Costs of cloth vs. plastic

thebigmare4

Sorry if you see this post every day!! I'm a first time mom and it's pretty earlier in my pregnancy, but I'm thinking that I want to do cloth diapers. There's a green CD company that services my area. It's $23 a week. If you purchase 26 weeks at once, there's a 5% discount; 52 weeks gets you a 10% discount.

I have NO idea how much regular diapers cost. Would I be spending more or less than $23 a week on regular diapers? Can you help me out with estimates?

tsevere

With 1 in diapers, we probably spent around $40/month on diapers.  A service would be more expensive than disposables, but doing them yourself would definitely be cheaper.  You could get your entire stash (depending on what you decide to buy) for $200-$300 easily, and never have to buy another diaper.

The service is probably nice, but IMO not worth it if you're doing CD'ing for money savings.  If you're not concerned about the money and doing it for environmental reasons, or for baby, it may be worth it.

roundtheworldgirl

https://www.diaperpin.com/calculator/calculator.asp

kdello

https://www.theecofriendlyfamily.com/2010/07/ive-never-looked-back.html

This has a good graphic and explanation.

AussieAbbie

i've never bought s'posies, so I really don't know.. however, i've only ever used cloth after some freebies of s'posies from hospital and a pack or two given to us and we wash our own.. super easy!  DH told me a few months into it that he was just going to let me go with the whole CD'ing thing and he thought it would get old, but now he's totally into it and has realized just how much we've saved by CD'ing and washing ourselves.. we think of it like rent... dead money.. except you'd be throwing away that money with poop all over it!! LOL.. I see someone posted the cost comparison site.. as much as a service would be nice, it's really easy to do a load every few days... I'd never change a thing!

Mrs.B6302007

if you don't use a diaper service, it saves you even more