Tidee Didee Diaper Service & Natural Baby Boutique

My name is Cindy Martin and I am a cloth rental business and have a baby boutique. We pick up and deliver cloth diapers weekly to people who have babies. Yes, we do clean them. Yep. We have different sizes depending on the weight of the child and we pick them up. You don't have to rinse or soak them. Just throw the diaper in your bag, put it out on your delivery day and we pick it up and clean them. Yep and bring them back the next week all clean. This is my family's business. My parents started it in California when I was born. They started it because back in 1954 there were no cloth diapers around so they decided they would start a diaper service and it's been going ever since. They were O. K. with cleaning poop. Yes, it's much better than throwaways. They're disposable, some people call them, which they're not. I believe my parents bought this property back in the 70s. This is the second place they bought because to be honest with you, the land was affordable. Well, my values, I'd rather do value. My values are a clean environment, helping the environment with the disposables and the throwaways. They sit in the landfills for years and years. Our cloth diapers are 100% cotton. Once they're not used for cloth diapering anymore, we sell them as rags so they'recycled. Basically, just really good for the environment and I totally believe in that. We need to help it because things are going downhill quick. My values, my parents started this in 1954 and I've carried it in the family and hopefully my children will continue to take care of it when they reach an age that they can help out more. It's very important to me to run it as a family member. My father's 99, he still lives with me and he's not active in the business but he comes in and hangs out and sees what a good job we're doing and he's very proud of us. I enjoy this job because I can see families a lot come in, pregnant women and see how happy they are and just it gives me a good feeling knowing that I'm helping families and doing the right thing and not filling our landfills up with disposables. Well, cloth diapering, if you cloth diaper, you are pretty much going to potty train at least a year sooner because the child feels a wetness and wants the diaper off versus throwaways that are full of chemicals and kids don't care. Oh, just no rashes. You don't get rashes with cloth because you're changing the diaper more often. Usually a rash is what you're eating or what your mother's eating or some food you're introduced but you don't see as many rashes with cloth. You do have to change more often but if you just really think about what would you want to wear, a nice cotton diaper, it's a good thing. Well, my parents started it, starting the diaper service, they started it back in 1954. So when I came along it was pretty much running but just the everyday running of the business, there's a lot of challenges. They're different every day. So it's really, as far as starting the business, I do get a lot of phone calls on people trying to start up small business, small diaper services in other states and I try to help them with the basics to get going. The strangest thing that's ever happened about 10 years ago, right down the street in Lent, a customer called and said their clean diapers had poop in it. So I went down and got the bag and brought it back here and after investigation, we realized someone put dog poop in their clean diapers and put it back on their porch. So we gave them fresh diapers and we decided so that wouldn't happen again, we pick up and deliver on the side of their house. But some kids must have walked by and saw the bag and thought they'd play a trick and then went and got dog poop and put it in the diapers. The customer totally understood. At first it was a little hesitant but then we realized what happened. I'd say that's the strangest thing that's happened to us. The greatest impact I've had, you mean on this immediate community or just the community, at large. Well just yeah, Lent's being having my business here. I've, we've been here a long time. I've been running this 20 years but I'm, we've been at this location since the mid-70s and I've seen a lot of changes. More businesses coming in. We're looking to bring more businesses in and I think mine is a good place to be. And as far as the community at large, we're saving the environment day by day, I hope. Well I doubt for the future we'll have a new storefront but have our boutique grow because we're in an area that it's a destination store. You just, you have to want to come here. You're not just walking around the neighborhood because there's not enough businesses. I'd You hope to have No, I don'think that's possible. No because these are just 100% cotton diapers. So, but tidy, tidy diaper service I'd love to be on TV. It's a little expensive right now.