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For the Cloth Diaper Lovers and their Panties of choice.
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By astrodiaper · Posted
I'm thinking Tacos when I get off work. I have to get that hamburger used up. I'm also waiting to hear if I'll be off this weekend or next weekend, since my relief is on medical leave. -
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@Davoli congratulations of achieving your "success" (such as it is in our strange world). If my experience with this counts for anything, you're probably sleep-wetting more than you realise. Once we start doing it, it seems we might become less aware of it as the novelty fades. Then one Tuesday morning you realise that you can't quite remember the last night you believed to be 100% dry. The irony of sleeping through these events of course is that (a) we don't notice them and (b), if we savour the experience well we've missed it. Last night I had the pleasure of waking up during a wee and thus enjoying the best of both worlds but this is all too rare. -
Like sands through the hourglass, so is my depletion of nappies. This happens when you habitually pee in your pants. Whilst nights are safe for now courtesy of my very expensive Mega Inspire+, glumly today I retrieved from the back of a garage cupboard my second-to-last bag of Active Air nappies: the only nappy that seems to repeatedly survive a 25km bike ride whilst remaining viable AS a nappy. Initially I wasn’t a fan of these. Whilst they were well made and their re-sealable hook-and-loop tapes gripped like an electrocuted gorilla, I considered their capacity to be sub-par relative to my bladder. There had been leaks. Warmer weather, lower oznl body mass or some combination of the two however seemed to have muted any apparent capacity limitations making them more and more the most cost effective day choice for disposable nappies around the house. If I was out somewhere that changing was less convenient and I knew I’d be gone for hours I’d not risk one, trading up to a “BeDry” or even, if planning a long haul day, maybe a Mega Inspire+. But for (relatively) cost-effective casual pants peeing affording minimal compromise to physical flexibility together with yard-work-or-bicycle toughness the Active Air had earned itself a permanent berth in my stable. At least they had until their sole Australian supplier had gotten himself arrested and incarcerated thusly catapulting his business into an inaccessible state of quantum indeterminacy. There’s nowhere else in Australia I can buy them. At all. Yes, I could import them myself but importing nappies bag by bag (or even case by case) is simply not economically viable. A brief Amazon search showed what looked like a good deal at A$38 (US$27) with “free” delivery until I worked out that this was for a “sample pack” of 3 nappies. A bag of them would have cost A$136/US$95. They didn’t have a case price. Presumably they’d run out of digits on their calculator. My suspicion is that “free shipping” is simply baked into the price and what I was seeing is the usual US postal services predatory south pacific pricing strategies. There are possibly suppliers elsewhere in the world but the reality is that the raison d’etre for these nappies is price performance as a “daily driver” and cost-effective importation logistics (such as “cost-effective” IS in our Trumpian post-COVID world) relies upon container loads, not cartons. The “other” (now, “only”) local supplier from the Rearz stable, apart from being substantially more expensive than his predecessor does not carry Active Air, preferring as he does to concentrate on the higher margin, higher capacity and brightly coloured ABDL genre of nappies sold by the bag for recreational use. Also, I saw a comment from him on a Discord channel (I went back to Discord trying to find out what had happened to Littles Downunder, my primary supplier) to the effect that the manufacturers themselves are shocked at what has happened and seem to be taking some time to evaluate if and how they will distribute their product again in Australia. Fun times. I’ve found myself glumly again perusing medical supplier websites like I was back in 2019 except the prices have doubled: seriously. They’re not even great nappies. A case of Abena L4 (comfortable enough although saggy when wet and all but useless in bed) now costs about A$74/US$52 delivered Last time I was buying them they were about A$35. A case of 4 packets, through the miracle of Government-distorted medical pricing is simply 4 times the cost of a packet: a nappy-filling A$295/US$206. That’s before I need to allow for the cost of the masking tape needed to make them stay on (Abena nappy tapes are made from old soggy bus tickets). For this, I might as well just wear BeDry. There is the “Molicare Premium Elastic” that years ago replaced a relatively decent (by medical standards) Molicare slip maxi. A sad, narrow incontinence pad fitted to a belt, it’s minimal-to-the-point-of-microscopic coverage mostly deflects pee into adjacent clothing and bedding. It is loved only by accountants and laundry contractors. Whilst “only” A$195/US$136 for a case of 56 I think I’d rather try and re-train myself not to need them. The last morsel on this unappetising platter is one I’ve not tried before: the “ID Slip Maxi”. With an advertised capacity of 4500ml (so let’s assume a pint on a good day) it might be ok. At A$130/US$91 for a case of 45 delivered it’s only slightly more than I was paying for the Active Air. If anybody has any feedback about these products relative to Rearz I’d be interested to hear it. Sales are unheard of in the world of adult nappies downunder so there’s no great Black Friday deals on the horizon. They are unnecessary when it’s mostly Government paying and ham-fisted Government contracts can further serve to discourage temporary discounting. I have another week or three with which to prevaricate.
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