According to Consumer Reports, you can spend almost two thousand dollars on disposable diapers before your baby turns two. Luckily, there are lots of ways to save on these essential items. It starts with a choice: What sort of diaper will you use? Let's begin by considering cloth.
Do you get a warm fuzzy feeling when you open your cupboards? If you use products made by companies like Method, King Arthur Flour Company, and Seventh Generation, you're supporting businesses officially certified as do-good corporations by the nonprofit B Lab -- where the "B" stands for "benefit."
Former fabric designer Julia Fry started Vaska a decade ago because she found traditional soaps were ruining her clothes. Her young green laundry products company has already won coveted shelf space in Duane Reade and Sam's Club. Fry talks about how she did it, and what's next.
If you're like me, you like to eat Nutella at your desk, out of the jar, and offer your spoon to any co-worker who walks by looking disgusted. Once, I smeared a dollop of Nutella on my desk, to see if the desk wanted some. OK, actually, I was running a consumer experiment testing leading brands of paper towels, investigating which one gives you the easiest clean-up and return on investment. Let's meet our three challengers.
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