Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Wash Your Own Diapers

James Lileks at buzz.mn led me to this.

The last cloth diaper home-delivery business in the metro area is closing and is in the midst of its final rounds.

We tried this in Rapid City in 1991 with my daughter. It worked OK at first, but two factors defeated it for us:

1) My wife went back to work, which led to complications with the daycare handling the diapers, especially the dirty ones.

2) The increased load, so to speak, as our daughter grew overwhelmed them.

From the comments.....I don't recall these being available, or we might have tried them.

The cloth diapering mothers that I know prefer pocket cloth diapers and all-in-one cloth diapers which are shaped like disposables, right down to the velcro, are super easy, and come in adorable prints.

As James says...... People hate disposables, mostly because they think of a mile-thick stratum of compacted diapers in a landfill somewhere, but they work, and that’s why people use them.

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