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. (For those of you without children, every time you move up a size in diapers, you get fewer diapers in the package for the same price.) 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 it wasn’t just the newborn diapers, either - the resources this child consumed was astounding. Such a wee tiny thing, but the baby created more laundry by herself than the rest of the family combined.

I wasn’t naive, I knew having a baby was really costly. The costs I associated with having a baby were a tiny different, and further away, things like braces and university. I didn’t think that a little baby would consume or cost that much. As it turns out, way more than I thought.

I never thought it would happen, but I became that guy. I’m the guy that clips coupons, not only for newborn diapers, but for other things as well, to help offset the added cost of our tiny bundle of joy. How did this happen? I now put all my coupons in an envelope so that I’m organized when I get to the store.

And I’m also making a list before I go to the grocery store; not only that, but I’m even using the flyers to make my list. 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.

And what I’d probably end up with is just more newborn diapers. I know at least that we need those, even if I’ve forgotten everything else, so I’ll just buy package after package of newborn diapers. Each week, I wait for the flyers to be delivered, and then I get started on my list. Then I go through them, very methodically, and make a list of what I need to get from each store so that I get 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 encounter one of those newborn diapers and be amazed that my child was ever small enough to fit into them. So I treasure each moment I have with her now, when my beautiful child is still small enough to fit into those impossibly small newborn diapers.

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