68.4 days of diapers

here's my photo for day 9

i was out on a long run this afternoon - trying to think of my photo for day 10.of my 365 days of photos project... and as my last baby has been recently hitting a lot of milestones... standing up... starting to feed herself.... having the crib lowered for the last time.... i couldn't help but wonder (approximately of course) how many diapers i have changed over the last 7 years and how much actual time i've spent doing this!

so here's my rough estimation and calculations:

1. assuming approximately 10/diapers per day (i have been using cloth diapers since graham was about 2 so before i switched to cloth... the number of paper diapers was probably less - but i also did not take into account that jayden and graham were both in diapers at the same time for a while - phew! - i mean PU!)

2. assuming that graham was in diapers for 3 years, jayden for 2.5 years, helen for 2.5 years, and jillian has been in diapers for almost a year.

at 10 diapers per day - that's 3,650 diapers per year (WOW! - that's a lot of diapers!)

that makes 32,850 diapers that i've changed for all 4 kids

i'm approximating that each diaper takes about 3 minutes to change

which makes 98, 550 minutes that i've spent changing diapers (so far 'cause i'm still changing jillian's diapers)

= 1,642.5 hours of changing diapers

that converts to 68.4 days worth of changing diapers - WOW!!!!!!! and i still have at least 1.5 years to go with jillian

oh and adding in the wash time - 2,920 loads of diapers

it takes approximately 15 minutes of my time to "process the diapers" - putting them in the washer, switching them to the dryer which includes separating out the covers and hanging them up to dry, and then folding them and putting them away (ross is very good about the folding part - i must admit)

43,800 minutes of "processing time" for the cloth diapers = 30.4 days

ok - if you made it this far in the post - you will know that the enginerd in me really came out tonight!! :)

hope you like my big calculator in the photo too (it's an app i downloaded for my iPad) : )