In celebration of frugal CDing!

I started out with a few more expensive dipes...resold and got more back out of them on Ebay than I had paid to begin with and have been with my prefolds and covers now (a mix of Gerber pull ons with a Snappi and Bummis SWW) for awhile now. After doing the math with my reselling profit, I've spent less than $100 on diapering in the last 16 months too.

Granted, I'll probably have to buy a few more larger covers, otherwise I think I'm set until potty training.

I have spent more than $100....but I wanted to say Good job mamas!

That is why I love cding.....you could NEVER do that with sposies!

I have spent about $250 on CD's and I am now diapering my 3rd child with them and it has been over 4 years since I bought most of these diapers. Most of the cost was for 36 PF and some Bummis SIWW for ds1. I suplimented with some home made PF made out of tshirts I got at bag sales or flannel bought at 60% off. I also made a bunch of longies and bumsweaters out of sweaters that I got for $0.25 each. I am also knitting my own for dd using a mix of new and second hand wool

What a wonderful thread! I have a couple times ventured to the CD forum, but when I try to suggest frugal CD'ing ideas, I believe they're rolling their eyes!! :LOL

I am using the same cover that I used with DS1, except currently DS 2 is bigger than DS1 was at the same age. So we had to buy covers for DS2 in size Large, and maybe in XL. We've bought all of those from ebay or here on MDC TP, or asked for covers for gifts from inlaws, etc.

As far as prefolds, we buy seconds from the diaper service for $3/dozen!! Incredoubly cheap! They only will have one stain or just starting to get frayed, but never anything major.

Good for you!

I'm glad there are other here at MDC who love to have their kids in CD but do not get into the hyena aspects. ( : not that I don't splurg on other things!)

I'm not sure how much I've spent all together. I've bought and sold and bought and sold more times than I can count. Right now we do prefolds at home and fuzzibunz out, and I may sell off the fuzzibunz in favor of something that needs less careful maintenance (buildup with fleece) and/or is not so hot in summer.

I'm thinking of using the myriad flannel receiving blankets I have around for flats. Anyone do that?

I'm on a frugal kick with cd'ing and everything else. Found a Kate Spade diaper bag at the consignment store for $40....and just ebayed it for $81. I KNEW when I saw it that I could get at least $75 on ebay for it and couldn't believe the consignment shop owner didn't know what she had. I've been decluttering and selling lots of stuff; we're moving, have no cash at the moment, and there's too much "stuff" around.

Honestly? I love my prefolds and my pull-on Dappi/Especially For Baby nylon pants best. I may dye my prefolds for some pizazz but that's what we're sticking with for now...

Up until yesterday, I could have said $0 (many gifts and loaners), but I succumbed to the urge to own my own soakers -- have now spent $32.50 for two wool soakers and 12 doublers. Still, not too bad. If only I can control myself... back, hyena, back

Much better than what I spent on ds and sposies!

Yay, I love this thread. CD'd my dd till recently potty learning. Dunno how much I spent in that time, but we went the frugal route too. Prefolds, misc fitteds I got used, some sad looking wraps at times! What I did have came of the TP or from friends.
Especially at the end there, when I used her dipe covers over training undies instead of sposie pull-ups.

Good job, ladies, you're awesome!

I'd say I've spent less than $300, not much more than $200. I probably spent more than I'd have had to if I'd been a SAHM, but I had a rotation of about 16 covers, mostly Proraps and Bummis, when my son was smaller--he was in daycare, and it was easier to bring in a week's worth of diapers at once.

I bought the Proraps new from Dy-Dee (cheap if you buy 6 at a time), the rest used on ebay. The CPFs I bought used from ebay (nice, because they were already broken in, and I was washing dipes in the laundromat at the time). I bought some Euro prefolds new from ebay, and haven't liked them as much.

I'm intrigued by the idea of getting prefold seconds from a diaper service, but I don't actually need more diapers, and am unlikely to ever need more covers. I have to say, I'm so impressed by the Proraps, they're just indestructable.

I'm really put off by the whole hyena thing...I just don't get it. I just can't see spending the money, and I don't think I would even if I had the money. I just can't relate. Then again, I'm a person who would really have to struggle with myself to pay more than $20 on a pair of shoes, or any article of clothing, for that matter. Someone gave me a little outfit for Sprogly when he was a newborn, and it was obviously very expensive...and I was appalled. I just couldn't help it. I remember thinking that I could have bought a whole layette with the money. Oh well, I'm funny that way.

Love it! You mamas rock!