Originally Posted by
Onebyone
Well washing cloth diapers, using hot water, will use up water and power and cost as much as buying disposables in the long run. In the save the water areas that will be a priority. As for windows I had the new tilt windows installed. I can wash the inside and outside of the windows standing in front of the window. I wash one window a week so my windows stay clean all the time. The screens are easy to take off and DH sprays them clean every so often. All our windows are bare except the bedroom ones so they need to be clean or the whole room looks yucky.
I respectfully disagree. While I never kept track of laundering costs when I was using cloth diapers, my guess is it worked out to be pennies a load, and line-drying saved me even more. The only long-term expense I recall was buying rubber pants, and even then, those were pennies a pair. My guess is I never spent more than $100 - $200 per kid diapering them in cloth, and that would be on the high-side as to my guesstimate.