Opinion on Diaper Pails

I'm with you, I never thought my DiaperGenie worked well,either. So, for my second son, I don't even use a diaper pail. Instead, I hang a plastic shopping bag on his changing table and put the dirty diapers in there. At the end of the day, when I put him to bed, I just grab the shopping bag, tie it up and thow it in the outside garbage bin. No smell, and best of all, it's free!!

Hun I never wasted money on those things I always used ziplock baggys they work wonderfull!!

I received the Odorless Diaper Pail as a baby shower gift and used it for about 6 months and then quit using it. It always seemed to smell even though we put an air freshener in it. We finally just started putting the diapers in the garabage can outside.

I had one with my son for about 2 months and I tried a couple others but I was never happy with any of them. I ended up just using a big trash can that was keep outside. I every now and then bleached it but it keep the smells out of the house. Good luck

I LOVE my diaper champ...love, love, love it! I empty it twice a week and NEVER let it get even close to full (I will also empty all my upstairs trash at the same time, as not to waste the bag). Of course, if you leave poopy diapers anywhere for more than a week, it'll smell up anything no matter what you try!

No special bags, no twisting, no running to the store when you run out of supplies for it.

Go go diaper champ!

We have the Diaper Champ. It works pretty well, after some time though it does start to smell a little. so all i do is spray some clorox in it and on it or even lysol works. I only do that maybe once or twice a month. I have two kids under the age of two.

I have a daiper pail that is pretty cool. I cannot remember the name of it, but it is plain white with some dark blue around the connection part. The way it works is nice. You place the diaper in the top and then flip the top part of the unit to push the diaper down. I know I haven't explain it well, so here goes again. It basically has a weight that slides up and down when you flip the handle back and forth, so when you put the diaper in the hole at the top of the unit, you flip the handle and the weight pushes it down to the storage part of the pail. What I absolutely love is that this unit take regular trash bags. It is great. Hope this helps.

I found that buying the small disposible bags worked best. I just baught diaper pail that was cheap and used small garbage bags or plastic bags to put the diapers in, put them in the diaper pail and emptied it when it got full. It worked. If the diaper was extra stinky it went straight out to the garbage!

I like the Diaper Decor. Although, we didn't have a ton of smelly diapers since we've done infant potty training (aka Elimination Communication or EC) with all three kids. Search the web if you want more info on it. I totally love it. My oldest was completely out of diapers at 14 months, my second at 18 months, and my third is 15 months and goes on the potty about 90% of the time. It's almost 100% when we're home.

I have the Diaper Gene II and it is so much better then the original diaper gene! I have an in home childcare with 4 kids all of which are under the age of 3 so I change nearly 10-15 diapers a day. The new diaper gene is different from the old because instead of "turning" you now just push it through and there is a spring that clamps it shut. It is like a trash can but then it seals it at the top. The other difference is that the bags lock out the smell better then the old ones. NO, it's not perfectly smell proof but it is better then the orignal gene. Unless I open the pail I really don't smell it. If a diaper is really bad then I put it in a diaper disposal bag (they sell them at the dollar store and you get 100) and then into the gene. It works great!
Hope that helps

We have the Baby Trend Diaper Champ and LOVE it. Several of my friends have it as well and we all think it's great. The best part is, you don't need special bags for it. You can use regular trash bags. It does pretty well keeping the stink out, but I do need to wash/spray it out every other month or so.

We have the Baby Trend Diaper Champ and love it! The nursery is upstairs, but we do a lot of our main living on the first floor, so when our son was very little, we kept his changing table (the one attached to his Pack N' Play) and diaper pail in the living room. It's now in a guest room, but we still keep the diaper pail in the living room because of space issues. It works great, and my living room doesn't smell like dirty diapers at all (just smells like the musty basement, sometimes! Ha, ha!). I like the fact that I just have to put a regular kitchen trash bag in the pail and not have to worry about special bags.

I used Dekor Plus and it's OK. You can smell a little hint of "something", so we put it in the bathroom, problem solved.

Hi E.!

I received the Diaper Genie as a shower gift and used it for maybe 2 months. At first I thought my boyfriend just put it together wrong, but after reading some responses here, maybe it wasn't him!

We just wrapped the dirty diapers in a couple plastic bags and then threw them away. I also saved some old formula canisters and coffee containers to put the really gross, smelly diapers to really contain the smell.

When my son's bowel movements became more solid when he started on solid and table foods, I started dumping it from the diaper into the toliet. This leaves absolutely no smell at all. I think it will also help my son with potty training. As soon as I am done changing his diaper, he walks into the bathroom and waits at the toliet. He knows that it's supposed to go in the toliet.

I hope you find something that works for you! Good luck!

We have the diaper champ. Its great you can use any 13 gallon garbage bag. The ones with odor shield work great. The only time you have to deal with the smell is when you change the bag.

I have a Diaper Champ. It works pretty well at keeping the smell out, but there is not a tight seal around it to keep it completely smell proof. Flaw in the design. That being said, if you rinse it with bleach occasionally, and use Lysol spray when it gets stinky it helps a ton. One thing I really do love about it is that you don't have to spend extra money on refills. You can use any trash bag you want, and when you are changing the bag more than once a week that can add up. It is also very easy to use and is big, so you don't have to empty the trash as much as the smaller ones (especially when the diapers and mess get bigger!). I have friends that have the Diaper Champ and like it for the same reasons. I have a friend that had one of the old style Diaper Genies and hated it because it never cut the bag like it was supposed to, was small, was still smelly, and she had to empty the bag every day or two to keep the stink away. I think she ended up tossing it. I've never used the new ones, so I'm not sure if they are any better. Good luck!

We used the Diaper Genie the first time around, and didn't think it was so great. So we just threw the diapers in the trash (out in our garage) each time with our second. A lot less hassle then spinning a diaper into a plastic coccoon, then having to tear that out every few days anyhow. Plus the house smelled much better!

I just have a regular diaper pail, I think it's by Cosco, it's a small one, I think cost me $10. It's suppose to keep the smell out of the room but did't do so well till I found some stick ups deoderizers I put at the bottom and now it's fine. Since it's small too I have to empty it once a week, on garbage day, so I think that keeps it from smelling. I use to have a diaper genie w/my first 2 kids and I use to have to spray it w/lysol. It was pretty smellie on the day you cleaned it out! lol!

S.

No complaints on the Diaper Champ...works well!