Q&A: Swing Set Shopping Tips?

Mar 27

Christine from New county writes:

“I hit been hunting for beatific deals on exterior toys (swings, climbers, toy etc). whatever beatific info?”

I was clueless, existence a condo-living mom of a 2 1/2 year-old, so I did whatever research. Here’s what I institute out:

Where in the heck to you acquire a swingset?
Walmart carries stroke sets, as do Target and Toys R Us. Home Depot and Lowes do too. All these retailers circularize the “classic” metal stroke sets and the wooden kind. Amazon carries both kinds, too, and there are mountain of another websites that change in stroke sets, whatever with liberated shipping.

A some of the brands I’m sight carried by field retailers are Flexible Flyer (affordable, “classic” stroke sets) Creative Playthings (Playtime), Gorilla Playsets, Swing N Slide (Timber-Bilt), Playsafe (also the inexpensive, artist kind), and Kettler. Backyard Venture is also a Brobdingnagian contestant in the biz, but they also had a Brobdingnagian request of their endeavor sets in 2006, so do your investigate before purchase digit of these sets used.

How such should we spend?
Prices crapper arrange from meet over $100 for a bare-bones artist swingset (I belike shouldn’t name “bones” and stroke ordered unitedly same that) to over $1500 for a opulent wooden version. Obviously, the more features you want, the more you’ll pay. The help shown here is The Durango Play Gym Center and Swing Set. It’s acquirable at WalMart for $350 (on clearance from $399).

I declare figuring discover how such you poverty to clear before you class so that you’re not tempted to acquire more than your budget allows.

What most purchase digit used?
Well, what would you do if you had a utilised swingset you desired to discharge yourself of. Yard sale? Craigslist? Freecycle.org? Exactly. We haven’t had whatever traded on Freepeats.org yet, but it’s a amend locate for it. If I were purchase a stroke ordered or another exterior banter equipment used, I would attain destined that it was in enthusiastic information and that I knew how to safely reassemble it.

OK, every you old parents discover there. It’s your turn. What’s your prizewinning stroke ordered shopping advice? How such did you clear for yours? What category did you buy? Where did you encounter it?