Cloth diapers after potty training.

I am just curious with those of us that wore cloth diapers as kids in the 50's an 60,70's when you were potty trained and suppose to be done with diapers what did our mothers do do with your diaper stash?were they given away,thrown in the trash,donated to charity,sold,or perhaps burned as a mommy party farewell to diapers?kept in storage to give you later in life?used as dust rags to clean house?

I think mine became rags... All gone long ago. 8-(

I honestly don't remember. I had lots of younger cousins, so I'd guess that my mother gave them to my aunts to use with their kids. And if so that would be kind of funny--one of my very first experiences as a kid that made me aware of loving diapers was when I used to visit one set of cousins. The youngest was a two-year-old girl and I used to go in their bathroom, close the door, lift off the lid, and smell the wet diapers in her diaper pail. Maybe they were originally mine?

My little sister got most of mine. The ones that were still good were passed on to our cousins.

I do remember washing our cars with old worn diapers. They were soft and would hold a lot of soapy water.

If they were not so expensive I wouldn't mind having some around the house for cleaning today.

Passed on to my sister and then used as cleaning rags

I believe my diapers went to my sister who was 16 months younger than me.i do remember seeing cloth diapers on neighborhood clotheslines every day.

Mine went for rags mostly, I guess. I can remember watching my mom wash windows with diapers. How hard is that on a young diaper lover ??? If not used as rags, they would have gone to my cousins, or to the trash. Had I know they were in the trash... I'd have been in there! No idea what happened to my plastic pants, trash probably.

I grew up in the 50's. I rediscovered my original baby diapers in an old cedar chest that was in the basement. They had been stashed away for 10 years. It was a treasure chest of a find, perhaps I knew they were there, but at age ten I developed an attraction for all things diaper. The chest was raided and I once again wore my old diapers. There were old baby clothes in there too, even a nice plastic lined short set, too bad only the diapers fit.

With four brothers and sisters after me, the cloth diapers were around for a long time after me. Even after all of us were done with potty training Mom kept them safely put away. Her grandkids even used them when they came over and had an accident. Now with great grandchildren around, I suspect those diapers are still stashed away for those unexpected diaper emergencies.

My mother used the cloth diapers as cleaning cloth, for dusting and polishing wood furniture.

Me and my two younger sisters wore cloth diapers until we stopped wetting our beds. Since I didn't stop until I was 17 and my sister was 12 when she stopped we had a lot of cloth diapers in our closet, larger ones since my sister and I needed them for so long. Over the years some were used as cleaning rags and dust clothes as they wore out and mom bought more as needed. When none of us needed diapers any longer, mom stored them in our closet. Even though I no longer wet my bed, I had developed a kind of emotional dependency on wearing diapers, I found them sexually arousing, my mom was aware of this because we had discussed it a few times when she noticed stuff on my penis and diapers from playing with myself, so she let me wear diapers whenever I wanted when I was home from college on holidays. When I left home for good, I took an entire box full of mostly Curity diapers and Gerbers plastic pants and diaper pins with me. I continued to wear them until the diapers were basically worn out. The rubber pants unfortunately wore out sooner and were harder to replace. I had to get them from medical supply places and they were rather surprised when I showed them the diapers I was still wearing.

I was back in terry cloth diapers nightly between 10/11 and 15/16. I remember my diapers being used as rags once I didn’t need them any longer.

My guess, because I was one of the older kids in my parent's circle of friends, is that they were given to my aunt or friends for use on their toddlers.

I went back into cloth diapers later, but we bought all new ones. I don't think I would have fit in those anyway. As I got older I think the smaller diapers and baby pants got handed down as the other kids grew up too.

I was the oldest in our family so my nappies and baby pants where passed down to my brothers and sisters. But as I was abed wetter until i was 9 or 10 my mother had bigger nappies and baby pants for me. I think they where thrown out after she was sure I was staying dry at night

The cloth diapers in my household were first used by my older sibling, then for a time the two of us, then after that my younger sibling and I, then only him. I was about nine years old when I found a big bag with all those precious diapers just calling my name. I snatched a couple, but eventually my mom got rid of them - too bad, but by that point, I was, psychologically speaking, very much back in diapers. Here I am 50 or so years later, still there!

There was always a decent supply of them stacked up in the cupboard and ready to be used until I turned 8. Once I was no longer wearing them, they slowly made their way to the garage where they were became cleaning cloths and rags. It didn’t happen suddenly like "today’s the day my son will no longer wear nappies!" It was more like whenever my mum did a major clean of my room she’d take the worst looking ones and add them to the rags. I think she just couldn’t bring herself to have nothing in reserve in case of an emergency. I think by 10 they’d all gone from the cupboard and most of those that were rags had been thrown out.