Cheapest nappies? Has anyone done the research

[sammyty]

Bit cheeky but thought I would ask in case anyone has done all the research already.

Wondering where is best for cheap nappies, costco bulk buy vs supermarket deals etc

Thank you

Aldi normally!

Second hand reusables

Even new reusables. If you spend £200 and use for 2 years exactly, that’s £1.90 per week. Most people use longer. Secondhand would be 1/4-1/2 the cost

Aldi

We are going to buy preloved reusables but probably not the answer you’re looking for! I hate all the waste and that the nappies I used as a baby probably still exist somewhere

Secondhand reusables - don't necessarily buy the cheapest as some brands eg Mother-ease do retain a good price secondhand for years afterwards because they're so well made.
Or terry squares which you can use forevermore till they fall to bits for all sorts of things!

Or the other thing you can do is google EC Elimination Communication, alongside cloth nappies you'll save on washing costs too!

If you plan on cloth nappies but you also plan on using childcare, just check your provider accepts cloth. My nursery doesn't. I'd have been really annoyed to have spent all of that money only to find when I'm going back to work I'd need to switch to single use anyway!

We use Aldi.

Are reusable ones still a cheaper option with rising energy costs?

There is a website called bumdeal.co.uk which shows you all of the offers on. I used to use it when DS was in nappies. You can search by size, brand etc

Aldi nappies are cheap and Ive found them excellent for our newborn. No complaints here at all.
Couldnt be dealing with thr faff of reusable ones.

@PolytheneRam

We use Aldi.

Are reusable ones still a cheaper option with rising energy costs?

Yes I think so. Say £200 for 3 years compared with say two packs a week (give or take) for 3 years. Cloth shouldn’t be tumbled so that’s a saving and washing every 2-3 days really isn’t much. Also, even a bit more cost of washing is worth it to save 1000s of nappies from landfill or incineration

@Caspianberg

Second hand reusables

Even new reusables. If you spend £200 and use for 2 years exactly, that’s £1.90 per week. Most people use longer. Secondhand would be 1/4-1/2 the cost

But that isn't their true cost. Many use disposal liners, then there is washing and drying costs. With the rapidly increasing cost of energy this is only going to go up.

I priced it all up about 7 years ago and even then supermarket own brands worked out cheaper unless I had more than 2 children

You can't tumble reusable so straight away there is no drying cost.

Never bothered with liners - waste of time and still adding to landfill.

As someone has said though - nursery/childcare can be a sticking point when it comes to reusable.

Reusables involve more trial and error than disposables. It took me a few tries of different types and brands before I landed on a no-leak solution. That's a sunk cost. Yes, you can try selling the ones that don't work on again but I still haven't had the time myself and it's been over a year now!

Big bonus to cloth nappies is that you don't get poonamis. They contain poo explosions a million times better then disposables. If you were only going to do one reusable thing though, wipes are my vote. Reusable wipes are far more effective at actually cleaning up poo. You can do with one cloth wipe what it takes 3 or 4 disposables.

Reusable are 100% cheaper. We don’t tumble dry them. They air dry.
And use washable cloths for wipes ( also saving). Nappies/ wipes/ bibs/ muslins all in same 60 wash

Nurseries - it’s very rare now they won’t take washable. They only put them in wet bag and send back, they don’t wash. Even if your child goes to childcare, they would be at home every weekend, evenings, overnight, which would still make a huge saving. Ds wear average 6 per day. So just weekends ,overnight and random would still be min 20 per week washables. Ie almost 80 per month (960 a year). 2000+ just before potty trained if done early.

I used Lidl which I found better than the Aldi ones. We used reusable too but not hugely successfully and never at night.

@Hugasauras

Big bonus to cloth nappies is that you don't get poonamis. They contain poo explosions a million times better then disposables. If you were only going to do one reusable thing though, wipes are my vote. Reusable wipes are far more effective at actually cleaning up poo. You can do with one cloth wipe what it takes 3 or 4 disposables.

I agree about everything here.

Even better with wipes if you make your own by cutting up old flannels/towels. I did this 3 years again and they are still just as good today. I have colours for faces/hands and white for bums so I can tell the difference.
Compared to even the cheapest wet wipes I must have saved a fortune.

I second the person who mentioned elimination communication - I used with with both our babies and even if you just put baby over a toilet when they first wake from a nap that will usually save a nappy! We needed far far fewer changes than would have done each day and another bonus was never really had to later potty train as both DC were dry both day and night quite early

@Caspianberg of course I wouldn't expect a nursery to wash them, but I'm wondering if refusing to accept reusables is that unusual? We're in a reasonably affluent area on the London/Surrey border where reusables are generally quite popular, so I was extremely surprised our proposed nursery won't accept them!

Reusable

@lawandgin - I have no idea. But when I ask x2 regarding Ds who will be just 2 when he goes what their policy was incase he isn’t trained by then, then both said of course it was ok. They actually give a discount as usually nappies are included in the cost apparently.

Dont bother with reusable nappies, just wmpty the nappy into the toilet, place in scented bag, then into the nappy bin.

The stench from kids is amazing and to have a used nappy in the washing pile.. Boke!

@Lyonic

Dont bother with reusable nappies, just wmpty the nappy into the toilet, place in scented bag, then into the nappy bin.

The stench from kids is amazing and to have a used nappy in the washing pile.. Boke!

Wonderful, plastic and plastic!

You don't just stick the nappies in your washing pile! That would be gross for sure. They go in a sealed nappy bucket with a mesh bag or, my personal preference, a v large wet bag that you can just unzip and chuck the whole thing in when it's full. There shouldn't be any smell ever.