Newborn Diapers: The Cost

I always thought that newborn diapers were more cost efficient than the other sizes, because you got so many more diapers per package. (If you don’t have kids, when you buy diapers, the larger the size, the fewer diapers you get per package, even though the cost is the same.) When I saw how many we were actually going through, I realized that we weren’t actually saving any money.

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. For something so small, the baby created more laundry than my wife and I combined.

I wasn’t naive, I knew having a baby was really expensive. The costs I associated with having a baby were a little different, and further away, things like braces and university. I didn’t think that a little baby would consume or cost that much. A whole lot, as it turns out.

So now, I’ve turned into that guy. You know, the guy that clips coupons, but not only for newborn diapers, but for other things as well, anything that will help us save money. What happened to me? Now I get all my coupon organized and in an envelope, and go do the shopping.

And I’m actually going through the grocery store flyers and making a list before I go, something I never did before I had a baby. 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.

The only thing I can remember that we need is the newborn diapers. Package upon package of newborn diapers, because that, at least, I can remember without a list. So I make my list, and I’ve even gone so far as to actually wait for the flyers to be delivered every week. 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. I will hang on to each moment I have with my baby now, while my little child is small enough to still fit into those teeny-tiny newborn diapers.

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