To think selling your second hand reusable nappies is a bit gross?

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Someone I know is selling her reusable nappies, which she has used for her 2 DC.

I know many people pass on baby clothes. I have been glad of hand me downs from friends and relatives but I'd never use second hand reusables. AIBU to think this is a bit gross?

What's so safe and hygienic about the bottoms of children you know vs. bots of children you never met?

If it wasn't possible to fully kill any dangerous pathogens fairly easily then it wouldn't be acceptable to reuse nappies at all, ever.

Running, you sound like my friend in all fairness. The friend who's counsellor gave her a leaflet on an OCD support group this week

I am not a very germ conscious person. Hence this kind of stuff doesnt bother me!!!

Running - I really don't understand this.

do you sit on bus seats? train seats? ever owned a second hand car? second hand sofa?

if the item (nappies/pants/sheets/towels/whatever) is clean - what exactly is wrong with using it?

have you never used a muslin as a tea towel ( at the disorganisation in my household )?

seriously - in the case of nappies/towels/sheets etc - they will have been washed at 60degrees, may well have been soake din sanitiser - I cannot get my head around why they woudl not be seen as usable.

I think it is a huge shame that the world has pretty much gone disposable and over-sanitised. the amount of resources that get wasted every day, beause people cannot bear the thought that a bit of cloth has been next to a babies bottom is just astonishing.

The weird thing is we're talking about nappies for babies... and how do we make babies? And how are they born? Does anyone remember the steps required? AIBU to think that sex and childbirth count as two of the grossest human activities ever (says a mother of 4)? Getting uptight about 2nd hand washable nappies is pretty silly when you think what else you have to do to get to the stage of being a potential cloth nappy user.

Silver/smokin - beginning to realise I might have a few issues! Never owned a second hand sofa! Got the landlord at my student house to allow my parents to bring up their old sofa :)

Wouldn't sit in cinema, rental car etc in shorts or a skirt! Don't use public transport because it's absolutely rubbish where I live so not an issue!

Never used a muslin as a tea towel! :)

And I'm not really sure what my logic is that's it's ok for sibling but not a stranger probably just because I'll have known exactly where they've been!

blimey Running! I have been in rented flats which came fully furnished, and just put mattress protectors on and febrezed the sofas

not sitting on cinema seats in a skirt might be a touch over the top yes.........!

I think this thread might be fuelling my newly diagnosed OCD - thanks for reminding me of how horrendous childbirth is ragged.

Won't stop us going for no. 3 and enjoying getting there

YABU....it's totally normal to sell your reusable nappies, likewise to buy them

You can't really compare women's secondhand knickers with secondhand nappies. Firstly, women don't tend to outgrow knickers before they reach the end of their usable life, hence no point in passing them on; babies are only in nappies for a couple of years, and even then they may get through 2 different sizes. Nappies tend not to deteriorate in quality over a period of months (they become more absorbent with washing , so need to be "worn in"), whereas most knickers are not of sufficient quality to last that long with no deterioration in quality.

Also, you put liners in nappies and that catches the poo and wee.

And nappies can be boil washed.

yuk yuk

I have worn secondhand pants. I don't hover over public loo seats. I am not sure that I actually own a new cloth nappy. I have passed on a Mooncup to a MNer.

Sometimes I am amazed that our species has survived as long as it has when there are so many MNers whose fanjos are poised to burst into flame at the merest provocation

Yes yes - I accept I'm a bit OTT! But you all haven't persuaded me to change my ways, I'll still hover, no second hand pants/nappies plus a few hundred more which I won't bore you with!

You know the reason that there is pee on the seats is because people like you hover, right?

If you don't like it then you UA def NBU. It's your babie's bottom! I bought mine 2nd hand and am v glad to pass them on but sooo understand why other peeps don't like it.

Using washable nappies is soooo nasty... You don't put something on your baby's bottom where there has been poo before, even if it has been washed. You need to use disposable nappies. Using second hand disposable nappies is the nastiest thing I have ever heard about. You don't put shit in the washing machine. You don't have any respect for the person you sell the infected nappies to.

yabu. i just bought a pile of motherease nappies from a friend who used them for her 2 dc, for my dd. i sold dd's terries from when she was nb.

That is the funniest post I have read in a while. How did our parents cope before disposables eh?

Besides, why have you dragged this post up 8 months after it died?

Ps:poo goes down the loo.

lucilliana - do you throw away all your baby's poo leaked clothes then?

lucillana, if it disgusts you so much why bump such an old thread just to voice your disgust? How odd.

Old thread Luci. Do you have ishoos?

If non-disposable nappies is the nastiest thing you've ever heard of, you've obviously never googled some of the words your fellow mnetters have suggested...

Selling second hand nappies isn't gross. Buying second hand nappies is gross.

I am pretty gross then, dd has lots of second hand reusables.

I'm gross! I'm gross! Send all these horrible diseased nappies to me! Dances merrily around not yet big enough pile of new and previously used nappies

You know what's really disgusting? Bin bags full of disposables two days before the bi-weekly bin collection. In August. Natch.

I have been given two big carrier bags of reusable nappies from a complete stranger on freecycle. I bet that makes me a right dirty skank.

yabu