Can you really afford throwing away all that money?
Disposable Diapers at commissary prices – imagine if we had to buy them out in the real world!
Huggies 14.99 Pampers 17.19 Luvs 10.87
For an average cost of $14.35 per package
Estimated use of 1 ½ package per week = Cost of $21.53 per week
52 weeks in a year x $21.53 = $1,119.56 per year spent on disposable diapers with zero resale value
Average child in diapers is 2 ½ years = 130 weeks x $21.53 per week = $2,798.90
Cloth Diapers - Average cost of SposoEasy AIO diaper $17.10 per diaper
XS size comparable to NB or SZ 1 disposable - You will need approximately 12 diapers (diaper change every two hours) some may need more or less. It all depends on how often you do laundry.
12 cloth diapers x $17.10 = $205.20
SM size is comparable to SZ 2/3 disposable – You will need approximately 12 diapers (diaper change every two hours) some may need more or less. It all depends on how often you do laundry.
12 cloth diapers x $17.10 = $205.20
MD size is comparable to SZ 4 disposable – You may only need 10 diapers, changes as often as every three hours. All depending on your laundry habit.
10 cloth diapers x $17.10 = $171
LG size is comparable to SZ 5/6 disposable – You may only need 10 diapers, changes as often as every three hours. Once again, all depending on your laundry habit.
10 cloth diapers x $17.10 = $171
From NB size all the way to Large Size your total investment with SposoEasy AIO = $752.40
Disposable diaper cost for 2 ½ yrs $2,798.90
Cloth Diaper investment for 2 ½ yrs $752.40
Your total savings to put towards baby’s college fund $2,046.50
Please remember a few things, first we didn’t calculate water or energy use because the chances are most of us live in military housing, therefore do not have added costs.
Also, we did not include detergent cost because you already use detergent on your regular clothes that washing cloth diapers does not make that much of a difference.
Last but not least, one great thing about cloth diaper use is the fact that you are able to re-sell your cloth diapers once your little one has outgrown them. As long as you take good care of them, you’ll be able to re-coupe some of your money. Bet you can’t do that with disposables!