Posted on 05/10/2016 5:58:30 PM PDT by artichokegrower
For parents of young kids, diapers present both a necessity and a constant cost. There’s not much Norah Weinstein can do about the first part, but she’d like to ease the impact of the second.
Diaper affordability has proved to be a popular issue in California. Assembly members voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation to end the sales tax on diapers and to create a $50 monthly welfare diaper stipend for working parents. The issue has also gotten attention in Washington, with President Barack Obama penning a Mother’s Day missive calling for the private sector to help promote diaper access and Obama adviser Cecilia Muñoz spotlighting the issue.
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I was really tempted to edit your creative post, but after a moment’s thought decided not to.
Before disposable diapers, the cloth diapers were great.
Wash, dry and re-use. And, as you said, the cloths were great for many other uses after the kids were potty trained.
I don’t get the liberal left coasters who try to ban plastic bags for groceries because of landfill concerns, but they are okay with paying welfare to people who use disposable diapers that go into landfills.
Here are some rhetorical questions:
1) Why are parents who cannot afford diapers having babies in the first place?
2) Are tax payers supposed to subsidize the bad life choices of others?
Simple solution:
1) Go to your local hospital laundry and buy a bag of used flannel sheets.
2) Cut into diaper size and shape.
3) Use, wash and re-use same until replacements needed.
4) Repeat step 1
The end.
“A lot of these people bitching about the cost of diapers also buy packs of smokes.”
You are absolutely correct but you forgot to mention that they are holding their new IPHONE in the other hand.
Families have to make choices. If you don’t want to pay for
diapers, here’s a thought....don’t have babies!
My mother never lived in California.
I didn’t think of the drought. One more load per week makes a difference.
My youngest is 30 and we still have a few of his diapers around the house. Great for cleaning the car.
Know someone who had 3 by 3 different men, all on taxpayer support. Then all 3 were taken by the state & adopted out. Now the youngest is unmarried & reproducing, once again at taxpayer expense.
My wife is about to have ababy.
We are preparing: I will be damned if I get caught out like last time, and be forced to go to the store at night to meet some unforeseen baby need.
And so we are buying diapers ahead of time, looking for them on sale, and looking for bulk discounts.
We estimate at 10 diapers a day we will need 300 a month, and will use about 700 to 900 before we go up to the next size. That’s Yuge!
We can afford it because we live simply, and do not have a boat payment or a cabin in the mountains to pay for.
Ghetto people could easily afford diapers for their ghetto excretions if they did not have crack payments or malt liquor to pay for.
Ultimately this program just allows them to spend their money on something else, like rims.
As the late great Mark Twain said, “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
Congrats ! I found out yesterday that we’re expecting again.
What we did last time was really stock up, but I had some modifications. She grew at a rate that I didn’t predict and we were sitting on a few cases of one size, and needed another. Luckily I was able to find some local baby trade groups online and work out the inventory.
This time around will be more of the same.
In your opinion, how long did your newborn stay in newborn size diapers before moving up?
I want to avoid the pitfall you had, but want hundreds of diapers on hand, so I have one less thing to worry about.
It's hard to predict this kind of stuff.
It is hard to guess when the transition will be. The baby seems small in my wife's belly right now; and yeah I know that is not an accurate indicator!
PS: My wife also had a trade group, but it was for fertility meds - they are very expensive, and when we got prego we no longer needed them. We were able to help people save thousands of $$$s for meds they had been prescribed but could not afford.
Some a-hole lady with a grudge told on us and it had to close down, as we were committing a felony. Because as you know, drug dealers in the ghetto make a lot of money off of progesterone, s/.
There were no newborn diapers when I had my kids——they were just folded differently.
There is no need for them——why waste the money?
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Our biggest “gotcha” was the formula thing. Breastfeeding was key, but when it shut down I had moments to get appropriate formula, and get the baby to drink it.
That was unexpected. There are also several types of formula around. Soy, milk, Alimentum and so on. My baby had digestive issues moving around so we had to go with Alimentum which is $30 a can, about twice the price of regular formula. But we had about 4 cans of formula that had to be discarded at a cost of $120 over 2 days. So I recommend keeping about $200 around for such a thing.
When using a washing machine (particularly a front loader) you need to add fabric softener to keep the machine from sudsing too much. Otherwise you can have a very sudsy disaster! LOL
Try proposing cloth diapers to a table full of young marrieds over dinner if you want to provoke a brawl! I swear that it is a topic that is more incendiary than politics or religion.
Thank you for the input.
Our previous daughter is adopted; we did not nurse - It was all Enfamil Soy, all the time.
We got it at Target because they are close and they had all the different kinds of Enfamil (there’s, like, 6 that I know of) and had 10 of every kind.
I will be looking elsewhere now.
Did you use powdered formula? It costs a lot less, but is a hassle to dose/mix in the correct ratio, and you gotta discard it after a day or two after mixing, and are supposed to discard the powder after it has been opened a month, which I found to be nuts.
The irony of this is that I would think liberal leftist tree huggers’ concern for the environment would require that they use cloth diapers, and not disposables that are made from tree products, “dangerous” chemicals, and fill up landfills...
Try proposing cloth diapers to a table full of young marrieds over dinner if you want to provoke a brawl! I swear that it is a topic that is more incendiary than politics or religion.
Imagine~the granny who is more environmentally sensitive than her kids...Who would have thunk! I guess that PC environmentalism works when it suits ;)
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