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05-25-2014, 07:12 PM
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Cloth Diapers + RV, anyone travel and use cloth?
Hello all!
This is a question for the moms out there. Anyone with a baby in diapers take any trips while using cloth diapers? I'm ok with using some disposable but for longer trips I would prefer to stick with my cloth diapers. Just thinking of the washing dilemma. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks!
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05-25-2014, 07:14 PM
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You are a brave momma!! I am traveling with an18 mos. old and I can't imagine using cloth but impressed by those who do!! The camp grounds that I have been to have all had a wash facility, some nicer than others but always available!
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05-25-2014, 09:17 PM
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Yes mam! I sure do! I use all-in-ones! I bought one of those 5 gallon orange Home Depot buckets with the kid that screws on. I haven't had a problem with smell. We haven't been gone more than 6 nights at this point though. I seperate out the pees only and wash those sometimes in the laundromats in campgrounds. I don't feel ok washing spoiled ones there. Otherwise I would run out of diapers.
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05-25-2014, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Campingmomx4
Yes mam! I sure do! I use all-in-ones! I bought one of those 5 gallon orange Home Depot buckets with the kid that screws on. I haven't had a problem with smell. We haven't been gone more than 6 nights at this point though. I seperate out the pees only and wash those sometimes in the laundromats in campgrounds. I don't feel ok washing spoiled ones there. Otherwise I would run out of diapers.
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Pardon me??????
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05-25-2014, 09:33 PM
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Autocorrect-----the lid that screws on. So sorry.
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05-25-2014, 09:39 PM
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Yea, the kid screws on for potty training, you never heard of that trick? Lol.
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05-25-2014, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by anaro
Yea, the kid screws on for potty training, you never heard of that trick? Lol.
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Back in the day I used duct tape.
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05-26-2014, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Campingmomx4
Yes mam! I sure do! I use all-in-ones! I bought one of those 5 gallon orange Home Depot buckets with the kid that screws on. I haven't had a problem with smell. We haven't been gone more than 6 nights at this point though. I seperate out the pees only and wash those sometimes in the laundromats in campgrounds. I don't feel ok washing spoiled ones there. Otherwise I would run out of diapers.
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Thanks for the great tip. Like the idea of the bucket keeping the smell away. Not sure I would feel comfortable washing the soiled ones at the laundromat either. Need to figure out a solution for that one.
Thanks again,
Mrs. B
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05-26-2014, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Ford Idaho
Back in the day I used duct tape.
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Wow, you're a brave one...I guess that means you've had a Brazilian wax, but with tape, lmao
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05-26-2014, 09:37 AM
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Wow, you're a brave one...I guess that means you've had a Brazilian wax, but with tape, lmao
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Are you kidding?
Never even had my knuckles waxed....the gravel keeps the hair scraped off.
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05-26-2014, 11:01 AM
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Here is a youtube video for making a washing machine out of a 5-gallon bucket. I am sure that is what she is referring to above. It is kinda easy, but I am not sure you would find a place to dump the dirty water in a populated campground. This would, in fact, be black water (sewage) and should not just be dumped on the ground, even in a back-woods setting.
I guess you would have to think about that.
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05-26-2014, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by merrykalia
Here is a youtube video for making a washing machine out of a 5-gallon bucket. I am sure that is what she is referring to above. It is kinda easy, but I am not sure you would find a place to dump the dirty water in a populated campground. This would, in fact, be black water (sewage) and should not just be dumped on the ground, even in a back-woods setting.
I guess you would have to think about that.
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Dump it in the outhouse. Admire anyone using cloth diapers that is not too lazy to do the laundry as opposed to those using disposable ones filling up the landfills while professing to be "Green".
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05-27-2014, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by OldCoot
Dump it in the outhouse.
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Or even down the RV toilet.
A manual washing machine was my thought, as well - didn't even dawn on me that you could make one from a 5 gallon bucket.
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05-27-2014, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by OldCoot
Dump it in the outhouse. Admire anyone using cloth diapers that is not too lazy to do the laundry as opposed to those using disposable ones filling up the landfills while professing to be "Green".
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I'm no landfill aficionado, but I'm willing to bet that the percentage of things other than diapers in a landfill is so much greater that it's not worth comparing. I know, I know, every bit helps. For us, the fight isn't with disposable diapers. I wonder how many chemicals are going down the drain to make cloth diapers nice and shiny again.
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05-27-2014, 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by alparmer
I'm no landfill aficionado, but I'm willing to bet that the percentage of things other than diapers in a landfill is so much greater that it's not worth comparing...
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From: Analyzing Environmental Life-Cycle Costs of Diapers | The Green Mama
"DISPOSABLES: The 18 to 23 million disposable diapers sold in the U.S. all end up in the landfill once soiled. That’s 3.5 million tons of poop and plastic going into the ground each year. They are the third largest users of landfill space in the U.S. And the diapers, because of the plastic content, take approximately 500 years to breakdown. It is illegal in most states to dump human waste in landfills but that law is unenforced when it comes to diapers—though the packages of many disposable diapers say to scrape the poop into the toilet before disposing of it, almost no one does—and that human feces can leach and cause contamination or spread communicable diseases when disposed of in the landfill."
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05-28-2014, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by OldCoot
From: Analyzing Environmental Life-Cycle Costs of Diapers | The Green Mama
"DISPOSABLES: The 18 to 23 million disposable diapers sold in the U.S. all end up in the landfill once soiled. That’s 3.5 million tons of poop and plastic going into the ground each year. They are the third largest users of landfill space in the U.S. And the diapers, because of the plastic content, take approximately 500 years to breakdown. It is illegal in most states to dump human waste in landfills but that law is unenforced when it comes to diapers—though the packages of many disposable diapers say to scrape the poop into the toilet before disposing of it, almost no one does—and that human feces can leach and cause contamination or spread communicable diseases when disposed of in the landfill."
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Research "Landfill Statistics", and not something biased by "The Green Mama".
Apologies to the OP if getting off topic, but had to answer.
We can go back and forth if you hand pick different answers.
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05-28-2014, 07:32 AM
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This could be useful. I would imagine that you would want to run the diapers a few times to be sure they a clean and rinsed well.
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