True cost of nappies

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?

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!!!