View Poll Results: How many car seats do you/have you owned?

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    6 16.22%
  • 6-10

    12 32.43%
  • 11-15

    13 35.14%
  • 16-20

    5 13.51%
  • 21+

    1 2.70%
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  1. #1
    MamaSnoo is offline Sapphire level (2000+ posts)
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    Default Just for fun....how many car seats have you/do you own?

    DH asked me this one last night when we were discussing the "car seat shuffle." I was amazed by our number.

    So, how many car seats do you/have you owned?

    We are at 11 between 2 kids right now, but we need at least 3 more right now due to expirations and little people getting bigger!

    ETA: Our number is high (I think!), mostly due to the fact that my parents are local and we have bought seats for their cars. We also have a separate set of seats for the nanny..
    Last edited by MamaSnoo; 04-11-2014 at 10:43 PM.
    Bug-a-wug 3/2008

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    Default Just for fun....how many car seats have you/do you own?

    Here's our list (in order of purchase) for three kids: 8, 4.5, and 7 mo

    Graco snug ride 22 (expired)
    Britax marathon (expired, but I gave it to my parents once DS1moved out of the infant seat and I bought the roundabout because the marathon was pink)
    Alpha omega elite convertible, which was for Dh's car when DD was younger (expired)
    Graco nautilus: (now in DH's car)
    Britax roundabout 50: (now in DH's car)
    Graco turbo booster: was in Dh's car, extra booster
    Britax parkway: DD sits there now
    Britax frontier 90: DS1 sits there now
    Britax b-safe: Ds2 sits there now

    We do have a bubblebum I just bought for dd as a travel seat and to squeeze between the roundabout and the nautilus in DH's car if we need to fit all three kids in his car. If we don't need car seats in more than one car, and if I flip Ds2 forward facing when the roundabout expires (when he's 2 yrs 9 mo), then technically we don't need to buy more car seats. But I think I will buy once more convertible, so we can have car seats for all three kids available in both cars. Once DS2 is done with the infant bucket, I will buy some sort of convertible that can technically last him until he goes into a booster, which he will ride in my car until I flip him forward and stick him in the frontier 90 (by then DS1 can be in a HBB and DD by then won't need a booster), then the convertible can go into DHs car forward facing to replace the expired roundabout.

    So 9 plus the bubblebum
    Last edited by georgiegirl; 04-11-2014 at 10:37 PM.
    DD (3/06)
    DS1 (7/09)
    DS2 (8/13)

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    abh5e8 is offline Emerald level (3000+ posts)
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    This is for 4 kids:

    Combi bucket
    Radian
    Radian
    Radian
    Combi coccoro
    Scenera x 5
    Cosco booster x 3

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    loving my dh and our littles (dd ~ 11 yrs, ds ~ 9 yrs, ds ~ 7 yrs, dd ~ 5 yrs and baby brother ~ 20 mo)

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    We have two kids and one car seat. DS is almost 14 and long past using car seats. DD is almost two and has a Foonf.

    I've only moved the seat once, when I had to borrow FIL's car, and it made me wish we had a spare. But generally, we don't have a need for multiple seats. I'm a SAHM, nobody babysits her, and if DH wants to take the kids someplace he'll just use the car with the Foonf in it.

    ETA: I missed that you were asking have AND had! Oops!

    2 infant seats
    2 convertibles
    1 HBB (so far!)
    for two kids over the span of 14 years.

    Lara
    Last edited by queenmama; 04-12-2014 at 10:04 PM.
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    2 kids

    13 seats!

    We still have 7 (1 Nauti in booster mode, 1 Nauti with harness, 2 complete airs, 1 vivo HBB, 1 harmony LBB, and 1 BubbleBum)

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    For 3 dc we have had:
    2- graco snug rides (1 expired and 1 for ds2 currently)
    4- britax marathons (ds1 uses 2 currently all are close to expiration)
    1- britax parkway (dd uses in my van now)
    1-evenflo maestro (dd uses in DHs car)
    2- chicco next fits (ready for ds2 in the next 1-2 months)
    1- britax frontier (waiting for ds1 for this summer....I got a screaming deal on a floor model last week!)
    1- graco turbo booster (spare for friends/carpool)


    so 12 total!!!
    DD 7/07
    DS1 9/09
    DS2 7/13


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    For two kids:

    Key fit bucket

    Roundabout 50 x 2 - grandmas house

    Marathon - DHs car
    Roundabout 50 - DHs car

    BLVD X 2 -my car

    2 travel seats - can't remember what they are

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    It's crazy high for one kid:
    Snugride
    2 Marathons
    2 Radians
    1 True Fit (grandparents' car)
    3 Frontiers (2 had to be replaced due to crashes; 1 grandparent seat)
    3 Montereys (2 crash replacements)
    Oobr

    We've had a few small fender benders recently which have resulted in a pretty high number of crash replacements. Also, there have been seats in 2 grandparent cars which ups the number.
    DS, Summer '07

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    legaleagle is offline Diamond level (5000+ posts)
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    voted 10, but just realized I forgot about 2 of them, and I also have a ridesafer vest.

    Blvd classic
    2 radian xtsls
    combi coccoro
    marathon 70
    true fit
    peg perego convertible
    2 frontier 85
    frontier 90
    recaro performance sport
    recaro performance booster
    ridesafer vest

    3 kids, with 3 seats in my car & my mom's car, 2 seats in DH's car and 1 or more seats in my cousin's car (she lives with us). Truefit I trashed because it didn't tighten well, blvd classic is expiring in a few months - I got it when DS1 was 6 weeks old. Sniff, my baby is so old!

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    Only 2 at the moment for 1 baby. KeyFit in my car and a Nextfit in dh's car. Will pick up a screen a within a year to use as a travel seat. No family in town, so we take a seat with us when we visit.


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    DS 2/14
    DD 8/17

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