Buying Baby Milk before baby born?

Fairy_Michelle

helen21 wrote:

What about putting some money each week onto one of those boots gift cards, or gift vouchers for mothercare, or tesco do beautiful baby stuff and also dried milk so vouchers from there would be good if they do them

HTH

Be careful if you are going to but vouchers or a gift card some stores do not let you use them for baby milk.
Michelle

miss_calculation

Good thinking Labradoodle it's a great idea to think ahead. If I were you I would open up a kids account in the name of the child you already have (if you don't have an account open already) then set up a direct debit from your current account for a small amount each month. When the baby is born, withdraw this money as and when you need it to pay for nappies and milk etc this way you earn tax free interest on it! and don't have milk going off in your cupboard! Yuk
Hope this helps.

Lillibet_2

barbie_babe wrote:

you could buy the nappies ready each week in boots and save up the points to buy the baby milk when baby arrives.

You can't use any loyalty points on baby formula unfortunately and you can't earn loyalty points on it either.

Hollydays...erm....nappies don't have sticky tabs anymore, they are a very cheap thin velcro now!!!

Please can I point out that Labradoodle11 has quite pointedly asked about how to save for buying formula, not for everyones opinions on breast versus bottle so please could we all try to be supportive & stick to the point. The breast milk debate has come up so many times in the past if anyone needs to refer to it, and as Labradoodle says this is not her first baby, I'm sure she is well informed & capable of making her own decision.
Don't mean to sound harsh but I can see this descending into the usual argument before long:heartpuls

Spendless

What about taking advantage of Boots points now on the Boots Grabbit thread, especially where they pay you to take stuff away:grinheart and saving those points to pay for nappies in the future.

I don't see a way round being able to buy milk in advance. My eldest only got on with 1 brand too and in those days it saved me £1 a tin buying it from the baby clinic. With youngest the saving was only a few pence though they were bigger savings to be had on different brands, but after trouble I'd had with the eldest I didn't dare try. I have read on here that baby clinics are stopping selling milk at prices lower than the supermarket.

If you really don't think you'd be able to save the money up, what about using the extra child benefit you'll get towards the milk.

pdoff

u can't buy boots own nappies with points either - but u can buy huggies & pampers using the money off coupons in bounty packs etc. make sure u join boots parenting club 4 all the offers too. if your baby has colic & HV suggests dr. brown bottles, buy from ebay - i got 6 for same price as 2 new - just get teats. cheap ones from home bargains (79p i think) fit even tho boots SA said i needed dr brown ones at over £3! glad i only got 1 lot!! good luck!

tyllwyd

Apologies if you already know this - but if you register at the pampers website you can get £4-worth of coupons.

Karnam

coupon crazy for nappies. i combine these with the 2 packs for £15 at boots so i can normally get 2 big economy packs for about £11. some SA are really annoyed by this and wont do it, but insist they try at least and it'll work.

cant help with milk though, im a BF-er.

funky-footprints

as a formulae feeder with my son it took three differnet types of forumale to find one that worked with his tummy. Obviously i ended up binning two opened but barely used packets. so i wouldnt recommend buying in bulk ?

jellyhead

i'd recommend trying to save the money for milk instead of buying milk, unless you're pretty sure on which brand you'll use. i tried a couple of brands - normal, hungry and omneo comfort (it's a stay-down, low-lactose milk). i don't think anywhere will exchange milk, so if your baby doesn't like the brand you've bought you either end up with an unhappy baby or buying new milk.

i use boots points for nappies, and also buy them online (free delivery on large orders) if there's a good points offer on. i buy huggies so i don't know about using points to buy boots own brand. boots and asda have both exchanged packs of huggies for me when i've bought too many of a partticular size (my baby grows too fast lol!).

i don't know what to recommend if you don't think you can keep the savings without being tempted to spend on other things. um ... spendless mentions child benefit. it's around £11.50 a week, rising in april, for a subsequent child. that might be just the right amount to buy nappies and formula each week? i think it's roughly what i spend. you get better discounts for buying nappies in bulk but if you're the kind of person who can't save money (my sister is too lol!) then maybe using the child benefit each week to buy one pack of nappies and one tin of milk might be your best option.

the only way i've found to get a saving on formula milk is to buy it from asda, using coupons for things like nappies to get a discount (you don't have to buy the product on the coupon - my asda takes up to ten percent of the cost of your shopping in vouchers, an excellent saving if you're cheeky enough and can find enough coupons). so i can save 70p on a £7 tin of milk.

carpool72

Also, with nappies I found we had to do a bit of trial and error to find the right brand as a couple leaked all the time - they seem to fit slightly differently. I'd have been well-annoyed if I'd bulk-bought to save cash, then found they were no use! What about 'locking' the money away somewhere so you can't spend it by accident? If you have internet banking you can probably set up a savings account quite easily that you can automatically transfer a set monthly/weekly amount into. I did this when I found out I was pg, then forgot all about it - had I just put it to one side I would DEFINITELY have spent it:blushing: