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

[LadyMcArgue]

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?

im not touchy about it have enough to do without cleaning nappies

Most parents are fairly defensive about something - nappies, feeding, discipline, round and round the houses we go

It's hard to take things at face value, and we probably should try harder to remember that another person making one choice and speaking well of it is not the same as a person making that choice and judging everyone else for not doing the same.

Those judgey Judge McJudge people do exist, but I don't think they outweigh the others..

Not saying ALL disposable users are touchy. Some are. OP is.

It seems to me that quite a bit of your resentment dates back to what you had to do with your brother's nappies years ago! Trust your own conscience and don't worry what anyone else thinks!

I have a disabled child who may never be out of nappies. I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell that I am using cloth nappies for ever more. Sorry but I have too many other things to worry about. That would just add to the burden too much. And the local health authority supplies me with free disposables, so I guess the fault lies with them!

My using a reusable is not an implicit criticism of your using a disposable as I dont know what brought you to that decision.

But those disposable nappies make lovely hills

If you don't want to do cloth, then why not compromise and do eco-disposables like Moltex? Put a disposable nappy liner in when you put on clean nappy and then later if there is a fairly solid poo then you can just hoik it all out and flush it down the loo. Then put your un-poo-blemished eco-nappy in your compost or the council's "garden waste" recycling. At least on those occasions you aren't contributing something wrapped in plastic to landfill. Even if you can't do the whole cloth shebang, there are ways and ways of doing disposables.

I think tis a good compromise.

Infact, I think ppl using ordinary disposables should do the liner thing and get rid of poo down the loo. There's surely very little excuse for not doing that? You might then be inclined to throw out disposables without the plastic bag, at least one less contribution to environmental degradation.

yes on the whole i think you are.

It's your choice and there are all sorts of good reasons why people use disposables, but to say you don't give a rats implies that you use them thoughtlessly, without thinking about the consequences.

It's clear from your OP that you're not thoughtless and you do give a rats, otherwise you wouldn't bother to post in quite such an emphatic manner.

Hatrick - I totally get you - I use washables - I have always made food for the DC rather than jars - but you know what - I don't mind what anyone else does.

When people see that I have washables on DS2 they start telling me all their reasons for not using them - I have no interest in their reasons at all.

Whatever works for you - being a parent is full of guilt and difficult decisions from the day you pee on a stick and find you are pregnant.

as for OP - if you want people to convince you to use washables then start a thread saying convince me to use washables. If you really don't give a hoot then why post?