Top Ten Baby Things We Bought

#10 - The Diaper Genie

This thing really is a genie, a work of genius, a gem.  We originally decided against a diaper pail and would just throw the diapers in any available wastebasket.  After all, what is a diaper pail?  It’s a trash can- why do you need a fancy one with expensive refill bags?

Well, after a month of tossing dirty diapers in the kitchen trash can (gross, when you think about it) and in the bathroom wastebaskets (nasty, no cover!), we started to get flies.  Little tiny ones.  We thought that they came in with some fruit that we bought, or that they were living in one of our house plants.  Then, one day I came home and the house smelled like… you get the idea.  It was rank.  It was the middle of January and we had the windows open in order to air out the house!  After that, we made a quick trip to the store and picked out a Diaper Genie.

The price of this unit is totally worth the cost of the refill bags (about six bucks a piece).  After we made the switch, the flies were gone.  No more stinky smell.  And changing out the bags is pretty easy.  Don’t buy the diaper pail odor eliminator inserts, though; a generous sprinkle of baking soda works just as well.  Rinse the pail out with a squirt of bleach spray every once in a while and it will stay good and fresh.

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