Making My Life Harder

[callistra]

OK, so I am running around trying to get organized enough so that the cloth nappy thing is in place and can not be avoided. Bablon_93 has very kindly offered to sew some up so they are less bulky and annoying, and I am running around getting snappi nappi locks, nappy liners (disposable or not, managed to find a pack of 100 disposables, buuuut...) and getting everything ready so when the switch is made I can't just wuss out because I got sick and miscarried and got depressed and all those other excuses I had last time I tried. :-)

Buuuuuuut.... it just seems to me that there seems to be less and less of the stuff I need to be able to do this. I need about 2 or 3 days worth of stuff, 2 days for wearing and a day for wearing during washing, if that makes sense. So, if we average say 4 or so nappies a day, (we're going to stick with disposables at night) and I need a new pair of plastic pants each time we change nappies then I need 12 plastic pants. If I could get them in the right size. Or if they were there at all. Hmmm.

I also wanted a couple more snappy nappi locks. They replace the pins we used to use to fix the nappies on. I aint seeing any of these either. Hmmmm.

I bought another 12 pack of cloth nappies. The packaging is torn, and they were the last ones. Hmmmm.

When something is missing, I rather paranoidly think: ack! They're not stocking it any more! But then reason kicks in - why should they stock it anyway, if they're in it for profit, and if I get into the swing of this nappy thing then I won't be buying anything other than powder off them anyway. (Although, having just gulped down the last of my coke, I know one thing I can't live without any more. My thoughts about buying an 18 pack and then hiding them around the house means I may have a new problem there....)

So, on the tails of talking to various people about the way we exchange energy for money and money for energy and in the end companies are all in it for the profit but the humans are in it for the food, drink and clothing, does this mean that one day I'll be going into a tiny, dilapidated shop where they obviously can't afford to fix anything or employ a 14yo to dust anything to buy stuff which has a low profit margin and high re-use value?

I also don't know where it's going to be, since my suburb is getting a bit of a face lift! Our butcher moved a shop sideways into better, newer, shinier shop. The baker is crossing the mall into a newer, shinier, better shop, and we've just got one of the nicest and largest Subways I have ever seen. Everything is so shiny new! :-)

Comments

Snappi Locks

[battblush.livejournal.com]

I have to warn you against the snappi locks. I used them a few times for Aiden but that was it. I shunned them for the other boys. They were always grabbing on his testicles and ripping into him. We shopped around, tried many things and in the end decided Safety Pins really were the most reliable and safest option.

My former mother in law bought me a type of velcro pilchers that breathed, and did up at the front in much the same way disposables do. They were fantastic. I can't remember what they were called but we bought them from Big W or one of those.

Re: Snappi Locks

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

hear hear on the snappies. I've still got scars in my fingers. And yet I know people who swear by them. But be warned, there are nappy pins and there are nappy pins. Don't get the ones where you have to pull the head to unlock them - they bite too.

And the pilchers we had that sounded like that were Eeenie Weenies, but I've never worked out where to buy them - I lucked into a couple of pairs at opshops (brilliant for swimming pants - use with nothing inside, or with a face washer).