Convince Dh Cloth is Cheaper....

[3cheekyboys]

Being new to cloth nappies how can I convince my dh that cloth nappies are cheaper in the long run than disposables which I have a 6 month old and 2 year old in.

[poppychicken]

Do the maths for him. Write it all out - it's hard to argue with the black and white figures. Of course it does depend on how extravagant you are with your cloth. I'm not going to see any return on my cloth for a while yet, but I've got a DREAMY stash and I enjoy that. My DH considers my addiction as a sort of hobby . What a great DH eh?

[angelskies]

nuture nappies has some great charts and figures, maybe just drown him in paperwork?

[mum2miya]

The Australian Nappy Network site is a great resource for facts and figures.
Reusable Nappy Week

[tolive75]

just send him down to buy a box of disposables lol
(it soon works - i've had heaps of friends who have done this and no questions asked after 2 weeks )

[HG01]

Yep, the ANN website has great facts. Also Nurture Nappies
http://www.nurturenappies.com.au/sto...lary.asp?ID=17

Plus the fact that when you buy a cloth nappy, you actually get to KEEP IT and not throw it in the bin after one use.

Good luck convincing him. I don't think it'll take long.

[johT]

Originally Posted by HG01

Plus the fact that when you buy a cloth nappy, you actually get to KEEP IT and not throw it in the bin after one use.

and perhaps even sell them after you've finished with them if they are not worn out

eta
have a read of this thread too
Frugal Nappying

[Obsi]

We started cloth when my daughter was 2. I worked out that if I continued disposables (and I was buying them direct from a factory at 17c each) we would spend around $500 a year on those if I kept buying disposables.. most supermarket nappies cost twice that! We were having terrible trouble getting night nappies to work, so we were buying huggies nappies for night - which at around $1 each ends up being like $370 a year just on night nappies! and she would have been in those for another 2 years. So all up, from age 2 until TT we'd have spent around $1500 on nappies! (and I was buying cheap ones!!)

My cloth stash was about $500 in the end (admittedly I made half of it). Some of the nappies I've passed on to friends who had babies, and some I've sold. Some of the boosters/stuffers (we used mostly pockets) I've kept and I'll make them into cloth pads for Tahlia So we've saved HEAPS (like $1000) and we only used cloth for like half her time in nappies. If we were having more kids then it would work out better value.

But for me it wasn't about cost saving.... it was about health and environmental benefits. Also I found I'd change a cloth nappy earlier than I'd change a disposable because it wasn't "wasting" money. And we finally were able to give her dry nights, because disposables were just not working for us.

[zoekisses]

Yeah showhim a box of huggies in the super market aisle then tell him it only lasts a week. that will fix him.

[Kat-Pati]

cloth is always cheaper

with disposables you are always buying

you can even have frugal cloth nappying (when I started out on cloth pads I got some in the mail and used face washers as well- no prob)

ceramic plates are cheaper than using plastic ones all the time

paper clothes are more expensive than... well that's just a few egs