Case in point, bedding. We have to choose something for young Master Barnabas' crib that truly captures his jois de vivre (did you know that my child is already brilliant and bilingual? he is!). So Kristen and I hunkered down at our separate computers yesterday in search of something so utterly amazing that it will make our lives five to ten times better than it possibly could be.
And we found it. Look at this crib set. LOOK AT IT!
It's incredible. It's funny, stylish, cute, modern yet classic, cute yet fresh.
And it's $380. And that's not including the pillows.
It's organic, which I'm sure is a wonderful thing, and it's made by a small company (Pixel Organics), which I'm sure means that they're not employing 8-year-old seamstresses and dumping toxic dye into the ocean, but come on! $380? They have some non-organic options (ugly fishes) which we like, but they're also really expensive. (I think they're $280, which, to me, is still stupid costly.)
I mean, it would be one thing if within 3 hours of bringing Barnabas home from the hospital there won't be poop, vomit, and/or urine stains all over the thing, but these are going to be destroyed by our child!
Plus, $380 is more than I paid for the black Subaru I owned back in the late 90s! (Sure, you couldn't make turns too quickly because of various internal leaks that would cause billows of black smoke to cough out of the exhaust and, yes, 60 mph was its maximum speed, but it worked! And it was a car!)
So I am torn. Cheap or cute? Cute or cheap?
Yet another thing to worry about.
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The average cost I'm finding is about $200. So the scary fish is right in line with that. They're both really really cute though.
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