Can't do cloth at daycare and we don't have a W/D on site so, disposables it is.

shrug

We could probably get them in bulk (she wears a 3), but I don't have a CostCo membership anymore. Hellhole of suckage paid for that.

Seriously, the 2-storey, plumbed tree-house sounds amazing.

It was a thing of beauty. We built it after the first one we started was mistaken for a deer or duck blind, and someone sawed the support beams under the floor (it then became the "Sagging Stage" where we put on our famous production of Cinderella- Sort Of). We started out with a smallish tree house, then realized we could expand to four adjacent trees, so the original house became a porch with birch rails. with four trees the weight was more evenly distributed, but we needed support in the middle, so we decided on frames to bolster the middle, and then just built walls around it. There was an old sink in the shed that used to be part of the fish cleaning area, so we hauled that out there and ran one hose through the faucet and one from the drain to the creek. You turned the faucet on and off by signaling someone by the trailer, and then the water drained into the creek.

Plus, we have no room for bulk amounts. But I like this place:

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Hee! Are you going to look into a diaper service, or do all the laundering yourself?

Self. My mother has offered to make some for me when she gets back from the road trip. We'll be repurposing old flannel sheets.

Our theoretical daycare, should we ever get to the top of the list when I have a FT job, has cloth available for an extra charge.

Susan, I'm sorry to hear of your loss.

Re cloth vs. disposable: The biggest and most prominent of the "cloth diapers aren't really any better, so there, la la la!" studies have been funded by Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark, makers of, quelle surprise, disposables.

All the articles I Googled seemed to be furiously biased in one direction or another (mostly granola, admittedly), but anyhow there's approximately a metric shitload of data hiding amidst the rants here: [link]

And, I bow in awe before Heather's awesome treehousing skillz. If Zmayhem ever ends up with anything approximating a house, including a backyard that has anything resembling a tree, we're flying you out for a consultation.

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Comma duly chosen.

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Maybe I take these things a little too personally (one of my very best friends is a cop), but it just pinged me HARD (obviously). The fact that one of the interviews attached to the story was the shooting victim's girlfriend doing a whole "This is so typical of the cops" thing really got in my craw too. Anyway, done with ranty now. I think.

Self. My mother has offered to make some for me when she gets back from the road trip. We'll be repurposing old flannel sheets.

OMG you are a hero. Although it's really the only way to save money. Having used a cloth service for both babies, I really don't think it's much cheaper than disposables.

I still feel eco-guilt every.single.diaper.

Raq, considering you're in an area of the world where the water and sewage systems are a little behind the US, I'd say you were making a good decision. It's a trade off, really. There's no such thing as no-eco-footprint diapers no matter what choice you make.

Me, I'm just lazy. I have very little guilt about that.

Paging Lyra Jane! Please pick up the white courtesy phone in terminal A....

I mailed off the imp of Obeah to you this afternoon. The Post Office computer says it should be there Friday, so keep an eye out.