On 2006-02-24, wrote:
I am curious about cloth diapers vs disposable. Do or have any of you
use/d cloth diapers? If so, what is the cost savings? Any positive or
negative comments welcome!

We used cloth diapers from a local service for quite a while, then
bought a stack of them and washed them at home once the rate of
changing diapers dropped. We did it mainly for environmental reasons,
but the cost was no higher than disposables. Washing our own was much
cheaper than either the diaper service or disposables, but we would
not have had the energy to do it in the first few months.

Get good diaper covers.

We had locally made dipaers that had plastic snaps and were easy to
put on.

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