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The comments are full of the usual "poor babies should suffer because their parents should never have had kids!" and "LOL, cloth diapers are cheaper than disposable, you idiots!!!" sentiments that we all love and cherish.
The latter really pisses me off. It's right up there with "if you can't afford to pay the rent, sell the fridge!", "just start buying your rice 50 pounds at a time, it's cheaper that way!" and "duh, stop drinking $4 lattes every day!" in the annals of useless advice. Sure, cloth diapers are cheaper in the long run (if your childcare will accept them and you are able to wash them at the laundromat, and certainly don't mind that extra load or two every week), and I'm all for them, but if these people can't afford $20 to buy a pack of diapers, what makes the commenters think they can afford the $100 - $200 outlay (their estimate, not mine) for cloth? You can't borrow that money from your next 5 paychecks!
Being poor costs money. If the advice was any good, don't you think people would already be following it?
The comments are full of the usual "poor babies should suffer because their parents should never have had kids!" and "LOL, cloth diapers are cheaper than disposable, you idiots!!!" sentiments that we all love and cherish.
The latter really pisses me off. It's right up there with "if you can't afford to pay the rent, sell the fridge!", "just start buying your rice 50 pounds at a time, it's cheaper that way!" and "duh, stop drinking $4 lattes every day!" in the annals of useless advice. Sure, cloth diapers are cheaper in the long run (if your childcare will accept them and you are able to wash them at the laundromat, and certainly don't mind that extra load or two every week), and I'm all for them, but if these people can't afford $20 to buy a pack of diapers, what makes the commenters think they can afford the $100 - $200 outlay (their estimate, not mine) for cloth? You can't borrow that money from your next 5 paychecks!
Being poor costs money. If the advice was any good, don't you think people would already be following it?
