Before you go assuming that we're complete nutjobs, please hear me/us out: We're not tree huggers, though we have actually been making an effort to live a little more "green" in the last year. The cloth diapers that we were going to use are not the dishtowel and pin crap from 100 years ago. If that were the case, we probably wouldn't even have considered cloth diapers.
Once we get in a system of doing things, using cloth diapers won't be anymore complicated than using disposable ones. They use the same way, it's just that instead of carting 40 pounds of dirty diapers outside to the curb each week, we will be washing a load of diapers every other day. I would much rather have to wash diapers than know that we've contributed disposable diapers 80+ diapers a week to a landfill that will take 10-20 years to biodegrade.
It's not so much the saving the Earth aspect that helped us make this decision, it's the "holy crap, do you realize how much it costs to put your baby in disposable diapers for 2+ years?!?!?!?" I mean, yeah, YAY we're helping the planet out a bit. But really it's more about the money that we will save by using them. Our game plan is to have at least 2 kids, maybe 3. If/When we really stick with the cloth diapering for each of them, we'll have saved thousands of dollars. Yes, the diapers are not cheap to begin with, but you have to figure that paying $300 for diapers that you can reuse until they're worn out or grown out of is a lot cheaper than spending that much every month or two for disposables.
So that's my story. Maybe we are nutjobs, but it makes sense to us.
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