Productopia | Car Seat Strollers

My family is already on our third car seat. We're big into donating and recycling, but we couldn't do either with our first infant car seat: Most charitable organizations won't accept donated car seats because of liability issues and most municipal recycling facilities can't handle the extensive labor involved to break down a car seat, so you can't just stick one in your recycle bin. 

So, we left our car seat on the curb with a "Free, Please Take" sign. Our seat had several years left before it surpassed the expiration date, hadn't been recalled, and hadn't been in any car accidents, the main reasons most charities won't take them. And because places like Goodwill or Salvation Army can't verify the latter at all, most of us with these backseat behemoths on our hands are stuck trying to find another, responsible way to make sure they don't end up clogging a landfill.

Luckily there are ways to recycle car seats, if you know where to look, or who to bother. Read more

If a stroller is on your must-buy list, your choices are vast. Most definitely, price becomes a factor in your decision. We have discussed before whether a high price stroller is worth the cash, but in the process of reviewing strollers, a bad customer service experience raises this question again. Read more

Seven years. Three children. That's the resume my old Graco MetroLite LE stroller boasted. If it were the back of a baseball card, I'd say it had a Hall of Fame career. After spending a couple of years in storage, the stroller was called back into action a year ago when my youngest child arrived. He'd been using it right up until this weekend. Frankly, the stroller was great. Sure, it stopped looking shiny-new many years ago, but it worked as well as ever. My wife and I figured it'd get us through child number three, after which the Graco would get its proverbial gold watch. Then, this weekend, its career was cut unexpectedly short. Read more