Saturday, November 15, 2008

Going green to save green

I woke up this morning, looked at the mountain of dirty diapers and pullups in the bathroom trash and decided that I'm sick and tired of buying disposables.  I do this every few months or so, decide that I want to save the environment or save some money and put the kids in cloth diapers or cloth training pants, then, oh, about 45 minutes later, I'm covered in pee and poop and now have a mountain of cloth diapers and training pants to wash, and I put them back in disposables.


So, here we go again.  Alex is wearing his cloth training pants and Max is currently wearing g diaper with a disposable liner while I wash a load of prefolds and the five Kushies AIO's I'd bought last time I went through this phase. 


I have 18 pairs of little boy underpants, 5 AIO's, 2 g diaper covers, 4 g-diaper plastic liners, 6 disposable g diaper pads and about 10 cloth prefolds (which I plan to use with the g-diapers rather than the disposable liners).  I'm hoping I can get through one whole day using these without using my stash of disposables.  If I do, both boys will still go to bed wearing disposables.


I know exactly how this will, go, but I'm willing to try. Again.



1 comment:

  1. everything in this world is getting so complicated...including diapers! I have no idea what all those fancy names for the diapers you use.....with you I used cloth and pins...and then cloth that had velcro...big jump in improvments....how bout in third world countries where little ones go naked from waist down til they learn to control their stuff.

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