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When my sister Paula became a single parent, she had no idea what to expect. She'd taken care of her nieces and nephews before, but being a sole caretaker 24/7 is very different. By the end of her second month, she was swearing by Diapers.com coupons, drinking ginseng tea by the pot, and buying baby supplies in bulk.
At first I was puzzled by this bulk buying thing. I mean, come on, the kid used cloth diapers. How many did she really need? Turns out that babies go through a lot of diapers. A lot. Trust me on this one.
Paula explained that she'd been "trained" by her daughter to have a lot of supplies on hand after she unexpectedly ran out of diapers in the middle of the night. To make matters worse, it had been pouring, and the nearest convenience store was at least five minutes away by car.
So she put the baby in the little baby seat, and drove slowly and carefully way below the speed limit in the blinding rain (which cost her several minutes in driving time) to the only 24-hour store within her community. Which was, unfortunately, out of a decent brand of diaper. In the meantime, the baby had wet and dirtied her baby seat.
Topping things off was the price of the diapers, which was considerably more expensive than those my sister usually got online. When she remembered how much less it had cost her to get even better quality diapers with the use of Diapers.com coupons, Paula was ready to slap herself for letting the diaper supply run so low.
Her night was far from over, though. On the way back, she got a flat tire, and was left standing in the rain trying to flag down motorists so she could ask them to call for a tow truck. That meant she was stranded for a full hour with a hungry, crying baby in the back seat when she had thought the errand was going to take fifteen minutes, tops. She had been better off if she had just decided to wash the baby's diapers.
The baby didn't get off so easy, either. By the time her mother had been able to run a load of her diapers in the wash, the low-quality convenience store diapers had given my normally sweet-tempered niece a nasty diaper rash that left her cranky for weeks.
My sister swore she'd never go through that hassle again, and thus the mass-buying system was born. Not just diapers - even baby powder, shampoo, soap, body wash, and lotions were bought in bulk. She'd gotten it down to an art, too. She knew when she could wash enough diapers and when she couldn't possibly have the time, and she knew which earth-friendly brands of commercial diapers she could rely on. She also knew where to get the best deals in the form of Diapers.com coupon codes, so she could buy as many as she needed and not go over her allotted budget.
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