Baby Wipes, Shower Gift and Fun Giveaways
Most of us have heard about how to make our own baby wipes (if not, try this tutorial, and this basic recipe is also good starting place)
But this frugal recipe has another use as well. Years back there was a lady at a church we attended who always gave home-made baby wipes as a gift. She made a batch of the wipes, putting them in a square tupperware or rubbermaid container as part of her gift. Then she included the remainder of the bottles of baby wash and oil she used. Finally (and to my mind, the best part), she included a written copy of the recipe with a cost estimate of how much it cost to make the wipes vs how much it cost to buy them. She also included an estimate of how many diaper wipes a typical family would use over the course of a year and how much that would cost for store-bought vs home-made wipes.
It was a popular gift- and people especially enjoyed seeing the cost break-down for how much money they were saving using home-made wipes.
We're thinking a lot about baby things around here because our second daughter and her husband are expecting their first child any day now (due date was the fifteenth). Meanwhile, we have another give-away this week- this time it's a five dollar gift certificate for euphoriababy.com. Leave a comment here or at my regular blog or link back here or to my regular blog (it's best to let me know in the comments when you've left a link) to have your name entered in the drawing. Take a look around over at the other blog, too, because we have some other fun links there, too, in honor of having passed a million visitors this week!
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3 Responses to “Baby Wipes, Shower Gift and Fun Giveaways”
September 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
congrats on the upcoming baby…that wait is the worst! Just wanted to let you know the link to the giveaway page is broken, found it anyway but thought you’d like to know.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
it needs the “/” taken off the end
September 20th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Did I miss the recipe? Love the idea and enjoy your blog.
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