tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525334973892331389.post6778756219813689154..comments2023-06-12T11:50:19.679-04:00Comments on not the jet set: Cloth Diaper UpdateMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05449100145223553747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525334973892331389.post-4669582328272925922010-03-16T15:31:24.043-04:002010-03-16T15:31:24.043-04:00Glad to see you did the math! I use cloth diapers ...Glad to see you did the math! I use cloth diapers with my daughter and am always trying to convince friends to switch. I write about cloth on my blog as well.Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09198461229351090208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525334973892331389.post-41972344712267579822009-09-24T10:42:02.816-04:002009-09-24T10:42:02.816-04:00Great question! In our cloth diapering post, rea...Great question! In our <a href="http://www.notthejetset.net/2008/03/dirty-frugal-job-cloth-diapering.html" rel="nofollow"> cloth diapering post</a>, reader Heidi shared her laundry math. It's really quite negligible, for home laundry that is. More so for us as we are on well water, and use HE front loaders. <br /><br />For coin laundry, you could simply add those costs in as a line item under the Cloth side. So let's estimate....<br /><br />Our newborn went through ~14 diapers per day. Granted, the newborn size are pretty small, so estimate maybe 4 loads per week? Multiply by the number of weeks in that size (~7 for us) = 28 loads for the newborn (they go through a LOT of diapers at that age). Then multiply by the cost per load and you have it. I have no idea what it would cost to wash and dry at a coin laundry these days, so your mileage may vary here. If it's $2 per, then that's $56. Even with that added in, we still would have been $187 ahead, just in the newborn size. (see the <a href="http://www.notthejetset.net/2008/04/diaper-spreadsheet.html" rel="nofollow">spreadsheet post</a>)<br /><br />What may be a bigger issue is the diaper covers that aren't supposed to go through the dryer. May have to defer to the Mrs. or the readers here... <br /><br />Anyways, thanks for the question - am I off on the cost of coin laundry? It's been several years....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525334973892331389.post-62720760650213887432009-09-24T08:53:09.954-04:002009-09-24T08:53:09.954-04:00Just out of curiousity, did you factor in the cost...Just out of curiousity, did you factor in the cost of laundering the diapers? I am attracted to the idea of cloth diapering, but as we use coin-operated machines, the cost would be much higher in our case.miltonpungnoreply@blogger.com