Let’s Go Strolling only has one local sale (Bay Area if you didn’t know) each year and we really wanted to make it a charity event this year to help those in need during a rough year in the economy!  I’ve put some of the details below but for more details, click here to see our flyer.

Let’s Go Strolling Fabulous Annual Charity Sale

Date: Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Time: Doors open from 10 am – 3 pm
Come early for the best selection!
Address: 344 Thomas L. Berkley Way (20th and Harrison St), Oakland, CA
In the Kaiser Center Mall next to 300 Lakeside Ave,

More directions are on the Contact Us Page of our website

Bring in your previous clean, still-working stroller (including Snap and Go’s) for donation to a non-profit benefiting children in Alameda County (including domestic violence center A Safe Place and Henry Robinson Multi Service Center) and you will get a $25 credit to use towards any purchase during the Fabulous Let’s Go Strolling Sale.

Fun free raffles every hour for fabulous prizes from top brands including:
Fleurville Diaper Bags, Skip Hop Diaper Bags, Dwell Studio, Bebe Au Lait/Hooter Hiders Nursing Covers

10-70% off  Top Brand Name Strollers, Diaper Bags, Baby Carriers, Gear and more including but not limited to:
Bugaboo Strollers, Quinny Strollers, Valco Strollers, Phil and Ted’s Strollers, Bumbleride Strollers, Skip Hop Diaper Bags, Storksak Diaper Bags, BOB Strollers, Cariboo Bassinets, Ergo Baby Carriers and more.
 

This is a great time to upgrade your Snap and Go to a full stroller, buy up your baby registry items at a great price, or do your holiday shopping early! Come by, we guarantee you’ll find something you love!

At the ABC Trade show in Vegas, we were joking that all anyone wanted to show us was their new organic product.  It got to the point where we just asked, okay what do you have that is made from bamboo, organic cotton, BPA-free plastic, or recycled bottles?

With the recent announcement from Safeway, the third largest supermarket chain in the US, that they will no longer carry any bottles with Bisphenol-A, safety in baby products in on everyone’s mind.  Click here for details.

Whether you think it is all hype or a huge safety issue, there is no doubt that safety in baby and children’s products is a huge issue on everyone’s mind these days.  I’d love to find out what environmental/product safety issues you, our readers, are concerned or passionate about.  Do you think organic materials are worth the extra money?  Have you gotten rid of any Bishenol-A bottles or sippy cups?

I have three kids and while I bought new bottles for my baby that were BPA-free (not that she took a bottle but that is another story . . .), I’ve gotten some new BPA-free sippy cups too (the Klean Kanteen Sippy Cups ones are my favorites - dishwasher safe and cute colors), but I’ve kept some of the old ones too.  Somehow it seems worse to the environment to throw away 15 plastic cups than to keep using them.  But I am torn. . .

So here at Let’s Go Strolling, we have straddled the fence.  We have our own environmental-friendly icon to signal which products enviromentally-concious consumers might like, but we also stock the “regular version.”  We ordered the 4 new Serena and Lily Organic bedding sets (Maggie, Dylan, Rye, and Hazel) as well as their regular bedding sets.  We stock the Bebe Au Lait Organic Nursing covers as well as their regular patterned non-organic covers. We have the Organic Ergo Carrier as well as several non-organic colors, the organic and non-organic Ultimate Swaddling Blankets.  We also have several BPA-free products like the Klean Kanteen Sippy Cups, the OnTray Grocery Cart Shopping Tray, and the Zoli Snack and Formula Dispenser.

What environmental/safety issues matter to you in baby products?  Will you pay more for them?  We’re giving away a Bebe Au Lait Organic Nursing cover (you choose the color) to one responder who gives our their environmental shopping opinions and/or environmentally friendly products you would like to see us offer!

We really value your input!

P.S.  If you are an office fan, on last week’s episode, the Office tried to destroy an Orbit stroller at a baby shower. It was hysterical.  If you want to see this episode or a deleted scene where they are abusively road testing the Orbit Stroller System (without a baby), click here to view it on Orbit’s website!