Double Stroller Freedom

When your babies are only 15 months apart, if you're going to go anywhere, they pretty much both need to be strapped into something. So far that has limited me to the toddler in the grocery cart and baby in the carseat or a baby carrier. If Marty is coming too, we just take two separate strollers, which is a pain in and of itself. Not having a good double was pretty constraining on where I could go with the kids.

After our Christmas vacation to visit my family in San Diego, between the airport and outings around town there, we decided it was time to bite the bullet and get a double stroller.

Marty was on board with me getting something that I would really like, and he believed that he was okay with paying big moolah for it as long as I would be happy (he really gets the whole happy wife, happy life thing). I researched, and researched, and went to baby stores and tested strollers out. I finally found exactly what I wanted... and it was a measly eight hundred buckeroos.

Well, being the Cluffs that we are (if you haven't met many Cluffs, they are quite the frugal people), we set about to see what kind of smoking deal we could find. For some reason these strollers are not popular in Utah, so we couldn't find any used ones for a decent price here. We decided to check San Diego and found one listed for $200. I had my parents go check it out and whipped out my very best haggling skills via cell phone and got the seller to take $120. Whaaaat?! #hustling

My parents shipped it up to us because they are wonderfully generous (using the Greyhound bus system nonetheless, I didn't even know they ship! They are much cheaper than UPS for giant packages that are not in a hurry).

Yesterday we took 'er out for a spin around the neighborhood and I was quite happy with the choice and I think the whole family was glad to get some much needed outside time. 40 degrees? We'll take it! I recently heard that Norwegians have an expression that goes something along the line of "there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing", so we bundled the kids up and off we went.


(Side note: this is classic Peter and Carolyn. He's either laughing his head off or has a grumpy face, and Carolyn always has a smile on her face.) 

Let's get a close up of that.


That is one cute baby. 

I think I'm going to go to the aquarium sometime this week and test out how I like the stroller when I'm on my own and navigating it indoors. If I really love it, we're probably going to buy new fabric to get the updated canopies that have come out since this model. If we do that, the stroller will be practically brand new for about a third of the price of new. Not bad I tell you, not bad at all. 

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