My Dad used to tell us the story about the time he and his older brother decided to 'borrow' the milkman's carthorse for a joy ride. He reckoned their elicit adventure was a bit of an anticlimax as no amount of encouragement by the boys would convince the horse to divert from the route it...
We had five children, hence changed a lot of nappies. Our estimate is that we changed and washed 22,000 nappies. Interestingly, our youngest child is now 31 and yet we still have a few of the trusty nappies left, which make great dust cloths.