Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Cloth baby wipes equal less waste

If any of you are in the realm of deciding whether you want to use cloth diapers, don't take it too lightly. In my opinion, cloth diapers is a lot of work, but totally worth it. I am reminded of this every time I take my garbage out and find a huge bags of disposable diapers sitting in the dumpster. I doubt we have used enough disposable diapers to fill up a single garbage bag in our daughter's first two years. THAT'S why we chose cloth diapers.

In the first month of our daughter's life, we filled up a garbage bag with disposable wipes, and said "why not have cloth wipes too?" It turns out, they're really not that complicated. Nicole bought a huge sheet of fabric (brown), and cut it into squares. We doubled up the squares, sewed them together, and clipped the edges to prevent them from stringing out. In short, we made about 60 cloth wipes for the price of buying five. They have lasted us almost two years now, and have kept us from buying baby wipes.

I'm sure I'll talk of cloth wipes again. I just wanted to mention them.

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