Building the Stash

(picture of my growing diaper stash)

It's been over a month since we purchased disposable diapers. I would say it's going on two months. Last time we purchased some, we bought a box of diapers and a box of pull-ups from Sams Club. It was before I got the idea of "going green" and investing in some cloth diapers. Actually it was more the idea of saving money that made me switch and believe me, it has been a blessing to have the cloth diapers now. Without them I would have had to already purchase more disposables. With moving and not having any money coming to us until recently, this would have been a major strain on us financially.

The transition has been an easy one. We still have some pull-ups that we use when we are out of town. At this point I do not love the idea of dealing with a poop filled diaper when we are not in our house.. with our trusty diaper sprayer. Although our first poop filled cloth diaper experience was at my MIL's house and it wasn't really that bad.

A friend let us borrow a bunch of her cloth diapers. Which about doubled our stash. Now I don't have to wash everyday.. .even though some days I do.

Since we have been here... when I've had some money.. I've made two purchases toward my newborn diaper stash. Green Mountain Diapers has had sales on "seconds" PreFold diapers. PreFolds that for one reason or another were made a little off and therefore cannot be firsts. So I have on hand 1 dozen newborn size PreFolds and have another dozen being shipped to my house as I write this. That will give me two dozen PreFolds for the little one. The deals were too good to pass up and maybe saved me $10. I have yet to decide what else I will purchase for the first two months. Newborn size diapers only fit for a little while. I would love to purchase some cute AIO's but they are expensive... if the reason for me cloth diapering is to save money.