keeping a mental running total...

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..of what you have spent on real nappies (and whether disposables would have been cheaper) leads to madness and despair. Discuss.

..well it drives me crazy anyway, must try NOT to think about it. At the rate I´m going I´ll need to have at least 3 more kids just to break even

ooh-
enough terry squares to sink a ship (bought by mil!) and wraps nippas etc were about £75

Then

imse vimse x 8 plus wraps etc £110
green baby x 10 £99
bargain shaped nappy deal from ebay (25 nappies plus boosters!) £32.99
wraps £75 (needed! to have the fleece rainbow tots wraps!!)
tots bots cotton nippa multipack £130
Tots Bots Bamboozles x 30!!! £DREAD TO THINK!!! about £270!(working full time only wash once a week!)
Fluffles x 5 £49

general bits and bobs (wet bags, wipes, random must have essentials) probobly total £100

SO!!!
75+110+99+32.99+75+130+270+49+100 = £940.99

BUT
from the nappies i have sold!!! (i only have the bamboozles and fluffles left!) i have raised about £450 and by bamboozles will be worth about £200 inc wraps when i get rid of them!!! i prob still have some other nappies lying around that i could sell too!

my total stash of mainly pockets but a few two parted inthe early days comes to £205. My ds is 29 weeks so thats cost me £7.06 a week to date - he poos and wees like you would not beleive (filling nappy as we type!). Alot of the ones i have now should see him through a fair bit longer as birth to potty wonderoos and bumgenius and peapods are in with the stash though the heinys will be outgrown soon. So i think i have value for money to date and a damn site nicer than paper pants! . Oh and then settign up business in this lark has cost me near a fortune but hey!

ahh if we are talking value for money over the children that have used them then
dt1 0-2yrs (104 weeks)
dt20-3.5yrs (and still using them) (182 weeks)

dd0-6months at the moment, but assuming potty training at 2 (104 weeks)

In total thats (940.99-450)/390

= £1.26 per week- RESULT!!!! I am a spendthrift! and thats without selling mny bamboozles an fluffles!

God imagine i got £250 FOR THE REST OF MY STASH That would be (940.99-450-250)/390

=0.62 per week!!!!!!

brill - see us clothys not only savigt he landfill but also good at Maths lol!!

oops not to good at the spelling though - ment to say were not only good at saving the landfill but also good at Maths lol!

i'm quite shocked at that figure to be honest- i shall print this out and take it hme to show dh- i think it would justify a few new nappies here and there don't you?

I'd rather not....

but flame- i have proved that you can spend an absolute fortune on nappies and wangle the figures so that it looks like you are a money saving eco-expert!!!!!

dh says i can get a few new nappies and wraps after seeing how little they have actually cost through the three dc's!

Is it cheating not to include the ones I have taken out of my stock room ??

Flame,

Just think if you have a third it will bring your weekly costs down considerably.

As I got given all my prefolds my nappy expenditure is pitiful. Just waiting for my sis to get preggers again after her MC so that i can spend her dosh instead. My prefolds are a bit knackered but are on child number 4 as they were secondhand to start with.

My friend is 18 weeks pregnant but waiting until they move into their new house before me and fellow mad nappy woman descend on her with six crates of baby clothes and many fluffy nappies - flex that credit card!!!

oh no!! donm't count them- that is market research and therefore a ligitimate business expense!!!!

OK...

15 bamboozles
16 wambamboo
7 rainbow tots (6 new)
2 white cotton tots
2 baby bufters
1 quick flip light
1 bumgenius V1
1 swaddlebees aio
2 fuzzi
1 minki
1 bumble
1 swaddlebees ocv pocket
6 flat terries from boots
2 fluffles
3 bedwetters
8 kissaluvs (2 new)
1 jam tots eezi fold
1 standard quick flip
4 disana tie on
10 bambino mio (and about 3 wraps)
1 cotton bottoms prefold n wrap

10 motherease wraps (various sizes etc)
2 bumsnugglers wraps
5 woollywraps - some long, some short, some seconds...
1 couche cover (but I sent it back and was refunded so possibly doesn't count??)
1 wacky wrap
1 red wrap
1 pair skull shorties
1 pair natural knits for nippers shorties
1 modern baby wrap
1 nature babies wrap

Some of those I got in swaps/dye deals, but seeing as I spent for my part of the swap I should probably write them down.

The bamboozles, rainbow tots (bar one), 5 kissaluvs, cotton tots, bumgenius and prefolds were all sold on to fund the others... and some I got with agent/wholesale discount.

Covers about 21 months of 2 children in day nappies, with an extra 12 months of bedwetter use .

Anyone want to add that lot up?!!?!

I just keep telling myself I can sell it all on at the end

I didn't add any of the unused ones in my demo kit... but I did forget a rainbow wrap that's been n gone.

I also have a couple I got free as trials that I didn't add in either.

I've been such a good girl

12 Fluffles
4 Air flow wraps

But thats just over 3months in. plenty of time for nappy sinning

I did the calculation after DS2 arrived and I realised that the old chestnut of 'washable nappies save you more money if you use them on a 2nd child' doesn't apply if No 1's bum is still in them. DS2 is a whopper so out of small ones and into his brothers larger ones far too soon so I had to double up for a relatively short time or wash every day.
I am disappointed to find that by the time I will have spent 4 years in total of washing nappies, I'll have saved about £400. Plus whatever I get for selling them, BUT I have to say that resale prices seem to have plummetted since ebay stopped listing them and all the buyers can just pick and choose off the 650 ish sellers at a time on the nappy lady.
But they ARE so much more fun than disposables!

but you've still saved money- they estimate washing costs if you don't tumble dry are around £40 per year- sounds very cheap to me!

Yes but its bloody hard work washing nappies for two, specially the drying aspect in the damp north west where I live! and the savings I was told I would make - by a nappy consultant before DS1 arrived - was £1000 per child. So I am just saying that I am disappointed that it only works out at £400 between the two of them. And ohmigod if I had a tumble dryer I'd have saved probably nothing at all!!

5 months in:

20 fluffles
6 tots wraps
2 fleece wraps
2 nappy nation bamboo terries
6 bright bot terries
10 little ewes
3 ME airflow medium
4 ME airflow large (waiting to be grown into)

So that is about £280?

Say I sell 15 fluffles and all the tots wraps I get £80 ish back so we are back down to £200.

Possibly add a bit more when come to potty training but I'll see about that then.

Not bad really.

Anyone want fluffles? go on...if someone makes me an offer without my actively selling them dp might go for it

The fluffiness is the main appeal to me

Ok, when I switched with DD it was because of the crystals.... but now it really is about the fluff

oh i didnt include my trials and 'market research' nappies , however Flame i see you take market research to the extreme! Even when i have no intention of stocking something i manage to convince DH that it is essential for market research !

Oh well that's ok then,

12 size 1 nippa cotton tots £84
2 hemp sugar peas £14
4 small fuzzis £47
1 Wonderoos £13.99
3 Medium Fuzzis £32.50
12 size 2 nippa cotton tots £84
2 modern baby £17
1 disana tie on nappy £4.50

2 size 1 fleece tots wraps £16
2 small motherease airflow £15.98
1 size 0 tots wrap £7.50
1 sugar peas wool wrap £15
2 medium modern baby wraps £15.50

Total: £349.97

DD used for 117 weeks and still using the
DS2 used for 13 weeks and still using (obviously!)

So far £2.69 a week, if DS2 is in nappies for 2 years then that comes down to £1.58 a week,

now that has shocked me, that is really good value

I didn't get as far as the wraps and I was already on £500 odd...

I like to have tried what I am selling... the bamboozles were my big spend before DS was born because I had to have a full set - he was then starting to get snug in them and Cathy got me involved in trying wambamboo - which I fell in love with and bought oodles to replace the bamboozles (but he then actually stopped growing and they would probably still fit now...)

I then got a few in as I was doing babykind and needed a demo kit and to know about what I was selling...

Then I found baby bufters and quick flips...

Then a client wanted to know what fuzzis were like, so I thought I should get one in and test it...

Then they were selling black fuzzis ()

The disanas were a swap for dying

And I have just realised that I haven't sold a lot of them - my bloody step sister still has them!!!

(Can I use the arguement that I have saved money in trousers/pjs?)