Diaper services were once a popular means for busy families using cloth diapers instead of disposables on their babies. Over the years, people turned to disposable diapers, making the service nearly obsolete. As the environmentally-friendly practice of using cloth diapers on babies regains popularity, diaper services are making a resurgence as well.
How It Works
The customer contracts with a private company to come by their residence weekly. The customer leaves a bag of dirty diapers on the front porch on the designated day of the week. The service driver picks up the bag and drops off a load of clean cloth diapers in its place. The garments are then taken back to the company facility and professionally cleaned. Some services use a subcontracted laundry service, such as one that employs people with special needs or disabilities, to do the laundering.
The number of cloth diapers delivered every week is standard, so parents will always know how many are coming and when. Depending on the home delivery service, no one has to be home when the exchange is made. The cost of the service depends on the number of diapers involved. The number used per week depends on the number of children in cloth diapering and their ages. For example, newborns go through several more changings per day than their toddler counterparts, so younger babies generally need a higher number delivered per week. When potty training is complete and the family decides the service is no longer necessary, the parents can cancel the services.
Why It Used
There are several reasons parents choose to use a cloth diaper washing service. Many of them have busy lifestyles that leave little time for doing extra laundry. For some, the time is better spent with their children or preparing meals; for others, the desire to do the wash is simply not there. For those without a personal washer and dryer at home, the service makes cloth diapering possible. Living in an apartment complex, for example, usually means a coin-operated laundry room on the premises. This defrays the costs of cleaning and maintaining the diapers each week. Some companies offer a start-up or test drive of the services so that families can decide if this is something that works for them. Regardless of why or how a family uses these services, having the option for extra help is part of what has revitalized its popularity.
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