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The Price of Your Baby’s Diapers

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized

Newborn Diapers: The Cost

I always thought that newborn diapers were more cost efficient than the other sizes, because you got so many more diapers per package. (If you don’t have kids, when you buy diapers, the larger the size, the fewer diapers you get per package, even though the cost is the same.) Of course, those savings mean nothing if you go through a lot of diapers, which is exactly what we were doing.

Yes, our little bundle of joy was a pooping and peeing machine, and we were going through newborn diapers like crazy. And it wasn’t just the newborn diapers, either – the resources this child consumed was amazing. Such a wee little thing, but the baby created more laundry by herself than the rest of the family combined.

I knew going in to this, theoretically, that having a baby was expensive. The costs I associated with having a baby were a little different, and further away, things like braces and university. Just how much could a little baby consume and cost? Way more than I thought; way, way more.

I never thought it would happen, but I became that guy. I’m the guy that clips coupons, not only for newborn diapers, but for anything else that might help offset these added costs of having a new baby. How did this happen? I now put all my coupons in an envelope so that I’m organized when I get to the store.

Another thing that I’m doing that I’ve never done before is actually going through the grocery store flyers and making a list. While it does save us money, the real reason I do this is not to offset the cost of buying newborn diapers. No, it’s because I’ve been running on less than three hours of sleep for going on three weeks now, and I’ll probably forget everything I came for if I go without a list.

And what I’d probably end up with is just more newborn diapers. Package upon package of newborn diapers, because that, at least, I can remember without a list. So I make my list, and I’ve even gone so far as to actually wait for the flyers to be delivered every week. I go through the flyers, one by one, and make up my list of what I need to get by store so that I know I’m getting all the best deals.

Still, despite the lack of sleep and shock over actual amount having a baby costs, I’m trying to commit every last moment to memory. Because I know in a few short years (or heck, even a few months from now) I’ll come across one of those newborn diapers and be amazed that my child was ever small enough to fit into them. So I want to treasure these moments now, when my little child is small enough to still fit into those teeny-tiny newborn diapers.

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