Coming soon to our garbage can, less disposable diapers! I just bought cloth diapers for the Toddler! [faints]
Let’s be honest – cloth diapers are a huge time suck compared to disposables. And here in Georgia,where we have been under drought conditions and water restrictions for the past few years, cloth diapers can be a huge resource drain as well. I have not done any landscaping, planted fruit trees or a garden because of the amount of water that would have been necessary in this heat. And I love plants!
I have heard all the arguments for cloth, believe me. The Rogue is a hydrologist and works for the US Geological Survey, so I know very well all the scientific arguments and studies for and against.
What motivated me to make this change now? The Toddler is 33 months and is not ready for potty training yet. He is down to 5 diapers a day which is great but he is not emotionally ready and we know better than to push our stubborn little mule man. For us, it is a good time to switch to cloth diapers, both with our home situation and more importantly, the drought conditions improving. Now our main concern can be the landfills versus whether people in the Atlanta area will even have enough water to drink.
I am not promising that we will use cloth 100% from now on. I know we won’t. But when we are at home (which we are most of the time), they are the ideal choice now. I can now focus on the goal of one garbage can quarterly instead of weekly.
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I think cloth diapers are a great thing. I’ve often thought that when I have a babe of my own that I’ll likely do the cloth diaper thing at home and disposables while we’re out-and-about. Granted, I can feel less guilty about using disposable diapers up here because they are one of the things that goes into our ‘green’ bins (municipal compost program) instead of the garbage/landfills.
I can’t wait to hear how it goes with the cloth ones, though.
You can compost your disposables? I am so jealous!
Yes ma’am! We can compost all meat products (including the bones), egg shells, soiled paper products (including the fast food take out wrappers and containers), and a whole whack of other stuff… I should find a link to the entire list of recyclables and compost-ables for you.
Yes you should! Share the wealth!