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Siliconemelons
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Nice... I do not miss paying for that stuff - full fledged food for everyone is cheaper than one darn kid! well not really, but it feels like it!
Falstaff
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Check out amazon for formula if you have Amazon prime... 35% off coupon for the boxes of enfamil right now which comes out to like $80 instead of $130. Not much when you have triplets but every little bit counts. And you can just cancel subscribe and save as soon as your first order ships.
Noodleface
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Are bulk stores generally worth the savings on diapers/formula? I'd need to renew my sub to get access, so are the savings substantial?
It's a BJ's
It's a BJ's
Falstaff
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Costco is worth it for their formula in my opinion. For like $18 you get twice as much as you would spending twice as much on enfamil for example.
Name brand diapers are worth it only when they go on sale usually. Costco has diapers on sale this month and we bought a coupe boxes. The Costco diapers are also pretty decent but we've gone mostly to Target brand the last year and for the baby. Following slickdeals has netted me some good diapers deals from Target... I think I got six boxes of various sizes for like $250 and a $200 gift card.
Im sure my math is off but to us those stores are worth it for their formula. BJs I'm not sure about unfortunately.
Name brand diapers are worth it only when they go on sale usually. Costco has diapers on sale this month and we bought a coupe boxes. The Costco diapers are also pretty decent but we've gone mostly to Target brand the last year and for the baby. Following slickdeals has netted me some good diapers deals from Target... I think I got six boxes of various sizes for like $250 and a $200 gift card.
Im sure my math is off but to us those stores are worth it for their formula. BJs I'm not sure about unfortunately.
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We used cloth diapers and saved a lot over the long term. It's not possible for everyone, and the initial purchase hurts, but it's great in the long term.
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Yep, already did that. It's the second time, plus it's another 15% off due to subscribe and save with 5+ items.
For diapers Amazon is pretty great too. They have a 35% off coupon for huggies, plus 20% off for subscribe and save
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Eh, I've seen people do the math and you aren't saving much once you factor in the initial cost, water and power. Not enough for me to wade through shitty diapers multiple times a week that's for sure.
People do the math wrong. It's significant savings, more so if you have more than one kid.
If you only have one kid and want to get down to the nitty gritty of it, believe it or not there is a market for used cloth diapers. You can resell them for more than half the purchase price.
Noodleface
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Nice I'll check out amazon. We did the cloth diaper thing with my sister and it was awful and scarred me for life. Diapers for our one kid aren't prohibitively expensive so I'm not too worried. But again I'm the only one pulling in money so it's always on my kind.
I've gotta admit, the pressure of being the sole provider sometimes is absolutely overwhelming.
Also kid started going to bed at 7 or 730 so I'm seeing him for like 10 minutes a day. A few months ago it wouldn't bother me but now that the kid is 9 months and has a huge personality I'm missing him a lot. I thought I knew love when I met my wife but goddamn it has a new meaning with my son. It also makes me realize how shitty of a person I am to my parents, knowing they probably felt that way about me when I was young too.
Man I was watching undercover boss and there was a guy that lost his young son and I got some tears in the eyes. Dear Zachary destroyed me last week. I have become a vagina
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I've gotta admit, the pressure of being the sole provider sometimes is absolutely overwhelming.
Also kid started going to bed at 7 or 730 so I'm seeing him for like 10 minutes a day. A few months ago it wouldn't bother me but now that the kid is 9 months and has a huge personality I'm missing him a lot. I thought I knew love when I met my wife but goddamn it has a new meaning with my son. It also makes me realize how shitty of a person I am to my parents, knowing they probably felt that way about me when I was young too.
Man I was watching undercover boss and there was a guy that lost his young son and I got some tears in the eyes. Dear Zachary destroyed me last week. I have become a vagina
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Man, I know what you mean about the time thing. The only advice I can offer is to create routines that work with your routine. Saturday morning breakfast can be a 2 hour thing that you both come to love. Just the two of you, and mom gets to sleep in. Sunday lunch can be the same. These things take time to develop, of course, but start young, and carve out time to be alone with your kid.
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I've started to feel like a shitty parent lately. My 2.5 year old son isn't just a baby anymore, and that transition from making sure they stay alive to keeping them alive and interacting and doing "school" with them is hard. Makes me feel more like shit because I think it's hard.
Siliconemelons
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Amazon + Prime is win for formula and diapers if you can get over the shipping hump and be regimented.
Big Box stores / Costco - Sams / are a good savings for the stuff also - and sign up for mailing lists etc. from whatever formula vendor you (or your kids tummy) chooses - Similac sends out coupons that are actual checks so you can use them at Sams etc. you just have to convince them they are CHECKS not coupons and 50% of the time their check scanner does not scan them so... yeah.
Big Box stores / Costco - Sams / are a good savings for the stuff also - and sign up for mailing lists etc. from whatever formula vendor you (or your kids tummy) chooses - Similac sends out coupons that are actual checks so you can use them at Sams etc. you just have to convince them they are CHECKS not coupons and 50% of the time their check scanner does not scan them so... yeah.
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I basically spend my entire weekend with him minus whatever I need to take care of with our cars or house. I will be the first to admit I have trouble waking up on Saturday but it's really hard with the amount of time I'm working each week. He's just turning into a cool dude so maybe I'll make a better effort. It's kind of crazy but if his head is next to mine he looks like my twin that is 31 years younger than me.
@xadion we get those checks for Enfamil and I hate them with a passion. They save 5 to 7 bucks so that's great, but no one at any store knows how to use them. Whenever I use one it's always a scene with a manager coming over and putting it in. Even worse is at our grocery store you have to bring a tag up and they run and get the formula from behind the service desk. So I'm sitting in line for like 5 to 10 minutes just waiting to process a single can of formula. Can't make eye contact with the people behind me.
Fuck them and let them wait. Zero fucks. Doubt any of them will open their wallets and give you a five spot.
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