Diaper Math

This evening as we sat around the family room waiting for dinner to finish cooking we did a little diaper math.  I know…strange thing to do as a family…but it was fun and we had a good laugh over it.

Our family has used a lot of disposable diapers over the years. 

If you figure an average of five diapers a day (newborns use more and toddlers use less)
…For 365 and a quarter days per year
…For three years (some of our children used diapers for longer than this and some for less)
…Multiply that by the number of children in our family - that's 9 (we are including all of David's projected diaper use in our calculations)

You come up with a grand total of 49,309 diapers.  That's close to 50,000!!!

I'm sure glad that my husband doesn't mind changing diapers on occasion.  That would be a lot of diapers to change by myself.

If we stacked all the boxes of diapers (86 per box) on top of one another, they would be over 40 stories tall.

At an average of 2 minutes per diaper change (you get pretty fast at it), my husband and I together have spent about 68 days of our lives changing diapers.

Did you know that if you took 49,309 brand new, still folded Huggies diapers and laid them end to end they would cover 99 football fields?

And if we calculate, based on size 3 diapers, bought at Costco, with a coupon of course… (we did use today's prices)... we've spent a whopping 7,889 dollars of our hard earned money on diapers…and this doesn't include the costs involved with disposable diaper wipes!!

Do we wish that we'd used cloth diapers?  I can answer that in one word.  No!