Hi, today I want to talk about the cost of cloth diapers versus disposable. When I was pregnant I did a little bit of a spreadsheet, my version of a spreadsheet, on my computer to figure out if I could really save money doing this and I'm sure all of you are wondering the same thing. So I'm going to show you what I figured out on my computer and then you can make a decision up for yourself if you want to do it or not. So here it is. Okay, first we are going to look at the cost of disposable diapers. Now I used Amazon.com to get on my prices and I am going off of the Pampers Baby Dry Economy Plus Pack. All these come in different sizes, one third six and each size is a different price. Now I made this table when I was pregnant so I had never had a baby before. I didn't know how many diapers a baby would use so I had to do a little bit of research online to kind of come up with a really good guesstimate on that. So right here I just have the sizes, the package price, how many diapers come in each package, how much each individual diaper would cost. And then I kind of broke it out into a cost per week or cost per month and I realized that wasn't really helping me out because I don't know how many diapers my baby would use per week or per month. So once I got the actual diaper price that helped me come up with this down here. Now if babies are at the beginning they use a lot of diapers and I just guessed that they would use about 10 to 12 a day and from zero to three months which is 90 days your baby is going to use about 900 to 180 diapers and the cost of this diaper will be about 22 cents each going off of my prices above. So that equals 198 to 38. When your baby is three to 12 months old they'll use about 10 to 12 10 to 10 diapers a day which is 240 days. That's 1,920 diapers to 2,400 diapers times 23 cents a diaper is 442 to 552. And then when your baby is about 12 to 30 months they'll use 6 to 8 diapers a day which is 540 days. So that will use 3,240 to 4,320 diapers which is just a whole lot of diapers. Now that I'm reading this out loud times 30 it's about 37 cents a diaper which comes out to be 1,199 to 1,598 which is a lot of numbers. So the total cost I made is easy of disposable diapers for 30 months. Again every baby is different they could be probably trained sooner. It might take them longer so this is just an average of 1,839 to 2,388 dollars. We'll cost you for 30 months to use disposable diapers. Now we're going to look at my cloth diaper expenses. This is the upfront cost. I am just going to say that this is using about a 15 to $20 diaper which is going to be like a bum genius or fuzzy buns a name brand diaper. But my favorite diaper like I've said in other videos is the Alva Baby Dipper and that diapers only 6,99 so these numbers are even higher than what was true for me. But again this will just give you a good estimate of using one of those name brand diapers. So average cost to 1 of those diapers 15 to 20 you will need about 24 to make cloth diapers is easy as possible because babies use about at the beginning I would say 12 to 14 a day. So you're going to be doing diapers every day every other day. So that many diapers would be 360 to 480 diapers for 30 months because you will never have to buy more especially if you use the one size fits all like me. And that's what I was I had in mind when I did this chart. Another thing to consider with cost is laundry. This is washing diapers every other day which is what I do now. So you do that for 30 months it's going to be 450 loads of laundry. That's a whole lot of laundry. Each load of washing costs is 134 using hot water. Now if you're going to use warmer cold this is going to be cheaper. Some of my diaper instructions do say to use cold water. So sometimes I mix it up. Sometimes I do hot. Sometimes I do cold. Sometimes I do warm. But I can do another video on my laundry. This is just cost. Each load of drying is $0 because you are really supposed to air dry. This will help you keep the best absorbency for your diapers and it's just better for them. It's not going to cause them to wear out as quickly. The turgent cost is about 26 cents a load. And I got this number because I got it from doing a little research on laundry detergent because you cannot just use any type of laundry detergent on these diapers. It has to be specific kind. And I again will make another video on laundry until you what type of laundry detergent I use. You may say I can do laundry for cheaper but a lot of the cheaper detergents are not safe for cloth diapers. So I got 26 cents a load. 450 loads is about 117 for 30 months. So you do 450 loads times the 134 is $603 plus the detergent cost of 117 is a total of $720 for 30 months. Okay so the total cost of cloth diapers for 30 months is 1,080 to 1,200. That's adding the laundry cost with the diaper costs. And if I go down here this says how much you can save when comparing the disposable diapers with cloth diapers. You save an average of 750 to 1,180 dollars. Now this is per child it's not per year this is every 30 months. So if your child's in cloth diapers for less time or more time this number is going to vary. Now each baby after this you only have to pay for the washing cost because you've already bought your diapers and you are going to assume your diapers are going to hold up. And if you have lifetime warranties that helps. So the lifetime of the diaper the the company will cover it. So if you have more than one baby you are going to save $1,119 to $1,668 each baby. Isn't that awesome? We love saving money we love cloth diapers so get on the cloth diaper train and let me know if you have any questions. Don't free to subscribe. Thank you.