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?

YABU

Oh I'm glad we're offering you a good evening's entertainment, Lucilliana! (Can I call you LouLou? Can I? Please?)

Actually, old pants (and other soft rags) seem to have a sort of 'tradition' if you want to call it that, of making their way into the rag basket for polishing rags. I think it's probably quite rare these days, when people buy rolls of disposable J Cloths without a second thought, but back when things, you know, cost money and people didn't have a lot of it, keeping a rag basket for polishing, etc, was what everyone did.

...actually, this thread is a load of Old Pants, isn't it?

They were all boyish (bought for DS), I believe I have both poppers and Velcro, but I need to check sizes ... More tomorrow :)

My mum used to dust with my knickers when I grew out of them. I also still remember my terry squares being used as hand towels up until my teens. The OP would have loved it there!

sorry, not sure what happened with the random striking-out there!

can we assume that the person who resurrected what I now see is an old thread, is loaded and never uses anything twice?

I find this thread deeply amusing. Poo in the machine! As if it spins about in there or something, spreading itself out like a turdy tissue! Perhaps I am just truly skanky though. Many is the time I've come off a horse and been generously coated with manure and I've never considered disposable jodhpurs and horse poop is far, far, far less pleasant than BF baby offerings.

Hypothetically speaking if there are any pockets / AIOs floating about in need of a home do let me know. I will happily to take on trust that your babies do not have ebola unkillable diseases of the bottom.

We still use old pants for cleaning. My DS's sometimes wear hand me down pants. If i could have found second hand washable nappies then we would have used them, but i bought them new and sold them on. And to top it all, i'm typing this from a hotel bed and i didn't bring my own towels or sheets!

Respect to the op though for actually taking on board the comments here.

I sold all mine. I was shocked really at how much I made. Then again they were all in a good clean condition. I had some lovely fleacey ones hardly warn and the Motherease ones with all the bits and bobs. I always bought new fleace liners which is where all the shit goes.

I buy and wear second hand jeans -- I have no idea whether the former owners bothered with knickers, or wore thongs, or what. I give them a good hot wash and run them through the dryer set at hot.

I used my disposable nappies as kitchen cloths for years after DC5 was dry. They were birdseye and extremely absorbent, perfect for spills and they washed (and bleached, Lilliana) like a dream. You couldn't have paid me enough to part with them.

I use old socks for polishing. The DDs hand their knickers down, those that are in good shape anyway. When they start to look the worse for wear I throw them out. I once sent DS into a tailspin by musing out loud about the possibility of making a quilt with his old boxers

Oh, and pmsl at whoever used the term 'infected nappies'!

I thought about making some nice bunting with ours!

What do people really think happens to the disposables that get chucked out? Does the poo fairy magic all that nasty poo away?

Naaaah, it goes straight to landfill for a century or so, or leaches into the water supply and you and your dc's (and the rest of us) drink it - mmmmmmmmmm

Hasn't all the water in London passed through 10 people or something? I'm sure I read that somewhere once. Honestly, indulge your delicate sensibilities if you must, but the reality is that we are surrounded by bacteria all the time and yet we survive.

And yeah, I'd wear secondhand pants, ds has worn secondhand pants and nappies. Oh the horror

True about the bacteria. I like to think that DD will have some sort of super-immune arse after all the exposure to nappies worn by other dirty gross infected with incurable bottom disease babies.

genuine question about reusable nappies: if you use a disposable liner, why are they better next to your baby's skin - what are the liners made of? And how often do you wash the nappies, if the liner catches it all? and if the liner is disposable, isn't the environmental argument just a matter of scale (full disposable nappy vs liner)

I wash the liners too. The flushable kind - they go through the washing machine at least once. Nappies still get soaked so they are changed every 2-3 hours like a disposable.

It may be a matter of scale but a liner is a lot smaller than a whole disposable nappy.

I use reusable liners. If it's a solid poo, from my 22 month old, i'll flush the poo down the loo and then stick the liner in the nappy bucket. If it's a poo from an EBF baby, then i'll just throw the liner, poo and all into the nappy bin to be washed.

Disposable liners contain nothing like the chemical compounds found in disposable nappies, for a start. I'm really more a fan of flushing the poo off of a fleece liner, but I'm sure someone with far greater knowledge than I will fill you in on the benefits of disposable liners. Personally I think if you do chuck them, at least they biodegrade which is more than can be said for the vast majority of disposable nappies. I have always had nappies washed after every 'evacuation' and wraps washed every couple of uses / when they get soiled.

I'm not an environmentalist by the by (though I try). I'm poor. Possible environmental upsides are a boon for me, rather than a reason for choosing them.

Thanks everyone. So the linerss are a bit more lie reinforced lol roll, or are reusable anyway. That makes sense

Your doctors will know more than you or me about the dangers of bacteria like e.coli. I ask all of you to tell your gps what you do (including using old nappies as kitchen towels and for cleaning) and post here what they say. If you don't want to go to your doctor call nhs direct and ask for advice. Please, do it.

Yes let's all call NHS direct about nappies. I'm sure they'd be delighted.

Is this the poo troll in a new and inventive guise?

Moron.

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I think my GP might tell me to fuck off if I made an appointment just to let him know that tbh.

Luck you are on a wind up.

flushable liners are like a cross between grease proof paper and kitchen towel.

Aargh I meant luci. While I get people being a bit grossed out about it, it is simply not the huge public health issue you think it is. Do you throw your knickers out after one wear?

Don't make an appointment just for that but ask when you go.