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Tuesday Giveaway: Cloth wipes just make cents!
February 7, 2012 3:01 am | by

Yesterday on this blog, Jessica shared how using cloth wipes with your cloth diapers can save you even more money. So today, we wanted to get a few lucky customers started down the journey to saving even more with a starter set of bumGenius cloth wipes, bumGenius Bottom Cleaner and a bumGenius 4.0 cloth diaper.

Jenn shared on Pinterest why she loves the bumGenius cloth wipes:
I can’t say enough good things about these flannel baby wipes. I have a drawer full of them in the kitchen. Now that we’ve moved beyond the baby stage, they get used for faces, noses, hands, small spills, placemats under cereal bowls… they’re just good.
Once I discovered how easy cloth diapers were and how little extra work the laundry took, I was inspired to find other green, reusable and economically friendly changes for my home. Now we use cloth napkins, reusable lunch baggies and even un-paper towels in our home. We also re-use mason jars and other glass jars for storage in our pantry.

Have you tried cloth dinner napkins, lunch baggies, un-paper towels, reusable menstrual products, family cloth or other clever re-useable products? To enter today’s contest, share below how using cloth diapers has inspired you to make other economical, green and re-useable changes in your life. Check out the widget for even more entry opportunities.

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Eligible entries must be posted no later than midnight Eastern time, Wednesday, February 8, 2012. U.S. Residents only. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary to win. Winners will be drawn at random on Friday, February 10, 2012 and notified via e-mail.

About the Author

Heather is mom to four, born within 40 months (single, twins, single). She writes transparently about her chaotic household to encourage others through the twists and turns of parenting.

Comments

16 Comments

  • Cassandra O. said...
    February 8, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    We use cloth napkins, kitchen towels, cloth diapers, and cloth wipes. I am thinking about using family cloth and cloth women’s products as well. I registered for cloth napkins for our wedding registry and for cloth diapers and wipes for our baby registry. No one bought the cloth wipes, but I ended up having a surplus of receiving blankets and some thread, so made mine the last month of my pregnancy. I love up-cycling material for these, they really make a difference in how much waste we take out. I would like to make the cloth pads and burp cloths and kitchen towels now, but with a 3-mo old baby, it is hard to find time to set up the sewing machine on the table.

    We are recyclers, too–we have four or five bins near our back door devoted to various recycling sorting.

  • Simone said...
    February 7, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    We were already being “green” and we didn’t even know it! Just because it felt right. We rarely use paper towels/wipes. We reuse old tired towels for the dog towels, we use cloth kitchen towels, cloth wipes for a sponge in the kitchen sink, cloth towels for cleaning the house (dusting, bathroom, windows, etc, cloth mop heads (no swiffers here!). We also recycle everything that is possibly recyclable (and pay extra for that pickup service, btw), and I publicly balk/guilt trip our friends who don’t. We also use cloth grocery bags & I bag myself! I refuse those darn plastic store bags & produce bags.

    Hoping I win! I love BG & need to grow my stash 🙂

  • HannahBG said...
    February 7, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    We recycle plastic, glass, paper and cardboard. We use cloth wipes and make homemade wipes solution. We reuse all our plastic grocery bags (because I forget to take our canvas ones a lot of the time) as trash can liners. I reuse the glass baby food jars for freezing homemade baby food.

    I’ve recently been thinking we need more cloth wipes. I’d love to win, obviously!

  • Anonymous said...
    February 7, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    We use cloth napkins, cloth rags to wash dishes and counters and glass tuberware instead of plastic baggies. We also reuse plastic produce bags and toilet paper bags as trash bags. Any glass jars we get from the grocery get washed and reused for storing soup, broth or veggies in the freezer.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

    elizabeth

  • Anonymous said...
    February 7, 2012 at 5:28 pm

    I’ve always been big on reduce, reuse, recycle. Some new things that we’ve started doing since cloth diapering are reusing mason jars and using un-paper towels. When my babies start going to school, I plan on using reusable snack bags. And I want to start using grey water for watering our plants!

    We could really use another diaper as the snaps on one of ours broke this weekend!
    habcharlene at gmail

  • Amanda said...
    February 7, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Cloth has inspired me to take many more green steps. We reuse everything: jars for storage, used coffee grounds for fertilizer, shopping bags for trash can liners, ect. Also something I started doing was saving on water whenever I can… Before my water gets hot enough to wash dishes, rather than just wasting the cold water I catch it all in my watering pail for my plants!

    amandagerber@yahoo.com

  • Eco Baby Mama Drama said...
    February 7, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    cloth has totally inspired me to be more green! I use cloth wipes, reusable unpaper towels and stopped using plastic bags for food and shopping!
    sabrina radke
    sradke1024 at gmail dot com

  • Rebecca said...
    February 7, 2012 at 11:41 am

    I am currently in the process of researching more ways to recycle in our area. Our daughter is 19 months old and has been using cloth diapers since she was 6 weeks old (she was too small for them when she was first born). We haven’t completely transitioned from paper products, but we are making more and more progress as we use less and less. I would love the opportunity to try bumgenius wipe products since I love the diapers!

  • us in a nut shell said...
    February 7, 2012 at 11:34 am

    The key for me has been baby steps. I can’t change everything at once but as I start to make some changes they are snow balling. One baby step at a time leads in the right direction to becoming more Earth friendly in our homes.

  • Tami L said...
    February 7, 2012 at 11:03 am

    Since we started using cloth diapers, we use more Tupperware-like products instead of plastic baggies and use a LOT less paper towels (I’d like to transition to none tho!). And I definitely spread the word about ways to help the environment to others-recycling, etc.

  • miamia said...
    February 7, 2012 at 10:46 am

    We use upcycled bibs and terry wipes for meal times with my little boy. Since they are re-usable and washable, the terry wipes save paper towels. I have used cloth wipes before and would like to start doing that again, but actually I am in need of wipes solution, and would also need to sew flannel wipes (I used fleece ones before).

  • Kristy said...
    February 7, 2012 at 10:31 am

    We just cut up our old bedsheet to use as rags around the house. That way, we save on using paper towels!

  • Amanda said...
    February 7, 2012 at 10:06 am

    Using cloth diapers has been so easy and we are saving so much money that I tell everyone about them! I have wanted to start using cloth wipes but just haven’t gotten started. I am also thinking of switching to cloth napkins, because why not? We also started composting last year to reduce our waste even more! It is inspiring to keep finding more ways to be green once one thing works out and is easy!

  • Anonymous said...
    February 7, 2012 at 9:31 am

    We use cloth napkins, cloth wipes that I made from scrap squares of flannel, un paper towels, and homemade cleaning supplies. The biggest challenge was to just not by the paper stuff. If I have it I will use it first simply out of habit. If it’s not there I’m happy to use the cloth products. Same with cloth diapers. If I have the option of disposables I will use it. I love cloth diapers so we simply just don’t buy any of the disposable stuff.

  • Anonymous said...
    February 7, 2012 at 9:30 am

    We use cloth napkins, cloth wipes that I made from scrap squares of flannel, un paper towels, and homemade cleaning supplies. The biggest challenge was to just not by the paper stuff. If I have it I will use it first simply out of habit. If it’s not there I’m happy to use the cloth products. Same with cloth diapers. If I have the option of disposables I will use it. I love cloth diapers so we simply just don’t buy any of the disposable stuff.

  • McMom said...
    February 7, 2012 at 9:18 am

    We admittedly don’t always succeed, but we are trying to use cloth as much as possible. I think the key is just not buying the paper stuff. We are 100% on cloth napkins now. Working on being 100% un-paper towels and still use cloth wipes for our daughter while she potty trains. There’s so much waste that you really don’t NEED to waste!