Weekly Giveaway: FuzziBunz® “Light It Up Blue!”

I’m just as happy to announce this week’s giveaway prize is a FuzziBunz® “Light It Up Blue” cloth diaper as I was to announce that FuzziBunz® are our Brand of the Month for July!

I love when FuzziBunz® has special diapers for reasons that I explain here. These are the diapers I used the most as I diapered all three of my children, for what it’s worth.  Without special requirements like “all organic cloth,” FuzziBunz® are the diapers that I generally suggest people try first, because I have rarely heard anyone be anything but thrilled with their purchase for years to come.

They are durable and reliable. They were the forerunner in the modern cloth diaper movement and continue to be one of the most popular diapers available on the market today.

The customer service is unreal, it’s so phenomenal. The quality of diaper, in my opinion, is unsurpassed.

So, this week, Everything Birth is giving one away. This week though, it will be in the “Light It Up Blue” color which was named such because of autism awareness. See, for every diaper that is sold in this color, FuzziBunz® will donate a dollar to support Autism advocacy and research through Autism Speaks™, a national advocacy organization.

So, who wants to win one of these awesome diapers? If you’re new to our Weekly Giveaway, you can find the rules here.

“Earth Day Everyday!” diaper by FuzziBunz

For those of you just starting out in the world of cloth, I have to explain a very strange phenomenon that happens with FuzziBunz pocket style cloth diapers.

Every once in awhile, FuzziBunz will come out with a limited edition version of their awesome pocket diapers. Right now, FuzziBunz is featuring the ”Earth Day Everyday!” pocket diaper.

You will want to buy these diapers.

Even if you don’t think the “Earth Day Everyday” diapers are awesome… Even if you don’t think these diapers will get everyone talking about how fantastically cool you are… You will want to buy at least one or two of these ”Earth Day Everyday”  diapers.

Let me explain.

FuzziBunz are vastly superior to many other brands of diapers. The lifespan of a FuzziBunz diaper is astonishing. FuzziBunz last through a few children’s diapering careers because of their amazing quality. And everybody who has been in the industry for awhile knows this.

What this means is that people will purchase your used FuzziBunz (on forums like our Birth Depot) for almost what they retail for regardless of the color. Factor in a limited edition… and you can often see returns at more than what you purchased your original “Earth Day Everyday” limited edition diapers for. I’m not even kidding. I know, because I’ve done it. I’ve witnessed this phenomenon first hand on several occasions.  I think back to what I was able to sell my navy, my black, my army green, and my burgundy Fuzzi Bunz diapers for and I am still amazed. Even recently, with the choco truffle, people were willing to pay more than retail because they were limited edition, and they wanted them. They will do the same for your used “Earth Day Everyday” limited edition cloth diaper, if you’re smart enough to buy them while supplies last.

Diapers, to a fluff obsessed woman, are collectors items. They are must haves. Not only that, but they are must haves that they can buy guilt free, because they know they are already saving thousands of dollars by choosing cloth over disposables.

Let me make this clear:

People are obsessed with FuzziBunz limited edition colors.

This is not a sales pitch.  Well, I guess this is a sales pitch. But it’s also something I’ve learned from experience and want to share with the Everything Birth and Diaper Parties community.

Everything Birth has purchased a decent supply of the FuzziBunz “Earth Day Everyday” cloth diapers. They won’t last long though, so you will want to head on over to the shopping area and purchase some as soon as you can.

Enjoy your Earth Day, enjoy your “Earth Day Everyday” limited edition diaper by FuzziBunz, and enjoy your profitable return when you’re done with it.

 

Note: If you are interested in selling your used diapers when you’re done with them, keep in mind, FuzziBunz connoisseurs know their stuff. You will want to always wash them according to their care instructions. Keep them out of the dryer. Never use bleach. Never use fabric softener. Use only the recommended detergents. FuzziBunz rarely have problems except ones that are caused by not following the care instructions, and believe me, a FuzziBunz fanatic will be able to tell.

 

Cloth Diaper Resourcefulness

The other day, I packed my diaper bag with four cloth diapers. I was going to be gone for the afternoon to visit a friend, and I had assumed that four diapers would be enough. Usually, I come home from an outing with a couple of extras to spare. We were driving out to visit a friend who lives in South Lyon, which, given that I don’t drive on the freeway, was about a 45 minutes drive from my house. We had a few stops to make first.

At each stop, my little girl would whine, “Dauber!” which for those not fluent in Ayla-talk means “Diaper.”  Even though the diapers can hold a few piddles without overflowing, Ayla has sensitive skin and I change her after each one. You can imagine my fret as we drove into the city limits of South Lyon, a two hour visit and a car ride home still ahead of us, when Ayla requested her third diaper change of the journey. I had no choice, I had to run into a pharmacy and purchase some ‘sposies.
‘Sposies is too cute of a word for such a destructive product. I have often wondered why those of us in the cloth diapering world propagate such an endearing term for an item that promises to be using up valuable land space for our children’s great- great –great-great- great-great-great grand children to deal with.

(1) It’s too frilly of a term to describe a product that we put against our children’s reproductive organs that contains, dioxin, TBT, and sodium polyacrylate. ‘Sposies is too fun of a word to describe the product that with prolonged use will blunt or completely abolish the physiological testicular cooling mechanism important for normal fertility in our sons.

(2) And yet, there I was, at the drug store about to purchase the smallest package of disposable diapers I could find.
And then it hit me. When you cloth diaper, you can turn virtually anything absorbent into a diaper. Granted, I was using Fuzzi Bunz, so they normally would require the shell to be washed after every use, but I could turn it into a diaper cover: Bypass the insertion into the pocket! Lay something absorbent on top of the fleece instead!

I put down the ten dollar pack of plastic diapers, left the baby care isle and went to the bargain shelf, where much to my delight there were hand towels on clearance: a four pack for a dollar.

Cloth diapering wins again!

(1) Link, Ann.  Disposable nappies: a case study in waste prevention.  April 2003.  Women’s Environmental Network.
(2) C-J Partsch, M Aukamp, W G Sippell Scrotal temperature is increased in disposable plastic lined nappies. Division of Paediatric Endocrinology, Department of Paediatrics, Christian-Albrechts- University of Kiel, Schwanenweg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany. Arch Dis Child 2000;83:364-368.

Dawn Papple

Cloth Diaper Recycling for a Cause

Attention cloth diapering moms!  Are you looking for a way to help with the Gulf Coast restoration efforts, but aren’t sure where to start?  Mother of Eden, LLC, the makers of FuzziBunz® Diapers, (a Diaper Parties brand), has come up with an easy way for us parents to help.  Through the Cloth for the Coast program,  FuzziBunz® Diapers is accepting ongoing donations of old pre-folded cloth diapers, old diaper inserts (cotton or hemp) as well as old baby blankets and towels, to clean up the animals who have been affected by the oil spill.  Once received, FedEx has also agreed to ship these items for free to organizations that need them.

If you would like to make a donation of some of the used cotton goods listed above, send them to:

FuzziBunz® Diapers
Attn: CFC
315 Weeks St
New Iberia, LA 70560

Bottoms up!