New car or a new stroller?

December last year we bought a Simo stroller in preparation for Baby S’ arrival. The last year we have been playing with the thought of buying a new car. A Citroën C3 isn’t exactly the roomy family car needed when you have to have room for a baby car seat and a baby stroller..and still need room for anything else.

not the biggest of cars…buy love my little blue C3

A few weeks back we got to test out packing skills in playing Tetris (remember that game??) with the stroller and the car seat .. Lets just say we concluded with the need for a bigger car….or a smaller stroller…
At a random visit to Babyshop we came across Stokke Xplory. And we thought why didn’t we have something like that??? A stroller that you can attach the car seat in??? This way it would take up way less room in the car…much more manageable. After listening to the nice shop girls’ sales pitch we went home and looked at other brands equivalent.
We still had some requirements to the stroller…amongst that it had to be small when folded, so it would go into our cars trunk. It also had to be sturdy and good to maneuver around . We did some surfing and read some reviews, and found that we would go for Maxi Cosis Mura 4.

just  what we needed…the carriage holds the car seat and takes up minimal space in out trunk

As this was our reserve stroller we thought we would buy it second hand. Strollers are expensive here in Norway, when bought brand new. We were in luck and found a second hand one on finn.no. We even got more than we at the moment wanted, the additional carry cot/bag and pushchair. Making this a complete set for Baby S from birth to pre-school’ish…

a solution for pushchair, pram/carry bag AND car seat

So for now…no new car…

…yet…