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About me The thing is, when we started showing people the system we had set up along with the numbers on how much we were saving over the lifetime of our three children, they began to pay a lot more attention.Cloth diapering is a big money saver. It puts less material into landfills. It can take a bit longer, but it doesn¡¯t take very much longer if you have a sensible system in place.RELATED: 6 styles of parenting from around the globeThere are a lot of different types of cloth diapers out there. We¡¯ve tried several,Birkenstock Sandals - Men, ranging from the very inexpensive lowend (which I don¡¯t recommend) to some of the higherend diapers that function just as well as a disposable, such as BumGenius.The calculations we used revolved around the fact that disposable diapers average about $0.20 a pop,Manolo Blahnik Sandals, so we would have to divide the cost of the cloth diaper by 0.2 to see how many times we¡¯d have to use it before it would become less expensive than disposable diapers. The one linked above, for example, costs $17.95,Birkenstock Clogs - Women, so you¡¯d have to use it about 90 times for it to be less expensive per use than cloth diapers.We estimate that our children would use one of the cloth diapers about every three days while on diapers (up until about two years old), so, per child,Montblanc Fountain Pen, a single cloth diaper would get about 240 uses. In other words, we would reach a point where it was costeffective to cloth diaper with just one kid. Over three kids? Let¡¯s just say we¡¯ve used some of the diapers hundreds of times and they¡¯re truly ready for the rag bag, but we got a lot of value from those diapers. One cloth diaper replaced multiple jumbo boxes of disposable diapers. We saved hundreds of dollars ¨C no exaggeration ¨C by cloth diapering.RELATED: 6 styles of parenting from around the globeSo,Ecco TravelSmith Womens, what did our system look like? We simply had a single hamper in which we tossed the dirty cloth diapers after changing the baby (we also used cloth wipes). Then, once every three days or so, we would wash those diapers in a single load. Some of the particularly foul ones would get a prewash over the toilet basin. We¡¯d then fold up the clean ones (usually while watching a movie or something after the kids were in bed) and put them in the usual places where diapers were needed (in the diaper bag and so on).With disposable diapers, we still had to toss them, but we would also fill up our trash quite a bit more quickly, which meant more trips taking out the trash, which does add up to some significant time and cost (more trash bags,Birkenstock Clogs - Men, the potential for extra garbage¡± fees), never mind the environmental impact.One of the challenges of cloth diapering is the startup cost. Buying enough diapers to start a cloth diapering routine can be a daunting cost, particularly if you¡¯re not sure you want to do it.If you¡¯re considering trying this, ask for cloth diapers at any baby showers you might be having. Specify a good brand that¡¯s easily available via Amazon (like BumGenius) and use those as a startingoff point.Also, you can mix cloth diapering and disposable diapering, something that many cloth diapering parents do because of the challenges of travel with cloth diapers. Use disposable diapers on occasion and use the cloth diapers while at home or at child care.A single cloth diaper can easily save you $50 in disposable diapers if used consistently over multiple children. I¡¯m speaking purely from experience as well when I say it¡¯s nowhere near as difficult as you might think it would be, particularly if you get a system in place to handle the diapers.This post is part of a yearlong series called 365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),¡± in which I¡¯m revisiting the entries from my book 365 Ways to Live Cheap,¡± which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.RELATED: 6 styles of parenting from around the globeThe Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best economyrelated bloggers out there. Our guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. To contact us about a blogger, click here. To add or view a comment on a guest blog, please go to the blogger's own site by clicking on .thesimpledollar.com. Recent Artcle:
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