Jul 25 2008
Combating high prices
Fuller and I helped my mom today by running a bunch of errands with her. Crossing things off her to do list, especially the ones that are running around town, is what we are here to do.
We did some shopping and of course the price of everything just seems so high to me. As we drove around town I kept my eye on gas prices, just curious how prices compare to prices down south.
Of course as we are preparing for baby number two, cost of things are in the front of my mind. I told my mom I wanted to convince Damon to let us use cloth diapers this time around. I’ve been really inspired by my friend Betsy, and talking to other cloth Mamas about how they diaper their kiddos.
At first glance, the price of cloth diapers seems high. But when I think about all the money we sunk into diapers with Fuller, cloth diapers are really, really cheap. And hey, if I were to win some, that would help too, right?
Baby Cheapskate is a great resource on cutting costs on raising children and has several recent posts on cloth diapering. I hope I win, because I really think this would be an excellent start in saving money with baby number two.
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that is so funny. i am just now thinking about switching to cloth for nathaniel (#2 who is almost 1) i just hate spending money on disposable – plus i cringe every time i think that it will take about 200 years for each diaper to decompose. yuck!
so we may make the change too.
i bet if you told people who want to give you gifts that you would rather have money for cloth diapers they would do that for you.
Sarah’s idea is great. I have a friend too who used cloth diapers and for her shower, we were asked instead of bring disposable, we should give money instead for cloth diapers. She has had baby number two and she has saved a lot of money. Of course it cannot work for me since the daycare does not accept cloth diapers.
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I agree with both of your friends. Cloth diapers make wonderful dusting and cleaning rags,when they have done their baby time. My vote is—-CLOTH DIAPERS.
Sarah, I don’t know if you know Rebecca (I think we were at Covenant with her sister), but she has a great post about her cloth diapering system. She also switched after her child was over a year (or almost a year) old.
http://achairofbowlies.blogspot.com/2007/08/cloth-diapering-in-pictures-image.html
I agree. They also cut down on diaper rash because they breathe. Of course, you have to change them more often. But that gives you more time to coo coo. (or however you spell baby talk) Except when traveling and at the lake. Disposal there are best.
Yea for thinking of cloth diapers! We love ours! I’m honored I was referenced
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