Does anyone still use cloth diapers these days? They’re reusable and produce so much less waste.
Why are diapers so expensive?
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We cloth diaper too (3 kids, a two and a half year old potty trained for about a year now, and 5 month old twins). Personally, I find disposable diapers to be way more disgusting than cloth. With cloth, you rinse it out and the majority of the gross stuff is down the drain. With disposables, you end up with a garbage can literally full of poop. Its like having a mini pit toilet in your house. We have also noticed, li…
Props for doing that. We tried with our twins, but eventually decided cloth diapers are for people with single kids that aren't burnt out.
"cloth diapers are for people with single kids"
Maybe not for twins, but "one kid at-a-time" is more than doable and the second kid is where the real money savings come in.
Re: Why are diapers so expensive?
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It was a huge relief to get the children weaned, and off the giant vats of Similac ... I feel that was probably even more expensive than the diapers.
Oh man, diapers pale in comparison to formula costs. My daughter gets changed ~8 times per day, but she eats up to 36oz of formula. That's about $1.76 in diapers and up to $6.79 worth of formula. Add in DI water (since we make it from powder) and the obscene cost of bottles, and it gets even worse.
What's wrong with tap water? Formula still costs a lot, obviously, but you generally don't need special water for mixing formula unless your kid has an immune disorder or you live somewhere with unsafe tap water.
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#314Does anyone still use cloth diapers these days? They’re reusable and produce so much less waste.
Yes
Re: Why are diapers so expensive?
#315Does anyone still use cloth diapers these days? They’re reusable and produce so much less waste.
Yes, my family did a few years ago. I would guess that we used around 80% fewer disposable diapers... disposables are still useful when traveling and other miscellaneous situations.
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#316Disposable Diapers are surprisingly high tech, or at least well engineered. See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNX8y6lQMc
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#317This article is so frustrating. The helplessness and dependence are just sad. Cloth diapers cost less than $1.50 each in a 10-pack. If you are poor enough, you can wash them in a bucket with bar soap. That's what virtually everyone did before washers were invented. I'm saddened that this girl didn't figure this out. I know first-hand, when you're poor and desperate, you figure shit out. Unless, of course, you have a…
Jesus, your comment and the other replies just straight up reek of privilege/ignorance. What you're suggesting is obviously the pragmatic choice - obviously, if she's poor as shit and can't afford regular diapers, using reusable cloth ones is a great solution. But that's not the fucking point of the article - its $CURRENT_YEAR in the richest country in the world, this absolutely shouldn't be a thing that happens in t…
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, there is one form of birth control that's both free and 100% effective.
In the same way, although cooking doesn't always make food safe to eat, there is a form of cooking that's simple and 100% effective: not eating. And although the various safety measures rock climbers use sometimes fail, there is a method of rock-climbing safety that's 100% effective: not going rock-climbing in the first place. And I have a perfectly safe car: that is, I never leave my house. I take it you can see how…
You need to eat. You need to leave the house. You need to use some form of motorized transport to partake in society.
You don't need to have sex. Abstinence is a form of birth control as much as being bald is a hairstyle.
Re: Why are diapers so expensive?
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yes but storing a pallet of razor blades isn't easy and from 18 - 28 (when you would be using these razors) you are going to move a lot, due to work, college, just general renting. So moving a pallet each time is probably inefficient.
Razor blades are small. Assuming parent poster shaves every single day of that ten years, and each blade only lasts for two shaves, they'd need about 1830 blades. That's 19 boxes of these, which probably fit in a shoe box. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Derby-100-Extra-Shaving-Blades/dp/B...
Given that he mentioned dropping $1000, I'm guessing he's talking about cartridge blades (e.g. Gilette Mach III), that cost a couple of bucks each and take up probably 20x as much space when packaged. Still not that much actual space needed. A small moving box would probably hold decades worth; definitely if stripped of the outer packaging.
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#320My wife and I cloth diapered both of our children. In addition to being radically cheaper it also resolved rashes/eczema in both kids as well as accelerated potty training. There is an 'ick' factor but liners and a toilet sprayer take care of 99% of that.
Serious question(s) from a father of 2 under 2... How do you get the cloth diapers clean? Like, really clean so they don't still smell after they've been cleaned? My wife and I were planning on cloth diapering. We bought some high-end cloth diaper and liners and started on our merry way. We found that no matter what we did, our little guy smelled like piss all the time. My wife was washing diapers 2 or 3 times in bet…
You need to soak them in something stronger before washing - something bleach based. Napisan is great for this (and also for any white shirts etc).