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

Sorry about that!  We went out of town and things were crazy and then I got lazy and… well, you know how it goes.  Right now I’m in a foggy haze of sippy cups, diaper laundry and sleep schedules.  And I stopped to wonder when it was the last time I posted over here.  And… yeah.  It was November 5.  OOPS.

We spent a long weekend at the grandparent’s house and I decided at the last minute against taking my goodmama diapers with me.  I wasn’t sure when I’d be washing diapers down there and since Evie’s poops are starting to get more interesting, I didn’t want to be too far from a diaper sprayer (since I am NOT the sort to drunk and swirl in the toilet).  And my goodmamas, well, they’re sorta like my babies.  I love them so.  I don’t want them to get stained.  So they stayed home and I found I missed them terribly while I was away.  Does that sound strange to anyone else?

I finally got some Ecover at Whole Foods a few weeks ago and I am LOVING it.  In fact, I have to force myself not to use it every single wash!  It works wonderfully.  I’m considering getting a little Bac-Out this next month to have on hand and use once in a while.  We haven’t had much trouble with diaper stink, but I think it couldn’t hurt to treat the inserts and such from time to time.  Hey, anything to make washing diapers more exciting, right?

I’m pretty close to temporary stash nirvana here.  It’s a wonderful feeling.  I still need to sell the medium prefitteds I have, but was never able to find anyone on Diaper Swappers FSOT boards who was interested.  Maybe I need to ask a lower price.  I’d like them to go to a new home rather than get sucked uselessness on my changing table shelves.  Eventually, I’ll need to size up our diaper covers too as they are all mediums.  Hey, is anyone out there interested in medium prefitteds?  They’re fabulous, I can guarantee you that!  Heh.

It’s a little sad, though, to be at such a stable stash size.  I love getting new things, I have to admit, and finding new and more awesome deals (have you see the goodmama sale yet??).  But for now, there just isn’t much of anything we NEED.  Though if bumgenius ever comes out with snapping diapers rather than velcro, well, then all bets are off.  Because that would make them pretty much the BEST DIAPER EVER.  And I would have to have one or two or twelve.  You hear me, Cotton Babies?

So what’s new with you all?  Anyone have any cloth diapering questions that I can answer for the class?  Have you discovered any awesome new diapers lately?  Share, share!

Tags: Bac Out, bumGenius, Ecover, Goodmama, laundry, sale, shopping, stash

Two days ago, I was surfing Diaper Swappers, and came across a sale by a Work At Home Mom (WAHM), for discounted diapers and free shipping.  I went to her site, and was THRILLED!  She had cute diapers!  They were really well priced!  I could totally afford one and support a WAHM (I always think this is important, but I have rules on how much I will spend on a single diaper).  So I drooled over her site looking at every single diaper trying to decide which one I wanted.

The problem is that she makes a one-size diaper, which comes in two sizes.  Confusing, right?  Well, not really - one is aimed at small babies, and one is aimed at older babies/toddlers.  She had both sizes in the diaper I wanted (red outside! cow print inside!), and I initially ordered the smallest one.  About 2 minutes after I hit “check out”, I had instant buyer’s remorse.  I should have bought the bigger one!  So, I emailed her, and she was soooo sweet and said that she would refund me the money, but the bigger one had JUST sold.  I was so disappointed!  I knew that I should have bought that one when I first thought about it! 

She did say that she was going to sew a whole bunch more up this weekend, and that she’d have new stock next week.  I’m really excited to see what she has, but I’m worried.  What happens if her “regular price” diapers are out of my price league?  I was really thrilled for the quality and size of diaper that I would be getting at the sale price, but what if it gets out of my range?  I’ll be so sad.  Presently, I do know that she doesn’t have any more cow print (cry!!), and possibly no red (I don’t remember what she said), so I’m not sure what I’ll be looking for, come next week.

If anyone is looking for a smaller-end expandable pocket diaper, be sure to check out Happy Cheeks Diapers!  I haven’t used these yet, but they look fantastic!  Also, if anyone has any rants/raves about HCD, let me know - I’d love to go in to this a little less blind! 

Tags: Pocket Diapers, sale

As I said, we’re very new to this whole cloth diapering thing.  New, but EXCITED.  Or, actually, I am.  My husband is mildly interested.  But, considering Evie wore only ’sposies on Mother’s Day when it was his job to change her diapers all day, I’m guessing he has some catching up to do.  Then again, he might be more interested once we get more “convenient” diapers in our stash.

Yesterday, Evie spent the day in infant prefolds (folded with the “bikini twist fold”), a homemade fleece liner and prorap covers.  I thought it went pretty well.  We only had one pee leak early on in the day and I think that was because I hadn’t made sure that all of the prefold was tucked into the prorap.  Oops!  I also think I need to perfect my fastening technique.  I think I’ve been making it too tight for the little dear as she has, at times, seemed uncomfortable.  And, well, the prefolds aren’t as comfortable as they could be.  I think they could stand a few more washings.

We put her in a BG 3.0 for bedtime and that worked great.  Not even the barest hint of a leak all night long.  And she had a significant poop overnight that I wasn’t even aware of until I changed her diaper this morning.  Whoops!   But I don’t think she’d sat in it for too long, which is good.  I was impressed that the diaper held up as well as it had.  Just as impressed as I was Saturday night she wore a BG 3.0 to the drive-in and had an Epic Poop and it was easily contained.  Now that’s something even your average ’sposie has trouble with!

I did some laundry last night and washed the pail liner I’d purchased at Walmart with the diapers.  Unfortunately, it was a pretty cheap liner.  It bled blue dye on the microfiber inserts and some of the prefolds.  To top it off, a big hole tore open in the side during the wash cycle.  Ugh.  That’s what I get for being cheap.  So I went over to Diaper Swappers and got a Wahmies pail liner off of FSOT.  It’s what I should have done in the first place.

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In other news, I got an email this morning that gDiapers has released their new little g pants.  The new colors are Golly Molly Pink, Grasshopper Green and Goodnight Blue.  They look really cute, too!  Also, you get get flushable liners for 10% off for the next three days only.  That’s definitely a good stock up opportunity!

Tags: bumGenius, Diaper Swappers, Epic Poop, FSOT, gDiapers, little g, new, prefolds, prorap, sale, Wahmies