Cheap Cloth Diapers Accessories: Cloth Diapering on a Budget

When you’re cloth diapering on a budget, you can save money by buying cheap cloth diapers accessories. You can save even more by making your own detergent, cloth wipes, and more!

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When I first started the Cloth Diapering on a Budget series, I had a Facebook reader comment that my numbers were an incredibly low estimate. She suggested that cloth diaper users would want newborn prefolds, wet bags, detergent, etc.

She is exactly right.  If you can afford them, you’ll definitely want all of the above, but guess what? I left out all of these things in my budget series because honestly, they aren’t necessities. You can certainly cloth diaper without them… our great grandparents did.

Use a Pillowcase as a Pail Liner

One of my last accessory purchases myself was a pail liner. Why? Because they cost around $15 for some of the cheapest and I just thought it was a bit unnecessary. I used a pillowcase as a pail liner for a couple of years before I ever bought a PUL pail liner.

Granted, a PUL lined pail liner is honestly a little better at keeping in smells and wetness, the pillowcase works just fine – especially if you’re washing every other day.  Just throw it in with your laundry and you’ve got a super cheap cloth diaper accessory.

Cloth Diaper Detergent

While you will definitely need to wash your diapers in something, you don’t necessarily need to buy specific cloth diaper detergents. In fact, the best cloth diaper detergent, in my opinion, is one that we use on our regular clothes too.