These last 4-6 weeks have been hard for some of us trying to reign in our spending habits. I really miss diaper and wool shopping to my heart's content, but I've replaced it with getting to know other mamas IRL here in town (with mixed results, as anyone who read my Egads! post saw), and hanging out and eating lots of pie at my favorite cafe.
I only spent 108 for March (well, I will have at the end of the month unless I totally break down in the last days and do something drastic), which is really darned close to my 100 dollar/month goal. It helps that my friend is an amazing knitter with embellishment talents galore and I can just buy awesome yarn instead, with free labor!
I love her.
Tell me how things have been going with you guys who have felt bad about crazy winter diaper spending and trying to get your feet on the wagon alongside me these last months....
Well, like most things for me~I mean to stop but never do. I didn't do BAD this month necessarily, but I certainly did overspend. I have a lot of custom orders in the works to the tune of...oh...say....several hundred dollars
(couldn't bring myself to type in the exact amount:LOL) that I really really cannot afford but the lure of the drug is just too great.
My new justification is that he is 20M old & who knows how long he'll be in diapers~
I went soaker crazy so I really needed to reel it in. Since going back on the wagon I have only bought with money I made selling. I now have almost $100.00 in my paypal account. I have been looking around for something to buy with my funded paypal only but so far all I have ordered is a FLAG from the TP, paid for my KSS, and today I ordered an AIO from LHC. I find I think a lot harder about what to buy and I am patienly waiting instead of going crazy.
I feel much better, too. I have channeled a lot of my buying energy into working on my LTK longies and I am now totally obsessed with knitting.
I've spent way too much money in the last month or so, and I just can't stop!
Both my DS and I were really sick a couple of months ago, and I stopped CD'ing (and visiting this board)
because I just couldn't keep up. My DH was working 70+ hours a week and/or traveling and it was all I could do to take care of the two of us. Anyway, when I got better I got my CD's out again and came back to the diapering forum............needless to say I have about 9 new diapers, 2 wool covers, and some other accessories either already here or arriving daily.
Thank goodness my DH isn't here when the mailman arrives.
I have only been using paypal this month and it doesn't really disappear as soon as I get it. I don't impulse buy anymore.
I've decided I love
more than anything else so I have stopped buying Pockets and AIOs with the idea to save up for all the nice wool things I "need". That is really helping me.
I'm doing about medium well.. I think I've spent around 400-500 this month which is about 200-300 less than last month
My income will be drastically reduced in about a month and a half so I'm resisting scrimping.. maybe I should just save my moola and spend it later on diapers when I need a fix but have no money.. hey, that's an idea! :LOL
Since the Diaper Wagon started (and I did not join right away), I purchased substantial amounts at Righteous Baby, SugarPeas, and Fluffymail. I bought soakers at RB, MM, KSS, CT, BBB, SMJAE, Too Cute Covers, Cass's Cozies, LTK... All this in such a short amount of time... I'm *really* close to a custom at Fluffymail, too, and who can resist that lure? After that, though, I can't think of anything else to spend my money on, although I'm sure my favorite WAHMs will find some way to tempt me! LOL
Oh, ye women of talets so rare, how thy tempt me with thine wares!
Wow! That is a lot of miles. Seems like you should get some just for attempting to purchase. Do you know if it's for one item or if you can get multiple things? I hope that if I ever get anywhere near 500, I'll feel like I'm near fluffed-out.
eta: I get really sidetracked by talk of fluff miles and forgot to address the op's original Q. I think I have been doing pretty well. Since the fluffymail stocking I have only made one purchase ($15) that wasn't funded by diaper sales. I have made several trades, which I think soaks up some of the diaper energy (plus, I got some really cool dipes!) and some is going into my crocheting of soakers. (Btw, Sheena, watching your progress on the longies in that other thread is totally inspiring me, I am seeing some longies in my future for sure.)
Well, I just checked the fluffymail site and it turns out it's only been a week.
DOing pretty well here. Since I have been trying to pinpoint the cause of Ava's rash, I haven't wanted to buy anything because I don't know WHAT she is having a reaction to. When I figure it out (hopefully soon, I am in phase 2 of a 3 phase experiment, lol), I will be doing a bit of selling and buying, hopefully enough selling to make up for the buying, lol! I do think it'll work out that I don't spend any real money since I am planning on doing it economically - i.e. mostly prefolds. I do have to keep resisting buying soakers though!
I consider myself a fairly new addict, about a month old addict. Ever since we decided to use fitteds/covers in addition to pockets....I started off crazy, spending about $400 in just a few weeks (we had no covers or fitteds though, so I *think* this was justified...hehe). Now I've come to my senses and am selling off what we don't love and trying to only use the money that comes in from those sales, and I'm trying to save up for when the items I do love are stocked. Sometimes I get a crazy look in my eye and I start drooling over diapers....then I remind myself of what I'm saving for (a custom Bee-Bo's slot perhaps? Save up for my Beccabottoms slot? Try to snatch up a yummy wool cover? hmm...) I'd say I'm doing a LOT better than I was a few weeks ago. I'm being more picky about what I buy.
Somehow I've managed to escape the frenzy. I'm here, and I read, and I learn about what dipes are good quality and what doesn't work and I buy what I need and I stop.
Ok thats all a big fat lie.
I have way to many diapers and just went on a wool buying frenzy. (If buying three covers is a frenzy) But I'm telling you, I FEEL like this is kinda crazy outta control. I don't need a dang thing.
But reading this post is making me feel kinda normal now. I spend maybe 200 bucks in a bad month. In fact I think I'm going to point my husband in this direction.. he needs to know that 200 bucks is NOTHING.
:LOL
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