how much do you spend on nappies per week
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Topic: how much do you spend on nappies per week
Posted By: jahvaan
Subject: how much do you spend on nappies per week
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 12:48pm
| or f/night? so far ive not bought any nappies from a supermarket, i had nappies stashed from when i was pregnant and then 2 weeks ago i purchased a box from babyonline (dryups) for $45 last the last 2 weeks and will last another week, so $45 for three weeks!! if anyone has a cheaper nappy expense, please let me know, thanks |
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Posted By: becky
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 1:11pm
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I buy those boxes of huggies when they are on special for $39.99 and DS wears them at night then weekly I buy giggles when they are $5.95. The huggies last a couple of months and the giggles only a week so we spend around 10-12 dollars a week. Except MIL brought us our last two boxes of huggies and still have one box left so havent brought huggies for awhile. I will only buy nappies that are on special will not pay full price. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 1:13pm
| $45 for three weeks is reeeeeeally cheap!!!! We go through a box of 108 newborn nappies every week...which we get on special so $39.99 a week (Huggies). We're only using disposables until the girls can fit their cloth nappies though - which might be a little while yet cos they're so little. And I don't know how much it will cost when they go up to the next size either. |
Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 1:29pm
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I also buy the bulk boxes of huggies when they are on special for $39 they usually last me two weeks (but thats for 2 toddlers)
Kate - As they get older the nappies get bigger but the stupid boxes are the same size so you get less and less nappies for the same money but as the girls get older they will need fewer nappy changes so it works out to be about the same I guess. -------------  
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 1:35pm
| Hehe that's actually good to know Lisa because we're not sure if we'll send cloth to daycare or have sposies at daycare and cloth at home. |
Posted By: bext1
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 1:49pm
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we get the huge boxes at the nappy outlet place - $29.95 and there's about 80 nappies? that can last us about 3 weeks now, and we use Babylove at night time. so I guess all up about $40 a fortnight for the twins?? ------------- 
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Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 2:26pm
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We buy 2 of the regular boxes of Dryups at once (to get the big discount) and with the amount we use, they last about 3 months and only costs us about $10 a week when you work it out. Just a big outlay at the start.
Buying the bulk packs of dryups definitely saves you a lot more than buying the $45 packs we've found. -------------  
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 3:02pm
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Rhiannon costs us $5 a fornight for nappies (only wearing one at night for bedtime).
Cory we got through about 44 a week, at about $6 a pkt, so thats about $30 a fornight ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 3:16pm
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We went through a box of crawlers (chubby legs is in crawlers for the last three weeks or so) at $45 or whatever in three weeks. So with that we are now doing a huggies for night and using about 5cloth nappies during the day which is nothing to what I thought we would be using lol. In the long run as DD has such chubby legs we will be using cloth and it costing us hardly anything as we don't pay water atm this could change if we move and its just the initial cost of the nappy. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 3:58pm
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We spend $19.36 every three weeks, on HomeBrand Nappies (the only brand that we found didnt leak that wasnt hugely expensive.) There is 50 in a pack so per nappy its about 38c. Just curious as to how much the other nappies are each?
Maddi is a bit older and averages 3-4 nappies a day. Shes in the toddler size nappy and the nappies get more expensive as they get older too. Edited to change to 3 weeks. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Aithne
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 4:11pm
I have only bought one pcket of whatever size Rory is in at the time (right now its toddler  ) for $10. I usually get treasures ultra but when huggies is on special for $10 i get those and they last a week. Once in a while i have gotten a bulk pack of huggies and they last nearly 3 weeks.
All up each week i spend $40 on Rory and that includes his nappies, formula and some veges/fruit for solids. |
Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 6:33pm
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Christy, the specific Dryups we buy for Livvy (and with the bulk amount) are 33 cents a nappy. -------------
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 6:49pm
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We bought some today ..
Issys walker girls worked out at 71c per nappy Elias' infant boys worked out at 42c per nappy (but his were on special at foodtown). (They both wear huggies) ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 7:54pm
Ditto...I couldn't resist! But I have figures out for 9 months & I"ve just upsized that so far I've saved about $500 on what I would have spent & I've spent around $400 on cloth so far. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Jezsika wrote:Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 8:04pm
| About $10 a week for two packets of Homebrand junior. There are only 12 in a packet though! But he wears undies for most of the day and just wears them for naps and night time. |
Posted By: palomino
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 8:30pm
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hehe depends if i see any cute cloth nappies. This week it was $18 on a blue minky.
Should be nothing though :P |
Posted By: sarahm
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 8:55pm
Im a tight ar$e (ask anyone who knows me  ) and wont spend more than 35 cents on a nappy so if I find something that works on special I buy lots! At the moment we are using babylove (with the wiggles on) $25 for 90 crawler at foodtown when they are on special. Unless we have a 'poo' day I use about 5 nappies a day on average.------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: kiwigal
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 9:33pm
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I buy a box of huggies and PNS usually have them for $37.95 one box lasts me about 3 weeks. When they are cheap we buy at least 3 boxes at a time so we don't buy nappies for a few weeks. |
Posted By: floss
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 9:34pm
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We buy the budget ones and one big bag i think there is 72 in it does my two about 1 1/2 weeks altho I think there is a stash of nappies up at my kiddies daycare! it cost about $20 depending if they are on special or not. ------------- My beautiful big girl Sienna 15.04.06 Double the trouble double the fun Noah & Lola 10/11/07 |
Posted By: becky
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 9:56pm
I like the homebrand ones too but I cant find them in big packs in crawler size where do you get the 50 packs from? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 10:37pm
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we use the homebrand ones and have only ever seen the larger packs in toddler and walker
so 19.96 for 50 toddler nappies plus about 9.99-14.99 for a packet of either huggies or treasures ultra for night time so $35.00 per 3 or 4 weeks ohh and these are for aidan and we just use a homebrand one on bailey at night time |
Posted By: Lexidore
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 11:38pm
don't forget to check out the warehouse when buying the huggies bulk packs, they quite often have them for about $36, I found this out after using my vouchers from my bounty pack to by them at the supermarket for $45  ------------- 
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Posted By: jahvaan
Date Posted: 18 October 2009 at 12:01pm
| great thread. very useful and interesting. im dying to try homebrand but from what ive seen, they dont have my girls size (shes only 6 weeks). |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 18 October 2009 at 2:49pm
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I spend $10 every 18 days as Josh has a nappy at night time only now. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Mazza70
Date Posted: 18 October 2009 at 8:01pm
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I refuse to pay full price so generally get Huggies boxes when on special $39.99 for 64 walker nappies. Used cloth nappies for a while too, but just disposables now.
Was told that the cheaper brands (incl Giggles) don't hold much/leak so haven't tried them, but am wondering if this is true? |