Diaper disposal question

pillowpants10

What is the point of getting a diaper pail? I plan on throwing dirty diapers in the trash. If smell is the issue, why not throw them in the garbage outside? Maybe I'm just being an ignorant FTM but they seem useless IMO. Maybe someone who uses them can fill me in on why they're useful and I'll add one to my registry.

Mom2Mack1

We put dirty diapers in our kitchen trash can.  It is metal w/ a closed lid so maybe that helps contain the smell.  Occassionally when we open the lid you can smell dirty diapers so we just take the trash out - problem solved. 

I had a diaper genie given to me and didn't want to buy the refills.  They seemed like just another expense on top of diapers, formula, etc.

Carla6394

LoisLane23:

Because you don't want to walk to the garage or outside 12-16 times per day.

THIS

and your house will smell terrible.

Thai527

I feel diaper pails r a waste of space and $ with costly refills. I just used grocery bags to contain #2 diapers and put them in closed kitchen trash. 

morethancottoncandy

I have the diaper dekor, it has a foot pedal lid and it keeps in the smell.  I like it well enough to get a 2nd one for this LO's nursery as well.  I don't want to have to run outside everytime the diaper gets changed and I don't want it in my kitchen garbage either. 

Rhenna

Thai527:

I feel diaper pails r a waste of space and $ with costly refills. I just used grocery bags to contain #2 diapers and put them in closed kitchen trash. 

Exactly.  I never had one with DS and never had a smell issue in my home.  Just used a trash can with a lid, bagged the poopy diapers and took the trash out regularly.  You may go through 12-16 diapers a day but majority are just wet diapers and with a regular trash can with a lid it's plenty sufficient to contain any smell.  I think the diaper genies are just another thing that, yeah it may be nice but certainly isn't a necessity.

mben1119

LoisLane23:

Because you don't want to walk to the garage or outside 12-16 times per day.

This. And, if you have a dog, you need one. Otherwise, you'll find shreds of shitty diapers all over your house.

mrs.kapow

LoisLane23:

You don't need a diaper genie but you'll want something with a lid that can contain the smell.

This. We have the diaper genie in the nursery cause we did/do 50% of her diaper changes up there. If we change her downstairs, though, we just use our Simple Human trash can. That gets changed frequently enough that it's not an issue. 

MichelleL1118

Honestly, until DS was mostly on solid foods (so, around 11m or so), we never had issues with smells in the diaper pail.  BF/FF poop doesn't really stink, really young babies poop almost non-stop (4-6 times a day or more can be normal), you're not going to want to walk dirty diapers outside at all hours of the day & night, and if you have pets, the kitchen trash can IMO won't work for diaper disposal on a regular basis.  Now that DS has really stinky poops, those diapers usually go into a plastic shopping bag that gets tied off BEFORE we put it in the diaper genie (to help control the smell when we open the pail) although sometimes we forget... and exceptionally bad diapers go straight outside.  We don't have any issues with smells from the diaper genie, although it can be a little rank when we open the pail to put a new diaper in it.

hmp1

DS's room is upstairs and we do all his diaper changes up there. I don't want to walk down stairs and outside every diaper change (or even every poop).

KarBear

hmp&mrj:

DS's room is upstairs and we do all his diaper changes up there. I don't want to walk down stairs and outside every diaper change (or even every poop).

This, plus the last thing I want to do at 3 in the morning is run outside to throw the diaper in the trash. (we have a Diaper Champ and still use it with DD's night time pull-ups)

opaque1997

I got two metal garbage cans from Bed Bath and Beyond (https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=18005875)

 

We are using them for diapers and cat litter (two cats) - we have the nursery downstairs (split level house) and the main floor (kitchen, etc) is upstairs - so I felt the need to have two places to dispose.

I can't speak to the diaper smell issue - but I can tell you this - working in an infant room we had a diaper genie and I found after about 6-12 months the PLASTIC reaked.  I have friends that have used the metal garbage cans (careful that you aren't getting one that just has a plastic sleeve on the inside as you may end up with the same issue) - used regular garbage bags (we've been using the febreeze ones simply as we have cat litter too) and never had an issue - it has a lid.. etc.  Be warned though - her 18 month old thinks the garbage can is a fun toy - she got a lock for it recently. 

seraphiclust

We never got one and honestly never needed it. Like pp said smell wasn't much of an issue until DD was on solids and at that point she pooped 1-4 times a day so if we needed to bring it outside wasn't a big deal. We would just double bag the poop diapers and take them to the outside trash as needed. We never had a smell issue.

 

*edited for typos

APendola

The point is that you will be changing 10-12 diapers a day - so instead of walking to the trash 12 times a day, you can do it once!  Also, you can keep the diaper pail right by the changing table, so you can throw out the dirty diaper while still having one hand on the baby.

m3l0d1

LoisLane23:

Because you don't want to walk to the garage or outside 12-16 times per day.

 

This.

 

I have a diaper champ and you can use regular kitchen trash bag.

SGC29

We had a diaper genie and I thought it was useless so we chunked it. Then I realized that it was actually pretty useful so now I am buying another.

We used a regular trash can for awhile with a lid that closed automatically. It still stunk to high heaven when throwing a soiled diaper in it. DD's room smelled awful after every single diaper change, even the ones where we took the diaper directly out to the trash. You have no idea how well a diaper genie can hide the smell of a poop filled diaper. A regular trash can cannot conceal that smell and it seems wasteful to constantly be changing out trash bags every time there is a poop in there (which we ended up having to do in order to keep our house from smelling terrible).

I'm getting another genie stat. They are worth the $ IMO.

pillowpants10

Thanks for the response everyone. I think I'm going to use a metal trash bin and keep it in our room. The baby is going to sleep in my room in a cosleeper for a while and my room is downstairs so it's not a huge issue for me to throw out the stinky diapers outside... or to make bf do it(: