When the Diaper Pin reined supreme...

JaniceM said:
I never used cloth diapers, but heard some mothers in the past put the diaper pins into a bar of soap.
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You are absolutely right, Janice!

I worked as a mothers-helper for a neighbour in my teens and remember it at her house. She ran a foster-care home and forever had multiple little ones in diapers, all cloth, and pins were kept in a bar of soap beside the changing table in the bathroom. When pins became difficult to push through diapers, we'd swap-out the old pins for a fresh set stuck in the bar soap, and boy, did those pins ever slide through the babies diapers easy!

Also did the pins in the bar soap thing (on and off) in my own home.
 

Kayelle said:
I remember a trick I had for night diapers although my husband was beyond horrified. :oops:🤬

There's no way he would want anyone to know that his baby boys had a Kotex pad tucked safely into those cloth diapers. :LOL: :ROFLMAO:

Hey...it worked like a charm every night!!
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Old-school brilliance at it's best!

Had I known about your nifty little tip back in the day when my kids were little, they, too, would have suffered the indignity of a Kotex pad inside their nighttime diapers, and I wouldn't have felt one bit guilty about it!
 
Aunt Marg said:
Love your post, Peram!

Yes, the old pin trick! Can't tell you how many tens of thousands of times I've done the old pins through my hair trick over the years, and work well it did!

I remember watching my mom change diapers when I was really young, and she always ran the pins through her hair at change-time, and by 1971, with two baby siblings in diapers in the home, my mom got me started on diaper duty, and running the pins through my hair before fastening diapers, grew to be part-and-parcel to the whole changing process for me.

It was always double diapers in our home, and hair-swiped pins glided through siblings bulky diapers effortlessly. I carried the practice forward when I started babysitting (double diapers were the norm back then), and then again when my own children came along (double diapers for them, too). Was definitely a long-standing practice of mine.

Oh yes... rubber pants over diapers always, and one to two sizes larger than needed. Used to make my kids look like they were wearing balloons on their bums! Used a combination of plain white rubber pants and pastel-coloured ones.

Two of my boys were masters at tearing the seats out of their rubber pants. I put it down to them catching their big bulky rubber-bums on the swing-set/plastic slide, the seats of their tricycles, and who knows what else. LOL!

I agree about the self-satisfaction part, Peram, I always felt the same. Folding a soft fluffy diaper into shape and pulling the corners together and fastening with a pin... nothing better reminded me of the countless mothers before me that did the same, and nothing sounded more befitting of motherhood to me, than the plastic rustling sound of rubber pants being pulled off and on at change-time, elastics stretching and snapping.
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Oh @Aunt Marg you sure brought back some memories
This photo reminds me of my kids with their giant economy size nappy bums
In the early days I wondered if bulky nappies would affect the way they walked?
Sure didn't seem to and even though they are now estranged from me and have been since my divorce
they have never had problems with their gait in their 40+ years

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Birdlady said:
Where I used to live it seemed like parking lots were the favorite dirty diaper disposal grounds. 😝
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Isn’t that disgusting? I mean, I even bag up my dogs waste when I’m not in the forest. I can’t imagine what goes through people’s minds as they dump their child’s dirty diapers in places they do like the earths their personality garbage disposal.
Yeah! 😝
 
Keesha said:
Isn’t that disgusting? I mean, I even bag up my dogs waste when I’m not in the forest. I can’t imagine what goes through people’s minds as they dump their child’s dirty diapers in places they do like the earths their personality garbage disposal.
Yeah! 😝
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I'll tell you what goes through their heads......NOTHING. Nothing but "Ooh, I don't want this dirty thing in MY car so I'll just toss it out the window. I don't care who has to pick it up, as long as it's not me!"
 
peramangkelder said:
Oh @Aunt Marg you sure brought back some memories
This photo reminds me of my kids with their giant economy size nappy bums
In the early days I wondered if bulky nappies would affect the way they walked?
Sure didn't seem to and even though they are now estranged from me and have been since my divorce
they have never had problems with their gait in their 40+ years

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And you as well, Peram! :)

Nothing like chatting with others who have lived the days (and survived)! LOL!

"Giant economy size nappy bums"... ROFLMAO! You couldn't have said it better! Yes! LOVE the cute picture! :love:

I remember the days of all the talk surrounding permanent bow-legs and problems with kids walking, due to overly bulky diapers of yesteryear, but I never paid any attention to it. My kids waddled from the time they started walking, right through until they were toilet trained, and all are survivors. :)
 
Birdlady said:
Where I used to live it seemed like parking lots were the favorite dirty diaper disposal grounds. 😝
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I seethe with anger when I see a dirty diaper disposed of improperly. Not only is it disrespectful, it's disgusting.

One thing is for sure, back in the days when everyone used cloth diapers, you didn't come across dirty diapers laying around in shopping mall parking lots and on the side of highways.
 
Keesha said:
Isn’t that disgusting? I mean, I even bag up my dogs waste when I’m not in the forest. I can’t imagine what goes through people’s minds as they dump their child’s dirty diapers in places they do like the earths their personality garbage disposal.
Yeah! 😝
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Thank you for being a responsible dog owner, Keesha. Kudos to you! :)
 
jujube said:
I'll tell you what goes through their heads......NOTHING. Nothing but "Ooh, I don't want this dirty thing in MY car so I'll just toss it out the window. I don't care who has to pick it up, as long as it's not me!"
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A few years ago I found a rolled-up dirty disposable diaper in a grocery shopping cart.

That's the sort of thing that makes one realize just how much ground we've lost as a society... as a whole.
 
peramangkelder said:
Oh @Aunt Marg you sure brought back some memories
This photo reminds me of my kids with their giant economy size nappy bums
In the early days I wondered if bulky nappies would affect the way they walked?
Sure didn't seem to and even though they are now estranged from me and have been since my divorce
they have never had problems with their gait in their 40+ years

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Speaking of giant economy size nappy bums, Peram...

I remember the days like yesterday, sitting my youngest down inside the laundry basket (he was just walking), then out the back porch door we'd exit to go fetch diapers off the line. He'd be so filled with joy and excitement he couldn't contain himself! Crying with laughter all the way!

He'd watch me intently pulling diaper after diaper down off the line while enjoying the safety and comfort of the laundry basket. Slowly, as I added a few diapers to the basket with each pull of the line, baby slowly disappeared until just his head and top of his shoulders could be seen above the mound of freshly laundered diapers, then back into the house we'd go.

Once inside, baby would bust-out of his nappy-filled domain and go to town pulling all the didies and rubber pants out of the laundry basket for mommy! He used to have a ball! Head-first into the basket he'd go!

At the time this picture was taken (1993), I had two in diapers. I washed diapers every second day... sometimes everyday in order to keep up with all the changing. Between the two little stinkers, it was nothing for me to go through 20-30 diapers a day!

Double diapers and rubber pants for both!

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Aunt Marg said:
Speaking of giant economy size nappy bums, Peram...

I remember the days like yesterday, sitting my youngest down inside the laundry basket (he was just walking), then out the back porch door we'd exit to go fetch diapers off the line. He'd be so filled with joy and excitement he couldn't contain himself! Crying with laughter all the way!

He'd watch me intently pulling diaper after diaper down off the line while enjoying the safety and comfort of the laundry basket. Slowly, as I added a few diapers to the basket with each pull of the line, baby slowly disappeared until just his head and top of his shoulders could be seen above the mound of freshly laundered diapers, then back into the house we'd go.

Once inside, baby would bust-out of his nappy-filled domain and go to town pulling all the didies and rubber pants out of the laundry basket for mommy! He used to have a ball! Head-first into the basket he'd go!

At the time this picture was taken (1993), I had two in diapers. I washed diapers every second day... sometimes everyday in order to keep up with all the changing. Between the two little stinkers, it was nothing for me to go through 20-30 diapers a day!

Double diapers and rubber pants for both!

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@Aunt Marg I love it and you can just make out the baby in there 🤗
 
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jujube said:
I'll tell you what goes through their heads......NOTHING. Nothing but "Ooh, I don't want this dirty thing in MY car so I'll just toss it out the window. I don't care who has to pick it up, as long as it's not me!"
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That's it exactly, I think. The kid needs a change before or after the shopping trip, do it in the front/back seat of the car. Then mindlessly fling the dirty diaper out into the parking lot, who cares where it lands?
That's stupid, mindless enough,but I had one experience ( only once, thank goodness) that was beyond disgusting. I opened the car door and got out one time, and stepped right onto a "freshly flung" ( or so it seemed) dirty diaper. It sort of "squished", and I think I got a small amount of its contents on my foot ( I was wearing sandals).
I had to make an emergency visit to the store restroom, and scrub off that sandal and my foot.
After that revolting experience, I always look down before I get out of the car.
 
Birdlady said:
That's it exactly, I think. The kid needs a change before or after the shopping trip, do it in the front/back seat of the car. Then mindlessly fling the dirty diaper out into the parking lot, who cares where it lands?
That's stupid, mindless enough,but I had one experience ( only once, thank goodness) that was beyond disgusting. I opened the car door and got out one time, and stepped right onto a "freshly flung" ( or so it seemed) dirty diaper. It sort of "squished", and I think I got a small amount of its contents on my foot ( I was wearing sandals).
I had to make an emergency visit to the store restroom, and scrub off that sandal and my foot.
After that revolting experience, I always look down before I get out of the car.
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So maddening!

I always look too, because there's nothing worse than opening the door of your car only to find that some inconsiderate bunghole has conveniently emptied-out the ashtray of their vehicle for all to tiptoe around and look at! :mad:
 
Keesha said:
Or dumped out at the side of the road.
Charming people. 😏
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What burns me about disposable tossing, is disposable diapers were invented as an alternative to cloth diapers, so already, mothers who use them are enjoying the convenience and benefits of not having to wash, dry, and fold traditional diapers, but nope, not convenient or good enough for the self-serving few who are too lazy to pull-over and dispose of the diaper in a proper manner, or walk their arse over to a dumpster or garbage container found in every parking lot around.

Just one more sign of the times as to what kind of world we live in.
 
Aunt Marg said:
What burns me about disposable tossing, is disposable diapers were invented as an alternative to cloth diapers, so already, mothers who use them are enjoying the convenience and benefits of not having to wash, dry, and fold traditional diapers, but nope, not convenient or good enough for the self-serving few who are too lazy to pull-over and dispose of the diaper in a proper manner, or walk their arse over to a dumpster or garbage container found in every parking lot around.

Just one more sign of the times as to what kind of world we live in.
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The worst I ever experienced was at an apartment complex where I lived long ago- they had their dumpster directly underneath my window, which kind of affected my enjoyment of fresh air... As many families had babies, the aroma coming from the dumpster could get rather ripe from used diapers, especially during hot weather.
 
JaniceM said:
The worst I ever experienced was at an apartment complex where I lived long ago- they had their dumpster directly underneath my window, which kind of affected my enjoyment of fresh air... As many families had babies, the aroma coming from the dumpster could get rather ripe from used diapers, especially during hot weather.
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Oh, Janice... that is totally unacceptable. There should be laws in place where communal waste bins have to be X-amount of feet away from all windows and doors and buildings where people reside.

Glad you've moved on and are away from that now.
 
I diapered my youngest brother in the 60’s. When I had children I also used the cloth diapers on both my daughters. I’m always amazed how some memories are just like yesterday and others are vague. It was 30+ years ago but feels like yesterday, 6 to 8 diapers a day, 50+ some diapers, a week. Some required soaking in the commode. Plastic pants, pink, blue & white safety pins. Pungent Ammonia diaper pails. Full Washer loads lots of bleach. I used a dryer and the diapers were, so white soft & fluffy. It seems I spent as much time folding them as I did changing them. Carrying extra Diapers for a day out, plastic bread bags for spoiled diapers & wash cloths. At least 2 extra change of clothing. Memories....
 

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