10 Cloth Diaper Resolutions
1. Try traveling with cloth! If you’ve either not had the opportunity to take a short trip or perhaps generally take disposables when you travel, resolve to try traveling with cloth at least once this year. Hybrid diapers like GroVia or Flip make traveling easy!
2. Learn a new prefold or flats folding technique. Youtube has a vast amount of resourceful videos including tons that feature step-by-step instructions on how to fold flats and prefold style diapers. Expand your knowledge, learn a new fold or two!
3. Participate in the Flats Challenge. Every year Dirty Diaper Laundry hosts the Flats & Handwashing Challenge. Participants vow to use only traditional cloth diapers and washing methods for one week and then share their results with the community. Participating helps prove that cloth diapering is a viable option for low-income families and those without laundry facilities.
4. Donate! Go through your stash and choose some cloth diapers to pass on to a family in need. Chances are you have plenty and wouldn’t miss at least one or two. Commit yourself to donating at least one cloth diaper to a cloth diaper lending organization like Giving Diapers, Giving Hope.
GDGH Donations
C/O The Natural Baby Company
1203 North Rouse Unit 3E
Bozeman MT 59715
5. Meet Up! Make plans to meet an online-only friend or meet a new fellow cloth diapering mom IN REAL LIFE! Chances are you’ve got local cloth diaper enthusiasts just like yourself in your area. Take a chance, meet one!
6. Sew your first cloth diaper! There are loads of free cloth diaper sewing patterns, step-by-step tutorials and even videos that will show you how to sew your first diaper. Go for it!
7. Switch to cloth wipes! Cloth wipes can save you a lot of money and they’re super verstile which means you can use them beyond cloth diapering. Invest in or sew a dozen or two cloth wipes and give them a try, I dare you!
8. Try wool! Wool can seem really intimidating but it really isn’t. Take it from me, TRY ALL THE DIAPERS, so that when it’s all ancient history you won’t have any regrets! Curious about how to care for wool? Check out this great Wool Washing 101 post on my blog.
9. Attend the Great Cloth Diaper Change 2015! Not only is the annual Great Cloth Diaper Change the perfect place to meet fellow cloth diapering moms in your area, it’s also a fantastic way to take part in an international Guinness World Record setting event that helps create cloth diaper awareness. Visit the GCDC site and look for a location near you. Don’t see one? Consider hosting your own!
10. Talk to strangers! Talk to at least one stranger about the benefits of choosing cloth diapers. Advocacy is easy and really rewarding. Because we know so much about cloth diapering it makes it really easy to teach and talk about it. Start a conversation with a stranger about cloth, either at the park, the grocery store, post office-anywhere!
So, these are TEN ideas for choosing at least one cloth diapering related new year’s resolution! Do you see one you might like to try and accomplish? Comment letting me know which one?
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I’m Julie, a former cloth diaper retailer who discovered a passion for the industry. Now, instead of selling cloth diapers, I advocate them and promote small businesses I love who sell and manufacture them.
I’m the wife of a fireman and mother of three. I have a daughter and identical twin sons.
