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The Price of Your Newborn’s Diapers

Synka | Jul 06, 2009 | 0 comments

Newborn Diapers: The Cost

I’ve always thought that newborn diapers were more cost effective than the other sizes. (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.) When I saw how many we were actually going through, I realized that we weren’t actually saving any money.

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. Actually, it wasn’t just the newborn diapers – we were going through everything. This baby was 1/15 my size, and creating twice as much laundry.

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. I didn’t think that a little baby would consume or cost that much. A whole lot, as it turns out.

And now, I’ve become that guy. You know, the guy that clips coupons, but not only for newborn diapers, but for other things as well, anything that will help us save money. 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. The real reason I do this? Not to save money (although that is a plus) or help to get the money for all those 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. I know at least that we need those, even if I’ve forgotten everything else, so I’ll just buy package after package of newborn diapers. Each week, I wait for the flyers to be delivered, and then I get started on my list. 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, I’m trying to commit every last moment to memory, depsite the lack of sleep and extra strains on the pocketbook. Because I know that my beautiful baby won’t fit into those newborn diapers for long, that soon I’ll look back and wonder how she ever fit into something so small. I will hang on to each moment I have with my baby now, while my little child is small enough to still fit into those teeny-tiny newborn diapers.

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