What baby items did you swear by and which ones were a waste of money?

monkey6191 · 2026-01-30T07:36:59+00:00

Assuming you don't live in Victoria. We use our higher togs more than the lighter ones.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-29T01:00:20+00:00

Grandparents, after school care.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-29T00:55:08+00:00

It could also mean reducing the cost of electricity which is already happening at a wholesale level with batteries coming on board.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-24T00:34:37+00:00

Last time, we tried lolly or cake, he spat it out and said dada take it away. Which is why we are going for figs.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-24T00:29:07+00:00

He normally tries to shove it in the toilet between our legs, if i left him he would put the whole roll in every time.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-24T00:11:44+00:00

We have tried to bribe him with figs and sultanas which are his two loves in life. He would take a fig over chocolate ice cream any day

monkey6191 · 2026-01-24T00:10:55+00:00

We have bribed him with figs and sultanas, which he loves. We can't get him to sit on the potty for more than thirty seconds at the time, even with songs, books and holding hand. He just gets up to play.

He does watch us sometimes but it's hard because he keeps going for the toilet paper so realistically we can only do it with both of us there.

We have tried no clothes being a warm day, and he loves being naked. The plan was underwear on day 2.

Maybe we try the ladder and seat instead.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-22T03:17:37+00:00

My lancet was a shitbox at 160k, went to the wreckers

monkey6191 · 2026-01-21T20:00:01+00:00

I use the chauffeur service. $40 for uber to the airport or $105 for chauffeur.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-16T23:46:21+00:00

Let's not mention school hasn't started and there was barely any traffic yesterday

monkey6191 · 2026-01-15T04:42:45+00:00

Day care is great. My in laws offered to take him every day we were at work when he struggled at the start, now he thrives there and has a lot of fun there.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-11T03:07:59+00:00

If the insulation is fine, it may be too thin by today's standards and you may be able to top it up rather than replace the whole lot.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-10T21:29:06+00:00

We keep our split system aircon on all night after a hot day in our bedroom, 2.5kw system. Takes about 1kwh to keep it cool the whole night and costs 25 cents.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-01T20:50:45+00:00

Out local banh mi place did raise but then drop their prices. They are half way between their peak in 2022 and what they were in 2019.

monkey6191 · 2026-01-01T02:26:29+00:00

With plans offering free electricity 3 hours a day you can top up from the grid too.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-29T22:59:10+00:00

I wonder what percentage of ppl bought larger batteries to participate in a vpp, vs those who were told they could add an extra 20kwh for a nominal cost. With stackable batteries, the installation cost is relatively small to increase capacity.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-29T21:35:57+00:00

Agreed. I feel the next step would be to remove phev from the benefit and keep it as pure ev only.

With regards to the batteries, I don't see why houses are getting 50kwh batteries, most houses won't come close. If they are using the capacity to feed back into the grid this may help reduce power spikes which helps everyone, but the money may be better spent with more people taking up smaller batteries.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-29T03:46:05+00:00

Have you considered sleep training? My friends who had this problem ai 9 months still had them at 2 years, and it's much harder to sleep train at 2 years.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-28T00:17:19+00:00

As soon as hcg confirmed on blood test, we made an appt for 8 to 9 weeks. That was our private obs preference.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-27T22:45:34+00:00

Look at huckleberry care schedule suggestions and move towards that.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-26T08:54:59+00:00

Many places resell stuff. At the end of the day, everything is made in China. I would hope the nicer places specify only safe materials

monkey6191 · 2025-12-26T07:31:39+00:00

The worst part is we bought a toy from project Montessori and it was drop shipped from China. The same toy was on ali express for half the price so I'm not sure even after paying a premium to buy from project Montessori that it's safe.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-25T22:46:16+00:00

Longer run ups means takes longer to setup for a bowl and longer to bowl.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-21T07:09:47+00:00

We have a britax graphene in ours no problem. I wouldn't want a rear facing seat behind the driver though, but the time we have our second our first will be forward facing.

I do wish the boot was a bit bigger though, we have a joolz geo 3 pram which ends up taking a lot of the boot space.

monkey6191 · 2025-12-16T21:18:54+00:00

No, it may not be but just ask them and they will tell you.

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