wellway
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Post by wellway on Mar 26, 2019 7:58:06 GMT
It's a long time since I needed to consider cloth nappies(diapers) so this article about how there items are now collectables is a surprise. £160 for a pair of limited edition nappies! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47319641 |
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Post by gar on Mar 26, 2019 9:08:09 GMT
How bizarre! Who knew! But I can see the attraction in a way - the colours and designs are pretty and that photo is a lovely riot of colour  |
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Post by Linda on Mar 26, 2019 10:43:51 GMT
my youngest is 12.5 and I remember people going all crazy over certain nappy designs and paying way too much for certain ones.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 12:22:50 GMT
Overall I suppose it's possibly cheaper, in the long run, than what they would have paid for disposable ones and those beautiful colours certainly beats an elephant print of the baby's bum or whatever they put on them these days |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 26, 2019 12:40:10 GMT
I switched over to cloth when my second baby was born, at that time I had two in diapers at the same time. I was looking to save money. I absolutely loved cute designs. It seemed like everyone thought they were adorable. I never had an obsession with it like the woman in the article, but I was always on the hunt for something cute.
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tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Mar 26, 2019 12:54:13 GMT
my youngest is 12.5 and I remember people going all crazy over certain nappy designs and paying way too much for certain ones. My youngest is 17 and I was one of those people. They were all handmade, though, if that matters.  |
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Post by ashley on Mar 26, 2019 12:59:05 GMT
I also cloth diapered my first, who is also 17. I remember the craze for some brands and certain patterns.... we mostly went the inexpensive Chinese prefold with a cover.
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tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Mar 26, 2019 15:49:54 GMT
I also cloth diapered my first, who is also 17. I remember the craze for some brands and certain patterns.... we mostly went the inexpensive Chinese prefold with a cover. Oddly enough, at the end of my cloth diapering years (Oldest is 20, youngest 17), Chinese prefolds with snappis and covers became my favorite but I still loved my fancy prints. |
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Post by ghislaine on Mar 26, 2019 18:43:04 GMT
I found I preferred prefolds and covers too. People can have FOMO about anything.
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Post by mrst on Mar 26, 2019 19:41:08 GMT
I had my babies in 1982 and 1985. I was working a full time job and commuting 45 mins each way on a scooter. I really, really wanted to use the "new" disposables. My everloving mil decided the her grandchildren would only have the best and that was 'gold' standard nappies. OMG! The smell, the soaking, the washing, the pegging out at 6 in the morning ( no tumble dry). The front of my washer rotted through. I hated the whole thing! Luckily towards the end I 'had ' to change disposables. Shame!
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Post by pridemom on Mar 30, 2019 23:10:54 GMT
I also cloth diapered my first, who is also 17. I remember the craze for some brands and certain patterns.... we mostly went the inexpensive Chinese prefold with a cover. That was my favorite combination, too. I did like the cute printed flannel fitted made by WAHMs, but only paid $3 each for 1 size diapers. Four kids in cloth with a total outlay around $700 did me well. |
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Post by nlwilkins on Mar 31, 2019 3:06:49 GMT
Oh wow! I had no choice. Disposable werre just coming out and they were awful. This was the early 70's. Cloth diapers were just plain white pieces of "diaper" fabric that you folded in different ways depending upon the sex of your baby. You rinsed them out in the commode and put them in a diaper pail until you had a load.
Then each of us had our own routine. I would wash first in the washer just to rinse them out good. Then would wash them again with soap and clorox, no fabric softner, and pop into the dryer. Night time diapers were doubled to last the night. Towards the end on the second child they werre tripled for night time and doubled for day time because they became so thin. It was necessary to cover the diapers all the time with rubber/plastic diaper covers. But still if diaper changing was late, you would sometimes have leakage. When going out we would carry bread bags in the diaper bag to hold the dirty diapers.
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Post by Linda on Mar 31, 2019 12:46:41 GMT
Oh wow! I had no choice. Disposable werre just coming out and they were awful. This was the early 70's. Cloth diapers were just plain white pieces of "diaper" fabric that you folded in different ways depending upon the sex of your baby. You rinsed them out in the commode and put them in a diaper pail until you had a load. Then each of us had our own routine. I would wash first in the washer just to rinse them out good. Then would wash them again with soap and clorox, no fabric softner, and pop into the dryer. Night time diapers were doubled to last the night. Towards the end on the second child they werre tripled for night time and doubled for day time because they became so thin. It was necessary to cover the diapers all the time with rubber/plastic diaper covers. But still if diaper changing was late, you would sometimes have leakage. When going out we would carry bread bags in the diaper bag to hold the dirty diapers. I used cloth nappies with all three of mine (b. 1991, 2000, 2006) - the first two I used prefolds (as well as some of the traditional foldable nappies and I had a pack of terrycloth ones from the UK as well) and pins and vinyl pull-on diaper covers, the last I made fitted diapers for the early months and bought nice velcro covers and made pocket diapers once she was bigger - those were certainly easier and more convenient. My mum (I was born 1970, my sister 1974) could not understand why I didn't use disposables - she had LOVED them with my sister and HATED cloth with me. |
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