Friday, August 2, 2013

Rock-a-Bum's Response

Many of you have seen this article all over the news about families not being able to buy diapers, so they go to such lengths as leaving the diapers on the child for longer, and even "cleaning out" and reusing their disposable diapers.  If you haven't read the article, I truly suggest you do.  It broke my heart, and made me sick to my stomach to think of all the health complications that can arise from these situations.  The article continued on to discuss the emotional toll that this can take on the parents and how there aren't any government funded programs to help families who need diapers.  The one MAJOR thing the article was lacking was a solution....so that is where we come in. 


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Where you can see how simple it is to build a cloth diaper stash with ONLY enough money for disposables. 


Check out our visual that demonstrates just how simple it is to convert to cloth:



























Now, let's go over some figures on how you can purchase cloth while you are 100% disposable diapering.  If you only had JUST enough money to buy disposable diapers, I will break down how it would work to switch over to cloth. 

Let's say you do 10 diaper changes a day, on average, (this would be for a child who was maybe 9 months or up) and you usually buy a package of Huggies with 160 diapers (example above).  This package would allow you to go just over two weeks (16 days) worth of diapering for your baby.  If you purchase two packs of Rock-a-Bums (2 covers and 4 inserts) and a two packs of flour sack towels (10 towels total) you will have enough diapers for 14 changes (if you use it as an All-in-Two system, which is the most cost effective way).  14 (cloth) changes does not equal 160 (disposable) changes, HOWEVER, you can then WASH and REUSE your system every day until the 16 days (how long you would have had disposables) is up.  Once you would regularly buy disposables again, you put that money into investing in MORE cloth (even the same as above: two covers, four inserts and 10 flour sack towels) and crazy enough, you have enough diapers to wash every other day.  Are you down with washing every other day? If so, guess what, no more money is needed to invest in cloth diapers....you can take the rest of your money (if you disposable diapered until your 9 month old was 2 1/2 that would equal $1,883.12) and use it elsewhere because you don't need more diapers!

This doesn't even include the savings of starting at the newborn stage, or what you will be saving using these as swim diapers!!

So, the question remains, can you jump on the cloth wagon without having to invest a ton in the beginning, and the answer is YES, you can! You might be washing a lot in the beginning but you can do it.  Also, I think washing diapers is totally worth the $1,883.12, don't you?

Now, if only the major news outlets would use THIS kind of an article to teach EVERYONE about using cloth.  So, let's get the word out, and share, share share this information! You could be keeping a child out of a REUSED DISPOSABLE diaper!

So, in keeping with our weekly giveaways, we would like to give away not one, but TWO Rock-a-Bums covers and FOUR Rock-a-Bums inserts! This should give anyone the ability to amp up their stash, or start building a stash!


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55 comments :

  1. I cloth diaper to save money, because their super kid. And of course my kid rocks :)

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  2. to save money and peace of mind, too many winter days we're snowed in with no way to town

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  3. What a great blog, I wish that more people were informed. I think alot more people would decide to do it, and not be afraid.

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  4. All of the above! there really isn't a reason not to!

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  5. I am very excited to start in October with baby number two. Once because they are old fashioned and cute, two (my husbands number 1) is to keep crap outta the landfill, We feel the savings are a bonus.

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  6. I do it to save money, because my little guy got rashes from disposables, and because it's easier and less stressful than running to the store!

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  7. I cloth diaper because its eco friendly and the diapers are adorable.

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  8. There's no reason NOT to cloth, for me. I do it mainly to keep my kid out of chemical filled disposables, and to contribute less to landfills.

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  9. I started because of the cost factor but then the cuteness sucked me in!

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  10. I'm doing it to keep diapers out of our landfills!

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  11. I cloth diaper because it is so healthy for my son! Yes also good for the environment but the benefits to my boy is the number one reason! He does rock!

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  12. Because after 11 years of working in childcare I'd changed enough disposibles!!

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  13. for the health of my baby's butt and the health of our world

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  14. We use cloth for all of the reasons above and keep finding more and more reasons every day

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  15. Save money, super cute and fun, and because cloth works better (less leaks and blowouts) in my opinion.

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  16. I think the cloth diapers are super cute and soft. That's why we cloth diaper.

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  17. We use cloth to save money primarily. They are also super cute!

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  18. I use cloth for a meaningful living

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  19. To save money, and they are way cute!

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  20. I love cloth diapering they're just to cute and I never have to worry about running out of diapers!!

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  21. Save money is a big plus. They are so cute now a days. We always have diapers on hand.

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  22. I cloth diaper to save money and because it is cute. mostly to save money though :) I don't go overboard

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  23. To save money, keep nasty chemicals away from my boy's bottoms, and to protect the environment :-)

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  24. I actually began cloth diapering, because mom cloth diapered me. I hate the smell fo disposables, too. My son has such a sensitive hiney, if I had used disposables, he'd have had a bleeding butt. It is just the only way for us!

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  25. I don't cloth diaper yet, but I want to bc of the savings and the benefit of not having diapers going to a landfill. I have the flour sack towels that I use in my kitchen so I know that I could afford to buy them to use as diaper inserts. Funny that I never thought to use them for that.

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  26. We do it to save money & because the prints and colors are just to adorable to put on just a disposable.

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  27. I don't cloth diaper yet but am planning on it because it should save some money and I've always felt bad when I see huge piles of diapers in the trash. Also cloth diapers are cute and better for the baby's skin.

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  28. We cloth diaper to save money and the environment!

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  29. because they are so fun and cute! and bc they are saving a tiny bit of money and are so much better for the earth and my daughter

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  30. We decided to originally for environmental reasons and then it worked out great to save lots of money!

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  31. I cloth diaper to save money, Better for my son (no harmful chemicals on his bum) and also be a little more "greener" We also use cloth wipes & try not to use paper towels and use unpaper towels instead.

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  32. All of the above! Mainly to avoid chemicals and save money for our family though. They are so cute too!

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  33. I can't stomach throwing away that many diapers. We used disposables for the first few weeks and our trash doubled! Also, the terrible diaper rash disappeared within a day of switching to cloth! I love our cloth diapers and have never regretted using them.

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  34. I cloth diaper to save money, for the environment, to keep the nasty smelly chemicals off my kid's booty & because they are so gosh darn cute!

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  35. I cloth diaper to save money and keep my kid away from chemicals

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  36. I have 2 covers and 4 inserts, I love using them as a AI2 system! And no stuffing!

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  37. I'm currently pregnant with my first. I plan to cloth diaper because of the cost savings and the benefit to the environment.

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  38. I cloth diaper to save money, for the environment, so that i don't have to run out at 2am for diapers, because they're cute, to avoid diaper rash, and to keep harsh chemicals off my baby!

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  39. I haven't started cloth diapering yet but I would do it to save money!

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  40. Haven't started yet as my baby is due in 5 weeks, but the main reason we are going to cloth diaper is to save money.

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  41. I use cloth to save money, save the environment and for the pure coolness and cute factor!

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  42. The thing that convinced us was the money savings... but after doing research, there are so many positives, and I'm so glad we chose to cloth diaper! I feel like we made a great decision for baby and the family.

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  43. All of the above! And because my kid rocks. :) He's allergic to any disposable diaper other than 7th Generation, and they add up. But he totally is a rockstar. :)

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  44. We cloth because.I love them and its.better.for my boys bums!!

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  45. I cloth diaper for the environment and my kid rocks.

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  46. I started CDing bc i knew it would save us money and I quickly feel in love with it. Who knew CDing would be so enjoyable? Love love love your inserts btw! And my boy rocks!

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  47. I CD to save money and cause I love the prints and to top it off, we almost NEVER have poop blowouts in cloth but do every time in sposies!

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  48. i use cloth for the environment but also cuz they're so dang cute! and also the no blowout thing. that's really a great bonus!

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  49. I love the new look! I do it for all of the above reasons, its better for my child, the earth, and cheaper!! :)

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  50. I cloth diaper for the savings and because they are SUPER CUTE!

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  51. We started cloth diapering to save money and for the environment!

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  52. I switched at 20 months, to save money and because he was getting to the bigger sposie sizes and nowhere near potty training... and discovered i LOVE it!! and RockABums!!

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  53. We started cloth diapering to save money then I got hooked. They are super cute and very efficient! I couldn't think to put a disposable on my baby now!

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