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I made a trip to the Salvation Army on Trindle Road in Camp Hill yesterday and picked up some great stuff including two new VHS videos for our two year old. If you are trying to find good educational viewing material for children or grandchildren, consider buying VHS tapes rather than DVDs. While it is true that . . . → Read More: July 21, 2010: The Daily Frugal – Keep that VCR (Or get one back) edition Since we made our own cloth diaper wipes, we needed to find a solution to use for the dirtier jobs. Plain water works great for most everything, but sometimes you need just a little more. What we found was a handmade soap called Punkin Booty Bits which can be purchased here. We use half of a booty . . . → Read More: Cloth Diapers: Frugal Diaper Wipe solution If you have basic sewing skills, cloth diaper wipes are very easy to make. You will need terry cloth and flannel fabric. I bought mine as remnants at JoAnn’s with a coupon. Here are the steps: Wash the fabric first. There are about as many different ways to launder a cloth diaper as there are types of cloth diapers themselves, but what is the best way? Well, the best way is to follow the manufacturer’s suggestions and then modify them to suit your schedule and budget. We have not found cloth diapers hard to clean at all and . . . → Read More: Cloth Diapers: How do you clean them? Are they hard to clean? When you make the decision to cloth diaper, there are a few extras you have to think about that you don’t need to consider with disposables. Cloth and disposables both require a diaper pail (or diaper genie for sposies) of some type. We use a flip top diaper pail for our diapers since we don’t store ours . . . → Read More: Cloth Diapering extras, waterproof wet bags, wipes, and pails Cloth diapering has its own language. You must know the lingo to understand what is being offered. For example, AIO I learned is “all in one” meaning a diaper that is both a diaper and a cover in one piece – very similar to a conventional disposible diaper. CPF stands for a Chinese Pre-fold which is the . . . → Read More: Cloth Diapers: How to choose and learning the cloth diaper language When we first decided to cloth diaper I entertained the idea of sewing my own. Trust me, if you can use a machine after you see how much some of these diapers and covers can cost you will think about doing it too. One of the best references for sewing your own diapers is diaperdivas.com . This . . . → Read More: Cloth Diapers: Sew your own? How to decide if this is right for you When I was pregnant with our daughter two years ago, the subject of diapers came up again and again. Both my husband and I wanted to use cloth diapers for the environmental and cost reasons, but everyone told us we were crazy. We heard: They cost too much to buy |
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