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AIBU not to give a 'rats' about using disposable nappies..

61 replies

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 17:47

I really dont give a rats about using disposable nappies, I dont have a dryer and live in small house, also I dont want to have buckets of sh**ty nappies hanging around my very small bathroom.

I dont go on long haul holidays and have only been on one plane in my 35 years.

Does that make me bad?

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Piffle · 08/12/2007 17:49

I don't have buckets of shitty nappies about the place
Nor do I use a dryer for my nappies.

But that's just me...

LadyOfTheFlowers · 08/12/2007 17:50

Seems you are quite 'angry' about cloth in general?

'I dont want to have buckets of sh**ty nappies hanging around my very small bathroom.'

My house is small, it doesn't mean we are wading in shit while I am using them!

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 17:52

LOL ladies not implying you are wading round in shit..........I am much older than my brother and it was always my job to rinse the crappy nappies down the bog and sort the bucket out....used disposables with DS and cant face going back to ever dealing with cloth again.

Yeah I am angry at cloth...

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camillathechicken · 08/12/2007 17:53

no, but you are wrong to assume that everyone who uses cloth has buckets of shitty nappies everywhere!

PortAndLemonaid · 08/12/2007 17:54

YANBU to use whatever nappies you want to use.

YABU to assume you know what using cloth is all about and make sweeping (and largely inaccurate, by the way) generalisations, given that you've decided to use exclusively disposables.

Desiderata · 08/12/2007 17:54

Go ee, girl

camillathechicken · 08/12/2007 17:54

use disposables or not...but seems your anger is misplaced !!

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 17:54

Did not assume this...only a prediction of what my own lack of organisation would end up like.

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PortAndLemonaid · 08/12/2007 17:55

(cloth has changed a lot since we were younger, by the way -- I used cloth with DS and it was a whole different ballgame to cloth with my younger siblings).

hatrick · 08/12/2007 17:55

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shrinkingsagpuss · 08/12/2007 17:56

presumably you don't give a rats about the huge piles of s*ty nappies you are leaving piled up in landfill sites either then?

paulaplumpbottom · 08/12/2007 17:57

Look everyone does the best they can. If you can't make it work you just can't. Don't beat yourself up about it

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 17:57

P.S My recycle bin is full every collection and I use hemp shopping bags.....I also dont drive a 4x4 (but only because I cant afford one).

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camillathechicken · 08/12/2007 17:58

so i don;t understand the question.. and your anger..

we all do our bit , nobody can make you give a rats or not..

pistachio · 08/12/2007 17:58

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normabutty · 08/12/2007 17:59

YANBU at all. You should use what you feel happy with. Happy mum = happy baby and all that

FWIW I love using cloth, the shit doesn't bother me tbh and I find them easier than disposables. There's soooo many pretty ones too (can you tell I'm addicted??? )

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 18:02

Good for you hatrick......

Shrinking....I do have guilt feelings about landfill thats why I am trying not to give a 'rats'.

If I only have two children is that better than say having four children who breathe out 'carbon'.

Will we have to obtain 'carbon credits' for having children who breath out gases that destroy the atmosphere?

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bigmyrrhstrikesagain · 08/12/2007 18:04

As the vast majority of parents use disposables you are hardly likely to be labelled 'unreasonable' for not using cloth. But if you don't give a toss why post on the subject - seems a tad passive aggresive to me?

I use a combination of cloth and eco-disposables at the moment - but don't tend to wade around in shitey nappies the poo goes down the loo - just like everyone elses.

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 18:05

Oh feck......seems like ive upset people now.

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bigmyrrhstrikesagain · 08/12/2007 18:05

not upset - confused maybe...

ScottishMummy · 08/12/2007 18:11

whats got yer goat LadyMcArgue frankly my damn i don't give a dear. one plane in 35 years you need to get out more - dammit go lang haul

themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 08/12/2007 18:12

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xmasfairyireneaonafaketreetop · 08/12/2007 18:12

I smells a bit of a rat (ass) tbh

what do you want people to say?

you pay your money you make your choice
bigmyrrhstrickesagain is right, if you dont give a toss why bother posting?

but the landfills will be fuller thanks to you and your ways
and you dont have to live in shit to do washables
nor did i have tumble dyrer but garden then twas lovely
and used disposables (bio friendly) when out and about...its not hard

LadyMcArgue · 08/12/2007 18:17

No I am here.......give me a break its my first ever thread......

The extra work involed scares me, last time I had a bad section and PND and there is no way I could have done the real nappies thing.

Maybe I am a little apprahensive of the same thing again...of lashing out hundreds of pounds up front only to waste it and use disposables because I cant cope.

Its just the pressure to use 'real nappies' is far greater than last time.

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LadyOfWassail · 08/12/2007 18:22

"frankly my damn i don't give a dear" was that supposed to be back to front? lol. You can't be a first timer , are you a name changer?

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