When Charlotte TT'ed my cloth nappies were in no state to do another baby. Because I had been "cheap" and only purchased a small number they were on extremely high rotation and got approximately twice the use a normal cloth nappy would have in the same time frame. They were legendary, but had done their dash. Time to throw them out.
I thought I had it sorted second time around. I wouldn't have to worry about spending hours on the net scouring cloth nappy websites for the best and most reasonably priced nappies...I knew exactly what I wanted!
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Winning!
But, no.
I searched and searched and searched....I sent Mum around every baby store within yelling distance and had her calling baby stores in other cities to try and track down precious Baby Cheeks nappies. I was scouring Australian nappy websites for any mention of Baby Cheeks.
And we got nothing.
Zip.
Nada.
Zero.
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It appears that Baby Cheeks have disappeared off the radar in Australia and New Zealand...apart from one lone little cloth nappy website in Australia that was selling highly-priced ultimate starter packs....of which I only wanted the nappies....and not the piles of inserts, wet bags etc that came with it....
And so the search widened.
And finished in the United Arab Emirates (?!) and the UK. Where I found better prices and nappies sold individually without the plethora of unwanted (for me) inserts.
But, seriously?? I had to order nappies that were originally designed in New Zealand from the UK???
Not when you have a lovely network of Mums in New Zealand and one of them has some never-used (or used once, max) Baby Cheeks...and another who shows amazing generosity in allowing me to purchase a bulk lot of never-used Baby Cheeks nappies off Trade Me using her account (the auction was a restricted auction for "trusted" members). NOW I'm winning!
AND then I managed to win an auction (in the UK!!) for a brand new Baby Cheeks nappy....for AU$8 including postage. Score!!
Thank you, eBay!
So, after much more time and effort than I ever anticipated I now have a great stash of Baby Cheeks cloth nappies (in lovely colours...no khaki in sight!!!) ready for Baby O. And the total cost has come in at about AU$160. About $10 a nappy!! Which is amazing. I'm hoping to add a couple more here and there but if I don't stumble across any more bargains we will still be set.
Phew! I know you're all breathing a sigh of relief over that ;)
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and that would be why they were being knocked off half price for most of last year... obviously being discontinued over here... however, I will keep looking for you :)
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