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About to become a parent? You're gonna need LOTS of wipes... 10 000 or so ought to do it for the first two years. How much can you expect to spend?
I like unscented disposable cloth wipes. My other requirement is that they "pop up" one at a time from the dispenser. If I were to buy only premium (Huggies or Pampers) unscented soft cloth wipes, which run from three to five cents per wipe I'd spend about $400 over two years. Yikes! What about store brands?
You can save over a hundred dollars a year by buying store brand wipes. The quality is comparable to the premiums, but the price per wipe certainly varies from store to store. CVS has their Soft Cloths Supreme wipes for 2.7 each. Walgreens' Comfort Smooth Baby Wipes with Aloe & E are 2.9 cents each. Kroger's Comfort Wipes are 2.4 cents each. My favorite is Target's Soft Cloth Baby Wipes, which come six packs of 76 to a box. They're $7.99 for 456 wipes. That's 1.75 cents each.
The key is to try to buy your wipes in bulk (unlike diapers, which can actually be more expensive that way). Use coupons and sales to get your per wipe price to under two cents. Oh, and never let yourself run out of wipes. It's not good.
If you just plain refuse to buy them, I wholeheartedly applaud your efforts and wish you the best of luck. Try this site for instructions on how to make your own from paper towels or buy yourself some flannel and make your own.
Jan 23, 2007
What About the Wipes? Premium vs. Store Brand
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I've been using Target brand wipes and I found a some name brand wipes in a closet (probably from a baby shower). I didn't like the name brand as well as the Target ones. The name brand ones didn't feel like they wiped as well!
Crazy!
I buy Pampers wipes at BigLots... I just picked up a box of 400 for $9.
I love the White Cloud brand of soft cloth wipes found at WalMart. $1.88/pkg of 80, I think. I just love them.
I am in the "make your own" camp. I make them either with both sides flannel or one side flannel and one side terry cloth (for those poopy diapers). I make them in 8" x 4" or so. They are quick and easy to sew - and when you find fun flannel fabric is makes changing diapers a little more fun!
And sometimes I use a "do it yourself" solution to take care of diaper rashes and other times just plain old water.
I do this because I also cloth diaper - for the main reason that I am cheap! :-) If I am washing diapers I can wash wipes too!
Oh and for those of you wanting to get cheap terry cloth - go to Target and they have packs of 12 wash cloths for $4... on sale they are $1.98... in all sorts of fun colors - happy hunting!
Thanks for the input, folks!
I've never met anybody who couldn't find a store brand that worked for them.
It's funny, you'd think WalMart would beat out Target, but both the Big Lots and the WalMart deals you mention are over 2 cents per wipe.
Has anyone noticed that with the Pampers wipes you can't just pull out one wipe, they are all stuck together. It's a two-handed task to just take one wipe at a time... I think that's a marketing thing so that you will run out faster. I only like the Parent's Choice wipes, they pull out one at a time and are thick.
I personally like Parent Choice wipes from Walmart for my older son and for my newborn we use Parent's Choice Newborn wipes.
I get my wipes at Target and they have Huggies value boxes for $8.76. The box has 400 in it, which makes the wipes 2.19 cents each. I don't think thats bad.
I love all things Target, but I found their brand of wipes horrible - it didn't absorb anything; they just moved the poop around! I also had major leakage with their brand of diapers, but maybe I had a bad one - are there 'Supreme' Target brand diapers, or just one type of Target brand?
Also - we were given a pack of diapers that say 'Toys R Us' on the bag, and they have a small green strip with ducks or something on it...they have worked pretty well - I assumed they were BRU generic, but when I went to buy some more, they didn't look/feel anything like these ones we were given - anyone know what I may have had? Does BRU make a 'Supreme' version of their generic?
Thanks!
I like the Huggies wipes because I can tear them in half and thoroughly use one half and then the other. I found that I was wasting a lot of wipe surface area when using a whole wipe. Most times, one half will do. And 2 halves will do where I used 2 full wipes before.
Not all wipes tear in half, though, so I haven't been able to use this trick with Publix wipes.
Sarah-
That's funny because I had the same problem. I bought one box of Toys R Us diapers and really liked them. They were the regular ones and when I went back to get another box, they only had the "supreme ones". I bought them figuring they would be even better than the regular ones and hated them. The supreme ones have the ducks on them. Needless to say I have an almost full box of terrible diapers and nothing to do with them.
ummm.... did anyone else realize that in the original post that Target wipes at 7.99 for 256 is actually over 3 cents per wipe.... so that means that the deal from Big Lots is a good deal :-) But is still over 2 cents per wipe
Thanks for looking out for the readers, burgher!
Ahhhh the problem is in the original math- 76 times 6 packs= 456 wipes- now that comes to less than 2 cents per wipe :-)
I work for Target, so I can safely answer the Supreme diaper question from above. Unfortunately, Target does not offer a "supreme" diaper, however condsider giving Target brand a try. Sometimes there is a bad batch or sometimes it just depends on the body of the baby. (Sometimes I had trouble during my sons growth spurts.) I use Target brand everything that I can find, not just b/c I work there, but b/c it is cheaper and just as good or better.
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