My plan is to wash every night. It may seem a little hardcore but when I did handwash at the very beginning of my cloth diaper journey, every night made things slightly less daunting and meant I had dry, ready-to-use diapers come morning...granted, if I hadn't washed them multiple times a day, I would have run out very fast since I only had 4....and then 7 when the next fluffy mail arrived...
My stash as of now consists of; 5 blueberry OS pockets, 3 bum genius OS pockets, 2 happy hieny OS pockets, 2 tot bot AIO's, 1 Charlie Banana OS pocket, 1 Kawaii OS pocket, 1 fuzzi bun OS pocket, 3 jam tot hemp fitteds, 3 Wickeez fitteds, 3 drybees pockets with knickernappies super-do inserts for night, 10 bummis prefolds, 3 bummis super whisper wraps, 2 bummis super brites wraps, 2 weehuggers OS covers, 5 weehuggers soaker huggers and 5 bummis fleece liners.....oh and 4 snappis......
So in other words, a lot. Now add 12 flats to the mix which are prepping as I type in the oldest, largest pot I could find, hence the picture-cute prints huh?!....which I imagine will become the 'washing' pot from now on....still left to check off for next week, rubber gloves and a scraping spoon....things to check off for after the challenge, a diaper sprayer-no I don't NEED it but it would sure help, and a wonder washer.
I'm excited for this new adventure:) for a more functional diaper option for camping this summer...but also for the intent behind this challenge....see previous entry for that.
So I suppose I should start with a run down of our current system for keeping the monkeys bum fresh and fluffy...
Our handwashing in the apartment started as any wash routine does with the good ole dunk and swish.....the rest was done in the bathtub. We(I, because who am I kidding) bath the kiddo and tuck him in and then use his bath water to soak the dipes. I drain after about an hour and then fill with hot water and add some mighty marshmallow Rockin Green Detergent(A-mazing! Use it for clothes too) ,swirl and let soak for 15-30minutes....then comes the plunger and/or rubber gloves to knead the grunge out of the diapers.....do some wringing and soaking until clean....drain then rinse under the tap until suds are gone....hang to dry....spray down the tub with vinegar mixture to sanitize...
In all honesty, I don't see changing this system much because it worked well and we had no stink issues with it. Possibly I'll use the pot instead and do a cold soak instead of the bath water and may resort to a wet pail instead of my current dry one...will keep you posted on any tweaks:)
Machine washing starts out the same actually, dunk/swish, bath water soak with a scoop of Rockin green, vinegar spray the bath tub....then into the washer(partly due to it being a HE front loader-the dipes suck up all the water so the presoak helps that), cold/hot cycle with extra water no detergent no spin extra rinse, into the dryer for 1:40 on low temp.
I may be tweaking that though as we've had some stink issues in the last couple weeks.
So how am I preparing for this challenge? For starters, brushing up on my fold know how. I perfected the batwing a while back using receiving blanket diapers...but I think this calls for some others as well...secondly, praying that the little mans solid poops continue and that I won't have any "runners" to contend with :S and Lastly, telling myself over and over to get out the video camera and document this like I had originally intended....
Well, that's all for tonight....I'm actually blogging from my blackberry so this mamas fingers are going numb-note to self:short, frequent picture updates from now on:p
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