Reusable nappy costs

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Hi all. I'm currently building my stash in prep for baby coming. It's all muzlins, terries and bamboo/microfibre nappies with wraps to go on top and I'm now thinking I should get a handful (maybe 5?) AIO BTP nappies for when out/family have baby.

This is starting to cost a small fortune and wondering how much others have spent? (I don't really mind because I love the fact I'm saving thousands of nappies going to landfill)

It can be quite expensive to get set up with cloth nappies. You can usually get some pretty good priced bundles of them on eBay/Marketplace though if you wanted to

Also check your local council as I know some offer incentives to use cloth (mine offers £30 cash back if you send them a receipt showing you have spent a minimum of £50 on cloth)

We bought all all in ones for daytime (20), and 4 night nappies and wraps. Use tots bots range. With discounts for buying all together we had 15% off. I think we have spent total £300 ish and it’s been well worth it.
Nearly a year on they all look as new, work well and easy to use. Where we live there are no supermarket nappy brands either so disposables would have been so expensive and we would have easily spend £1000 already on nappies. Plus no stinky rubbish bin

I buy and sell my nappies on the usual FB groups (Cloth bum Mums / Cloth Nappy Nerds etc.) so in the end I won't have spent much overall.

The few bits I have bought brand new will be sold on so a lot of money is recouped. Some brands really hold their value (Motherease and Bumgenius) and others don't sell well second hand (Little Lamb) so I make decisions based on that.

The best and cheapest fail safe nappy IMO is any old cheap pocket (Alva Baby for example) stuffed with a cotton prefold. The brand of pocket doesn't matter as long as the PUL in intact - it's what you stuff them with that counts (same with 2 parters - it's what you put inside the wrap). Cotton prefold cost pennies second hand.

Also, check out nappy libraries near you so you can borrow trial packs. Not all nappy systems work for all babies.

I spent around £500 but then recouped around £150 selling on again. The rest are still in use and I think would be worth another £150ish once I'm done with them. So net spend approx £200. I would have easily spend that amount on disposables (We were using eco disposables).

I would definitely recommend the pre loved Facebook groups for sales. Just don't get carried away, nobody needs 100 nappies

I think the second use is also a good point in terms of value. We will probably keep ours after Ds is finished incase of a second, and if not will sell them and I’m sure get back a good % of original value.

£350 all in but worth it for two babies and I managed to sell them on for a third of what I paid. Plus they're so cute.

Ah yes I also bought x10 teenyfit tots bots. But they weren’t essential, just tiny and cute! Cost £88.

I dont mind the cost as it's well worth it, but I could easily spend so much more! I've brought a few bits preloved from fb. Mainly the newborn bits as they aren't used for long. It's just hard not to buy all the pretty designs

I use terries, microfleece liners and motherease airflow wraps. I think we spent about £175 overall. It’s a chunky upfront cost but saves loads of money in the long term.