The old-fashioned way!
We used diaper pins, rubber pants, we soaked them and rinsed them in the toilet by dunking them up and down, then wrung them out (by hand), before dropping them into a diaper pail until laundry day.
We washed them at home in our washing machines, hung them on the clothesline to dry, and when done, we'd pull them down off the line, fold them (often double, even triple for extra-added absorbency), stack them, and just like Murphy's Law, the instant we were finished, the whole entire process started all over again!
But we never had to run to the store for Pampers, and we never ran out of diapers! Always a fresh clean supply of diapers on hand, ready and waiting.
What did you use in your home, cloth diapers and rubber pants or disposable diapers?
Oh, and seeing how we're on the topic of, this old-school, garden variety mom babysat growing up, before I had babies of my own, back in the .25¢ and .50¢ an hour days (remember the days)? And yes, cloth diapers, diaper pins, and rubber pants were in vogue, I changed many!
