Flats Handwashing Challenge: Day 3

Today is Day 3 of the Flats and Handwashing Challenge, hosted by Dirty Diaper Laundry. This year, there are over 450 participants from around the world.

I have to be honest, I’m already a fan of flats. They make a super trim diaper when used flat in a velcro wrap and they make amazing, quick-drying inserts for pocket diapers. They’re not prone to the odor issues associated with synthetics and you can bleach or boil them if needed without damaging the fabric. I’ve been switching most of my pocket diapers over to using them in the past year.

I’ve been using flats for awhile now, but I’ve never tried them overnight. I had the option of using a fitted for nighttime with this challenge but that hardly seemed fair, given that one of the primary purposes of this challenge is to show how easy it is to diaper on a budget. (It’s also the reason I’m not stuffing them into pocket diapers this week.)

Geeking Out On Diapers

I always joke that I can geek out on just about anything, given the right incentive:

There was the year I started experimenting with different flours (oh, the variety we had!), and the time I took up handspinning (so much fibre!), and those years when I was a kid when I was so into miniatures (I learned about the importance of scale, and took a night course in drafting at the local college with my Dad). When my oldest son was born, my husband and I ran a website on natural parenting for several years before life got busy and I lost interest (but not before I geeked out on pregnancy tests and peed on just about every stick on the Canadian market, putting them all into a convenient HTML table for easy access). Obsessively geeking out is something on which I thrive when a topic catches my interest.

Tea Cup Tuesdays: Week 4

This little group of dishes is a collection comprised of a dish I found in a rural Nova Scotia vintage china shop (called Perry’s, if I recall correctly, and very much in the middle of nowhere), a similar covered dish given to me by my grandmother, and a handcrafted silver spoon purchased by my husband (at my request! to fit the dish!) on a Swiss business trip around 15 years ago.