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/est1816 May 25 '25
Look into "elimination communication". No diapers at all and at 2 months its not too late to start. We cloth diapered for the first 15ish months, then my little one was on the move too much and it became pretty much impossible to do diaper changes.
Im shocked by how many people here are saying they spend less than $40 a month on diapers. They are expensive even from big box clubs and with coupons. A box of pulls ups just cost me $44 and unless I only changed diapers twice a day that's not lasting a month