kinda sad

I cloth diaper. I have done so since Corbin was 8 months old. I love it. I've sold my stash twice and rebuilt it. Over the summer I switched to good old fashioned prefolds, fitteds, and covers. It was great.

I love cloth diapering. We've saved so much money - I've spent about $300 on everything, including Corbin's cloth wipes and two wet bags. That's it. We still use disposables at night and for church, but the bug box from Costco lasts several months.

It's also very good for the environment. You really don't do that much extra laundry. I do two extra loads a week. So not wasting that much water. And you don't have diapers sitting in a landfill doing whatever it is they do there.

I keep my diapers in the laundry room and we never have a poopy diaper smell. This is b/c we rinse all the yuckies off and they don't sit in the diaper in your diaper pail or trash can, stinking up the house.

Cloth diapers don't have a funky smell when peed in. I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but sposies have a weird smell to them. I never noticed until I switced to cloth, but I hate the smell of sposies now.

Cloth diapers have also done wonders for my monkey boy's skin. When we first switched he had horrible excema on his bottom. He's not had any on his bottom since we switched. He does still get it on his legs and tummy though.

But despite of all the good things, we are selling the diapers one last time. Corbin is half way potty trained - he always goes on the potty if he's naked. Also I am returning to work fulltime next week and James works and is in school. Corbin will be staying with his grandma while I work. She uses sposies on him. Since I will be out of the house 3-5 days a week, we won't be using them as much. I don't want to have 2 extra loads of laundry to do on top of everything else.

So it's bye bye cloth diapers. And I'm sad. I don't like rinsing diapers, I don't enjoy laundry, but I love my diapers. It's an odd attachment lol.