Oct 27 2009
Throw Out the Box!
Saving family’s budget for long term can begin from now, even though when we haven’t raised a family instead.
I’m interested in an article in a site months ago, which wrote that if you intended for smart saving, you may start by not buying a baby crib.
Coz it’s more sense if you buy an adult-sized bed so your kid can use it until they grow up later. I assume that the person who wrote this, he hasn’t had a baby.
Or even worse, he was broken coz he’s ever had a baby.
Babies never ask to sleep on a bed which got star on it. Kids never ask a bed with stars, either. So why should we buy beds with stars around it? Photo from http://thearticle1.com
But it’s true, coz a baby crib is an happening-not-happening in someone’s life.
If you think it more, if you’re a baby, then you sleep in a baby crib.
When you grow up, just about three years old later, are you gonna keep sleeping inside the crib? Of course not.
You’ll gonna ask to move to a bigger crib, a.k the “real” bed, just a bed which hasn’t got a rail on it. The question is, what are you gonna use the baby crib for, then?
Then I think, that actually babies never request to be laid down in cribs.
Actually the people who want to lay them down in it are their parents.
So, it’s gotta be the parents who bother mostly for picking up a crib, they bother to hurd up a crib which has Winnie the Pooh figure on it, then they wanna hang a toy which make sound “klenong-klenong” above the crib, and they hunt small pillows which smell like a baby oil.
The baby?
It doesn’t wanna sleep inside the crib, it just loves to lay down in its mommy’s arms instead.
Parents hunt for buying lamps, pillows, toys, and even towels which have lambs picture on them, so they match to the sheet. What an effective way to teach the kid to be a farmer as it grows up later. Photo from http://maternityandbabyshoppingmart.com
I also feel how hard it is to maintain a baby crib.
My sister was born three years younger than me, and I saw her got a baby crib.
It made her sleep alone, and she didn’t sleep with our mom.
Those years, I hadn’t slept with my mom anymore; we were still in the same room, but I got a single bed for my own.
As my sister grew up, she slept with me and the baby crib was buried in our storage.
I think, it was an effective way for farming rats.
There are lotta solutions for recycling baby cribs.
The most effective way is by donating them to orphan houses.
But now I don’t care about it. I just care, that do we really need baby cribs or not?
Coz if we don’t, then we shouldn’t buy it.
So as the baby is born, then it sleeps with us, and we have to sleep with its urine smell voluntarily.
Hm.. and my husband won’t be able to hug me in our bed coz the baby joins sleeping with us. J
A baby gazes to its mom on another corner and it desires to sleep with her. But her mom just lays it down in a crib. Photo from http://thekidswindow.co.uk
By the way, I never sleep in a baby crib.
Coz when I was born, my parents were in a difficult condition, coz my dad worked in a very far place from town, so it was hard for him to buy me a crib.
When things were getting better and that year my dad could move to town, I had grown up and I didn’t need any crib anymore. And I guessed, I really didn’t need any.
Probably my sister did, coz she wasn’t sung lullaby by my mom, but our maid did it for her. 
Suddenly I wanna have a baby now.. Hahahah!
17 responses so far
yeah, its good to saving money but if you have a budget, the crip also reflected more representable points,especially when your relative come to visit the baby. It is not really comfortable also when someone came and touch your bed. It’s personal reasons i guess.
I never put my baby in a craddle. I just shared our bed with her. She’s 3 years old now, and I’m about to get her to sleep alone…
salam sobat
wah manis banget ,,,box bayinya,,
warnanya juga disesuaikan dengan cat ruang tidur ya,,,
Nice Baby BOX…
salam super,,,
great ,,, i love this article…
it can be my references for my future..
Hohoho..saya lupa kalau alasan kenapa orang beli tempat tidur bayi adalah buat nyediain bagi para tamu yang kepingin pegang-pegang bayinya. Supaya bayinya jangan dipegang di ruang tidur orangtuanya ya? Masuk akal.. Mungkin itu sebabnya orang berlomba-lomba menghias kamar tidur bayinya, truz nyocok-nyocokin perabotan dengan temboknya, bahkan sampai ke boneka-bonekanya..Apakah untuk membuat tamu-tamu terkesan?
Saya belum tahu bagaimana perasaan Sodara-sodara yang nggak nyediain tempat tidur bayi khusus. Tamu yang mau jenguk bayinya dipersilakan masuk saja dong ke kamar tidur orangtuanya?
lha..henny baru sadar kalo mbak vicky punya blog dari friendster
artikel yang bagus mbak. sebelum baca artikel ini henny punya pendapat bahwa punya boks bayi adalah harus, soalnya agak susah ninggalin sang bayi di atas tempat tidur, takut jatuh.. tapi kalo dipikir-pikir, memang ada banyak cara yang lebih efisien untuk merawat dan memberi kenyamanan pada bayi.
btw..sama kayak mbak vicky, dulu henny juga nggak ngerasain gimana tidur di boks bayi
Jiaah..blog saya di Friendster lebih tua daripada blog saya di Blogspot, Hen..
Yaah..saya kan dulu waktu kecil nggak pakai boks tuh, dan nggak pernah jatuh. Justru setelah umur saya udah gede gitu, pernah jatuh dari tempat tidur gara-gara mimpinya terlalu aktif.. Hahaha!
Hmm, bagaimanapun segala jenis mainan or aksesoris pada box bayi dapat memancing reaksi bayi. Mereka sangat tertarik pada bunyi-bunyian dan warna-warna. Bayi akan lebih responsif dan cepat tertawa.
Kalo bayiku dulu kutidurkan dulu seranjang denganku, setelah bobok pulas baru dipindah ke box. Takut ketindihan hehehe…..
Oh ya, memang bayi itu perlu diberikan mainan yang banyak warna dan bunyinya. Karena mainan yang demikian itu punya kontribusi positif untuk perkembangan bayi.
Pengalamanku waktu merawat bayi pas jadi mahasiswa dulu, kalau bayinya menangis, buru-buru kugendong. Maka berhenti menangis deh dia. Tapi waktu kutidurin di boks lagi, dia nangis lagi. Huwaaa..!
this post just remind me from my past as baby,…
*sumpah gak paham bahasa inggris nih mbak/
sayangnya blm punya bayi euy :d
Kalau belum punya bayi ya bikin dong..
read this post and feels like “damn! I really wanna have a baby now”
You’re 22. Still got lotta choices to go.
waduh keren banget boks bayinya…
jadi pengen cari ranjang yang model begitu, ada nggak yah?
Kayaknya yang sejenis kayak gini pernah dijual di Surabaya deh. Coba dicari aja di sana