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We have a Bumbo – it’s been purchased for less than £15 including postage and it arrived in its genuine Bumbo box. It’s not a Chinese fake, it’s real and it’s brilliant except for the faint smell of cigarettes. I HATE people who lie about their non-smoking home on their eBay sales. OK so it’s only happened this one time but I still hate it. I found out because I picked it up off the floor and sniffed the bottom. I don’t make a habit of sniffing things but my baby’s stuff is important and I picked it up and just had a sniff and there was the cigarette smell. I guess it will disappear in time in my non-smoking home but it does spoil the excitement a little.

Husband did all the things I either can’t be bothered to do or physically can’t do – like picking sales that end at midnight when I am asleep, to place bids on and searching for weird spellings of Bumbo (although that could yield some very strange items!)

I got my boy to model his new thing for you and he looks happy… although he may have been having a pee at the time. It can be hard to tell the difference some times.

Boy in his new chair!

The Bumbo buying has been taken out of my hands. After several abortive attempts to purchase Bumbos from eBay which resulted in me running around swearing like a trooper and taking it out on him indoors, husband has decided he is going to buy it for me (deliberate or cunning, you decide). Trouble is he says he’s not going to pay more than a certain amount for it. We could be waiting until the baby is walking.

April 2008

I’m no good at eBay. I wish I was because I keep seeing stuff on there that I really want for the baby but I get outbid EVERY time. I’ve seen fantastic cots that I think would be amazing in the nursery but I put a bid on and try to win but there are some seriously determined mammas to be out there. I know white cots are trendy but people are paying nearly new prices for them on eBay auctions. I’m clearly just bitter because I keep getting outbid but I don’t have time to just sit around waiting for auctions to end and I really don’t want to spend fortunes on a nearly new cot. Is there an evening class in buying stuff on eBay? Maybe I should sign myself up to that now – or the whole recycled baby project is going down the pan before it’s even got going properly. Anyone with any tips please feel free to share!