Subject: My diapering philosophy (was: What's in your Diaper Bag?)
From: "Chotii"
Date: 4/29/2004 4:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time
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"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I liked this part of Angela's answer:

"...A plastic grocery bag is my *favorite* kind of diaper bag, because we
use cloth diapers full-time (yes, even when we go out, and for overnight
trips - I find it no more difficult to wrap up a wet diaper and pack it
home
than to wrap up a disposable and throw it in the trash)...."

Here's one essay on the cloth vs. disposable debate...
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Diaper-Not-Clear.htm
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioli...5000/5503.html

The "What's in your Diaper Bag" subject line keeps catching my eye I think
because out here on the West coast (probably nationwide?), Capitol One
(?)
had a commercial for their credit cards that asked:

"What's in YOUR wallet?!"

Part of the cloth vs. disposable debate involves what's in the
ENVIRONMENT'S
wallet...

...

Once the cloth vs disposable debate has been won...maybe we will see
diaper
commercials that demand to know:

What's in YOUR diaper bag?!

Heh. Well you know, for me it's not exclusively an environmental thing, it's
a money thing. Disposables are expensive! Especially when I had twins and
one of them HAD to have disposables due to extremely fragile skin - boy,
even at Costco mega-ultra-jumbo pack prices, it was still about $50 a
month. I guarantee it didn't cost $50 a month to wash the cloth diapers we
used on the other twin (which we already had, from kid #1) though I did have
to invest in a new bunch of cloth diapers halfway through the twins. So
that second bunch of diapers are now serving kiddo #4 very well. I even sold
the old, threadbare first bunch on Ebay for $27! And I *told* the buyer what
condition they were in! But presumably they just put a good heavy doubler
like a washcloth into each one, and took advantage of the handy nylon snaps
which were good as new. I'll be able to sell the second bunch of diapers
similarly. I call that "recycling".

Plus, and here's my take on it environmentally, I use cloth *when I can*
(which is not *all* the time, as noted) because I feel human waste should be
treated in waste treatment facilities, and not buried in such a way that it
pretty much cannot biodegrade. I mean, no healthy adult without a medical
reason would even consider for a moment putting their own feces and urine
into the trash. I can't do it with my kids' either.

LOL...were do you think the **** goes in the long run? Sometimes a Landfill!
Are business is down the road from Surban Sanitation and P.U. Septic Service
and DH is really good friends with both owners so I would be more then happy to
get the scoop on this one.

Other peoples' mileage will naturally vary.

--angela