Posted on 09/12/2015 7:23:36 AM PDT by PROCON
I’m 69. I never knew anything but cloth diapers & plastic pants - & glad to get ‘em!
It takes a simple google search to see the truth. Walmart diapers are 12.4 cents each!!! If you change your baby 5X a day that is .65 I wish a reporter for once would back up their report with a little fact checking
You know—you do what you have to do in this old world, and let the devil take the hind part.
This isn’t about me, I’m thinking of how to do all of that in a small apartment with possibly several young kids, not even a welfare mom.
I’m the eldest of five, for us older kids cloth diapers were good, but the younger two who came after a gap were on disposable ones. Very busy mom, one bathroom, no way to tote everything. Disposable diapers were a blessing and she had in house washer and dryer.
I washed diapers and hung them on a line to dry. No big deal. We had a washer but not a dryer.
Bad weather? We had a clothes rack and I would hang them inside.
My mother diapered her three boys and about 20+ war babies.
Starting with my brother(1932) and ending in 1947.
It was cloth diapers, sometimes made from feed sacks, boiled in a cast iron kettle outdoors. Wrung, by her strong hands, and hung on a clothesline. I don’t want to hear about some woman(where is daddy) who needs $100.00 a month for diapers.
My first son (1960) got cloth my second son(1990) go other.
I leaned how to wash diapers at the age of 7 or 8.
It isa sh-—y job but soap does clean.
God Bless!
My favorite post of this year!
I wonder when she will show us her IUD?
I see you are taking the tamale angle. :-)
Yes...it was a fact of life.
We didn’t have a dryer either, and in the winter, the clothes would freeze on the line, so they would be “festooned” indoors.
You win.
But, but, but you have to throw them into a washing machine and that's WORK!
How about going to school or training program and upgrading your education so you can get a better job instead of laying around with your legs open getting pregnant.
Let me guess, let me guess..she got a job and bought the diapers with her earnings?
No??
Okay, her husband got a job and bought the diapers with his earnings?
No??
Okay, the man that father the kid got a job and paid for the diapers with his earnings?
No??
Um, okay, I bought the diapers for her with my tax dollar?
We washed cloth diapers in the late 80’s until our daughter was about 13 months. By then we were double diapering her. When she got close to 2 and we started potty training we had to switch to disposable, they were just more absorbant and she couldn’t walk well in a triple diaper. LOL. it can be done and she never had a case of diaper rash.
I didn’t mean to sound critical — just reminiscing.
We raised four at a time when my/our income after taxes and union dues was $55 per week. I don’t have much sympathy for the young mother who works so she can pay for her toddlers to be herded into daycare where they do not do diapers or fix economical meals.
Certainly true at present. This will change eventually either by law or economic collapse. The free ride is coming to an end.
Hope they aren’t selling bean burritos .......
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