Fionnuala Moran
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So we've got that kind of stuff on the way as well.
My mother-in-law has been knitting nonstop.
So we've got lots of gorgeous little bits like that.
So that's been a really lovely, sustainable element of it.
Now the RSA with the car seats, that is one thing they generally don't recommend buying secondhand.
You can, it's just that they do say you can't fully know then if it has been in a crash before.
You want to know that you have all of the specific safety measurements met.
So that is something that we are getting new.
I think absolutely.
And I think we are, thankfully now with sustainability becoming much more mainstreamed in Ireland, we're sort of moving away from that like, oh, are people asking because we can't afford it?
I think because we came from the famine historically and we were so, so poor here in Ireland for years, there was this real pride thing of, oh, we have to buy everything new.
Whereas now we're kind of seeing like,
we've moved far enough beyond that, that yeah, we can absolutely lean into community, see what people have, see what they don't need.
And as you say, people are only thrilled to get rid of the bits as well.
I have one pal who's pregnant as well at the same time, but won't be due until a little bit later than us.
So even all the birth bits, she's like, don't buy anything.
We have everything.
Like people don't want you wasting your money on anything you don't need to be at this time.
It is a mad expensive time of life, no matter how sustainably you do it.
So yeah,