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AdventureMom · Apr 20, 2007

Tomorrow is spring cleaning trash pickup here - you put out anything you don't want and the city hauls it away to the dump. And, a bunch of people like myself and my neighbor cruise around together looking for treasure...

Well, we got THREE old carseats! Not sure what they are yet - it was dark and my neighbor got out and grabbed two for me. The one I looked at had a DOM of 1995 and was a shield seat (? - shield on the lower part of the harness). One of the other ones was from 1992, according to my neighbor.

We got some good stuff, too - an art easel for Nolan, a sandbox for her child, etc... :thumbsup:

rlsadc · Apr 20, 2007

cool!i got some great yard sale deals this past weekend!

Jewels · Apr 20, 2007

When I read the title of your post I wasn't think carseats

LOL!

Good job!

thepeach80 · Apr 20, 2007

Awesome! We have that starting here too, but you have to take it to the designated areas, you can't just leave it out. Of course DH has to work a few Saturdays for it now so I'm stuck trying to find a babysitter for upcoming checks. I'll have him look for seats too.

JaRylan · Apr 20, 2007

Wow, you did get lucky!

I'm looking forward to hitting some yard sales soon. Tomorrow is a used clothing sale at one of the schools, not sure if I'll find any seats there or not.

Erika Ruth · Apr 21, 2007

I am new here, and I really don't know much about these things, but do people REALLY use these old seats if they find them? My friend who is super frugal always buys old Britax seats at Garage sales and Craigs List, so I guess the answer is yes, but I could NOT imagine buying a used seat from someone I didn't know very well. (I didn't know about the harness washing thing before you all posted about it).

Erika

JaRylan · Apr 21, 2007

Erika Ruth said:
I am new here, and I really don't know much about these things, but do people REALLY use these old seats if they find them? My friend who is super frugal always buys old Britax seats at Garage sales and Craigs List, so I guess the answer is yes, but I could NOT imagine buying a used seat from someone I didn't know very well. (I didn't know about the harness washing thing before you all posted about it).

Erika

Erika,
Oops, noone here would use a used seat that they found on the side of the road or bought at a garage sale or didn't know the complete history of. But what do people do with expired or second-hand seats?

- training purposes for CPST classes, having a variety of seats gives people the chance to practice installing a full range of seat models

- anger management, find a old seat, cut the straps and cover, proceed to destroy the car seat using whatever method relieves the most stress

- ensure that as many dangerous, expired, unknown history seats are permanently taken out of circulation as possible

I hope you find an expired seat of your own someday soon and when you do, have fun! Welcome to the forum.

caringnz · Apr 21, 2007

Any photos?

AdventureMom · Apr 21, 2007

Okay, here are the carseats:

1995 Century (shield on the bottom of the harness - also has 1985 stamped in the plastic of the seat? 1995 is what's on the straps, so hard to tell when it was manufactured.)

1996 Century

2001 Graco (and this one looked older than the rest! The straps are awful, the cover looks like rats have been chewing on it...

)

Not sure where my friend got "1992" from - but it was dark so I guess she couldn't read it correctly.

We'll have a carseat bash someday. :thumbsup:

JaRylan · Apr 21, 2007

AdventureMom said:
Okay, here are the carseats:

1995 Century (shield on the bottom of the harness - also has 1985 stamped in the plastic of the seat? 1995 is what's on the straps, so hard to tell when it was manufactured.)

1996 Century

2001 Graco (and this one looked older than the rest! The straps are awful, the cover looks like rats have been chewing on it... )

Not sure where my friend got "1992" from - but it was dark so I guess she couldn't read it correctly.

We'll have a carseat bash someday. :thumbsup:

Make a video and post it on youtube!!!

broken4u05 · Apr 21, 2007

Good job... Why would someone still have a 95 seat

flipper68 · Apr 22, 2007

Erika Ruth said:
I am new here, and I really don't know much about these things, but do people REALLY use these old seats if they find them? My friend who is super frugal always buys old Britax seats at Garage sales and Craigs List, so I guess the answer is yes, but I could NOT imagine buying a used seat from someone I didn't know very well. (I didn't know about the harness washing thing before you all posted about it).

Erika

Definitely! Many people have no concept of the SAFETY (or expiration/recall issues) involved in car seat use. They think, a car seat is a car seat. Buckle it in the car, buckle the child in the seat and you're done.

Many believe if they can get something that costs $100 for $25, they've gotten a great bargain without realizing they may be risking their child's safety.

The "infamous" Ann King (see NE Techs/Safe Kids), tells the story of why her SK coalition now destroys seats: They used to write on them with Sharpies: "Expired. Do not Use. Recalled." etc. until one came BACK through a check up event. (Some one had dumpster dived and taken one of the confiscated seats and used it. Granted, the person could have just been scamming for a free seat, but. . .)

skaterbabs · Apr 22, 2007

broken4u05 said:
Good job... Why would someone still have a 95 seat

Because not everyone "believes" that seats expire. Many people are convinced it's just a scam to sell more seats.

TheRealMacGyver · Apr 22, 2007

Cool. I'm a garbage-picker from way back

My wife can't stand it, she makes me take her home and then I have to come back alone to take someone's trash! I'm always hoping someone else doesn't move in during that time! I could write about 5 pages of the things I've garbage picked. You'd be surprised at some of the nice stuff people throw away. In fact, tonight's garbage night, I think I'll scope out the neighborhood for goodies. The rich neighborhoods are the best, they throw away all sorts of good stuff. Sometimes they even throw them away in the original box (you have to watch for this). Happy hunting.

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