Use cloth nappies (diapers)!! Do you know how much it costs to use disposables over the course of two years or three years?  Around NZ $3000 - $4000!! ($3000NZD is around $2050USD).

I purchased 5 Snazzipants (which is a NZ brand - disposable style non-waterproof cloth nappy) and bummis wraps and prefolds, which are all 'modern' cloth nappies.  I spent around $350NZ on Snazzipants, Bummis and prefolds and Jack will fit the medium size I have for another couple of months...at which time I will have to spend about $100 on some size large Bummis wraps (the prefolds, which I have in several absorbency's will do him right through).

Of course this means an extra load of washing a day...but big deal!  Do the math - it's worth it!

Use cloth wet wipes!!  Another thing I am just about to start doing, is using cloth wet wipes as well!  I have been thinking about doing this for a few weeks now...I just have to go buy the cloths to use, either chux (soft kitchen cloths) type cloths, baby face cloths or small muslin squares will work fine, and a lunchbox to keep them in a solution of water, a squirt of baby wash and a drop or two of lavender or tea tree oil.  At around $6 a box of 80 disposable wet wipes this will save loads of money!

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Posted by 40winkzzz

You must have posted this while I was posting the comment to your last entry- it wasn't here a few minutes ago when I opened your blog!

I washed diapers for my first 2-1/2 kids (switched partway thru #3 when income went up a little!). My 1st was 19 yrs ago, and even then I was in the minority. However, my hubby, on the rare occasion that he would change a diaper, got a little frustrated by the pins. One night he gave up and just wrapped duct tape around & around the diaper! Of course, that was the diaper I had to change at 3 am. :-0 I learned to keep disposables around for him, for nighttime, and for church nursery, since most of the nursery moms would panic at the sight of *gasp* cloth diapers!!!

By the time my kids were 2, they were helping me fold their clean diapers, which for each of them was the beginning of a childhood spent folding laundry for Mom-- just one more benefit of cloth diapers!

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Posted by Anonymous

Hey Ang thought I would get around to seeing your blog, dont have a lot of time at the mo though so will look later on. Need to turn this computer off or I will be on it all afternoon LOL Do you know you can make your own naps by buying the fabrics here in NZ and there is a patern you can download as well for a pattern? So you can make fitteds, covers, pockets prefolds any thing. Look at www.greenbeans.co.nz

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Posted by Sue in NZ

Hey Ang thought I would get around to seeing your blog, dont have a lot of time at the mo though so will look later on. Need to turn this computer off or I will be on it all afternoon LOL Do you know you can make your own naps by buying the fabrics here in NZ and there is a patern you can download as well for a pattern? So you can make fitteds, covers, pockets prefolds any thing. Look at www.greenbeans.co.nz

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