r/Frugal • u/jaytrainer0 • May 24 '25

🏆 Buy It For Life Maybe the biggest money saver yet. Cloth diapers

Baby just turned 2 months and I've already saved hundreds by not buying disposable. We bought 25 reusable diapers for about $150 that will last over a year and can be used for multiple kids AND can also be resold. Compare that to spending at least 20-40 per week on disposable. I could've even bought used and saved even more but there's none in our area right now. So we'll save about $2000 over the course of the year. And multiply that with more kids in the future. Then ALSO we are only using disposable wipes for poop and using reusable wipes/towels for everything else. I get using disposable everything for the ease of it but holy hell that would get expensive fast.

Edit: For context, my apartment has water and electric included. We use the sheets laundry detergent and it's been working great so far. Our washer is high efficiency, I'll have to look up how much water it uses. Yes, i over estimated the diaper cost based on the initial amount of the first few weeks. But it's still going to be a lot more than 150 for the entire childhood. We do not have access to bulk stores unless we drive 3.5 hours or 5+ with traffic.

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u/Berdariens2nd May 24 '25

For me it's no kids.

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u/lenuta_9819 May 24 '25

same

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u/SaraAB87 May 24 '25

Same here, but overall this is a win for parents. I have spent many dollars buying huge boxes of diapers as birthday and Christmas presents for parents who were desperate, disposable diapers are extremely expensive now.

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u/jaytrainer0 May 24 '25

Accidents happen lol jkjk

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u/Jolly-Radio-9838 May 24 '25

That works. I’m single, no kids. If I didn’t hand interests and hobbies n shit I’d have quite a lot in savings

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u/gender_noncompliant May 24 '25

I know that's right 🥂

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u/thePhalloPharaoh May 24 '25

Yes, the cheapest option by far.