We received our crib rebate. It came out to $219, which is awesome since we only paid $125 for the old crib with a mattress. We (I) found a crib at Babies ‘R’ Us that I (we) really like. It was marked down to $299 with an added twenty percent off. Subtract the amount of the voucher and add it to what *we* originally paid and we have a brand new crib with old mattress for $145. This crib doesn’t have the drop down side like the other one did and I’m glad because I kept forgetting to pull it up at night and it didn’t seem like a good mechanism for a crib. The old crib had a spot at the bottom that you push with your leg in order to scoot the drop-down front down the plastic tracks. The sliding side is held in the down position by two little rubber stoppers. They still sell that style, that mechanism is not the aspect which caused the recall. But as someone who used it for ten months, I decided I don’t like it. The new crib is the “lifetime” convertible type. It’ll switch to a toddler daybed and then a regular twin-size bed. It’s GORGEOUS!
I know, you can see a jean butt in there and you want a close-up of what’s inside the crib…
