My baby has been in cloth nappies for a few months and so I have signed up to a few advice and selling groups on Facebook and Instagram to help me along the way.
What has struck me is that there are quite a few parents out there who see cloth nappies as some form of collectors item and seek to have every print from certain brands; I’ve seen quite a few parents with upwards of 50+ nappies in their collection for 1 child. Many people openly admit to being ‘addicted to cloth’ and having tens of nappies more than they actually need.
There is one certain brand of cloth nappy whose products are hard to come by; when they are restocked in the UK, stockists’ websites crash and nappies are sold on at far higher than their RRP on Facebook and eBay. People seem to buy multiple of them just because they want to be seen to own this brand and then try and sell them on at inflated prices because ‘they bought too many of the same print’.
AIBU to think that this defeats the point of cloth nappies, which is to be more environmentally friendly? Surely your carbon footprint is just as big for owning tens of nappies that get used sporadically than that of someone who is using disposables. It just seems like it’s another industry being driven by greed / fashion and status.