A MUM who picked up a £260 pram for free has defended herself against “appalled” trolls.
Emma explained that she needed a pram for her two kids, so when she saw someone was giving away their Joie EvaLite DUO, she jumped at the chance to nab it.
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And as an added bonus, the pram was completely free.
But after sharing videos of the pram on TikTok, Emma quickly found herself attacked by people who said she’d have been better off buying one for free.
“Think you was better off buying new hun, tbh – it’s dirty and broken,” one person wrote.
Emma then responded in another video, as she said: “Right, how is that pram dirty?
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“Just because the hoods are faded and them joey prams are known for the hoods fading on them, but I’m gonna dye them and I’m gonna make that pram look brand new again, like it was for free.
“Like we live in such a society where it’s like, aw the hoods are faded, let’s just throw it away and buy brand new.
“No, I am gonna make that pram look brand new again and I’m gonna dye the hoods, there’s a few scratches on the frame which I’m just gonna buy a black marker and just scribble them out.
“So no, the pram isn’t dirty and it’s not broken and it’s perfect for my babies.”
“But it was there was mildew all over the back of seat and inside the hood?” someone else commented.
“How comes you put your kids in a pram that you got for free and it’s not even clean?” another wrote.
“Genuinely curious as it could have been in a shed with mould/rats?”
“Nothing wrong for free but it’s covered in mould – you need to clean it,” someone else agreed.
“The white stuff is mould, I’d of cleaned it first,” another wrote.
“It’s a 3rd of 4th hand pram gives me the ick.”
Emma replied that she hadn’t seen the mould on the pram, and had cleaned it thoroughly before her kids had sat in it.
“Well I did not know that and for your information it’s all clean now,” Emma said.
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She was also planning to dye the hoods black to conceal the fading, and was going to go over the scratches with black Sharpie pen.
Another troll questioned why Emma was “moaning” if she got the pram for free, to which she replied: “I am NOT moaning.
“I am so grateful I’ve got that pram because I’ve wanted that Joie pram for the longest time.
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“And I’m so glad I’ve got it, but I was just simply asking for advice. Like whether I could wash the hoods and dye them. And whether the seat is normally like that on them prams.
“Like I was just simply asking for advice, so I’m not moaning about it.”
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