Aww that's lovely Baby Socks.

Me...I made my cloth nappy choice for money reasons - we hope to be blessed with at least 3 young'uns, so that's a LOT to spend on throwaway nappies - I've done an inventory for the next bub, and I'll hardly have to buy anything (okay, I don't HAVE to buy anything, there's a few nappies I WANT to buy to make things a bit more convenient). I was actually quite disappointed, there are so many lovely nappies out there, I was hoping to have to try out a few more!

Anyone who knows me well, will tell you I can be on the lazy side when it comes to my house () but I don't find cloth nappies any trouble at all!
I take one off (empty any poop into the loo, as law requires with any nappy) and for extra lazy days I use flushable liners,
I pop the nappy in the bucket (no soaking, washing machines are better than in our parent's days, my nappies haven't suffered from lack of soaking),
clean his butt with a cloth wipe (money saved there too!) which also goes into the bucket,
grab a new nappy from the drawer and chuck it on!
Washing is a small load every 2 days (I suspect with 2 kids it might be daily, or a big load), with a TINY amount of detergent, no fabric softener (can affect absorbency, so you don't use it with towels/tea towels either) and then on the line or clotheshorse.
Too easy.

The bit I find that makes it the hardest, is if I haven't sorted the nappies - it does require a bit more organisation. I just need to take a few mins per load of dried nappies to sort them, so that they're ready to go in the drawer - cloth nappies only seem hard if I have half a cloth nappy and I'm digging through a washing basket looking for the other half. If you could see my washing at the moment, you would understand that it takes a special talent to be as disorganised as me though.

When you have a drawer/cupboard/basket full of nappies 'ready to go', it's as easy as sposies, cheaper, better for the environment, cuter, can be better for their bott (depending on the reason for their nappy rash). Oh, and I find sposies fill our bin way too fast, and make the nursery STINK!!!

As for nappy rash, it's usually caused (here at least) by the chemical reaction caused by poo and wee - happens in a sposie OR cloth for us, if a poo goes undetected. I suspect the other reason for rash here is dh not wiping properly at times and leaving poo traces behind.
Or teething, or a toxic poo from spicy/acidic food - which will cause rash no matter what nappy. It can differ from child to child though, some kids react to the chemicals in sposies, some react to ANY dampness on their skin at all - but really, until recently, generation upon generation have been in cloth mostly successfully!

Right, so after all that ramble - why use cloth? For me, mostly it's because it's cheaper by FAR!!!
And just as easy to use as sposies - because to be honest, if it was harder than sposies, I'd walk away.