You got to know when to fold ’em {Flats and Handwashing Challenge Day #6}

This post is part of the 5th Annual Flats and Handwashing Challenge, an education and awareness campaign designed to highlight the benefits of using cloth diapers even in less than ideal financial circumstances.

I admit it– the number one reason I have steered clear of flats even after 7 years of cloth diapering is folding. Looking at online diagrams, even watching tutorial videos … it all seemed so involved.

Give me a prefold in the super-simple Angel Fold any day, I thought.

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Handwashing? For real? {Flats and Handwashing Challenge Day 5}

This post is part of the 5th Annual Flats and Handwashing Challenge, an education and awareness campaign designed to highlight the benefits of using cloth diapers even in less than ideal financial circumstances.

I need to open this post with a disclaimer: I am not a newbie to hand washing. In addition to using our bath tub to wash our clothes early in marriage, I also did a stint of hand washing in Nepal. Specifically, Simon’s diapers. So while hand washing is a deal-breaking, scary prospect for some folks, it’s just not a boogeyman for me.

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“How much work is it, really?” {Flats and Handwashing Challenge Days 3 & 4)

This post is part of the 5th Annual Flats and Handwashing Challenge, an education and awareness campaign designed to highlight the benefits of using cloth diapers even in less than ideal financial circumstances.

Today’s blogging prompt, per the Challenge site, is to describe traveling with flats. Since I missed yesterday’s Open Topic, I figured I could spend today folding in the travel idea with one question I am often asked about cloth diapering: how much extra work is it?

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Why wool? {cloth diapering with natural fibers}

I admit it: I was a reluctant cloth diaperer. After a brief investigation of cloth prior to the birth of our first baby (quickly nixed by my hubby, who found the whole idea “gross”) I was a happy disposable user who rarely gave a thought to where all those handy little Huggies went after I tossed them in the trash. I certainly never wondered about what made them so darn absorbent. And while I knew we were literally throwing money away multiple times a day, I didn’t stop to consider that there was another way.

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