Bulk Buying Nappies

[YummyMumsy]

Hi everyone, I'm new to mumsnet so please be nice. I was wondering if anyone knew anyway I can go about buying nappies and baby care products in bulk (wholesale).

Or do mums group together to buy baby products cheaper from a wholesalers or distributor.

Times are tough, need to save money!

Thanks

If you're looking to buy wholesale you'll have to buy a certain minumum - often £200-250 plus and be a bone fide trade customer with a shop or a website and often trade references - most wholesalers wouldn't deal with a group of mums as a one off otherwise what's the incentive to them, it's hardly going to encourage repeat business from their stockists. So you could look inot setting up your own nappy business - but you'd need a bit of money to do so, or becoem an agent eg Lollipop, so that might defeat the object as it'd cost you money to make some money.
I would suggest have a look about on all the websites and see what the current best deals and bargains are. For example there's always a good choice of nappies for about £5 in the sale section here you almost have to watch daily as there's always new stuff appearing. You can also get good deals on Amazon or Ebay, and often TKMax and ToysRUs have had cheap Tots Bots in store.
Or have a try with terry squares or prefolds - cheaper, dry quickly and not exactly rocket science to fold and nippa on. Many people seem to discover these for their 2nd babies when money really is tight and are very pleasantly surprised how simple they are to use and that they can be 1/3 the price or less. Try the Bright Bots ones for budget quality and in colours or white.

If you need to save money then washable nappies and wipes are definitely the way forward - unless you can afford to spend approx £1800 on disposables anppies and wipes. A set of good washables will cost you about £300 and can also be used on subsequent children. They don't need soaking now and are washed at 40. Most peopel only wash twice a week so it's not actually loads of hard work either. Go and see a nappy advisor to have the different types explained to you.

YummyMumsy - Welcome to MN they are a friendly bunch here (mostly) as you can see from the replies so far.

A bulk pack of re-usables can be obtained for just over £100 (pocket nappies) and prices go up from that really, depending on what you are looking for.

As Ariela has mentioned, you are not likely to be able to buy in bulk from a manufacturer unless you are a retailer, although some retailers will offer discounts for bulk purchases.

I would definitely recommend shopping around before committing to a purchase as prices vary wildly. From the sites that aim to make cloth nappies affordable for all to those that are looking to make a small amount of profit.

Best of luck with your search.

Can I just check - are you talking about washables or disposables? If washables, do you want to CAT me? Might be able to help but will be told off if I post on here?

If disposables you can go to Costco and save lots of cash in buying a huge box (not newborn size though)

Actually Costco doesn't work out any cheaper than buying at other stores...

...... Any you need to build an extension to store the huge boxes!

and your own personal landfill site in your back garden

(((lol at high horse moment)))

Except that no-one does have a personal landfill site, so they send it off to someone else's landfill site.....

except it does save money and if your Mam has an Aga you can burn them in there thus avoiding landfill and the boxes come in bloody handy to store all the clothes your DC grows out of..

Hi im looking for pampers to bye wholesale bulk if anyone have it please let me know.