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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Lisa in Oz
I got the, "I hear you're gonna use cloth diapers. Good luck with that" tonight at work. And she also tried to tell me it's not cheaper. This was my first conversation like that (most people have been more interested than negative about it) and I was already irked. I can't imagine how you feel having heard that multiple times! Grr.
Re: Lisa in Oz
Butting in..DH & I have already decided we were gonna try CDing when we have a baby. I am sure we'll get comments like this. I was born in the Philippines and I know my mom used cloth diapers back then and our maids were washing cloths by hand!
I think she's talking about the primitive CDs that were used way back when. The white cloth type where you have to actually use safety pins on the sides lol! Funny though because when I was talking to DH about CDing, he was envisioning in his head this type of CD! LOL. I had to explain to him that CDs have changed a whole lot from what he remembers lol.
Isn't it just the most annoying thing?!? I think the most obnoxious part is that, like Lori mentioned once, it's not like you're asking these people to buy your CDs or come over to your house and wash them...so why the hell do they even care? But people seem to have REALLY strong opinions on it, and seem to think that you want to hear those opinions!
LOL I had to explain this to Ben too! I think when I first said "cloth diaper" he nearly had a heart attack.
And hey, so did I when I first heard it - when my little brother was born, I was old enough to help change his diapers and my mom had the old school flat white kind that you have to pin in place - I HATED them! When I first heard about modern cloth diapers, I have to admit I thought, "Yeah whatever, they can't possibly be worth using." You'd never think I'd become a convert lol.
You know, I really don't know. We would have to spend $1500 a year on extra water and electricity to just make it even - not even more expensive, just even with disposables. An average load of laundry here costs about $1 (I looked it up a while back - I think it's like $0.50 in the USA). That means we'd have to do 1,500 extra loads of washing every year - that's about 4 extra loads per day. We definitely won't be washing 4 loads of CDs every single day.
I just don't get it. I think that anti-CD people have just heard this "fact" somewhere, decided it makes sense, and are repeating it without thinking about this or about that fact that maybe, just maybe, I actually did research about this before making the decision!