Saturday, 28 August 2010

True cost of nappies


My Itti Bitti stash
A lot of people buy a few different styles of nappies to see what suits or fits their baby best but not me! Once I had decided on Itti Bittis when I saw sales I bought Itti Bittis to my heart’s content. I bought 8 smalls (2 from trade me – second hand ones are great as the more bamboo is washed the more absorbent it becomes), 12 mediums as I figured he’ll be in them longer and 1 large limited edition nappy (because I couldn't help myself). Plus some extra snap ins as that’s what I love about the Itti Bitti snap in ones (SIO) is that if the nappy is wet and not dirty you just take out the inside and snap in a new liner. I figured this would last me about a day and a half so enough nappies to do a wash everyday or so. 
 
So I figure I’ve spent about $700 on nappies so far. So how does that compare?


Baby #1 SIO Itti Bitti nappies

24 SIO Itti Bittis $840 (RRP $35pn)
24 SIO Liners $336
900 Washes $108
900 Scoops Laundry Powder $450

Total $1734

900 Tumble Drier (optional) $365
 
Baby #2 $558

Total two children $2292
Baby #1 Disposable nappies

281 Packs of Disposable Nappies $3934 
(ave $14 pp)
128 City Rubbish Bags$320 
(1 bag/ week $2.50 pb)

Total $4254



Baby #2 Disposable Nappies $4254

Total two children $8508
 
I’ve worked these figures out using an average of 8 nappies per day over two and a half years and washing everyday.

Wow that means that Disposable nappies are 3.7 times more expensive than Cloth nappies!!!


7 comments :

  1. Wow, this post is awesome. With colours like that, the cloth option even LOOKS good.

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  2. Thank you very much for your comment. I'm really glad to hear you say that. Itti bittis make using cloth so super easy and you're right the colours are fantastic. They even put out limited edition prints which I can never resist, which is why I have a tiger and a cow one so super cute. Gutted I missed out on the giraffe print though. Oh well new colours due out soon.

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