"Is this even made of real plastic!?" rolling thread of baby/children gear and complaining

Now that I have been a parent for six months, I have opinions about baby gear so here are two things that I didn't think I would care about but have found to be really useful.

1. Quality baby towels/washcloths. Specifically Aden & Anais terry towels and muslin washcloths but there are probably other good ones out there. We got a shit ton of these cruddy little microfiber washcloths and super cruddy microfiber towels as baby gifts and they sucked so bad. They are small and rough and about as useful for bathing and drying a baby as the cheap-ass paper towels I keep buying and then swearing I'll never buy again but totally buy again because they are so cheap. Anyway finally one day I was like fuck it, I'm buying a fancy towel and washcloth set and I did and our lives are all better for it.

2. This wipes dispenser - http://www.oxo.com/p-1157-perfect-pull-wipes-dispenser.aspx. It makes something that I do 5,000,000 (estimated) times/day just a little bit easier plus now we can be agnostic about wipe brands and just get whatever is cheapest at the time instead of being beholden to a particular type of plastic box.

Anyone have a kid-friendly iPad case to recommend? I see lots that make the iPad easier to carry and provide extra protection but they seem like they'd add a ton of extra bulk.

"Little Me" clothing wears out after like 2 wears, fyi.

NA I recall Jeff sending me a lot of links to iPad cases so I will see if I can find them.

OK thanks. The problem isn't really finding options, it's figuring out which one is the best option.

He had opinions to go with the links.

Never mind his opinions were about babies, not kids E's age.

2. This wipes dispenser - http://www.oxo.com/p-1157-perfect-pull-wipes-dispenser.aspx. It makes something that I do 5,000,000 (estimated) times/day just a little bit easier plus now we can be agnostic about wipe brands and just get whatever is cheapest at the time instead of being beholden to a particular type of plastic box.

!! I'm going to buy one of these ASAP!

I have a huge zip-lock refill bag of baby wipes from Aldi but no box to put them in and the ones I've had did a bad job dispensing and/or let the wipes dry out, so this is awesome. Thanks, Oxo! And Thanks, Carl!

Excellent! It's a fine product. And it doesn't read as BABYBABYBABY.

How, how are those Aldi wipes?

How, how
Tell me how

Don't know about aldi wipes, but Costco own brand ones are amazing! So tough, can sustain multiple wipes without disintegrating or spreading crap everywhere, and not too wet or too dry

Are those the Kirkland ones? I bought them from diapers.com and yes, they are good.

Aldi ones are fine. I dunno. They're all the same to me.

That OXO wipes dispenser looks alright, but we've been using this thing, which we just keep refilling and it does the job. The OXO is nicer looking for sure. If only it would beep intermittently until I closed the lid, like my car does when I leave the headlights on...

Also: Hi! I've been reading and infrequently commenting on ILM and ILE for several years, but just recently (9 months ago) became a parent and today I discovered ILP.

Hello! Our babies are about the same age (ours is 8.5 months).

hey now i've got a place to complain about this seat

http://www.buydrugsfromus.com/m/images_us/arm-hammer-by-munchkin-3-in-1-potty-se.jpg

this seat is prone to leaking because of that green handle in the front, my three year old hates it because unless he's, um, "pointing down", it'll leak out the front and onto the floor and he makes the saddest damn face at me. so we just replaced it with the baby bjorn, which is thus far pretty great.

oh yeah, that seat is by munchkin and it's pretty popular i guess.