No one but you can figure out how much you are or would spend on disposable diapers. With all the brands, sizes and deals out there, it’s just impossible to give you an exact number. In general, assuming you change your child’s diaper ten times a day during the first three months and anywhere between eight and ten times each day until your baby is two and a half years old, you could spend somewhere in the ballpark of $3000. The number would of course increase or decrease according to brand, how often you change diapers each day.

While searching online, you may find a lot of people saying you could spend anywhere between $300 and $500 for a complete diapering system upfront, and this turns a lot of people off from cloth. Yes, you might be saving money, but not everyone can afford to spend that kind of money at once. Then you begin considering washing the diapers and buying special detergents, and before you know it, using cloth diapers may seem like a huge hassle and not as much of a money saver as people once told you.

The truth is, you can save a ton of money using cloth - if you know how. I knew I would never afford the upfront costs of a standard cloth diapering system, so I challenged myself to see if I could buy enough diapers for $100 or less. Needless to say, I was successful, but more than that, I found several methods of doing this as well as some money saving tricks for washing these diapers to boot. Guess what else, I didn’t even spend the $100 at once.

You see, the trick to successful cloth diapering is to not rush. You need to experiment and find out what works best for you. People that cloth diaper and go back to disposables are usually people who invest in one system, don’t like it, and just give up. I highly recommend buying one or two different brands of diapers at a time. That way you don’t have to do cloth full-time right away and you can see if you like them. If you don’t you can always sell them and get most of your money back. This post isn’t about the pros and cons of cloth, so let’s just move on to the good stuff.