How much do you allocate for baby bottom?

[Radiance]

I have an adorable 16 month old boy.

I already know it is 20 for toys and 30 for clothing a month (often less but that is my allocation).
No idea how much his bottom is costing me:

Diapers
Wipes
Diaper cream

And since ex sometimes bring supplies, I am off on my estimates.

While I can tack from now on, I need an estimate for my financial statement presentation on July 7th. How much should I allocate monthly for those three items.

Diapers 80, Wipes 60 and cream 11. Sounds right?

P.S. not willing to do cloth diapers at this time.

[jIM_Ohio]

Our budget for TWINS (aged 15 months)

Walmart
$120/mo for diapers and wipes (usually this is 4 boxes of diapers)
$200 for food (gerber, rice, oatmeal) (usually this is done in one trip and I am buying about 45 of each- meat-fruit-vegetables-pasta-breakfast, plus 4-5 boxes of rice and 4-5 boxes of oatmeal. It is usually obvious I have twins when at the checkout (the checkout clerks know me by now).

This does work...
when on formula ebay saved us a bundle, now on milk and that we go thru about 2-3 gallons per week with 3 of the 4 people in house drinking milk daily.

Clothes- lots of hand me downs and generous grandparents. If we spend $30/month on clothes its probably because the buffalo bills stuff I bought got too small or we needed easter outfits or similar.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Well, this was fun, as my baby is 21 years old! So I went to an inflation calculator. The Inflation Calculator For all the months he was in diapers, we paid $26 a month for a diaper service. The inflation calculator said that is the equivalent of $46.73 in 2008 dollars. (It did not have any 2009 numbers).

We rarely used any kind of cream, but sometimes used the large tube of A&D ointment that was sent home with us from the hospital nursery. I happen to remember the insurance was billed $14 for it, which was too much, of course. $14 "1988" equals $25.16 "2008" Then we bought one large jar of Vaseline for $0.79...and I still have some of it to this day . So that would be $1.42 in 2008 terms.

We were dumb and unaware of diaper wipes for the first few weeks. However, after we discovered them, we told ourselves that they were a luxury we really wanted. Don't remember how often we bought them, or how much they cost. But to us at the time, living on 2008's equivalent of $30,556 they were a luxury. So was the diaper service for that matter.

[PrincessPerky]

What on earth kind of toy are you buying for $20 a MONTH!

As to deciding a budget amount, try a quick trip to the store with pen and paper to add up the cost of a months diapers and such.

We used to do disposable and I think it was about 25-35 a month on diapers, plus wipes, cream was only needed for my girls (guess they are more sensitive?)

[graceful]

Potty train as soon as possible!! LOL.

My first child took forever and my second was potty trained before 2.

Buy on sale, use coupons and try different brands. When my kiddos were young, I liked the Target brands and I even purchase the supermarket brand. Each child had a different body type. So older DD was more a Pampers girl and younger was a Huggies girl - or was it the other way around?

Basically one had a rounded bum and the other a teeny one and different diapers fit better and prevented leaks. But I was able to find generic ones that were a lot cheaper that fit well.


When we were potty training, I would take off the diaper and make them sit on the toilet to go every few hours and especially right before going out the door. I think boys can be trained to sit also - or get a stool to stand or a little potty?

If the diaper was dry when I took it off, it would go back on. They use to sometimes tear were the tape went but I think by my second kid, they reinforced that area really well. But it did tear, I used duct tape to tape it back up. Hey, each diaper is like 0.30 to 0.50 - it adds up!

Anyways, making them go a few times a day, saved me in diapers, having to change them as much in public, and potty trained them much quicker. Towards the end, I only put them in diapers at night to prevent accidents and if they were dry would be re-used.

Good luck.

[Radiance]

Where do you buy diapers? it's online a good place to buy?
I really can not find any good deals. I do have a $1.50 coupon.

I need huggies Size 4. Other brands don't work well for him. I am putting him in cloth diapers at night...

BTW, He did his first potty the other day! He was in the nude and catched him wanting to go.
He allowed me to sit him on the potty (he can not reach on his own) and just went! #2.

Having him in the nude is kinda dangerous though, my corridor is carpet and it is one of his favorite playing spots... Any way I can temporarely protect the carpet while he is on the nude?

The bedrooms are wood and the social areas are tile, that is a little easier.