The other day, *B* and I went to our insurance agent. After our business was done, we chatted since I've known this man since I was a little girl. He mentioned how expensive kids were "with diapers and formula and all." We showed him our cloth diapers and he was shocked at how easy they are now. We've got two major types of diapers in our stash.
We asked for FuzziBunz on our registry and received twelve of them.
Miss F enjoying her FuzziBunz:
My mother, as you may remember, gave us an insane number of inserts for them. We wanted more diapers, but buying more FuzziBunz means getting more inserts, which we didn't want.
It turns out that the FuzziBunz inserts can be used with other diapers, specifically Flip diapers. In this way, they can be used with the same shell a number of times. The only thing is that you have to use a liner between the insert and the baby.
Miss F in a Flip:
We also found that disposable wipes are a pain to use with cloth diapers. We'd have to find a place to throw them out. More often than not, they'd end up in the washer. So we just decided to use cloth wipes as well.
We use a peri-bottle that I got at the hospital for the diaper bag because it closes tight. At home, we use condiment bottles that we got for a dollar each from the grocery store.
All we have to do is squirt a little bit of water on the cloth wipes and use as normal. They go right into the wet bag with the rest of the diaper material.
So far we've had very little in the way of leaks and issues. Between gifts and what we've spent ourselves, it cost us about $200 to create a large diaper stash that will last us through multiple children. With Pampers being roughly $0.20 a diaper, we'll break even at 1000 diapers. Given that Miss F can easily go through 10 diapers a day (and has been going through many more than that recently), we'll break even in about three months. I'd say that's a worthwhile purchase!
We asked for FuzziBunz on our registry and received twelve of them.
It turns out that the FuzziBunz inserts can be used with other diapers, specifically Flip diapers. In this way, they can be used with the same shell a number of times. The only thing is that you have to use a liner between the insert and the baby.
Miss F in a Flip:
We also found that disposable wipes are a pain to use with cloth diapers. We'd have to find a place to throw them out. More often than not, they'd end up in the washer. So we just decided to use cloth wipes as well.
Picture from the BumGenius website.
We use a peri-bottle that I got at the hospital for the diaper bag because it closes tight. At home, we use condiment bottles that we got for a dollar each from the grocery store.
So far we've had very little in the way of leaks and issues. Between gifts and what we've spent ourselves, it cost us about $200 to create a large diaper stash that will last us through multiple children. With Pampers being roughly $0.20 a diaper, we'll break even at 1000 diapers. Given that Miss F can easily go through 10 diapers a day (and has been going through many more than that recently), we'll break even in about three months. I'd say that's a worthwhile purchase!
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