So one day into this cloth diaper experiment and already I want to take these cloth diapers outside, light them on fire and dance around them like a crazed lunatic. Seriously, this is insane! Leave it to me to take a perfectly working system that is easy and relatively mess free and make it more involved, complicated and smelly. What was I thinking? Oh right, landfills. And the earlier potty training? Now I understand why cloth diapered kids potty train earlier, TO GET OUT OF THESE SOGGY CLOTH DIAPERS! As a parent, I certainly have more incentive to teach him to use the toilet.
I really hate to quit after only one day, but damn, disposables are so much easier. They are slimmer, and I actually use less diapers. I use maybe five disposables per day, compared with about 8 cloth diapers. And the disposables go right outside to the garbage while the cloth diapers sit in a bag in Alex's room and stink. Also, I have to wash the cloth diapers every night since I only bought 12 of them and two wraps. So I'm using gallons and gallons more water than I did before. If we go into a drought, it'll probably be entirely my fault.
Maybe I'll put them away until Alex turns two when I plan to start working on actually potty training.
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