My Daughter recently ask me a question, "what are mothers to do for diapers when things go bad" I told her to put away diapers along with the rest of her prep stuff, she informed me it's not that easy and diapers are expensive, cloth and pampers, I ask her how many diapers are used in a year she didn't know? the question got me to think..
From pediatric health care alliance, 'on average 2788 diapers year are used' costing around $600+ that's a lot of money to add on top of normal prepping essentials, more realistic to put away a months worth and save as many old t-shirts in conjunction with using grass and or moss as our ancestors have done, this leads to another problem, sanitation, how to clean the cloth with limited water, you certainly don't want to use your drinking water or using the only creek around unless one ports the water from the creek that would not be close enough to contaminate the creek nor the vegetation that you and the animals would eat. In the old days they just hung the cloth in the sun or over the fire to dry, depending where they where at, they very seldom use water to clean the cloth because the grass and or moss would trap the number #2 thus the cloth only got wet. So perhaps saving t-shirts and bobby pins is in order?
From pediatric health care alliance, 'on average 2788 diapers year are used' costing around $600+ that's a lot of money to add on top of normal prepping essentials, more realistic to put away a months worth and save as many old t-shirts in conjunction with using grass and or moss as our ancestors have done, this leads to another problem, sanitation, how to clean the cloth with limited water, you certainly don't want to use your drinking water or using the only creek around unless one ports the water from the creek that would not be close enough to contaminate the creek nor the vegetation that you and the animals would eat. In the old days they just hung the cloth in the sun or over the fire to dry, depending where they where at, they very seldom use water to clean the cloth because the grass and or moss would trap the number #2 thus the cloth only got wet. So perhaps saving t-shirts and bobby pins is in order?