We have reached our nappy target!!! YAYAY!
Ok, so we will still need some more once some items are sold for postage money, but we are basically there!
Just to clarify what is still needed, and not:
-We will still need a few nappies, but until sales have been sorted out we won’t know how many or what type - more info can be provided later.
-we are just short a few creams and PUL covers (it says we have more than enough on the table, but this includes a good number of very newborn sizes so we need a few more small or mediums with bigger size ranges.)
-We are a few snappis short
-We are now most desperately needing postage money!
I am tempted to say that we are no longer needing terries (flats) however I won’t do that; what I will say is that perhaps if you were plannign on sending in terries just hold off for the next update as we have seriously run out of room and most of that is terry flats, which are great, but actually relatively heavy to send. I will let people know via this site if I still need terries after the final sales and then you can decide whether or not to send them in. (If you’ve already put some in the post - don’t worry!)
I was just so excited about (Basically) reaching our target I had to post.
Once again a huge thank you goes out to every single donor and volunteer!!! You should give yourselves a pat on the back!
Well 2008 is so far very exciting - with the Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney East, Gold Coast and Hervey Bay collections all tallied up now, and Perth and Darwin on the way this week.
We’ve done really well! Check out the progress page for the details - but basically, we’re just a hundred or so nappies short - and I’m pretty sure Perth’s collection alone could take care of that! We’re all good for boosters, snappis, pins etc, and so many lovely people have sent in fleece that i’m having a fleece cut up day tomorrow which should take care of all the liners!! yay! (I’ll update later if it turns out the fleece doesn’t go as far as I expected.)
So for now, the only things we really still need are:
-creams
-PUL covers - just a few more and we’ll be there!
-Wool/Fleece covers - we have exactly the number we need now - Hooray! BUT this includes a lot of very dodgy $4 fleece covers which are ok, but i’d love to send stuff that might last a bit longer - so please do keep on sending in the wool and good quality fleece wraps etc.
-Items for auction specifically
-Donations of cash for postage!! This is obviously the most urgent need now, as expected. We have got a lot of items for auction so we should get there in the end.
Please keep an eye out for an auction soon, we’ll post details here when we’re nearly ready.
As our packages have all so far been a bit too heavy, I’ve done some weighing and thinking. A terry weighs 150g give or take, and since that’s the bulk of what we’ll be sending, I’ve decided that any nappy which weighs more than about 165g will go for auctioning first, and will only be sent if it’s not sold. (This EXCLUDES items which the donors asked us not to sell, please be assured.) This means that there will be quite a lot of great quality, nice heavy (meaning absorbent) modern cloth nappies for sale in our auction. It will definitely be worth a look for those cloth nappy enthusiasts (and those yet to be converted from disposables!!)
Thanks again everyone!
