Diaper value calculations for diaper-minister.com

[randominterestedperson]

Hi

Being Belgian, I usually do my ordering of diapers at diaper-minister.com. I was planning and calculating my best options, and I figured that might be helpful to someone else out there as well. So, here's some basic calculations on getting value for money.

Diapers	Price	Quantity	Absorption	Backing	Fasteners	Price/Diaper	Absorption/Euro
Sum and/or average	€ 508.90	204	7912			€ 2.58	3144
LNGU Big Ears Baby	€ 34.90	10	7500	Cloth-backed	4 Velcro	€ 3.49	2149
LNGU Honey Tales	€ 34.90	10	7000	Cloth-backed	4 Velcro	€ 3.49	2006
LNGU Little Melody	€ 30.90	10	7500	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 3.09	2427
LNGU Dragoonz	€ 32.90	10	9500	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 3.29	2888
Tykables Soggers	€ 28.90	10	7500	Cloth-backed	4 Velcro	€ 2.89	2595
Tykables Potty Monsters	€ 28.90	10	7500	Cloth-backed	4 Velcro	€ 2.89	2595
Tykables Cammies Blue	€ 26.90	10	7000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.69	2602
Tykables Cammies Pink	€ 27.90	10	7000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.79	2509
Tykables Waddlers	€ 28.90	10	7000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.89	2422
Tykables Overnights	€ 28.90	10	7000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.89	2422
Crinklz Aquanaut	€ 23.60	15	5000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 1.57	3178
Crinklz Astronaut	€ 23.60	15	5000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 1.57	3178
Rearz Lil squirts Splash	€ 25.90	16	6000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 1.62	3707
Rearz Dinosaur Mega	€ 26.90	12	11000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 2.24	4907
Rearz Barnyard Mega	€ 28.90	12	11000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.41	4567
InControl BeDry EliteCare Premium	€ 27.90	12	10000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.33	4301
InControl BeDry Night Premium	€ 27.90	12	12000	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 2.33	5161
Drylife Slip Ultima	€ 20.20	10	6000	Cloth-backed	4 Velcro	€ 2.02	2970

 

And here's a few more that I decided I wasn't going to order:

Crinklz Buccaneer	€ 23.60	15	5000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 1.57	3178
Crinklz Fairy Tale	€ 23.60	15	5000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 1.57	3178
Crinklz Original	€ 23.60	15	5000	Plastic	4 Stickers	€ 1.57	3178
ABU Bunny Hopps	€ 31.95	10	5500	Plastic	4 Velcro	€ 3.20	1721

I hope this is helpful to some of you. Thank you for stopping by.

Best regards
Runa

[Zander]

Do you have something against Kiddo, Land of Genie, Nappies R US, ABU etc?  

Also, sure the LNGU and Tykables might be more expensive, but they are great diapers. For us Kiddo come in pretty high tier too.

LNGU Dragoonz + Little Melody, Kiddo Premium Night + Sea Friends + Playtime, Rearz Daydreamer + Critter Caboose, NRU Tinimals, and Tykables Unicorn + Camelots are all great diapers and they look really cute on a little.  

ABU Dinorawz are pretty good and print wise I agree on the Aquanaut and Astronaut for the Crinklz.

[randominterestedperson]

2 hours ago, Zander said:

Do you have something against Kiddo, Land of Genie, Nappies R US, ABU etc?  

Yes.

But seriously, I just checked the diapers I was interested in. Personal tastes and all that.

If I can find some time over the weekend, I'll try to go over all the diapers on diaper-minister, give you guys the complete breakdown. It's quite a bit of work to do it for every diaper though.
 

2 hours ago, Zander said:

Also, sure the LNGU and Tykables might be more expensive, but they are great diapers.

Big Ears Babies are absolutely my favorite and that is unlikely to change. Pun intended.

[Little Sherri]

This is interesting, and it also confirms my Canadian experience that the BeDry Night Premium (BeDry Night, over here), is a strong value. 

Although the ISO capacity claims for any of these products, particularly at the high end, are marketing fever dreams, in terms of real-world performance. The BeDry, for example, is a great diaper - I wear them all the time and know them well. But the idea that it could contain 12 litres, IE 12 kilograms - 26.4 pounds of fluid - is absurd. I've weighed a few of them over my "career", and generally never gotten past around 3.5 kg, in a diaper that didn't leak catastrophically, so about 3500 ml. I'd have to spend the day in a bathtub to get far beyond that. But, here's the thing - that's about 24 hours of wee, at least for me, and a lot of the time, I have to change well before a full rotation of the earth, because I have to go somewhere or do something that would be hard to navigate in a bulging super-diaper that was at the edge of failure. That's why I also stock diapers in the 5000 - 7000 ml range, for when I am away from the house etc. 

It's interesting that you pay in Euros about exactly what we pay in CAD for them - not a bad deal at your end. They'd be $3.63 CAD, and at the current exchange rate, you are paying 3.76 CAD. I tend to buy them on sale, when I can, usually for about $3.10 each, by the case. 

I wish we could get the LNGU products here - at one time, they were apparently available, but they can't currently be ordered to Canada. Not that they'd be a better value or would perform better than what we can get, but, they are cute. 

[randominterestedperson]

@Little Sherri You are quite right that the ISO capacity is not "correct". It's still a good relative indicator though, where a diaper with a 7000 ml capacity will hold up better and longer than one with a 5000 ml capacity. I've noticed this with Bunny Hopps versus Big Ears Babies. A day at the office in a Big Ears Baby is less likely to go wrong than a hypothetical day in the office in a Bunny Hopps. 

And yes, I expect the 10k-12k diapers could hold me over a full 24 hours (two Bunny Hopps will do that as well). I wouldn't want to do that on a normal day, but when you have a day off and are just staying at home? It's nice to have the option.