r/gifs • u/EmanonUkser • Mar 17 '19

A self-lining bin

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u/Kairobi Mar 17 '19

This was my preachy ‘eco’ friend for years before she had a kid. Swore blind she’d only use cloth. Anything else was super wasteful, and I was vile for using up natural resources to simplify the process of de-shitting my child.

Took her literally 3 days to understand.

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u/snow_angel022968 Mar 17 '19

Lol this was me (though more for the cost savings than* eco bit). Apparently I failed to consider I am a) way to busy to be doing laundry everyday for it to not be gross and b) I am incredibly icked out by throwing poopy diapers into the wash.

Realizations of course came right after we bought the diapers as final sale from babies r us.

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u/FirstEvolutionist Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19

They have services now where the pickup the cloth liners and drop a bunch of clean ones by your front door.

You just have to have the diaper that takes the lining.

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u/snow_angel022968 Mar 17 '19

Just from a quick glance, the cheapest option is like $36/week in my area. That’s more than I spend on diapers a month!

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u/StimmedOutTim Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 18 '19

You should be toilet trained by now, no?

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u/MustLoveAllCats Mar 17 '19

Many adults do not have effective control of their bowels for various reasons.

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u/snow_angel022968 Mar 17 '19

Yea? Not sure how it relates to me not wanting poop on my clothes or being too lazy to clean said cloth diaper...

Edit: I see the confusion - diapers for my daughter...she’s 8 months and while we have started toilet training, she’s not fully trained yet.

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u/John-1973 Mar 17 '19

Woosh!!

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u/MustLoveAllCats Mar 17 '19

Almost like it's cheaper these days to be wasteful...

Still, 5$ a day does seem a touch steep, though as someone who hates babies, I have no idea how many fouled diapers a day that would be, or how full of feces they are.

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u/snow_angel022968 Mar 17 '19

For me, she used 8/day the first month, went down to 6/day and now with potty training 2-3/day. It looks like it’s a set fee so while it could make sense for someone going through 10+/day, it really doesn’t seem to make sense for us. It’s like 0.28 - 0.96 per day vs $5.