Friday, January 11, 2008

Getting Wild

My precious little angel (our youngest daughter) is starting to turn into a little devil. We use to be able to hold her, now she is squirming all over the place. She is starting to walk and get into everything, including her two big sisters things. She is learning how to hit and head butt, we are trying to put an end to all of that. She still is a very sweet little girl sometimes, but other times you can see her father come out in her.
I have started selling some cloth diapers that don't work for us on Diaper Swappers. With the money I got out of all my used diapers, I bought a couple new diapers to try. I have been wanting to try the Dream-Eze fitted for awhile, so I ordered one and also the new Bummis wrap. I am actually considering selling off all of our small cloth diapers (our daughter is now in mediums). I was going to keep them for our next child, but now I have read how the elastic goes out on diapers that you put in storage a lot of times. It's so nice to know that after we use the diapers, we can sell them so some one else can also use them, and we can recoup some of the costs too. I know sometimes people are a little weird about buying used diapers, but as long as they were well taken care of I don't see anything wrong with it. I make sure all of our diapers are stain free with no holes or tears in them and if I buy used, I make sure the diapers are in excellent used condition. Really using a cloth diaper another baby has used before is no different than using a bath towel that someone else has used before. Baby clothes are big sellers at yard sells, but you know a lot of babies spit up and poop on their clothes. So how is all of this different than buying used diapers? When I receive a lightly used diaper, I first soak it in Oxi Clean and thoroughly wash it. I would say that 75% of my diaper stash is made up of diapers that I bought new, and the other 25% is diapers that I bought in excellent condition off of Diaper Swappers. We are such a throw away society, it's so nice to know that once we are done with something someone else can then use it.

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