Okay, you guys are going to think I'm crazy, but sometimes I just get obsessed with things and then I have to lay it out in an Excel spreadsheet to make sense of my mind-erings. With Cyber Monday and Target $20 gift cards, I get a little excited. If you haven't heard from me yet, I LOVE the gift cards Targets offers on their diapers. I also have a bunch of random brands for Size 1 (currently Pampers Dry, New Generation from Amazon, Walgreens, Target), but after that - I'm Target loyal because it's the easiest way to get them cheap HOWEVER I didn't always get the deals with Lexi because I bought as needed and hoped when I needed they were on sale! So this time around, while the deals fell in the same few weeks, I thought why not stock up and not stress about making sure things are in stock when I need them, because it's UT and diaper deals go fast!
Mr Smith and I also like to calculate how much we spend overall on things like this. Quicken tells him what he needs, but I like it broken down on a per diaper basis to know what in fact I'm spending and how much I still probably need to anticipate spending. Lot of people think 17-19 cents a diaper at Costco is great, but I NEVER spend more than 14 cents and thanks to Target, it's easy not to. I thought I would have kept up with this better with Lexi, but I got lost and have had a hard time thinking about how much I need to stock up on for the next babe.
My comments regarding the chart below since formatting doesn't copy over from Excel - I've estimated 3700 diapers to be used in 2 years by 1 child. That number hits you like a ton of bricks and I get why people started thinking about the environment. I still hate poo and never wanted to clean it. The total cost for those diapers can easily be around $350 or $15/month OR .09 per diaper. Some couponers go crazy and I don't. Half the time I forget to look or pay attention even to 5% off in cartwheel. But the sale & gift cards require no thought. The sale I'm talking about is $25 for Target Giant pack diapers with a $20 gift card offer when you purchase 2.
This still might make some go to reusable diapers if they plan on having lots of kids (I feel like $350 is also the start up cost for reusable diapers). We have decided it would be nice to have a few only for emergency planning purposes. I'd love to think all 2 year olds can be potty trained like experts say; however, Lexi didn't train for another 5 months so that cost should be factored in too, but I'm hoping for the best for the consecutive kids; you know what they say about assumptions. More assumptions, Lexi was a chubby baby so we were in newborn sizes for as long as the hospital ones ran out, i.e. I never bought any and planned for future chubby babies.
So I wanted to lay that out too, in estimates:
Mr Smith and I also like to calculate how much we spend overall on things like this. Quicken tells him what he needs, but I like it broken down on a per diaper basis to know what in fact I'm spending and how much I still probably need to anticipate spending. Lot of people think 17-19 cents a diaper at Costco is great, but I NEVER spend more than 14 cents and thanks to Target, it's easy not to. I thought I would have kept up with this better with Lexi, but I got lost and have had a hard time thinking about how much I need to stock up on for the next babe.
My comments regarding the chart below since formatting doesn't copy over from Excel - I've estimated 3700 diapers to be used in 2 years by 1 child. That number hits you like a ton of bricks and I get why people started thinking about the environment. I still hate poo and never wanted to clean it. The total cost for those diapers can easily be around $350 or $15/month OR .09 per diaper. Some couponers go crazy and I don't. Half the time I forget to look or pay attention even to 5% off in cartwheel. But the sale & gift cards require no thought. The sale I'm talking about is $25 for Target Giant pack diapers with a $20 gift card offer when you purchase 2.
This still might make some go to reusable diapers if they plan on having lots of kids (I feel like $350 is also the start up cost for reusable diapers). We have decided it would be nice to have a few only for emergency planning purposes. I'd love to think all 2 year olds can be potty trained like experts say; however, Lexi didn't train for another 5 months so that cost should be factored in too, but I'm hoping for the best for the consecutive kids; you know what they say about assumptions. More assumptions, Lexi was a chubby baby so we were in newborn sizes for as long as the hospital ones ran out, i.e. I never bought any and planned for future chubby babies.
So I wanted to lay that out too, in estimates:
| Size | Time Length | Age | # of needed diapers | diaper per day | actual # of diapers bought | cost | cost per diaper | # giant boxes still needed | cost to be incured | total costs of diapers for 2 years |
| Size 1 | 3 mon | 3 mon | 650 | 7 | 550 | $51.63 | $0.09 | NA | ||
| Size 2 | 3 mon | 6 mon | 650 | 7 | 688 | $55.00 | $0.08 | 0 | ||
| Size 3 | 6 mon | 12 mon | 960 | 5 | 320 | $27.50 | $0.09 | 4 | $60.00 | |
| Size 4 | 12 mon | 24 mon | 1440 | 4 | 576 | $60.00 | $0.10 | 6 | $90.00 | |
| 2 Years Total | 3700 | 2134 | $194.13 | $0.09 | 10 | $150.00 | $344.13 | |||
| gift card balance | $20.00 | gift card balance | $20.00 |
Good to know we're not the only ones who do this! We looked up costs and averages for diapers and made a small spreadsheet... Amazon Prime is cheaper in Europe than in the States, so we're going that route. I miss Target :(
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