The High Price of Newborn Diapers

Synka | Jul 09, 2009 | 0 comments

The Cost of Newborn Diapers

Maybe I was naive, but I thought that since you get so much more per package, that newborn diapers were more cost effective. (For those of you without children, every time you move up a size in diapers, you get fewer diapers in the package for the same price.) Then I saw how may newborn diapers we were actually going through and realized that the cost savings were negligible.

My little angel was was a pooping and peeing machine, and we were going through more diapers than I thought possible for something so small. And we weren’t just going through the newborn diapers, either – we were going through everything. This baby was 1/15 my size, and creating twice as much laundry.

I wasn’t naive, I knew having a baby was really expensive. The costs I associated with having a baby were a little different, and further away, things like braces and university. I mean, just how much could this little bundle of joy cost? A whole lot, as it turns out.

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. Then I get all my little coupons in an envelope and head off to do the shopping; what’s happened to me?

And I’m actually going through the grocery store flyers and making a list before I go, something I never did before I had a baby. 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 more because of the fact that I’ve barely slept in three weeks and I’m liable to get to the store and forget what I went there for in the first place.

And then I’ll just come home with newborn diapers. Packages and packages of newborn diapers, because I know at least that we need those, even if I’ve forgotten everything else we need. Each week, I wait for the flyers to be delivered, and then I get started on my list. Then I go through them, very methodically, and make a list of what I need to get from each store so that I get all the best deals.

Still, I’m trying to commit every last moment to memory, depsite the lack of sleep and extra strains on the pocketbook. 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 treasure each moment I have with her now, when my beautiful child is still small enough to fit into those impossibly small newborn diapers.

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