Saving money on nappies

Lemoncurd

For anyone who is interested in reusables there is a special offer in Waitrose on "Motherease" nappies and wraps until 14th April (I think). If you buy 5 you save £7. This is one of the brands we use for our little girl and they are pretty good - no leaks or nappy rash (she often suffers both when I put her in disposables).
Got to admit though, when I worked out how much it costs us to use reusables the per nappy cost isn't that much different to disposables so for me using reusables is just a personal choice rather than a bid to save money.

System

::)THANKS FOR THAT WILL TRY BOOTS THEN . TRY BULK BUYING . AND AS FOR THE BREAST FEEDIN THING I COULDNT DO IT AS MY DOCTOR UNKNOWINGLY TO ME PUT ME ON A PILL THAT DRIED UP MY BREAST MILK . NICE OF HIM HEY

trafalgar_2

::)THANKS FOR THAT WILL TRY BOOTS THEN . TRY BULK BUYING . AND AS FOR THE BREAST FEEDIN THING I COULDNT DO IT AS MY DOCTOR UNKNOWINGLY TO ME PUT ME ON A PILL THAT DRIED UP MY BREAST MILK . NICE OF HIM HEY

Hope you changed your doctor

System

::)TRIED TO SUE BUT THEY SAID THAT BECAUSE HE SAID SORRY THAT IT WAS OK AND THE CASE GOT KICKED OUT. ANYWAY BACK TO NAPPIES DONT THINK I WOULD AVE THE TIME FOR THESE REUSABLES . GOT ENOUGH TO DO .

deronda

I have to agree that towling nappies do save money.

Nappy rash - I have twins so I used towling nappies mostly but when we went out or stayed with relatives I used disposables. Certain brands of disposables caused boil like rashes and blisters on my children. Shops own brands never did.

I now find that now my children are teething we are unable to use towling nappies as they get a rash within half a day of wearing them no matter how often they were changed or how much cream they were smothered in.

What nappies you use seems to be determined by your childrens skin rather than whether or not you want to save the environment.

Cheap nappies can be found in ASDA a box of nappies roughly 84 for 19 month old children can be purchased for around £10 the cheapest and best I have found or used!

Good luck with whatever route you or your children decide is best for you. Do not give in to peer pressure!

Fran

they get a rash within half a day of wearing them no matter how often they were changed or how much cream they were smothered in.  

Could it be that cos it's been winter or wintry, they have been convered up a lot, but when it gets warmer, fresh air is better than "smothering them in cream"? Good luck with your twins.

deronda

Thanks for the advice.

Done the fresh air thing. Done the plenty of baths thing. Done the chasing around with a cloth cleaning up after the fresh air thing!

They were alot better in the summer as they spent most of the day in the paddling pool! Lucky for me potty training is just round the corner but with boys who knows how long this will take!

gibby

Aonther reason not to buy the 2 main brands is that both companies advertise very heavily - which we pay for.

as equal disposable with the supermarket brand are less than half the price and just as goo.


also Proctor & Gamble & Unilever test massively on animals - purley to keep thier insurace rates down.

I dont any animal should have its throat cut while concious just to make fairy liquid no 1


sad little world

https://www.uncaged.co.uk


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cheryl020

If you are going to use reuseables dont make the expensive mistake i did! I bought a pile of nappies before my son was born with the best intentions of using them from when he was a few weeks old. However i should have bought one of a few types and tried them out on him as i found the ones i'd chosen never fit him properly. So i now have a large bag of nappies sitting around that i will try to use on next baby (due 3 weeks!) but son no:1 (18months) is in disposables and i cant afford to buy a new range. Didnt know you can get pull up style ones though, will have to look into that and maybe get one or two if i ever have some spare cash!

kolakube_

cheryl - have you thought of selling the nappies on ebay (either now or after you have used them on your new baby)? just put "nappies" or even the make of nappy, into the search on the homepage, and see what comes up. I had been on ebay for ages and didn't even realise there was this huge resale market in cloth nappies but ended up selling mine for way more than I would have guessed! or some of the cloth nappy/general baby sites might have a message board where you can sell them (I think https://www.babycenter.co.uk does). Maybe you could buy one or two different types secondhand too, to try. Some of the best known kinds which are available in big stores are not very good even though it costs a lot to buy a set. I am sure that many sellers also offer trial sizes or even hire them (could work out at a simlar price to buying disposables). https://www.thenappylady.co.uk or https://www.plushpants.com do this, you get some of your money back when you return the hire set I think (though I realise if money is really short it will still be difficult) - good luck with the new baby!