real nappy week... anyone doing anything?

[starlover]

i was just on the RNW website, and they have some fab ideas for raising awareness of using cloth...

is anyone doing anything?

hehe crossed posts!

aha.... i like that site misdee - have added it as a favourite! Love the look of the wonderoos!!!

i have one wonderoo... they're similar to fuzzi bunz which i use mostly. nice because they dry much quicker than all-in-ones, but just as easy to use!

Here's prefold example
www.thenappyplace.co.uk/index_files/Flatnappies.htm

and here are some shaped examples
www.thenappyplace.co.uk/index_files/Shapednappies.htm

added that site as a favourite too - why is there so much choice?!

so that you will buy one of EVERYTHING! lol

and be skint?! At least i know if i buy now, when number 2 arrives i wont have to worry again!

Still got about 30 size 1 kushies upstairs!

wonderoos are good, i have 2, not my favourite nappies, prefer the fuzzis and totsbots/ME wraps. think its the cost of the wonderful inserts that puts me off. i just use different inserts now.

i do wonder why they are so expensive... surely if the cost of real nappies was to fall, more people would use them?

5 toddler size kushies is £55! I got mine of another mnetter for £30 brand new, not opened pack, but it is scary to think they are SO expensive!

But I think disposables are expensive, it's just you don't have to buy them all at once.

contact a nappy agent

you can see, touch and discuss your needs before you buy. I would advise anyone thinking of cloth to contact an agent. the nappies are the same price as the site and you don't have to buy everything through them- just get yourself started

i got a lot of mine this time 2nd hand. and will sell them on afterwards as well. that why we are using them to their fulkl potnetial. i think the only ones i wont be able to sell are dd2 old size 3, they are so worn out, some ven have holes, most have bald patches . thats 18months of only have 10 nappies and washing and drying them every other day.

disposables are expensive, but you can get them cheaper... and it is handy to spread the cost, but thats why i want to start upping the toddler sizes ive got.

Got loads of size 1's and swear by them.

you could traqnsfer to cloth over a few weeks so that the cost isn't so much pootle

i sit and think, a bumper pack of pampers, i could buy one new tots for the price of those and it'l llast me longer.

i got the majority of my first size ones second hand off ebay. and they were still fantastic - not one had a mark on them. Definately worth the money but its getting the money in the first place!!!

i hjave some toddler size kooshies. didnt like them myself, had them as back ups if the tots werent dry in time. plsu they were easier for dd2 short time at nursery.

i dont know whether its because it was the first nappy i tried or what but i get on really well with kushies. Might be a different story with the new baby of course nad just HAVE to go and buy lots of gorgeous tots bots!!!

of course you will, and your baby will look like the one on the fairy bottle.

LOL! Just tried to show DH the sites and he was like, yeah, nice.... I WILL PERSUADE HIM! He's really good about using the kushies, but doesnt liek forking out - typical man huh!

yup. dh tells me off each time i get another parcel. just told i was ordering kore nippas, whicfh is fine as they are cheap, but oh look, more wonderful inserts are in the basket as well.....

Sorry, I am actually a closet-clothie, was trying to say (badly) that although it would be nice if real nappies were cheaper; they are actually very cost effective, particulary if you can use again/sell on/buy second hand.

I dont mind forking out for them, but i think MORE people would use them if they were slightly cheaper....

i am going to contact the waste aware team and ask for more of the council leaflets to see if i can take them to clinic with me on weds.

that would be good - im not sure if my council do anything - will ahve to look into it!