How much have you spent on cloth?

[squidipa]

wow it slowly adds up hey

[Indadhanu]

We've spent $500-600. And she's been in cloth since a week old.

Thats on 30 small and 30 large, plus cloth wipes, boosters, and covers, and 6 dedicated night nappies. We only use cheap terry/cotton/flannelette fitteds, and we use boosters and good covers. We probably change more often but being a SAHM I don't find it an issue. My washing machine does all the work so the extra nappies makes no difference.

Would love some great quality nappies, would love some cute ones, but they aren't really in the budget.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

OK, I have just added all this up. Maybe six hundred pounds. Maybe 700. No, won't be that much. Maybe 600.

DS is two and a half.

A disposable nappy is about 50p-?1 a nappy. So that's say 1000 disposables. As DS is over 500 days old I've saved money. (He wears more than two nappies a day, btw!)

My stash:
Baby nappies: 5 Sandys, 40 flats with 6 covers, 6 bamboo with 2 covers, 3 AIOs.
Toddler nappies: 12 bamboo with 6 covers, 5 motherease fitted one-size, 13 flats with 5 covers and 4 stuffable covers, 3 other stuffables, 1 AIO, 4 motherease AI2s, 5 hemp with 2 covers.

Also about 30 liners.

However, 2 motherease AI2s, one stuffable and my toddler AIO have been "lost" by nursery. 10 of the bamboo nappies were quite cheap and only lasted a year of constant wear before the elastic started to go. I dislike the motherease and sandys fitted nappies, but they were free. Oh and I have a load of unused nappies too that I was going to sell. So about 10 more baby-size nappies.

I'll probably buy more AIOs if I have another baby.

[onthefly]

I worked this out a while back: including all the fitteds, AIOs, flats, covers and materials for making my own (incl wipes), we've probably spent around $900. Though we don't use the flats anymore, including those we easily have enough for 5+ days of use.
We've been in cloth since around 1 week and only one kid so far, but hoping they'll last for another.
We use only a tiny bit of detergent and are only washing every two days at the moment. I use the dryer ocasionally if things haven't quite dried.

[squidipa]

i think nappies must be some sort of an investment i mean buying second hand they cost loads so dont feel guilty ladies

thank you for sharing