BTDT MoMs: How much do you spend a month on diapers?

CaliCarly77 · November 2013

I am trying to decide whether to go cloth (diaper service is $25 a week for twins! seems cheap!)

I figure if we do cloth, and breast feeding as much as I can, we can save a few bucks, but I am curious whether it is "worth it"? As such, I am wondering how much you spend/spent on disposable diapers a month?

LottaLattes · November 2013

For comparison, I wash my own, spent about $1600 total on a ridiculous stash, and will sell them off for a reasonable price after. Diaper services will be about the same cost as disposables, and if you are using them you usually have to go the prefold/cover route (which we didn't like). You could spend a couple hundred (like 3-400) on your own prefolds and wash yourself for much cheaper than a service. Just depends on what you like to use!

LottaLattes · November 2013

(and I know you were asking about disposables but just thought I'd add another perspective on the cloth cost

pillowass · November 2013

I spend about $50 every three weeks or so (I order Pampers on Amazon). So roughly $70 a month.

ks3pink · November 2013

I but target brand and would say we to through a box in about three weeks. So maybe $35 a month?

LegallyBlonde217 · November 2013

pillowass said:

I spend about $50 every three weeks or so (I order Pampers on Amazon). So roughly $70 a month.

^ This for us, too.

24karat · November 2013

About $70 per month on Target diapers for 3 kids. Sometimes less if I can catch a sale.

bumpuser924057 · November 2013

We go through about 1.5-2 Costco boxes a month, so $50-70?

I cloth diapered my older son and still have my ridiculous stash waiting for me to get my act together, but these days I can't even manage to get our regular laundry done in a timely fashion, let alone diapers.

Mrs. Alice · November 2013

About $60 a month with Amazon subscribe and save.

CaliCarly77 · November 2013

Yeesh - sounds like disposables may actually be cheaper?!?! $70 disposable < $100 cloth, how is that possible! I'm glad I asked!

bumpuser924057 · November 2013

CaliCarly77 said:

Yeesh - sounds like disposables may actually be cheaper?!?! $70 disposable < $100 cloth, how is that possible! I'm glad I asked!

Diaper service can run into some serious money! The cost savings for cloth really come in if you do your own laundry, don't go nuts buying every adorable diaper ever made, and sell them off again afterwards.

JodiAriel · November 2013

I have Alva pockets that I started using when my girls were about 10 weeks old. I bought 42 diapers for ~$250. I was washing every 1-2 days when they were little, now I wash about every 3 days. These are one size diapers so they will last until they are potty trained.

24karat · November 2013

thecheshirekat said:

CaliCarly77 said:

Yeesh - sounds like disposables may actually be cheaper?!?! $70 disposable < $100 cloth, how is that possible! I'm glad I asked!

Diaper service can run into some serious money! The cost savings for cloth really come in if you do your own laundry, don't go nuts buying every adorable diaper ever made, and sell them off again afterwards.

This exactly. Of course, disposables also can cost way more if you buy only Pampers or Huggies unless doing sales/Amazon mom. I can do disposables for my 3 kids at the $70 mark because we only buy bulk boxes of the Target brand. For cloth diapers to be less you have to buy your own, launder them, and resell or plan to have more kids down the road who'll use them. I think you may also end up buying more for twins too, especially for the NB stage, and disposables for when you're traveling or if your daycare doesn't do CDs.

babywillmake3 · November 2013

I am cloth diapering and spent $100 per month on my singleton when he was in diapers. I'm shocked that some people are only spending half that. 1 box of NB diapers for 80ct at target is $24.99. With that being said, the diaper services I looked into were the same as cloth. Doing prefolds and diaper covers I've spent 60 on covers (one size) for the twins and have to buy $40 worth of prefolds to get me through at least 2 days with the twins based on what I've read. I also caved and bought NB ones because they are adorable but I'm on like 10 co ops and swap pages on Facebook and am buying used which also saves money. You can CD cheaper than a service for sure.

LottaLattes · November 2013

For comparison, I bought a whole bunch of nb sized cloth diapers for my twins, and resold them for about $20 less than what I paid (I bought most used). So other than water and electricity, that is what I paid for three months of diapers. I expect to be in the 2-3 hundred dollars in loss after selling my current diapers after a third one using them. Can't beat that, even if I have to wash poop!
And we haven't used disposables at all, even on vacation, though I did rent a service for a week when we were in a hotel the whole time.

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