As is the case with many parents-to-be, the Baby Bargains book was our shopping bible when we were expecting and for a year or so afterwards. We received ours from a friend who felt it was a new parent imperative. This in-depth account of Alan and Denise Fields, the couple behind Baby Bargains, tags along with them on a research trip to Babies’r’Us (which refuses to carry Baby Bargains) and tells of the genesis of their first book, Wedding Bargains, and the distaste most manufacturers and retailers have for their advice. Their practical approach is what made my copy so well-thumbed. We’re the type of parents who keep the diapers out in plain sight in the super-economy box they came in. We never bought Toddler Bargains though, and apparently no one else did either since it’s being discontinued, and as the article says “when children reach that age, their parents ‘run out of time to read.'” (via Pop Culture Junkmail)