Hi there !
Plastic free July is almost done i hope everyone out there has tried to lower the plastic consumption just a bit ??? 🙂
So since it’s not done yet i planned to post some more posts about our ways to “Zero Waste ” .
One of the awesome ways specially when you have or are expecting children is cloth diapers!
This post is a first of a whole series about cloth diapers.
As i probably mentioned before we decided of cloth diapering our kids even before i was pregnant!
Let me tell you 3 reasons why we decided to cloth diaper and then i will give you advice where to get your diapers.
Healthy tushy ! Yes health of our baby is number 1 reason why we decided to cloth diaper . We didn’t want our baby to be in a plastic diaper with chemicals in it . I as a adult wouldn’t want to have my tushy in a plastic diaper neither so why my little human would want that ? Plus 2 good facts to mention is that kids who are using cloth diapers are less likely to have any rushes and more likely to potty train earlier!
Environment. We all know that life without plastic specially with kids is very hard BUT in my opinion in majority of the time there is a lot of better choices than the plastic option . Did you know that it takes around 500 years to decompose the disposable diaper ? That suck ! So we decided that we don’t want to be part of that .
Economy ! I bet most of you will be very interested of how it adds up in a whole baby gear budget? Well you are going to be surprised but cloth diapers not only saves your money in a long run but if you are planning to have more kids then you good to go because you can reuse and reuse your diapers for second child and so on. Plus you can always sell them when you done ! We did got few different systems of diapers on the beginning and we decided what we like and what we don’t. Diapers that we end up not liking so much we sold it on facebook group for same price as we bought it . No money waste !
So now to the part where i tell you how you can get your diapers cheaper!
Buy used !
Facebook is the golden mine ! It’s a great option for everyone because of the price that can be freaking lower but also that not a lot of people knows for your diapers to get full absorbency you must pre-wash them few times. If you buy used this part has been already done for you . Plus so far my experience goes and we got a lot of diapers that way everything is super fine with the diapers some of them were used only 1 or 3 times . Just type in search “cloth diapers ” i bet there will be at least one or two groups in every country ! If you are from sweden or Uk and you have trouble of finding a group just email me or comment down below i can help you with that 🙂
Check youtube!
A lot of cloth diapering moms will recommend where to get the cloth diapers in the particular country BUT also usually they will have some discount for subscribers !
Ebay , Amazon etc .
Not the best fair trade option i know ! BUT if you are on tight budget all the time like we are or you are single parent or any reason you have it’s pretty good cheaper or actually the cheapest option when it comes to AIO or Pocket diapers. The quality is good for this price range and the diapers works well as the expensive diapers do . You still save a lot of money and it’s very less waste friendly but definitely less ethical in a lot of aspects. Stick has to ends always so sometimes if you want to do something good for the planet you have to make decision what option you can afford and i think it’s okej ! I always say it’s better to do something that you can afford then do nothing! 🙂
That’s it for this post !
I hope 🤞 you will enjoy it !
One more thing! Since we have freaking hot summer in sweden and a lot of the beautiful forests are burning in wild fire i have just one favor to ask all of you out there ! Remember when you are grilling to put down the fire after you are done grilling! Even a small sparkle can start a huge wild fire and put animals and people in danger !
