the safety-features are not as good as they could be, like it has the 3-pt harness instead of 5-pt. So we are still getting a new seat, a Britax, and I am resigned to dismantling it and putting it in the trash at some point... boo hoo!

Oh, and OT for Gina: We don't have the money for a carseat either, I feel your pain! We also fall in the cracks for all those programs. But when anyone asks what we need for the baby, we tell them that all we need is Target gift cards to go towards a seat. Some listen, some don't... but so far we've been given $65, and every little bit helps!
post #24 of 27
10/10/07 at 2:22pm
I had two old seats to get rid of so I took all the straps off them & threw out the straps in my regular garbage. I put the seats in another bag (so no one could see that they were seats & take them) and put them in the trash. I really wasn't sure what else to do.
post #25 of 27
10/10/07 at 3:54pm
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Originally Posted by Undercover Hippie View Post
We don't have the money for a carseat either, I feel your pain! We also fall in the cracks for all those programs. But when anyone asks what we need for the baby, we tell them that all we need is Target gift cards to go towards a seat. Some listen, some don't... but so far we've been given $65, and every little bit helps!

Good idea!
post #26 of 27
10/10/07 at 5:49pm
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Originally Posted by Curlita View Post
Gina, I initially adopted a skeptical stance about this also (a plot by The Man! The Man trying to bring us down! Fight The Man's insistence that we overspend on plastic baby buckets! Ahem. Sorry, I seem to be a bit slap happy)
Ok OT, I'm sorry, but this just cracked me right up.
post #27 of 27
10/10/07 at 6:05pm
Well they do have us by the 'nads, you know? Birth and death, two things that happen a lot and with both comes these HUGE expenses.
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