Why did you go cloth? (if you have)

I have never liked disposables...and even though im not a greenie i dont like knowing that i am contributing to the problem as such...in saying that ...Rhiannon is in disposables at the moment as this new forumla has given her really bad nappy rash...and as i am in the new cloth nappies...and want to lather on nappy cream...disposables seemed the best option.

Also cloth was a lot cheaper...and they can be reused over and over.

We are going cloth because of the $$ savings. And also that Palmy has just had it's landfill closed down so getting rid of rubbish is only going to cost more and more here. Plus they are far more nicer looking than disposables!

We are going to use MCN with this bubs mainly because everyone is raving on about how great they are and i wanna get in on the action! plus they look soooooo cute!!
Im sure il love all the other benefits once we start using them
I never used them for Bay because i didnt know about MCN only the old styles ones and they really wernt my 'thing' if i had known about them with Bay i wouldve used them then also

It was right when I was getting REALLY over my smelly rubbish and then just seeing them sealed the deal. The costs savings were also a big one.

I saw cute little small fuzzis and was able to feel how damn soft they were! And the snaps! Perfect timing as Han has just started to open the tabs on sposies and she couldn't work the snaps.

All in all, a choice I don't regret

Okay first dont want to sound rude or anything. Just really curious as I did all the sums ect.

We did look into cloth when I was pregnant and ran the numbers and it just didnt add up. Even worst case scenario disposables will work me out cheaper. It was only going to start saving money on the second kid. So have to buy unisex ones.

And again when we got over here and I hear all the people say it is saving money I ran the numbers again and it just doesnt add up to me.

So what is your girls calculations? Maybe I am missing something.

We are ooming about some cloth with the next one but that is more to do with environment than anything else to be quite honest with you.

Kellz wrote: We got mostly unisex colours so we can use again with next baby (if we have a boy he will be wearing bubblegum pink fuzzi's at night!!)

Tee hee same here!

I just remembered the other reason that helped convince me... FB look so easy to use, and I was going to be doing washing every day anyway with three kids, already.

Smoody - it's not just the overall cost of cloths but then later on the resale value of nappies like fuzzi's are amazing so you get back a heck of a lot of the money you put in.

Thanks for all of your replies ladies and gents, this was just a bit of personal research after the weekends expos

A lot of people "assume" you only go cloth with your nappies if you're a staunch greenie which apparently isn't the case

Thanks again

toni_akl wrote: A lot of people "assume" you only go cloth with your nappies if you're a staunch greenie which apparently isn't the case

Obviously! I am the worlds biggest consumer (yes, Gsmum was horrified when she was here the other day and I threw an empty Palmolive bottle into the bin instead of the recycling . It's not that I don't care about the environment - I'm just essentially lazy!

So why cloth for us? I used flats, pins and covers with Maya during the day and disposables at night and they were fine, did the job and saved heaps considering the initial outlay was $90 for the flats and the only recurring cost was a few $$$ for covers as she grew and for liners and washing powder etc.

Stubbornly resisted MCN with the gremlins, started off planning to use flats from 6 weeks till I realised they were getting thru a $50 box of Huggies a week between them So started with the flats at 2 weeks, and started hunting for better covers. At the same time went hunting for cloth trainers for Maya, Gsmum pointed me towards Snazzipants and the rest is history!

The ironic thing is if I started using cloth to save money, I certainly haven't - I have 50+ nappies of different styles/colors/prints etc. which has cost me way more than disposables would have short term, but long term factoring in resale will actually save me heaps.

Plus as I keep telling Willie at least if we go bankrupt I can always sell some nappies to keep us afloat - they're like an asset almost

The cost of 2 babies in disposables scared me enough to look into cloth again. (I'd tried it briefly with Ella in flats with pins and was way too lazy to maintain it)
After reading about the MCN's you guys were using on here it seemed like an easy enough switch, and I'm glad to say it was!