Diaper Genie or NO Diaper Genie?

OMG it is the biggest waste of money ever! They never work and you still smell alot. I just use one of those Hefty odor blocker bags and they work just as well as a Genie.
There are diaper pails that you can use your own trash bags and puts each diaper in it's own bag compartment like a Genie does. But all in all a can with a lid works just as well. The only thing that actually keeps the smell down in regularly taking out the bag.
One thing I do (I also cloth diaper) is I take a little squirt bottle with water and a couple drops of lavender and tea tree oil. Shake it up every time you spray it, and it's a natural deodorizer. I spray it every where in my sons room. I don't have to worry about chemicals that way. It's worth try. I like it a lot.

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Had one....hated it.

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We had one and it worked well. However, I really think a small trash can that gets emptied daily is a better choice.

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I hated the diaper genie. Everyone said I had to have it. When you had to empty it it looked like a long string of sausage links but it smelled much worse. YUCK! I left it on the curb for the goodwill truck. For my second I did similar to you but I used 1 bag per diaper. The bag is big enough to drop the diaper in, tie a knot and flip it around on itself to tie another knot (so it is like double bagged, sometimes you can triple). The I toss it in my normal kitchen trash that has a lid. Never had a problem. Never worried much about pee diapers, especially when they are young because mine didn't really smell. GL! and congratulations!

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We had one for our first. HATED it! Sold it on a garage sale for like $4 (WITH a bunch of refills we had purchased!)

We LOVE our Diaper Decor'. Used it a ton with our 2nd. Now our 3rd is 5 months old and we haven't used it at all. I breastfeed so his diapers don't stink. We just use a regular garbage can with free plastic bags in it.....

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I got a diaper genie as a baby shower gift for my first son and took it back to babies r us. I just used a garbage can with a lid...had it out on our deck, and after every dirty diaper just put it in the garbage can. Now, onto my third child (newborn) and I have a small trash can, with a lid, in my room that I put her diapers in. No smell, no mess, it gets emptied every couple of days. I paid $8 and never have to buy those "diaper genie bags". Seems like a better choice to me!
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I couldn't afford a diaper genie... BUT my pail did get pretty rank... even after just one day's worth of diapers. I have started buying those little scented baggies at wal-mart to put the dirty ones in, and that works pretty well.

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I had one and think they are a waste of money. It smelled really bad. I would just put diapers in a pail, or my kitchen garbage and make sure it got dumped by the end of the day. If it was a real doozy, I would put it outside.

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Had one with my first child, HATED IT! It stunk! good concept, but smelly. better off with cute trash can with little liner and chunk it out daily. Or what we do now (with our third child) wrap it up in a wal-mart bag (if poopy) and chunk it out every time. :)

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do you mean 3 in diapers? if so, i have no idea. i know in general i am anti-diaper genie. i think they are a gimmick and a waste of money. it's a trash can. if you throw out the diapers at night (or even the next day) there's not really a odor issue, unless you get a really bad funky one and we know where that goes!

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Hated it. Emits a low-level poop smell ALL the time.

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No to the Genie or anything of the sort!

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I hated the diaper genie.

My second time around I used the Diaper champ. It uses regular sized trash bags, of which I got the odor blocking or vanilla scented ones. Loved that!

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diaper champ - works with regular trash bags.i luv it. i didnt have any bad experience with this even after my baby started solids. yes his poop is lot stinkier now but the room doesnt stink ..

Fact: Poop stinks! No contraption can fix that!!

With my first I used the Diaper Champ - which allows you to use regular garbage bags. It was great, until he started eating food. At that point, it was just too stinky. We started to use to to the target bag for the diapers too...until my dog got into the bag one day...YUCK.

Now, I just throw them out as I change the kiddos. Wet diapers can go in the regular garbage, but dirty ones go to a garbage that is on the landing of our garage.