I am taking part in the Third annual flats and hand washing challenge hosted by Dirty Diaper Laundry. For 7 days I will be using only flat cloth diapers and hand washing them in an effort to prove that cloth diapering can be affordable and accessible to all. You can learn more about the rules and why this challenge was started by visiting the announcement post. This year there are over 430 participants from all over the world!
Today I am going to talk about what is working for me and what is not.
The wind is working for me! The first few days of the challenge were super windy and my flats were drying in around a half an hour! The last couple nights, I have had to bring my flats inside from the car port to dry overnight because it has been gloomy, a bit rainy and absolutely no wind! Here are my flats after drying overnight in my room:
Here is my load of flats today! It is the biggest load this week! Working with a camp washer in the tub is working very very well for me. Many of the flats/covers are getting cleaner than they have been getting in my washer and dryer!
Something that is NOT working is using fleece longies. It won't happen again. They are very hard to properly wring out. I guess I should have thought a little harder about that one!
It is working super well to let time and water do the work for me. Soaking the diapers as well as agitation has been allowing me to do less work with great results.
I love this rubber glove! It really saves my hand from a lot of abuse! I would not want to do this challenge with out it!
It is working very well to scrunch and move my flats around to get the stiffness out of them. Here is a before and after photo of a wipe fresh off the drying rack.
Another night of indoor rack drying :) This is my largest load of the week at 10 flats, several wipes, a swim diaper, fleece longies and a wet bag.
Another thing that is working very well for me is to do one load per day. Washing this way allows me to know that once I am done, I am done for the rest of the day. It is just nice to know that you don't have to worry about something for the remainder of the day. I wouldn't want to do this if my baby needed too frequent of changes, but at this point, it works very well for me :)
See how others are doing on day 5 by clicking here :)
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