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The Car Seat Lady

By on October 15, 2012 in Featured

If you have young children, you know how ridiculous car seats are. The instructions seem to require a PhD to follow correctly. You can’t use them for multiple kids, because they have expiration dates. You’re supposed to throw them out if you’ve ever in a fender-bender accident, but you know that your UPS man drop-kicked it onto the porch when he delivered it. You can’t donate a car seat to a charity like Goodwill, because they can’t sell it.

The Car Seat Lady has made a business out of consumer’s car seat hassles and offers experienced, private car seat installation lessons in the New York City and Baltimore areas. Here’s more from the New Yorker:

Men, of course, do not give birth, but they have their own shadow form of labor: installing the baby’s car seat. This seemingly simple job has ruined plenty of golfing Saturdays, even for guys who solved Rubik’s Cube when they were younger. Thankfully, in Manhattan there’s an expert for everything, and if you’re expecting a son and have no idea how to get him home from the hospital, you can call Alisa Baer, the Car Seat Lady.

Baer, a twenty-five-year-old medical student with curly black hair and a nonsense-free manner, doesn’t have any kids herself, but she can tell you which car seats will and will not fit in your Volvo V40.

She used to make free house calls, but now she asks that people bring their seats to her. She’s also begun charging forty-five dollars per seat, because New Yorkers told her they didn’t trust something they didn’t have to pay for.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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  • http://www.babyonthego.co.uk Kerr Bullock

    Here at BabyOnTheGo you can chat to us on our live chat about that car seat you are looking at before you buy it. If you have a look on our websites top right hand corner you will see our live chat button click on it and say hi we are here to help.

  • http://www.milelongadvertising.com Mile Long Advertising

    You’re not wrong! We made the mistake of buying one of those baby chairs that transforms into a million variations, one of them being a car seat for our kid. It takes so long to work out how to change it that your kid is likely to grow out of it by the time you work it out!

    Or maybe I’m just thick!?

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    Maybe I should go into business? I’ve had no problem installing any of my daughter’s seats. They’re not really that difficult, just a bit frustrating.

    They really have expiration dates? Things like that lead me to believe that the carseat makers are just trying to make more money.

  • Nick

    Angela I bet if you took your car seat to someone who is certified in this you would find that you have it installed incorrectly. My wife installs car seats for the gov and does about 20 a week she has been doin this for 2 years and has never had anyone who has had it installed corectly. The exp date definetly has a purpose all materials especialy plastics break down over time the sun, heat, and cold break down the necessary active agents that hold the plastics and vinyl together.

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    Nick – Good point. I think this opens up an unique opportunity for the right inventor. Since car seats are not easily installed by the average person, an easier to use car seat is in order.