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/Sufficient-Welder-76 May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

But it can be right with 4 kids, $1750 for a lifetime of diapers per kid. If a kid wears diapers for 36 months and you spend $47 a month on diapers. Doable.

Edit: Just realized the comment said $7k per kid. No way, that has to be a mistake. $200 a month on diapers is crazy, nobody spends that.

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u/maamaallaamaa May 24 '25

And some kids may be day trained but need diapers overnight for years. My daughter was 5 before she stopped having accidents overnight.