what a thoughtful gift, you guys!
A cloth diaper service for a year is going to save us a lot of money!
Plus, they're better for the environment!
Collected twice weekly. By horse drawn buggy?
The Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs” had an episode devoted to a diaper service once. Surprisingly modern and up-to-date. Should have seen their giganto washing machines!
to be honest I am cheap my kid had cloth diapers except when we went somewhere, it was easier than carrying dirty diapers around. And had a diaper pail and washed them myself
I can’t believe diaper services are still available. They went out of business almost as soon as paper diapers became available. It got too expensive to run them. You had to get the washers and dryers, delivery vans, and the people needed to run the machines. Then you got complaints about the pollution caused by dumping dirty water and detergents down the water supply. Cloth diapers are not really environmentally friendly like paper ones are. What an irony.
@gmforde, having used both with my kids, I would say in terms of pollution it’s six of one, half-a-dozen of the other. Paper wrapped in plastic doesn’t deteriorate all that fast. Then there are the contents, sitting in the landfill…wrapped in paper…wrapped in plastic… At least the water is being treated. I finally went with paper and plastic because I grew tired of arguing with the diaper service as to whether the number they got back equalled the number they gave me. One of us couldn’t count, and we had different opinions as to who that was.
emjaycee almost 11 years ago
As long as the horses were diapers as well. Compost.
JayBluE almost 11 years ago
K, now Clarence being a party "poop"er….
JayBluE almost 11 years ago
Guess a diaper service can never say: “We’re not putting up with this mess”…
farren almost 11 years ago
The Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs” had an episode devoted to a diaper service once. Surprisingly modern and up-to-date. Should have seen their giganto washing machines!
charliefarmrhere almost 11 years ago
emjaycee—-Funny! I didn’t know that horses could be diapers! OH! You meant to say wear, instead of were.
rini1946 almost 11 years ago
to be honest I am cheap my kid had cloth diapers except when we went somewhere, it was easier than carrying dirty diapers around. And had a diaper pail and washed them myself
gmforde almost 11 years ago
I can’t believe diaper services are still available. They went out of business almost as soon as paper diapers became available. It got too expensive to run them. You had to get the washers and dryers, delivery vans, and the people needed to run the machines. Then you got complaints about the pollution caused by dumping dirty water and detergents down the water supply. Cloth diapers are not really environmentally friendly like paper ones are. What an irony.
harebell almost 11 years ago
@gmforde, having used both with my kids, I would say in terms of pollution it’s six of one, half-a-dozen of the other. Paper wrapped in plastic doesn’t deteriorate all that fast. Then there are the contents, sitting in the landfill…wrapped in paper…wrapped in plastic… At least the water is being treated. I finally went with paper and plastic because I grew tired of arguing with the diaper service as to whether the number they got back equalled the number they gave me. One of us couldn’t count, and we had different opinions as to who that was.
tegm over 10 years ago
haha, they still have those? I think my parents used those on me when I was a baby.