Great economical information from a devoted Mom on diapering.
Here are some Diaper Banks. Click and you'll be directed to their websites.
If you live in or around the Richmond, VA area and are in need of cloth diaper
assistance.
For assistance in the Oregon Area
Local families in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas area.
A list of National Diaper Banks
For assistance in the Utha Area
Sweet Cheek Cloth Diaper Kits Guilford Co and Randolph Co, NC WIC (Women, Infants and Children) families.
Simple City Diaper is a brand new cloth diaper bank, helping to provide
Milwaukee families in need cloth diaper in order to help these families live
without the financial burden of buying diapers.
You have to consider ways to cloth diaper cheaply on your own. At a
lot of Walmarts and Kmarts, etc. you can still find the old fashioned
pull-on plastic pants for around $4. I used these a LOT with my older
girls (who are now almost 14 and almost 13!). You can also buy diaper
pins there, around $1-2. Do NOT buy the Gerber flats or prefolds, they
are not worth the money. Go over to the kitchen towel section in
Walmart or Target and get a 5 pack of flour sack tea-towels. For under
$10, you will be able to have enough diapers for at least 5 diaper
changes, and for $15 you should have enough for 10 changes!. Most
Dollar Tree and 99c stores also sell the flour sack cloths for a buck
each, so anytime you have an extra dollar, grab another
towel. Or ifyou have an Ikea, the baby section has great burp cloths that
make some very soft fluffy flat diapers, but they're like 2 for $4.
You will have to learn to fold and pin flat diapers, but honestly,
it's really simple - my 10 y/o daughter even taught herself folds
from watching YouTube videos and started pinning them on her dolls!
The origami fold is our favorite. If you don't want to pin, you can
order a snappi online for around $5.
Do you sew? Do you have any receiving blankets or burp cloths? An old
flannel sheet? Any wool sweaters?
You can make the blankets, burpcloths and sheets in to flats, or fitteds or
prefolds. Old tshirts can become flats, fitteds, or prefolds. Wool sweaters
can be turned in to soakers or longies. Cloth diapering can be done
extremely cheap -no one *needs* a $30 diaper. For a flat, all you need is a
large square of fabric - I think 27"x27" is the size of the tea towels.
if they're out of a t-shirt or something, you don't need to even hem
them. If it's from like an old flannel shirt or sheet, then you would
need to serge the edges or do a zigzag so they don't fray all over the
place.
When I first started cloth diapering when my oldest daughter was 3
months old, I had a $50/week food budget for my husband, myself, and
my 4 y/o son. I couldn't keep affording to spend $10+/ week on
diapers. My very first cloth diaper purchase was $20ppd worth of used
homemade prefolds and Gerber covers and plastic pants. After I got
that, every time I changed a cloth diaper instead of a disposable, I
put 25c in a piggy bank (the price I figured each disposable +
wipes for a change cost me) - when I saved up like $5 or so, I'd buy a
new addition to our stash - this was back when you could get a
"nice" Dappi or Gerber cover at Babies R Us for $5 though - now the
only option they seem to sell in store are GDiapers at $15 a
pop!!
Check your local Craigslist and Freecycle. You might be surprised at
what you can find locally.
Or How we diapered Brad for FREE
I haven't tried this way myself, but here is another idea:
Sew a cloth diaper stash for $30 or less.
Also, one more thought - do you knit or crochet at all? You can make a
newborn sized soaker out of Paton's Classic Wool, at Michael's, for
about $3.50 if you use a 40% off coupon.
If you even have some acrylic yarn, like cheap Red
Heart, you can use that as diaper soakers - they just need to be washed a
lot more frequently than wool - on the plus side, they don't require special
washing.
Here's a free pattern I have used several times. Google is your
friend!
If you live in or around the Richmond, VA area and are in need of cloth diaper
assistance.
For assistance in the Oregon Area
Local families in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas area.
A list of National Diaper Banks
For assistance in the Utha Area
Sweet Cheek Cloth Diaper Kits Guilford Co and Randolph Co, NC WIC (Women, Infants and Children) families.
Simple City Diaper is a brand new cloth diaper bank, helping to provide
Milwaukee families in need cloth diaper in order to help these families live
without the financial burden of buying diapers.
You have to consider ways to cloth diaper cheaply on your own. At a
lot of Walmarts and Kmarts, etc. you can still find the old fashioned
pull-on plastic pants for around $4. I used these a LOT with my older
girls (who are now almost 14 and almost 13!). You can also buy diaper
pins there, around $1-2. Do NOT buy the Gerber flats or prefolds, they
are not worth the money. Go over to the kitchen towel section in
Walmart or Target and get a 5 pack of flour sack tea-towels. For under
$10, you will be able to have enough diapers for at least 5 diaper
changes, and for $15 you should have enough for 10 changes!. Most
Dollar Tree and 99c stores also sell the flour sack cloths for a buck
each, so anytime you have an extra dollar, grab another
towel. Or ifyou have an Ikea, the baby section has great burp cloths that
make some very soft fluffy flat diapers, but they're like 2 for $4.
You will have to learn to fold and pin flat diapers, but honestly,
it's really simple - my 10 y/o daughter even taught herself folds
from watching YouTube videos and started pinning them on her dolls!
The origami fold is our favorite. If you don't want to pin, you can
order a snappi online for around $5.
Do you sew? Do you have any receiving blankets or burp cloths? An old
flannel sheet? Any wool sweaters?
You can make the blankets, burpcloths and sheets in to flats, or fitteds or
prefolds. Old tshirts can become flats, fitteds, or prefolds. Wool sweaters
can be turned in to soakers or longies. Cloth diapering can be done
extremely cheap -no one *needs* a $30 diaper. For a flat, all you need is a
large square of fabric - I think 27"x27" is the size of the tea towels.
if they're out of a t-shirt or something, you don't need to even hem
them. If it's from like an old flannel shirt or sheet, then you would
need to serge the edges or do a zigzag so they don't fray all over the
place.
When I first started cloth diapering when my oldest daughter was 3
months old, I had a $50/week food budget for my husband, myself, and
my 4 y/o son. I couldn't keep affording to spend $10+/ week on
diapers. My very first cloth diaper purchase was $20ppd worth of used
homemade prefolds and Gerber covers and plastic pants. After I got
that, every time I changed a cloth diaper instead of a disposable, I
put 25c in a piggy bank (the price I figured each disposable +
wipes for a change cost me) - when I saved up like $5 or so, I'd buy a
new addition to our stash - this was back when you could get a
"nice" Dappi or Gerber cover at Babies R Us for $5 though - now the
only option they seem to sell in store are GDiapers at $15 a
pop!!
Check your local Craigslist and Freecycle. You might be surprised at
what you can find locally.
Or How we diapered Brad for FREE
I haven't tried this way myself, but here is another idea:
Sew a cloth diaper stash for $30 or less.
Also, one more thought - do you knit or crochet at all? You can make a
newborn sized soaker out of Paton's Classic Wool, at Michael's, for
about $3.50 if you use a 40% off coupon.
If you even have some acrylic yarn, like cheap Red
Heart, you can use that as diaper soakers - they just need to be washed a
lot more frequently than wool - on the plus side, they don't require special
washing.
Here's a free pattern I have used several times. Google is your
friend!