Sorry. Poor phrase-ology. I simply meant that I suspect a small percentage of readers are at that stage of life. Of course, that’s true of many of the items I share here, so in retrospect it’s rather silly of me to have mentioned it. Keep up the good work, Angie.

I’m a GRS reader and I find saving money on diapers to be a pretty useful skill considering the almost two thousand dollars I will have spent by the end of it all.

Thanks for the mention!

Yes, it’s more work, and I need to do a diaper laundry every other day, but our washing machine uses little water and electricity, and I hang them to dry.

That’s the key here. The NRDC or some other environmental group did a study on the environmental impact of using cloth versus disposable diapers, and the conclusion was that there was no difference, mainly because of the impacts of energy and water use in all the washing and drying of cloth diapers. But if you use an Energy Star washing machine and hang the diapers to dry, that should reduce their lifetime cost (and environmental impact) considerably.

Yes, it’s more work, and I need to do a diaper laundry every other day, but our washing machine uses little water and electricity, and I hang them to dry.