It is located at www.punkerdoopsdiapers.com. Please check it out!
As most of you know, I use cloth diapers on Evelyn and have really fallen in love with cloth diapering! There are so many great products that make modern cloth diapering easy and convenient. The cloth diapers of today are not what they used to be! Cloth Diapers now fasten with durable snaps or velcro and some versions are all-in-one - modeled exactly like a disposable diaper - just velcro on and go! Modern cloth diapers are washed in your own home washing machine every other day - no need for pails filled with water or a diaper service for laundering.
We have noticed such a benefit to our family from using cloth diapers! Evelyn no longer deals with diaper rashes, we save a TON of money, she looks so cute with a cloth booty :-), and of course the HUGE environmental benefit - we are contributing to saving the earth by keeping more diapers out of landfills and eliminating the use of natural resources used to make disposables. I am putting a few statistics from the Real Diaper Association at the bottom of this post for your review. You can also find more info on the economic, environmental, and benefits to baby of cloth diapers here.
Punkerdoops Diapers is both a small "shop" in our home as well as a full e-commerce website (www.punkerdoopsdiapers.com) where customers can purchase and have items shipped to them. We are carrying products for all aspects of cloth diapering - prefolds and covers, pocket diapers, all-in-ones, wet bags, pail liners, Snappis, wipes, wipe sprays, flushable liners, diaper sprayers, and more! We also are carrying ERGObaby carriers and organic teething oil. I am hoping to carry more brands of slings and baby carriers as well as more brands of diapering supplies as the business grows. Please let me know if you have any product suggestions!
I know many of you do not have anyone in diapers right now, but please consider taking a look at the site and letting friends and family know about cloth diapering and Punkerdoops Diapers. We all know that it takes word of mouth for a business to grow! Those of you with babies, I encourage you to take a look at the website "Why Choose Cloth Diapers?" and "Cloth Diapering 101/Basic Info" sections of the website to learn how truly easy and convenient it is to switch to cloth. I will be adding more information to the website weekly as I find the time to do so!
Thank you in advance for your support and for passing the word on about cloth diapering and Punkerdoops Diapers!!!
A Few Cloth Diaper Facts from the Real Diaper Association:
National Costs:
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were about 19 million children under four in 2000. We could probably assume that there are about 9.5 million children under two and therefore in diapers at any one time. Based on previous studies, we estimate that 5-10% of babies wear cloth diapers at least part time. We will average these figures to 7.5% of babies in cloth diapers and 92.5% in disposables. This means that about 8.8 million babies in the U.S. are using 27.4 billion disposable diapers every year.
Based on these calculations, if we multiply the 8.8 million babies in disposable diapers by an average cost of $800 a year, we find that Americans spend about 7 billion dollars on disposable diapers every year. If every one of those families switched to home-laundered cloth prefold diapers, they would save more than $6 billion14, enough to feed about 2.5 million American children for an entire year15. Coincidentally, the 2002 U.S. Census reveals that 2.3 million children under 6 live in poverty.
Environmental Costs:
Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent about 4% of solid waste. In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste.
The manufacture and use of disposable diapers amounts to 2.3 times more water wasted than cloth.
Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.
Posts
6 comments:
Hey Amber, I checked out your website and cannot believe all the work you are putting into this new adventure. I hope it is a success, the web site looks great, you should be using Evelyn as a model. Good luck with your first event.
I plugged your new business at Diaper Chronicles and plan to do the same on my blog when I have another moment to do so.
It looks great; the few changes went a long way. :)
WooHoo!
Congratulations, Lady! I really admire how dedicated you've been to putting your business together. It's going to be a great success, I have no doubt!
Took a look at the site, great! I'm a silent reader, but am due with baby number 2 in February and we use cloth. As soon as I get ready to order the supplies I'll be needing I'll definitely buy from your site! It looks GREAT compared to so many of the other sites, and I love that you put up a brief explanation and description at the tops of the pages. SO SO helpful to those who are new to cloth diapering and looking for info and what way to go with it. Good luck!!!
I'm excited for you and your new business! The site looks great and you are carrying a lot of wonderful products. I'll be sure to pass your site along when ppl ask me for CD recommendations.
Hi!
Thanks for visiting my sites! I know, the "bloggy world" can be so small - I think it has to do with those that have similar interests flock together! =)
Good luck with baby #2! I'm ready for baby #3 anytime now. =)
Your site looks great. If you'd ever like a review I'd love to have you. Right now we're running Cloth diaper month on Momma In Flip Flops2, featuring all thats great in that world. If you'd like to participate let me know. I'd have your logo on my sidebar for awhile and then it would always be in my shopping sponsors. Let me know if you're interested.
I really like the Wahmies diaper, it's working great. What's your favorite diaper?
Andrea @ Momma In Flip Flops
Post a Comment