*****Warning about to ramble about diaper prices, if your not interested skip this post******
So I have to correct something I posted yesterday. After looking through my two page lists of diaper comparisons (front and back) I said Targe looked to have the best prices. Well I was wrong. I entered all this data into an excel spreadsheet and figured out what each boiled down to in price per diaper. It turns out after doing this that BRU had the best diaper prices most often. So most of my comparisons were on the large diaper boxes because my coupon said I had to purchase either Pampers (92 ct to 252 ct) or Huggies (72 ct to 288 ct).
Here's how I made out today when we went shopping for diapers. We went to BRU. I had store coupon for $4.00 off (stuff above) and I had two manufacturers coupons for $2.00 off one for Pampers and one for Huggies. BRU was offering a $5.00 gift card when you purchased two diapers (same stuff above). So I purchased the Pampers Swaddlers stage 1 216 count for 40.99 and Huggies Snug N Dry stage 1 to 2 264 count for 41.99. I was able to get $4.00 off both boxes with the instore coupon and I had the $4.00 worth of manufacturer coupons, I essentially saved $12.00. I purchased 480 diapers for 70.98 (if you want to count the gift card as savings too it was 65.98) This brings the unit price per diaper to 15 cents (14 cents if we are still counting the gift card). On a side note I used the 5 dollars off 25 dollar purchase coupone that I printed as well, but it said not good with diaper purchases so we got another item that was 25.00 (because 5 off is 20% and that's better than I will do on the day we decide to purchase whatever left on the registry for 10% off); however, on the receipt they took off and extra $1.63 and $1.68 on the diapers (I didn't add this to my price per diaper because I wouldn't have used the coupon without purchasing something else since it said not valid on diapers)
I also shopped at Target today for diapers as well. They have Jumbo Packages (not as big as you think having the word Jumbo in the name) for $8.99. I also had a Target Store coupon for $2.00 off Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive and in today's paper there were $1.50 off coupons for Pampers (I happened to purchase 4 papers (not a good choice if you are ONLY going to use the Pamper coupon as I paid $3.50 for two papers and the two coupons I used only saved me $3.00) So anyhow, I got two packages of diapers one the Pampers Swaddlers Sens stage 2 - 34 count and Pampers Baby Dry stage 1 - 50 count both for 8.99 minus my coupons. The total was 17.98 - 5 = 12.98 with a unit price of 15 cents per diaper.
Now I personally think to know if you are getting a good price on diapers you need to break it down by unit price. (Diapers.com does this already for you) You may still be saying how do we know what is a good unit price? Well frankly I don't, but I googled it last night and read several chat forums and here's what four different posts had to say about unit prices. The First lady (if I achieve what she suggests I will feel like I won the lottery) says she never pays more than 10 cents per diaper (I do not know if she's buying store brand or brand name; however, she did mention using coupons in conjunctions with sales and mostly that going to be your brand names) The second lady said for stage 1 & 2 diapers (because the number per package decreases as the size increases and the prices usually stay the same) was 12 cents per diaper. The third lady said she the best she saw diapers for was 15 cents per diaper. And the last lady said anything that was 17 cents or cheaper was best.
The best price I found on my spreadsheet was 16 cents per diaper and this was without coupons. I would be happy to email anyone my spreadsheet if you are curious to see what it looks like. My hubby is suppose to spruce it up for me, so all I have to do is enter the number of diapers and price and it will give me the per unit price. I did everything in the current spreadsheet by hand.
I do know if you didn't take advantage of the diapers.com thing that Martha told us about a couple weeks ago, diapers.com has a pretty cool deal going on right now. It's free shipping with over 50 order and $10 off for first time customers code for this is AFF10. Now I'm not telling you guys form my experience because I haven't purchases any yet, but it was on a website (blog) called Baby Cheapskate. Here's a link to the article that I was brought to last night when I was googling price per diaper
Baby Cheapskate: Five Ways To Deal With the Diaper Price Hike (Little side note: while I was on this link to get it for you guys I noticed something I did not notice last night: there's a section on the right called BC Essentials under this in orange letters is a Chart: Diapers per Pack, when you click on this it gives you a simple here's how many diapers come in each type of size and here's the unit price you want to beat when purchasing diapers. For Swaddlers and Little Snugglers (which tend to be the most expensive) it says the price to beat is 17 cents, so I now (which I already did, but it helps to have this reinforced) I feel AWESOME about my 15 cents per diapers. Ok and wow there are lots of good resources on this website. I just got side tracked reading diaper reviews that different members have posted and then others commented on.
Anyhow, so that's my diaper info. Our birthing class was interesting. We have two more of this particular class and a one day long birthing 101 class. This is a Hypno type class to help you with the process.