Well, the original owner has, at least, found an effective way - for them - of disposing of used nappies/diapers.
When will this become a real Amazon service, one wonders.
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When one finds one’s self googling the legalities of mailing poop, truly one has reached the nadir of civilization.
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Excep there are other optiions. I’ve found that a lot of publishers are more than happy to send you books by mail like they did in the 70s and now have a nice website and you can pay with a credit card instead to have to pay the postman.
On topof that the price is lower than Amazon.
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Re: You and Me and Everyone We Know
Robby: Say, “You poop into my butt hole and I poop into your butt hole… back and forth… forever.”
We could just send poopy diapers back and forth…forever.
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Or they are mailing in a colon cancer screening…
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After reading articles describing how trash is transported around the country (and the world) by trucks, trains, and container ships, I’d bet that point was reached a long time ago by government leaders and planners.
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If you find diapers significantly cheaper online, as a new parent you are VERY likely to buy them. Kids are not cheap.
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We did the math.
We used cloth diapers because they were cheaper, per use, even after accounting for water, soap and energy use.
Please, to any new parent reading this, please consider checking eBay and craigslist for [cleaned] used diapers and diaper covers. If you have some squick-factor to get over, wash your newly purchased, gently used cloth diapers etc. in hot water and bleach, and hang everything out in the sun on a clothesline to dry thoroughly.
Everything will be sterile enough at the end of this process.
This was how we cleaned diapers in our family.
We are all still alive.
I get it that new parents without a washing machine would be unlikely to make this choice.
Same could probably be argued by parents who simply “have no time”–although in my family, we parents were working several jobs apiece and we found the dang time to do diaper laundry ourselves. For the record, we have never owned a television nor do we watch cable any streaming services. We believe that has something to do with what we accomplish in our waking hours.
I agree that having children, feeding, raising them, etc. is a tremendous time and money suck.
Having good math skills and getting over any lingering phobia of poop and germs is Job 1 in modeling the behavior one dearly hopes to see in one’s kids. The parenting road will be long, hard and unpleasant if this basic programming can’t be nailed down ASAP.
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Aren’t bleach clothes a skin irritant?
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I think there was an assumed “rinse” stage, and sun drying has remarkable cleansing abilities. I would endorse @anon27554371 's recommendation.there is a certain “yuck” factor, but you get over that pretty quickly.
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Yeah, it all sounds great, except that I’ve encountered irritation/itchiness from bleached clothing, so was wondering about even-more-sensitive baby skin.
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For a toddler!?! 
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I never say anything is impossible, but my experience has been that those kind of sensitivities are usually more associated with perfumes than the bleach, so long as it was rinsed and thoroughly dried. Having said that however, should your (or your baby’s) skin be irritated by clothes washed in unscented bleach, then by all means, don’t do that!
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If you have a good rinse cycle and don’t overload the washing machine, chlorine bleach can work. If there’s any worry about baby-skin-sensitivity, use a hydrogen peroxide bleach as we did.
It’s not just baby skin that needs protection.
Our septic tank is pretty picky too!
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If I had to implement the most precautionary diaper laundering process, it’d probably look like this:
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get a “free and clear” laundry soap (not detergent which is typically petroleum-based but actual soap made from plants)–we used Ecos–and wash in hot water
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get a peroxide-based bleach–we use plain old store-brand hydrogen peroxide, diluted, in the final rinse cycle cycle
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hang up the diapers on a clothesline that gets maximum solar exposure
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take the dry stiff diapers off the line, throw the in a gas- or electric-dryer to tumble around for a while
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take notes on how it affects the diaper-wearer’s skin and adjust accordingly; we used to rub the washed dried diaper with our hands, feeling for rough spots, before pinning it (or later, snapping it! wow, diapers with snaps! engineering!) on Junior
We had a few months early on where we had to fine-tune how much dryer time the diapers were requiring before they felt “soft” and non-irritating.
Also, pee diapers are least likely to carry scary bad germs and can be thrown in the washer and dryer without extra steps or extra paranoia. We always kept the pee diapers in a separate bucket from the poop diapers for this and other practical reasons.
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Even after all the solutions described above, there’s Desitin, or other (currently hypo-allergenic) creams to help counteract diaper rash, I think.
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You always pay in the end.
Amazon forced diapers.com out of business with predatory pricing. Forced them to sell out or lose everything. Amazon took a loss of around $100 million to drive diapers.com into the ground. https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-bezos-went-thermonuclear-on-diapers-com.html
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