Score!

I had to post on my genius craigslist score. On Sunday, I was just browsing craigslist for things we're looking to purchase (rocking chair, chest freezer, etc.) and came across this woman's ad for G Diapers.

If you're not familiar, G Diapers is a great company that makes a flushable - or compostable - diaper liner, which slips into a pant that gets Velcroed on and is - obviously - reusable. The liner breaks down in about 90 days, and has absolutely no plastic in it.

Now, Michael and I are quite sure we'll be using cloth diapers, but this is the sort of thing that will make being out and about a little more convenient. Yes, convenience...that which started the whole nasty dependence on landfill-filling disposables. Well, this way, we can have the convenience and feel okay about it.

The cost of these, of course, is not cheap. Nothing worth doing these days - that is to say, anything having to do with sustainability, and isn't being used by the majority - is expensive. It's bound to be, until more people catch on and start buying this stuff. Well, this ad on craigslist was for a starter kit (two pants and 10 liners), as well as another package of liners...FOR FREE!!! Free to the first one to grab it. So I did!

I went over to St. Paul on Tuesday and picked up the stash (oh, and the extra package of liners - 40 of them!), and came home a happy mama-to-be. Oddly enough, I had just tried to win a starter package over at G Diapers a little over a week ago, and didn't. I guess I was meant to have it anyway.

And, I just have to say: how great it is that someone is willing to give something away that they don't need, instead of selling it. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm constantly finding things to get rid of in our house, and they always get loaded up and taken to a thrift store like Goodwill or The Arc. But it seems so few people are willing to do that. Everyone needs money back on every little thing they own. Don't get me wrong - there are things you pay good money for, and if hardly used, you should sell them, especially if you're in dire need of the cash. This woman was given this stuff by her sister because she is a new mom, but they were too small for her baby by the time they came to her doorstep. She could have posted these things for sale, even though she didn't pay for them - because that's what a lot of folks would do. Luckily, for us, she just happens to be "our kind of people". :)

Other helpful links:

On using cloth diapers versus disposable: here and here

Donation sites: The Arc and Goodwill and Steeple People