Would you spend above $20 per week on a full service cloth diaper service?
Answer:
ABSOLUTELY!
Disposeable diapers are very expensive and kill the environment. Cloth diapers are horrible to clean on your own. I wish we had a service where I live. I would pay whatever amount to get rid of the headache of dealing with dirty cloth diapers in a bucket or disposable diapers and the problems they cause!
Congrats on your baby!!
no
If you can afford it.Yes. at least for the first 2 or 3 months. With all the newness of having a newborn...It makes life a little easier if you don't have to fuss with diapers
I think that it depends on how many diapers you are going through in a typical week. It would seem obvious that if you are going through more diapers then it would cost more. If you'd have to supplement with disposables or other cloth diapers that you would wash on your own, I wouldn't expect to pay over $20 for one child.
If youre comfortable wearing em. go for it.
P.S was you that bloke on Jerry Springer ? Bet you was...
I'm pregnant now and I don't think I would use cloth diapers but your question is going to make me look into it. Maybe it's better for the baby? Where I live, a pack of diapers is about $9, so I think it might be cheaper to use a sevice. I don't know.
I think if you have the money, its a great idea. Cloth diapers are great, but such a pain to clean, and its great ur using them. Congrats on the baby!
I wash mine at home, much cheaper! I only have to use a little bit of detergent and I have enough diapers to last me through two days before I need to wash. I included sources to show you how many different types of diapers there are. The great thing about owning your own cloth is that you can use it on future children or sell it. I wouldn't pay $20 a week, I can buy a few cloth diapers for that.
I use a dry pail, found it at walmart, looks like a garbage can w/a lid. On wash day I do a cold cycle, then a hot cycle with a few tablespoons of detergent and a few drops of tea tree oil. I line dry during hot weather to save energy. I use fleece liners or have fleece inners on the dipes, so the poop doesn't stick to it, it kinda plops into the toilet when I shake it. Once you get in a routine it's easy. Good luck with whatever you do!
Personally, I wouldn't. I think a cloth diaper service should run less than an average package of disposable diapers does, so at $20.00 per week I think the service would be over priced.
I have always home-laundered my own cloth diapers, and that's the cheapest by far. You initially buy everything you need, in my case it was standard flat cloth diapers, diaper pins, rubber pants, and a diaper pail. Then you go about washing the diapers yourself. How's about $3.00 per week, compared to the over $20.00 that a diaper service wants.
I could never justify the $20.00 per week when I can do it for under $5.00 in my own home. If I remember correctly, diaper service rates per week when I was working as a babysitter ran around $9 -$12 dollars per week. That would have been in the late 1970's, early 1980's. Good luck on the cloth diapering although!
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