I’m on the wagon.  I cannot buy any more diapers for a very, very long time.  This is according to my husband and I don’t really want to cheese him off.  Truth be told, I have a good amount of diapers right now. I’m pretty happy.  Sure, the goodmama sale that is going on right now (10% everything in the store until December 1st!) was awfully tempting.  But I’ve remained strong.  Some highly sought after diapers have been stocked and yet I have still resisted.

And then people started getting their diapers from the Bundle III yesterday.  And pictures went up on the goodmama flickr site.  And suddenly I’m in AGONY.  I am loving some of these new prints!  Particularly Ever After and Rebel Prep School and Arabesque.  But Wine Country was one that I first saw and thought, “I MUST HAVE THAT.”

Come to find out, it is a limited edition print and there were only like 14 or so made.  They will only be found in certain bundles and will not be stocked in the store.

And then I died.

SIGH.  This is what comes of getting too obsessed with a diaper.  Let me be a cautionary tale to the rest of you!

Tags: Fitted, Goodmama, prints, sale, shopping, wagon

So I’ve done quite a bit of diaper purchasing in the last week.  To my credit, I’ve also sold quite a bit of diapers too (mostly because of all the diapers I bought, but let’s just focus on the facts here, mmkay?).  It started when goodmama stocked the infamous “1981″ print.  It is, in a word, just too delicious to pass up.  It features little rainbows complete with puffy white clouds on a pink background.  I’d like to know how I would have been expected to ignore that when it was stocked.  I don’t think it was possible.

Then, the next day, Woodland Splendor was stocked at goodmama.  It’s another really striking, very gender-neutral print and the “word on the street” was that it was a great print that held up well to repeated washings.  I sorta wanted to get another print as well and Prism (a striped print in a rainbow of colors) called my name.  But I didn’t stop there.  Oh no.  Because if I got a THIRD diaper, then I could get free shipping.  So I picked out a plain velour diaper with plum serging and snaps that had been whispering my name since it was first stocked.  So yeah.  THREE goodmama diapers.

Just two days later I got a couple more Rumparooz seconds with snaps at an excellent price, thanks to the Great Cloth Diaper Hunt (more on that in a forthcoming post) and it’s fabulous sponsor’s discount.  Mostly to take advantage of the discount while there were still seconds available and partly because some of the diapers I have been selling off are my existing Rumparooz diapers that have the old-style aplix fasterners on them.  Rumparooz make great nap and leaving-the-house diapers and both my husband and myself enjoy them.

I got the goodmama diapers already, the last three showing up today.  That makes four total, if you were keeping track.  Added to the three I had at home, that gives me seven total.  I think it’s safe to say that I have enough diapers now, don’t you think?

So I need to find the wagon and hop on board.  If you’re unaware, “the wagon” is where you go when you need to stop buying diapers.  And, hoo boy, do I need to stop.  Save for a couple of diaper covers when Evie finally outgrows her medium ones, I think I need to be done buying diapers.  At least for a LONG time, that is.  It’ll be hard to resist, I’m sure.  But I don’t want to “get silly” about it either.  And as lovely as the goodmama diapers are, it’s VERY easy to get silly!

So you all need to help hold me to this!  Should I come and say, “oooh, this is a pretty diaper!”, just tell me “NO!”  I appreciate your help!

Tags: Economics, Fitted, Goodmama, Rumparooz, shopping

I recently had a lovely reader here at Cloth Diaper Mamas ask me what the point of cute, printed, fitted diapers like goodmamas if they require a cover to be waterproof?  Why get all excited about the adorable prints when no one gets to see them?

This is an AWESOME question, because I too asked myself the very same thing not that long ago.

The OBV diapers I could understand, because while the serging and snap colors were cute, they weren’t vital to the look of the diaper and were more for functionalities sake.  Therefore it wouldn’t be as hard to cover them up with a cover.   But I saw all sorts of mamas over on Diaper Swappers salivating over cute and rare prints, bartering these diapers and paying exhorbitant prices for them.  WHY?

I think I understand better now.  For one thing, bamboo diapers such as goodmamas are extremely absorbant and can hold a lot more liquid than your average flannel fitted diaper.  As such, my children (both of them!) can wear these diapers and pee in them a couple times even before they feel overly wet on the outside.  So a lot of mamas don’t put covers on these diapers if they’re going to be around the home all day.  In the summer, this is easy, quick and cool.  In the winter, you can keep baby warm with a long-sleeved shirt and a pair of baby legwarmers.  This works great because the baby is still getting airflow to their diaper area, helping prevent heat rash and diaper rash.  Maybe not quite as effective as “naked time”, but close enough (and a lot kinder on our floors!).

I also like to think of it in terms of “Victoria’s Secret”.  Back when I was a young, skinny thing with money to burn, I bought virtually all my underwear at “Victoria’s Secret”.  Sure, no one was seeing this stuff I was paying a premium price for.  But, I knew it was there and it made me feel more special, somehow.  I feel the same when I know my daughter is wearing a goodmama, especially if it’s a cute print.  (Okay, so we only have the one.  FOR NOW.)

And, I imagine, here in a couple years before she’s potty trained but after she’s more verbal, she might start asking for her favorite diapers.  And I imagine those diapers will be the pretty printed ones.  In fact, I’m looking forward to finding out what she thinks is cute and letting her pick her favorites out.

So there you have it.  Now that goodmamas are easy to fetch at market prices, what’s holding you back?  They’re adorable AND functional.  Who could ask for more?

Tags: bamboo, Fitted, flannel, Goodmama, OBV, prints, velour

It’s that most blessed of events, the monthly paycheck!  For the past several days I’ve been debating which diapers to purchase this month.  I may be able to swing getting both of my top choices, but for starters, I had to choose.

Goodmama fitted diapers has been doing some amazing stuff lately.  Suzanne, who runs the show, has long wanted to have an “in stock” store instead of always having her customers have to “stalk” her stockings.  And it looks like that time is here!  Right now, there are 11 (count ‘em, ELEVEN) print fitted diapers in stock and 23 “Switched” OBV diapers in stock.  WOW.  I had my eye on the pretty fitted diaper above.

On the other side, I was also interested in some Rumparooz diapers, one of my favorite one size pocket diapers (next to the bumgenius, of course), especially if they have snaps instead of aplix.  They’re having a “seconds” sale, which means these diapers have something that’s “off”, making them not exactly storefront-worthy.  However, they’re still operational and offered at a very decent discount.  I was eyeballing some of their “minkee” snap diapers which run for about $25-$27 and the seconds sale had them offered at $16!  Add in a microfiber insert and they’re $17.50 each!  At those prices, I could get two for the same price as one of the goodmama diapers above.

Decisions, decisions…

I ended up going with the Rumparooz because a) I kinda feel like we need more pocket diapers more than we need another fitted and b) two diapers versus one.  Value wins out.  But I still feel like I’m going to have to get a print fitted from goodmama eventually.  Because, really, who can resist?

Tags: Fitted, Good Deals, Goodmama, One-size, Pocket, Rumparooz, seconds sale, shopping

I haven’t given a good “cloth diapering update” in a while and I wanted to let you all know that I’m still here and going strong!  While my daughter’s rash isn’t 100% gone, it’s not near as bad as it was.  I’m thinking it just had to run it’s course, though I did whatever I could to keep the redness down.

Evie is still 100% cloth diapered.  At this point, I don’t think I would dream about putting a disposable on her.  We don’t even have any in the house that would fit her any longer!  Her “stash” is still pretty small and I would love the opportunity to grow it someday but there just hasn’t been a good opportunity to do so.  Plus, whenever I get the chance I just want to buy fancy, expensive stuff instead of something practical.  Bad mama!  Here is our stash:

• 6 bumGenius diapers (three of these are generally worn by Liam part time, however, and Evie only wears them very occasionally.)
• 10 5 unbleached Indian prefolds (whoops, miscounted) (I have found I prefer the softer Indian prefolds)
• 2 prorap covers
• 1 WAHM-made PUL cover that I love so much it hurts. (it’s lavender and is lined with cozy fleece and is a side-snapping style that I am finding I HEART so much)
• 4 fitteds including 1 Bagshot Row Bamboo (BSRB) apre-fitted style fitted, 1 goodmama (GM), 1 Sammy One Size (SOS) and 1 Muttaquin 3 step rise (Mutt 3sr).  The BSRB has a very low rise and I generally use it when I want Evie to “air out” or when we’re sticking around home.  It’s very trim but not very practical.  I still don’t really care for the Mutt.  Too many snaps!  I am finding I kinda enjoy the SOS, even if the print isn’t especially fabulous and my favorite fitted is the GM.  Go figure!
• 5 prefitteds (3 tinkle traps and 2 of another brand that I’ve forgotten the name of already).  A prefitted stands for a “prefold fitted”.  It’s essentially a prefold that has been cut and sewn to resemble a fitted diaper but usually lacks the closure (I use a Snappi to close them).  I LOVE these and use them all the time here at home.  They have elastic in them to contain messes and fit the baby better and they are the right price!
• 5 Rumparooz (RaR) pocket diapers. I have two prints, one solid and two minky.  My favorite BY FAR is the one with snaps that I just recently got off FSOT.  I now wish all my RaR diapers had snaps because I had the Aplix on the RaR diapers.  I WISH I had a snap press or knew someone with one so they could convert the RaR for me.

And there you have it. 33 28 diapers.  Wow, that’s a lot more than I would have thought I had.  I guess because at least three of those diapers aren’t generally worn by my daughter that I think I have less?  I still do diaper laundry every 2-2 1/2 days.  And I still want more diapers!  I want more fitteds and prefitteds as well as more snap RaR diapers.  Maybe some more bumGenius too, if I got lucky enough to find them at our local Target (had you heard that some Targets now have bumGenius diapers??).  Or come in on another seconds sale, because that was a great deal.  I do wish I had more diapers so that I could use them on Liam more, help him gear up to potty training.  I don’t think I want to try to do prefolds on him.  I’m not THAT brave.

So what’s up with you all?  What do you think is missing from your diaper stash?  m

Tags: Diaper Covers, Fitted, my stash, Pocket Diapers, prefitted, prefolds