Keepin' it in the BANK.

Yep you heard me...
I'm talking about keeping the dollars in the bank... not in the trash.

I've found diaper price charts in my research and it's amazing what can be saved.

Here's the gist over the average of 3 years until baby potty trains (for 1 child):

Cloth Diaper Costs: $500
CD's, detergent, water usage for washing, electricity, cloths line set up, CD wipes, wet bag, and butt spray.

Disposable Diaper Costs: $2,500
DD's, DD wipes, Diaper rash cream, diaper pail, and garbage bags.

---Here's a little broken down math of it---
3 years = 1,095 days
CD- $500 / 1,095 = $.45/day
D- $2,500 / 1,095 = $$2.28/day

---Next step---
Say you have another baby.
3 years = 1,095

CD: $250
Water, electricity, detergent, and butt spray.
$250 / 1,095 = $.22/day

DD: $2,675+ (expecting prices of diapers to go up 6-8% a year through statistics!)
DD's, DD wipes, Diaper rash cream, diaper pail, and garbage bags.
$2,675 / 1,095 = $2.44/day  (add approximately $200/year or $.55/day!)


*In conversation with a friend they told me about their friend who is lower ranked in the military (meaning he doesn't make a lot of money) - and his friends always admired his nice 50 inch TV asking how could he afford it?! The family made a plan that with the saved money from cloth diapering he could buy any TV he wanted!
- My husband is all about those kind of plans!


Next up for me is trying to figure out which type of Cloth Diaper will be best for us and figuring out all those "code names".