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

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

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’ve been on Diaper Swappers for at least a month, and I have been always in awe of this thing called Hyena Cart.  Apparently it’s a website that allows for all sorts of Work-At-Home-Mom’s to sell their wares.  Some of the diapers from Hyena Cart can go for $50-100, especially if there is a bidding war.  I always thought that it was a bit too rich for my blood, and never really bothered to browse.

Friday, I took the plunge and registered at Hyena Cart, just as a shopper.  This allows me to see when the different stores are stocking, I can see the items that I’ve bookmarked as cool, and to enter for some of the stores’ “free for shipping” lottos (meaning that I just have to pay for the shipping).  I was so excited!  I’ve been checking the stocking calendar to see if there is anything that I like on it, if there’s anything that I “need” to have. 

I found a diaper that I like.  I don’t love it.  I’m not even sure why I really want to buy it.  I haven’t decided if it will make me feel like a cool kid because “OMG!  I bought a hyena cart diaper!  I am so cool!”, or if I want to buy it because it will make me feel like a socially responsible consumer (buying from a WAHM instead Big Corporation, Inc.).  I’m really kind of confused for my motive.  I feel like I have a motive because I looked at it and said “cuuuuuuuuute”, but not “I neeeeeeeeed this”!  So, here’s the diaper.  Will someone please go buy it so I won’t?  It’s only $15 plus shipping, and that’s really reasonable for a pocket diaper. (Alternatively, if you’ve used a Trendy Tush Pocket AIO diaper, and you loved it, tell me that too - then maybe I will buy it!)

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Tags: AIO's, Hyena Cart, Pockets, shopping