Carrie McLaren, guest blogger on Boing Boing, uncovered a funny little artifact of parenting days long gone: The Window Crib. (Gasp!) Play n’ Plays are so 2008. Why not go old-school with this 1920s contraption? (Parents probably lit up by the aforementioned window, too, with their pack-a-day habits back then.)
Says McLaren on the off-beat blog: “Too bad I don’t live in the 1920s or I’d purchase one of these Boggin’s Window Cribs, a 2’ x 2’ x 3’ metal box that you could store your baby in at night (kind of like an air conditioner, but for babies). According to The Health-Care of the Baby by Louis Fisher (1920), window cribs were ‘admirably adapted for city apartments.’”
Seriously. Can you imagine how quickly Social Services would be knocking at your door?
Along with co-author Jason Torchinsky, McLaren wrote the recently released Ad Nausem: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture.
If you’re truly in the market for crib alternatives (and not looking to live dangerously), consider this top-seller, the Graco Nouvelle Plack n’ Play, $119.
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