When will we break even?

[Gabi]

Yeah, it'll definitely start paying itself off once we use them for more than one Bub.

Unless I get addicted! I have to say I hope I don't - but no signs of addiction just yet hehe.

[Arimeh]

I think I'll have to have at least one more child to break even.. pmsl!!!!!

But with two in disposables - I worked out the other night - I would be spending at least $20 a week for daytime nappies - and $80 every three months for night nappies for them.

So thats - quick calculation - $1280 for the year. I've spent probably double that on cloth - BUT - I'll use them all through DD's nappy life - so realistically I should break even by the time she turns two.. LOL

[mamabear]

It costs approximately $10,000 to use disposables on 3 kids...
Cloth can cost anywhere between $200 and (well the sky's the limit, but going conservative), $1000. Most cloth nappy retailers can set you up with a full-time nappy kit for well under $1000 and MOST of the nappies will last more than one child.

So say you have to buy $500 worth of more cloth nappies for each of your subsequent children, if you have 3 kids, that's only $2000.

Compared to $10,000 it's CHEAP.

But it's hard to justify it when you need to spend several hundred dollars at a time!

$30 a week on disposables seems much cheaper than a $300 cloth stash, but it's just not.

In the long run, cloth wins hands down.

And that's not even touching on the environmental impact of disposables.

Even if cloth were more expensive than disposables, I think we should be able to justify it based on the amount of landfill we'd prevent.

As far as breaking even goes, just work out what you've spent on your full time stash and divide that by $30. That's the number of weeks it'll take for you to have "paid off" your clothies against 'sposies.