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Potty training hack: cotton training pants + maxi pad = homemade training diapers

in: Featured, Poop, Pee & Potty

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When “self training” was dragging on for too long, Jaime decided to give her son a bit more encouragement to potty train.

She wanted to avoid expensive and ineffective training diapers, so she came up with her own frugal hack: she fashioned training diapers out of cotton training pants reinforced with maxi pads.

Can we all have a round of applause?

This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about the magical combination of underwear and feminine hygiene products, but it’s such a great idea and potential money-saver I thought the topic was worth revisiting.

If this sounds like something you want to try, click through to Jaime’s post at Bloom Where He Plants You to find out how it went for her. You can also find out which brand of cotton training pants Parenthackers like best.

Thank you for the fabulous hack, Jaime, and for sharing it on Twitter with #parenthacks so I could find it! I retweeted it, but then figured it was so helpful I should write it up here so more people could find it.

What do you think? Can there ever be enough potty training hacks? I don’t think so. Add yours to the comments here, or share them on social media with the hashtag #parenthacks.

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About Asha Dornfest

Asha Dornfest is a writer, parent, and insistent optimist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of PARENT HACKS, co-author of MINIMALIST PARENTING, and co-host of the Edit Your Life podcast.

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