Building Stash ?

sacey21

Hi! I am looking to make the switch over to CD's, but I am sure I will have to slowly build my stash.

How do I know what to get or how much to get? I know differnt people like different things so I am not asking what kind to get, but more like how many AIO's, how many covers and inserts? I think I'd like to do laundry every other day. Should I just track how many sposies I go through each day and start from there?

So far I have 2 Flip covers, 6 stay dry inserts, and 2 BG 3.0's. Obviously I need more lol 

roundtheworldgirl

sacey21:

Should I just track how many sposies I go through each day and start from there?

Yes, this is a good way to do it.  Remember that you will need diaper to use while your wash load is drying.  So if your LO uses 10 diapers a day and you wash every other day, you need more than 20 diapers.  Right now we have a rotation of 27 diapers.  I wash every other day, and usually am almost out by the time the diapers are dry.

ked77

I'm not following you from the local board, I swear

I would suggest, for laundry every other day, to have about 24 diapers total.  When I did prefolds/covers for the newborn stage I had 3 dozen prefolds and 4 or 5 covers, but at about 3 months we moved into BG's, which I have 24/25 of, I do wash every other day. 

I'm not all that familiar with the flip system, but if it's like regular prefold/covers where you can re-use the cover and just change out the prefold/insert then you obviously don't need as many covers.