PSA: Got an old car seat lurking in your basement? Through Sept. 30, drop off your used car seats at Walmart’s customer service counter in exchange for a $30 gift card. Limit of 2 car seats per person. Check here to make sure your nearest Walmart store is accepting car seats. Walmart recycles the car seat, you free up some storage space and get some extra moo-lah. Win-win. (Walmart say the gift card is for baby products, but the cashier rang up ours as merchandise credit and we successfully used it to buy strawberries.)     “Can I help you with something?” Who was this crazy lady standing misty-eyed by the graveyard of discarded car seats at Walmart? With my not-so-little baby next to me, I needed to take a moment with that safari animal print infant car seat. I tried to tell the store employee that this was the very first baby purchase I’d ever made. When I unwrapped that Amazon box and put the car seat on my coffee table, the baby in my tummy suddenly started to feel real. Like, this motherhood thing was happening and here was a concrete piece of gear to prove it. The yellow diaper blowouts I wiped out of there, the hours I’ve rocked that little seat. Giving up the car seat is goodbye to a lot of memories. It’s also saying goodbye to the baby chapter of my life.   The infant car seat I held onto just in case…  and now that window is closed too. God I'm going to be such a mess when it's time to give up the Bob.