Normally, I am the opposite of frugal. I warned N. from the start that any financial planning and money saving will have to be done by him because I’m useless at it. And since he is phenomenal at these activities, we complement each other very well.
However, I have discovered one area of existence where I balk at the idea of spending big amounts of money. And that’s buying expensive things for an infant. The infant will not be capable of appreciating anything that can be bought with money, right?* I haven’t spent much time with infants in the past 30 years but I believe that what they need is to be completely sure that they will be fed, protected, comforted and cuddled whenever they want to.
I’ve tried to analyze this reluctance and all I got is that I do have a massive problem with people trying to give others not what those others really need but what they have decided the others need.
Everybody who wants to buy expensive things for baby Eric (you know who you are!) is welcome to do so, however. Don’t let my issues stand in the way of yours. 🙂
* I can guarantee that he will be the very first among all his friends to get a car of his own, though. I also saw a tree-house that I really want to get him if we have a place to put it. All of this means, of course, that he will be one of those weird kids who want neither a tree-house nor a car. Maybe he’ll want a piano and then I’ll just have to jump off a cliff.
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