Hey, it's for a good cause.

If you should happen to feel like bidding on some really cute cloth diapers (you can even give them to me if you win! Ha! It was worth a try....) for a really great cause, the Cloth Diaper Foundation is having a charity auction on Hyenacart. Click here to see it. I am currently the leading bidder on the Gen-Y Universal cover in Free Range, and the Piper's Closet one-size AI2 in Ooga Booga. I love both of these brands, and would love to win these items, so in that way, I hope nobody outbids me. Even better, it supports a great cause, so to that end, it would be really cool if someone swooped in and blew my bids out of the water.

So why should you bid in this auction? Well, it supports a great organization. The Cloth Diaper Foundation does something amazing for hardworking families all over the US. They provide them with cloth diapers for just the cost of shipping, then they just return them when they're no longer using them, and they go out to another family. Everyone who cloth diapers knows that the worst part about it is the start-up costs. These can be prohibitive even for very middle-class families at times, so imagine how hard it would be to get started cloth diapering, for families who can benefit the most from the financial savings that cloth diapering provides, those who are low income. It can seem absolutely impossible. That's where the Cloth Diaper Foundation steps in. For the cost of shipping, they will send a box of diapers to qualifying families, for them to use as long as they need them. Most of the time, this serves as a hand up to these families, freeing up a little bit of cash for them to build their own stash of cloth diapers, at which point they will no longer need the loaned diapers anymore. Some families diaper their children entirely in the diapers from the Cloth Diaper Foundation. Both ways are great because it takes the financial burden of disposable diapering off of these families, and it keeps hundreds of tons of waste out of the landfills every year.

The problem is that the Cloth Diaper Foundation runs only on donations. The diapers they send out have mostly been donated by either individuals who have finished with their cloth diapers, or by cloth diapering retailers. The costs of operating the organization are donated by individuals, and all work is done by volunteers. Unfortunately, with these tough economic times, need has outmatched donations, and the Cloth Diaper Foundation has been on the verge of closing its doors for the past year. The cloth diapering community has come together, and thanks to families donating what we're able, and some great companies (like Gen-Y Diapers, and Rockin Green Soap) matching those donations, the Foundation has stayed open and continued to help keep babies in cloth. They're not out of the woods yet, though. There is still more need than there is money, and that's where this auction comes in. All these items have been donated by various companies and even individuals, to try to raise money for the Cloth Diaper Foundation. Should you choose to bid, you will be helping families to cloth diaper, and we all know what a great thing that is.