On Saving Money

A little parenting tip from me to you:

If you have a little one in diapers, it does not make you a better parent in any way to buy expensive, name-brand diapers. Ponder this, the point of a diaper is to keep pee-pee and poo-poo off of you, off the floor and off your baby's booty. I promise, you can accomplish all three using a 10 cent Target brand diaper just as well, and sometimes better, than you can using a 23 cent Huggies or Papers brand diaper.

I buy Target brand not because I'm poor or cheap, though I am sometimes both, but because it just makes sense. By my calculations, I'm saving about $1,300 over the course of one of my children's diaper wearing time. Not too shabby when you think about it.