Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Revolution Money Exchange RME

I decided to take the plunge and be one of the few cloth diaper stores to accept RME payments. What is RME? It's kind of like PayPal. But no fees. Yet. LOL Well... there are some fees. Like $2.50 for a paper check of your funds instead of transfer to a bank account.

One way RME is different than PayPal... you can only spend what's in your account. If you have $19.99 in your account and want to spend $20, you can't. At least that's my understanding. And if you go into "overdraft" then you get dinged with fees. No different than a bank.

Be prepared for a long wait for your money to go from your bank account to your RME account and vice versa. Long wait = several days.

If you have the right amount of money in your account, and you pay a money request, the transfer is instant.

If you don't have an RME account, and would like one, let me know! I will send you an "invitation" and RME will deposit $25 in your account for free (after you set up your account)! What could one buy for $25? Hmmmm.... tough one. Cloth diapers with free shipping come to mind! Click on the "contact us" button on the top right side of my website and shoot me an email, or leave me a comment here!

There is a lot more to RME, but that's it in a nutshell. I am not putting 100% faith in it yet... but so far so good. I have has several transactions so far, and no problems. I know from my point of view there are issues, but from a customer's point of view, far less. So for now, RME payments are welcome at Cloth Babies.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Poop and diaper sprayers

So, my baby (almost 13 months old) has been eating solids well enough to make for messy (read mushy) poops in his diaper. Up until he had smelly, real food poops, I just put his breast milk poopy diapers in the wash as is. I didn't dunk or rinse or anything like that. The first cold wash in the washing machine was always quite yellow. Didn't bother me. But once he started eating solids (another late bloomer, like his brother) I started dunking and swishing the diapers. Never bothered me with DS1... but DS2 likes to get into EVERYTHING. And I just happened to have several diaper sprayers in stock (bumGenius brand). So DH installed it. Very easy to install! And boy oh boy! How did I live without one of these?!?! No more swishing a poopy diaper around in the toilet bowl! Just spray and sqeeze out the excess water (the sqeezing part doesn't seem to be an obvious step for my husband). How easy is that? There is even a lever to shut the water off to the sprayer when not in use. I am sure I will get good use out of that lever once my baby floods my mater bathroom because, at present, I don't use said lever. :)