The Cost of Newborn Diapers

The Cost of Newborn Diapers

I’ve always thought that newborn diapers were more cost effective than the other sizes. (For those of you who haven’t had a baby, the way diaper packages work is that the larger the size of the diaper, the less you get per package, even though it’s the same price.) Of course, those savings mean nothing if you go through a lot of diapers, which is exactly what we were doing.

Our perfect little child was a pooping and peeing machine, and we were going through diapers like nobody’s business. And we weren’t just going through the newborn diapers, either - we were going through everything. Such a wee little thing, but the baby created more laundry by herself than the rest of the family combined.

I knew going in to this, theoretically, that having a baby was expensive. But I had been thinking a little further down the road, things like braces and university. Just how much could a little baby consume and cost? As it turns out, way more than I thought.

And now, I’ve become that guy. I’m the guy that clips coupons, not only for newborn diapers, but for other things as well, to help offset the added cost of our little bundle of joy. What happened to me? Now I get all my coupon organized and in an envelope, and go do the shopping.

And I’m also making a list before I go to the grocery store; not only that, but I’m even using the flyers to make my list. 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 then I’ll just come home with 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 someday very soon (and probably sooner than I think) 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 want to treasure these moments now, when my little child is small enough to still fit into those teeny-tiny newborn diapers.

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