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Feb 1,2012 / By Maria / 52 Comments

Fall in love with fluff
and win $500 of cloth diapers and accessories!

Welcome to the Fall In Love With Fluff Giveaway Event, presented by Daily Mothering and Eco-Crazy Mom. Over 100 blogs are coming together to celebrate our love for fluff with this Valentine’s Day giveaway. We are giving away a Cloth Diaper Prize Pack valued at $500 to one lucky winner!

Fall In Love With Fluff is sponsored by Sandbox Lane and Kissed By The Moon.

Sandbox Lane is your one stop shop for affordable & stylish eco-friendly baby products. This family-owned business is known and loved for their great selection of affordable cloth diapers and cloth diaper accessories in a wide variety of styles and brands. They also carry a variety of stylish baby clothing and accessories, breastfeeding supplies, mama cloth, eco-friendly laundry products, swaddling blankets, toys and other earth friendly products to help get your little one off to a great start. Be sure to check out the Sandbox Lane Blog, “like” them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, and sign up for their Newsletter for information on sales, events, new products & more! Free shipping is offered on all purchases over $30, and all orders under $30 ship for just $3. Shipping is only offered within the US and Canada at this time.

Sandbox Lane is offering a special 10% off coupon code for giveaway participants during this event. Use code Fluffylove10off at checkout to receive your discount! Excludes Bumgenius, Grovia, Flip, and Econobum.

Prizes Sponsored by Sandbox Lane:

BumGenius Freetime One-Size AIO Diaper
(Snap closure, winner’s choice of Print/Color)

BumGenius 4.0 One-Size Pocket Diaper
(Snap closure, Winner’s choice of Print/Color)

Flip One-Size Cover & Stay-Dry Insert
(Snap closure, Winner’s choice of Color)

Econobum Trial Pack: 1 One-Size Cover and 3 Prefolds
(Winner’s choice of Color)

Fuzzibunz Elite One-Size Pocket Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color)

Charlie Banana One-Size Pocket Print Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Print)

GroVia One-Size AIO Diaper
(Vanilla)

Sweet Pea One-Size Pocket Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color)

ones & twos One-Size AIO Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color)

Incredibum Bamboo One-Size Pocket Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color)

Incredibum Small Wetbag
(Winner’s choice of Color)

Rockin’ Green Hard Rock 2.0 Detergent
(45/90 Loads)

Rockin’ Green Funk Rock
(9 oz.)

Incredibum Bamboo Wipes
(2 packs – 8 wipes total)

Sweet Pea Cotton Velour Wipes
(2 packs – 10 wipes total)

BabyLegs Leg Warmers
(Rainbow)

Kissed By The Moon was created out of a passion for cloth diapering and eco-friendly living. This mama-owned shop is a favorite of many, well known for their cloth diaper rental packages, kissed cash rewards program, user-friendly gift registry and weekly specials. They offer a wide variety of new and pre-loved cloth diapers, cloth diaper accessories, laundry solutions and everything needed to make your cloth diapering experience a success! Be sure to sign up for the Kissed By The Moon Newsletter, “like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter to be the first to know about sales, promotions, giveaways, and upcoming events. Shipping is always free for orders over $25 (US Only), and international shipping is available!

Kissed By The Moon is offering a special 10% off coupon code for giveaway participants during this event. Use code LOVEFLUFF at checkout to receive your discount on orders over $25! Excludes sale items, GroVia, Flip, and Bumgenius.

Prizes Sponsored by Kissed By The Moon:

Oh Katy One-Size Pocket Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color)

Rumparooz One-Size Pocket Print Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Print and Closure)

Bummis Tot Bot Easy Fit One-Size AIO Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color/Print)

Green Line One-Size Cover
(Winner’s choice of Print)

Green Line Soaker
(Bamboo/Cotton)

SoftBums Omni One-Size AI2/Pocket Diaper
(Aplix, Winner’s choice of Color/Print)

SoftBums Snap-In Pod
(DryTouch)

itti bitti tutto One-Size AI2 Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color/Print)

Swaddlebees Simplex One-Size AIO Diaper
(Winner’s choice of Color/Print)

Planet Wise Flannel Wipes
(Set of 10, winner’s choice of Color)

Leslie’s Boutique Pail Liner
(Winner’s choice of Color/Print)

Rumparooz Print Wet Bag
(Winner’s choice of Print)

Changing Diapers: The Hip Mom’s Guide to Modern Cloth Diapering
(by Kelly Wels)

THiRSTiES Booty Luster
(4 oz.)

2 CJ’s BUTTer Samples
(1/2 oz. each)

One winner will receive this entire prize pack:
(most colors/prints will be winner’s choice as listed above)

Fall In Love With Fluff $500 Cloth Diaper Prize Pack

Click “Do It” for instructions on how to complete each entry. There is no mandatory entry.

This giveaway is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only. If a Canadian winner is drawn, some prizes will be substituted with other products of retailer’s choice, or store credit, due to shipping restrictions on certain brands.

Though many blogs are hosting the entry form, only one winner will be drawn, and only one set of entries will be accepted.

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I was not compensated in any way for this post. Contest is being administered by Daily Mothering and Eco-Crazy Mom, therefore their giveaway and privacy policies apply. Although I am hosting Rafflecopter entry, I am in no way associated with the administration, winner selection or prize fulfillment of this giveaway.

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Ones & Twos AIO Cloth Diaper Review & Giveaway (CLOSED 2/7)

Jan 31,2012 / By Maria / 15 Comments

Ones & Twos are easy to use, all-in-one cloth diapers

Ones & Twos are designed to be very easy to use, even for those new to cloth. Therefore, they only come in hook & loop (Velcro) closures.

They have soft laundry tabs, and the hook part of the hook & loop is a little unusual, different than others I’ve seen. It’s more of a stiff plastic. Very hard to explain and equally difficult to photograph, but I tried!

The diapers have stay dry inners and encased leg elastic.

There are 4 snap down rise settings.

These 4 settings are designed to fit babies from 6 1/2-39 lbs.

The Ones & Twos offers the best of both worlds, with both a sewn in soaker, and also a front opening pocket to add additional absorbency.

Bamboo boosters are available separately, but each diaper comes with a microfiber booster. The best part is that the booster is topped with stay-dry microfleece, so you can just lay it right inside the diaper, without dealing with stuffing and un-stuffing.

Here is the XS/Newborn setting (6.5-13 lbs) measured folded and stretched (not an exact science!):

Small (11-22 lbs):

Medium (19-31 lbs):

Large (22-39 lbs):

I put my 29ish pound 2 1/2 year old in the large setting:

He definitely needs the included booster since he is an unpredictable heavy wetter. He isn’t big into the potty yet, but he tends to “hold it” and soak a diaper all at once sometimes!

I also tried the XS/Newborn setting on my 8 1/2 ish pound 6 week old:

It fit him well too, with no leg gap. It didn’t seem nearly as bulky as other one-size diapers are on him. I didn’t have any trouble snapping a newborn size onesie over it. The pictures make it look like the waist/rear elastic is digging in on both the boys, but it wasn’t at all.

While Ones & Twos don’t have lots of colors and prints (there are 6 colors, plus white) and don’t come in snaps, they are a great value and are super, super easy to use. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to someone thinking about switching from disposables to cloth since I think it would be an easy transition. My big question is how the velcro will hold up, and only time will tell. So far it has been fine with the handful of washes it’s been through, though it is pretty “grippy” and takes a bit of yanking to get it off the laundry tabs!

Ones & Twos Diapers solid colors retail for $16.95 each, or $79.95 ($15.99 each) for a 5-pack of white diapers. Find a Ones & Twos retailer, follow Ones & Twos on Twitter and “like” Ones & Twos on Facebook.

~~Giveaway: One reader will receive a Ones & Twos diaper in his/her choice of color. (ARV $16.95.) Entries go in the Rafflecopter form.~~

a Rafflecopter giveaway

FTC compliance: Although I received an item for review purposes, I was not otherwise compensated for this post, and all opinions are my own.

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Cloth Diapering Mailbox Mondays Washing

Cloth Diaper Advice – Mailbox Mondays 1/30/12 – Hard to Soft Water

Jan 30,2012 / By Maria / 3 Comments

Need cloth diaper advice? Each Monday, I’ll answer a user submitted question.

Questions don’t have to be cloth diaper related, just email maria at change-diapers.com with “Mailbox Mondays” in the subject, or fill out my contact form for readers, which you will always be able to find on my Contact Page.

Carrie says:

Here’s question for you:

I’ll be moving in a few short weeks to a house that has a water softener, which we will use. I have a front load washer and very hard water in my current house, and settled on a routine with Rockin’ Green Hard Rock and a couple of rinses, which generally works most of the time.

Any suggestions for switching to softened water? Any guesses as to whether my older diapers that have been in rotation for 2+ years will improve (less smell, softer, more absorbent that currently).

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Used Cloth Diaper Sales History – Please Contribute

Jan 29,2012 / By Maria / 4 Comments

As another portion of my latest project, I want to track actual sales of used cloth diapers. If you have bought or sold diapers recently, please complete the survey once for each diaper bought or sold, as you find the time. No need to complete multiple times if you purchased several of the same diaper at the same price.

This will not be my sole source of information, but will help me analyze data to create more accurate results. The more responses I receive the better the results, so please share – especially in cloth diaper selling/trading groups!

I welcome photos of diapers as well. Please email them to maria at change-diapers.com with “Diaper Photos” in the subject. Please include info to help me find your entry on the survey spreadsheet; mentioning in the additional info field that you are sending photos would be great! Please note that any comments, photos or other information become the property of change-diapers.com to print, publish, or use as we see fit.

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Thank you!

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Surveys – Characteristics of Used Cloth Diaper Conditions

Jan 29,2012 / By Maria / 4 Comments

As one step of my latest project, I want to get opinions from as many people as possible, so please share this post!

I want to know what you personally look for when deciding whether a cloth diaper (that you are buying or selling) is in excellent, very good, good, or used condition. (I’ll also be including some conditions that are more objective, such as new, like new & needs repair!)

Feel free to use the “other” fields in each category to add other characteristics, and the bottom “other” paragraph to add additional, general characteristics that do not apply to any particular category. I did not include snap closures, since they are generally either in fine shape or broken/not working, without any real in-between!

I’d also love your photos of your own diapers, including close-ups of the areas/characteristics that make you rate them a certain way (you don’t have to be selling them, just have diapers that you think are a good example of a condition.) Please email photos to maria at change-diapers.com with “Diaper Photos” in the subject. Please include how you “rate” the diaper and why.

I’d also be interested in photos of diapers you purchased that were advertised as one condition, but when you received them, you felt they should have been rated a different condition. Please include how the diaper was advertised and described, how you’d rate it and photos/descriptions of why you feel there was a discrepancy.

Note that any photos, information or quotes emailed become the property of change-diapers.com to republish, reproduce and use as we see fit.

When completing the surveys please think about characteristics that would make a diaper fall into one category vs. another. Ex: what makes a diaper GUC rather than VGUC.