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I'm the author of Momfidence! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a mom of four in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where you cannot even buy Oreos at the two groceries nearest to my home).

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This Week's Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie Award

May 10, 2008

This Week's Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie Award (and make that a zwieback) goes to the practice of buying designer babies' and kids' clothes because you saw it on some celebrity's child in a magazine or a loathsome celebrity-baby-ogling website. One mom does so to prove her son can be "as hot as any celebrity baby." Hello? The words "baby" and "hot" don't go together any better than "hot" and "mom." And why would anyone want their own adorable individual taking any cues from Shiloh Jolie-Pitt or Suri Cruise? And unless you have their parents' incomes, all I can say is shop the Gap Kids-Gymboree-Target sales and save for college.

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...or at least spending that spare $25 not on pint-sized-camouflage-socks-as-seen-on-Gwen-Stefani's-son but on something that won't be outgrown overnight. Like something for you!

Comments

Elixabeth says...

No joke here: A business colleague of my husband (who we barely know) gave us a Burberry baby jogging suit (that they bought at Filene's, I think) when our son was born. I never took the tags off of it (my son would have worn it for about five minutes before outgrowing it). I held on to it for a year, and last week, put it up on eBay. Someone paid $175 for it. My eyes almost popped out of my head. $175 into the college fund, thank you!

Now, given the state of the dollar, this was a bargain for the person in London who bought it, but still...that kind of dough for an outfit that the baby will wear for AT MOST a few weeks. Unbelievable.

kathy at parenttalktoday.com says...

Amen to that! I shop for my son at Target and Old Navy and we manage to keep this fast-growing kid in jeans — AND save $$$ for college! And when he was younger, we both bought and sold baby clothes at the consignment store. Got nearly new stuff for a song. It's the only way to go for those of us with real-life budgets.

Kathy