When I had my first I was a terry flat girl all the way, but then I only had 1 child and there was no drought, so washing them wasn't an issue. Then by the time #2 was coming along, we were in a drought and being on tank water only, it made it hard to justify the extra water needed to wash them all. Mind you, MCN's weren't like they are now and what was available really didn't appeal to me so I switched to sposies fulltime (previously only used them when going out or travelling). 7 years later we are still in drought, I have only about half a tank of water left (we are really hoping it rains in the next week or so or otherwise we will have to cart water) and I don't care what anyone says about the benefits of dry pailing, it is still an extra load of washing to do when I already do more than enough and heck, life is too short to spend nearly half a day each day washing bloody clothes, linen and nappies. For us both ways are damning to the environment (cost of producing the fabrics and physically making the nappies and water used to wash them and the cost to the environment from firstly producing and then disposing of the nappy) but we had to consider the cost of transporting in extra water and all of the environmental implications of that so sposies won the battle. So yeah, I'm going to rape the environment for a little while longer till I no longer need to use them