Wednesday: Real Simple Real Diaper SavingsAdvocacy Recommendations● Contact a local community action agency that provides family support services and offer to teach a simple cloth diaper class for low income families on a budget.
● Lead a class on how to make your own cloth diapers.
Education Focus● Cloth Diapering on a budget (inexpensive and simple!)
EXTRA● Identify a simple diaper to bring to the GCDC, to be donated to a cloth diaper charity (such as GivingDiapers, Giving Hope or similar cloth diaper charity, or [2] a local social service organization that would be willing to provide them to clients)
SO, today I am going to discuss how to cloth diaper on a budget.
Well...that is easy to help you with seeing that I myself cloth diaper on a budget! So, here are a few things you can do to help decrease the cost:
- Buy used! Check out diaperswappers.com and so forth to find used diapers to buy. If you can sew, you can find many diapers that need a little bit of work for SUPER cheap!
- Make your own diapers! Super easy and you don't really need that much sewing skills! Not only that, you can make diapers out of old t-shirts and other things! Just google search how to make cloth diapers and you will find many ideas that make is simple and easy to make cloth diapers for almost nothing!
- Prefolds and covers might be your best friend! This is a SUPER cheap way to cloth diaper! But don't worry, there is still no pins needed with these anymore, so you won't have to pin!!! Just grab a snappi!
- Go WAHM!!!! Many Work at home moms offer diapers that are cheaper but just as good as the name brand stuff! Why pay more for the same thing!?!? Check out etsy.com or hyenacart.com to find some wonderful WAHMs!!!
Some of my WAHM diapers are my favorite ones too! You can find the cutest prints through WAHMS and even find seasonal diapers. Thanks for the post! I had never thought of make them out of old tshirts
ReplyDeleteAnother great tip for me anyway. I joined a co-op and was able to save big bucks on the diapers I wanted ;p
ReplyDeleteGreat tips! I'm going to try my hand at making a few cloth diapers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning Etsy and WAHM diaper-makers. They are wonderful to work with and you get something really unique!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to start buying from WAHMs, not only are they more affordable, but they offer so many cute prints! also, if I knew how easy using prefolds and covers were I would've went that route instead of the bumgenius and flips way! the micrfiber stink is really NOT cool. when I hear prefolds though, the first thing I think of are diaper pins and I'm not too comfortable with those, or my clumsy hands putting them on my precious baby.
ReplyDeletegreat tips, for those just starting on cloth as well as the pros.
Cindy B (on rc/fb) ~ more great tips. Found that WAHM's are often an awesome choice ~ one of my favs is from bellabottoms. She was the best price at the time but i think she's gone up or others have come down since then.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the great tips! I've been blessed to catch some good sales but am hoping to start buying more from WAHM's to help support them but also to find some cute seasonal prints :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite diapers are from a WAHM. We've tried a lot of different diapers and we love Three Monkey's! She is on etsy, but if you check out her web site directly, you get better deals and free shipping. You have to wait for her to make them, but you get to custom order all your diapers for a great price! She does a beautiful job :) She also has some available in her etsy shop, but they seem to be sold out lately!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the tips!
ReplyDeleteThis is so great! I had no idea you could make your own diapers out of old t-shirts. How environmental and thrifty! Keep up the great work :)
ReplyDeleteits nice that more and more blogs are getting posts together like this. They only way I knew to get cloth diapers when I started back in 2010 was to buy new or win in giveaways. I won pretty much our whole stash over a couple months but its MUCH harder now to win because giveaways have become so popular
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post. Thanks for the advice. I love when I can spend less and still get a great product.
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried diaperswappers, but I'm going to attempt to make my own diapers in a month or so. We are going to start with fitteds, because PUL scares me a little bit LOL
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