Best Inexpensive High Chairs and Car Seats

I'm not sure about high chair brands, but as far as features on a regular high chair, you want to be sure you get one with wheels. We drug ours all over the kitchen, even the house.
We have a couple of friends who used the Fisher price Healthy Care booster as well. It's a perfect combo of high chair and booster. It's nice that it's portable and you can take it along to visit relatives, even take it in a restaurant.

For carseats, the Graco Comfortsport convertible toddler seat is likely one of the least expensive ones. I think we paid $80 for ours at Target. We used this for both our kids and they loved it. (edit) It's true that the harness straps are rather low, but our daughter is in the 10th percentile in size, so she didn't outgrow it til she was nearly 4, and ready for a belt-positioning booster :-). Our son is already too tall for it at 2 1/2, so he's in a regular forward-facing, 5-pt-harness booster now (I believe the Graco Ultra Car Go booster). However, we did love that little Graco convertible seat because it was so easy for them to nap in the car. The Ultra Car Go is also easy to sleep in (it doesn't go rear facing though). When my 4 yr old is tired, she asks to sit in her brother's seat so she can nap.

A lot of people use the Cosco "alpha omega" because it converts all the way to a belt postitioning booster. It can cost twice as much as the Graco though.
On the car seat, I'd buy new, just for safety reasons. Big Lots often has them at super low prices (even the alpha omega for $80!).

On the high chair, you might try local resale shops. You shouldn't have to spend more than $40.

Please don't buy a used carseat, you don't know the history of it, its just much safer to buy a new seat.

Do NOT buy a Graco convertible carseat. They have a bad reputation in the car seat technician community because most kids grow out of them incredibly early because the harness heights are so low. Don't buy a Cosco/Dorel/Safety 1st 3-in-1 seat either (also called Alpha Omega) they are a pain in the butt to install and really aren't worth the money.

What kind of budget do you have for a carseat? Walmart, Target and Babies R Us sell a convertible seat called the "Evenflo Triumph Advance" that runs about $120, and it rear faces to 35lbs (a big plus!) and forward faces to 50lbs (10lbs more than most other carseats on the market, except for Britax seats) Its nice and cushy, pretty easy to install, and easy to adjust!

If that is too much, then I would look at getting a Cosco Scenara ($40-55 at Walmart) it rear faces to 35lbs and forward faces to 40lbs. This seat is a great option because it is cheap (and you can buy one for each car!) and will keep him rear facing much longer than some of the other seats on the market. It can be kinda funky to install though, and isn't nearly as cushy and plush as some of the other car seats out there. The scenera is a bare minimum seat, but it gets the job done! My two year old niece is riding rear facing in her scenera and has no problems with it!

(Just fyi, rear facing is safest, it is recommended that you wait until they hit the maximum weight limit of the seat before you turn them around forward facing)

If you want any help picking out a car seat or installing it, just send me a message! I live in Las Colinas and would be more than willing to help you out in any way that I can!

Hi M.,
I recently purchased the Fisher Price Spacesaver high chair for $49 ($43 after coupon at BabiesRUs) and it is wonderful! It reclines for newer infants, sits straight up for infants, and then turns into a booster seat down the road. My friend has a 3 year old and still uses the booster seat for her little boy to sit at the table. For the price I think its really great.

We love, love, love the Fisher Price Healthy Care Booster Seat.

http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Healthy-Care-Booster-S...

Around $23 on Amazon. We used it for our little girl from 5 months until just recently and she is now 2 1/2. She still uses it, but would rather sit in a "big chair." It has no grooves for food to get stuck in and is totally portable. We don't have much extra storage space so this was perfect instead of a traditional high chair.

Good luck!