Someone on my cloth diaper forum asked me how much my homemade stash cost.
Not counting thread, which is 2 bucks for a big cone, so really its is like .001 cents per diaper.
wool Longies and soakers cost me roughly 50 cents. I go to the salvation army near my house on wednesdays when everything is half off. And one sweater costs me between 1 to 1.50, and I can get longies and usually two soakers out of one sweater.
My fitted diapers cost roughly a 1 to 1.50 a piece, depending on what I use for my fabric. 75 cents for the microfiber I use as the soaker pad, figure about 25 cents for the elastic, and 3 cents for the snaps (got out my calculator for that one). And most of my diapers were made from fabric I was given for free when I asked around. The pink and white one though was a shirt I bought at the second hand store because I liked the pattern so much, so that diaper cost me $2.03
wool doublers are made from scrap wool that is left over, so they are free!
Fleece pockets were free because my Aunty gave me lots of yards of fleece.
cloth wipes were my most costly thing, because I got the expensive gerber faceclothes, they were a buck a piece. and I just used flannel I had at home for the other side.
and my wool wrap covers were about 2.50 because the FOE was so expensive to buy. The pink one has none though so that one was the usual 50 cents plus elastic and snaps, 78 cents total.
And the matching yellow diapers I paid 3 bucks for the crib set to cut up and make them out of.
SO only counting the items I made myself its a grand total of 39.80 for diapers and covers, and 32 for wipes.
$71.80 for a pretty good size stash, Not to shabby!! Though, looking at the numbers makes me feel wasteful for all the money I spent on wipes! But they are 9x9 so lots of coverage for your hands, and they are super soft, and I got a bunch to last forever.
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