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Cloth Diapers and Water Usage
Posted by Autumn Beck in Cloth Diapers, Environment/Health/Financial, Featured Articles, Washing on 11 25th, 2008 | 7 Comments
Making the decision to cloth diaper is a huge accomplishment.  What seems like an obvious choice for every family often goes undiscovered by the majority of the population.  Ask most young adults any question about cloth diapers and the only response you’ll get is perhaps one that includes “rubber...
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Miracle Diapers
Posted by Autumn Beck in Environment/Health/Financial on 10 13th, 2008 | 4 Comments
Have you ever wished there was a place you could donate your outgrown cloth diapers so that they would benefit financial strapped families? Kind of like a food pantry or Goodwill for diapering needs. You may not have heard of them but Miracle Diapers is a non-profit organization that does just that! “Miracle...
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Do You Cloth Diaper Full Time?
Posted by Autumn Beck in Environment/Health/Financial on 10 3rd, 2008 | 15 Comments
Cloth diapering is definitely just another part of our life. There is no thinking about it, it just is. Kind of like wearing underwear everyday :D. Cloth diapering is a decision we made as a family for very specific reasons. If you are cloth diapering for the novelty of it (boy is this ever the reason...
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How To Start Cloth Diapering on a Budget
Posted by Autumn Beck in Cloth Diapers, Environment/Health/Financial on 08 15th, 2008 | 12 Comments
Many families choose to cloth diaper for financial reasons. Budgets can be so tight that startup costs are often overwhelming. However, there are ways to begin cloth diapering today on less than $125. The least expensive route are prefolds and covers. My favorite prefolds have been the very first...
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Has Your Local News Reported On Cloth Diapers?
Posted by Autumn Beck in Environment/Health/Financial on 07 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Across the country dozens of news channels every year present special segments on the comeback of cloth diapers. The exposure that a news story can bring to cloth diapers is outstanding. Millions of viewers tune in nightly to watch their local news channel. In this video, North Carolina news channel...
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Disposable Diapers: Environmental Time Bomb
Posted by Autumn Beck in Environment/Health/Financial on 07 11th, 2008 | 8 Comments
Last night instead of watching my usual HGTV or TLC, I got caught up in a show on The History Channel called The Works. The title of the show was “Garbage”. “Garbage” centered around a New York City landfill and described how landfills are made, how they are filled, and how they...
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Your Baby’s Safe…Are You?
Posted by Autumn Beck in Environment/Health/Financial on 05 28th, 2008 | 18 Comments
A funny story turned into quite an experiment. Weeks ago my son found a couple of menstrual pads and stuck them to his body. In an effort to recycle, I used them as a padding for our tree stake. No one but us could tell that it was a pad protecting our tree from the gashes the stake was making. Fast...
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3 Reasons Why I Chose To Cloth Diaper
Posted by Autumn Beck in Environment/Health/Financial on 04 23rd, 2008 | 5 Comments
While the contest for The Ultimate Guide to Cloth Diapers is running, I thought I would share with you the reasons I got started with cloth diapers. There are 3 Reasons I Chose To Use Cloth Diapers: Reason #1. Health In October of 2005, my love/hate relationship with cloth diapers began. Switching to...
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