What do you do with the wipes when using cloth diapers?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at
12:26 am
Yes, this is going to sound incredibly naive.
I have a 4 1/2 month daughter and am finding the cost of disposable diapers pushing the high end of my budget (surprise, I know). I’m having an increasingly harder time talking myself out of cloth diapering, at least at home, but then what would I do with the (non-flushable) wipes? Would a regular, small step-open garbage can be enough to quell the odor if changed regularly? I have a Diaper Genie II at the moment but the thought of pushing dirty wipes down into that aren’t really exciting.
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First off, I love cloth diapers. It’s really not a big deal to wash them once you get your routine down. Not to mention all the $ I’m saving each month.
We alternate between cloth wipes and disposables. The disposable ones go in a little wastebasket that I throw out every other day or so. We haven’t had any smell issues.
For my diaper pail I got a washable liner so I just dump the whole thing in the wash, liner and all. No need to touch anything icky.
I use cloth wipes. I make a solution of baby soap and water, dip the cloth wipe in it, use the wipe as needed and then it gets thrown in the laundry with the cloth diapers.
I think that first answer sounds really clever. If you still want to use disposable wipes, then try disposing of them in plastic bags – you can use the kind from the grocery store, or you can buy the scented kind that are made for diapers. They sell them at Babies R Us – they come 250 to a box, and you could put a day’s worth of wipes in and then dispose each night.
Yes, cloth wipes are a good idea, take a water spray out with you, and dry cloths, then wet up as needed and put them in the wet bag with the nappy (diaper) Saves you even more money. I have a set of these and only buy one pack of baby wipes once every month or so, which I mainly use when out or for Toxic Waste.
I have to confess though, I often put the wipe inside the nappy by accident and it goes through the wash……
You’ll find that washed baby wipes make good nappy liners !!! I know I’m not the only one that does it either, a few of my friend use cloth and it’s their dirty secret too!
I love cloth, you’ll be glad you switched….some of the shaped ones are so cute. Go to http://www.thenappylady.com and you should be able to find a good deal, there are tons of nappy classifieds there! Ebay is good for sets of reusable wipes.
Sell the diaper genie and make some cash for your new nappies
You could always do what I did when raising my two kids. When they were in diapers, they were in cloth diapers all the time and I never used disposable wipes. I always kept a few damp wash cloths in plastic bags in the diaper bag and I would just use one of them for clean up. If I was lucky enough to be in a rest room then I would just rinse it out good and put it back in the bag for later use. Now fuss, no muss, no bother, no waste to dispose of.
Good luck.