Are you obsessed with you're diaper bag? - Page 3

[SpiralWoman]

Is anybody else having a terrible time with the Ella's bags site? Last nite & this morning. Forever to laod & then no pictures! It even says on there site that if the pictures won't load, you should use a different computer with a different internet server! Manm the legnths I'll go to to try to find the right diaper bag!

[Lisadeanne]

Thats one thing I havent started to obsess over yet. I am still on the hunt for dipes. Don't get me started or dh will have my head!

[Marco Esquandolas]

I think I may have found the perfect one for me, but I haven't even rec'd it yet to comment on it, lol. I typically use non diaper bags as diaper bags, but really liked the look of the totes with inner pockets, but didn't want any as big as the ones that I've seen at wahm sites and on ebay. I managed to get one in a smaller size from sellin threads so I'll know soon if it will work for me. I like the idea of that site that lets you create your own bag. That sounds like a good way to go!

[pageta]

Oh my! I am so obsessed with diaper bags. My original budget was $30 and I spent HOURS trying to find something and finally convinced my dh that I needed the Baby Bjorn. I got it for $80 online and enjoyed it when ds was in infant prefolds. Then someone asked me if I liked it and I offered to sell it to them for $60 and they bought it from me. Then I stumbled across a hardly used Lands End Do-It-All at a second-hand shop for $8.50. It works great, but what I really wanted was a tote. Now Land's End has new totes that I am so drooling over, except that my dh has totally written me off as a nutcase due to my diaper bag obsession. I want the small and large totes (for 2 hour trips and all-day trips). I'm in direct sales so I've set a sales goal beyond my normal goals so I can pay for the bags myself and dh can't complain about it (though he'll probably roll his eyes). I've almost done what I need to earn them, and I'm so excited.

It's so good to hear I'm not the only one obsessed with diaper bags.

[plum]

i have the best bag! i hate purses and neither of us wanted to lug around a 'diaper bag' so i bought an element brand skateboarding backpack. her stuff fits nicely, there are seperate compartments for whatever we need, and it doesn't look like a purse.

[ustasmom]

Diaper bags are not my thing. Of course, I started using one in 1986. I have a couple of Baby Bjorn backpack diaper bags so that a sibling could carry them. But now I just keep a couple of diapers and wipes in a cute turtle backpack that my 2yob can wear. It is cute as can be.

[kblue]

Yes, that Ella's site does load terribly slow! That's why I gave up! :LOL I think I'll email them and say they're missing out on a lot of business with such a slow site! :LOL

[Mommy&Will]

Originally posted by mythreebees
I considered ordering a custom Happy Tushies but didn't because I never know what to get on a custom order.

I've thought about the Happy Tushies bag but I worry that I wouldn't like it because it doesn't stand on its own, kwim?

[sarah_willard]

No, I don't have a diaper bag obsession, and I don't think I will read the rest of this thread so I don't develop one:-)

[cvharris]

Yes!

I never thought I'd become a diaper bag junkie, but now I am one. My newest acquisition is a red Loom Marsupial and matching watermelon clutch. www.loomlife.com

I also have a custom designed Ella bag - the Lily size, which is nice and big and designing it was fun fun fun! I do like it, but prefer the I'm Still Me tote that I have in an asian toile print, it is better constructed but also more pricey.

[momtokay]

I have a diaper bag from a WAHM who sells/sold on ebay. It is just the *perfect* size and shape for us, but it got a whole in it by the magnetic snap about a week after we got it.

I have fabric to make my own diaper bag and will get around to it one of these days...

[momtokay]

Originally posted by JennInSeattle
Yes, I really like the wine dragonfly Sally Spicer on your site but I just can't fork over $90.. it goes against something inside of me! lol Maybe once I break my new diaper bag in and the love rubs off I won't be so against spending the equivalent of 5 diapers for a diaper bag, kwim?

Jenn, that may be 5 diapers, but it's only one wool soaker you'd be giving up. And like you said it's a signature item. Hee hee, you're off the wagon right? Or should I not be egging you on?!? :LOL

[Mrs. Edwards]

The first diaper bag we got was a boxy fisher price bag. It did well for daycare trips etc. When I ordered my stroller, I got the backpack diaper bag that went with it, because it would strap onto the stroller. It's pretty cool. DH loves it. But, you have to stack things in it, and that means digging to find things on the bottom. Then, for Genevieve's birthday, she got a canvas tote with her name painted on it. So, I'd just carry that for quick trips and daycare. In the fall, I bid on a toile tote bag that I thought would serve as a stylish diaper bag....well, it's stylish but doesn't accommodate cloth diapers very well. Two weeks ago I ordered the updated do it all Lands End diaper bag. And, so far I love this bag! The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't have a long shoulder strap, so you can't carry it like a messenger bag. The mouth on this bag stays wide open when it's open, making it so easy to find. It came with a toddler size changing pad. A wet bag. Has a zippered wet bag that attaches as a division in the bag. I really like it and think that it will be great for 2 in cloth diapers. I would have loved a Timbuktu, Fleurville, or Petunia Pickle...but this bag was only $30 and was the more sensible choice.

[Marco Esquandolas]

My sellin threads tote and wet bag came today!! The tote IS the perfect bag for me! I don't recall the dimensions (it's probably about 10-12" high by 15 or so wide...) but it is a red toile small tote, sits upright by itself, has two straps for hand carrying or for putting on your shoulder, and closes with one mag snap. It has 6 small inner pockets as well as 4 or 6 outer pockets.

I was playing around with it and loaded it with one changing pad, the med size wet bag (put a dipe in it just to emulate having one soiled, lol), 2 pocket dipes stuffed, my wipe container (that didn't fit into the pockets ), bum cream and lotion, a handful of kiddie toys and two sippy cups in the pockets. I also stuck my wallet and one change of newborn clothing in there. That's about what I'd take for short outtings or running errands so it is perfect for me b/c I don't like big bags. I could see now where a larger one would be better for all day long trips, but I think this is gonna work out just fine for my needs. Best part? You guys know I'm cheap right? It was only $25!! WOO HOO!

[girlfactory]

I finally did find that elusive, perfect diaper bag. It's the Petunia PickleBottom toddler backpack, in a purple spider mum Oriental brocade. It has a lime green inner, and is just so dang pretty. I LOVE going places with it. Soon I'll have 2 in dipes, and can carry it around even more since a newborn will need more diaper changes than my 2 yr old. Yeah me!!

[abigailvr]

I have had five diaper bags, i currently have three still in my posession. I started off with a very cool looking Kenneth Cole backpack that my neighbor's sister got for me a cost or something (she used to work there). It was just too heavy on its own (it was vinyl) and the straps were too narrow and everything got lost in it.

Next I had a combi urban sling messanger bag, which I thought I would love because it was so light and small. It was too small, though, for traveling with a toddler who needed a cup and snacks and toys and cloth diapers.

I have the weebees bag for travel, and I really like it for that. It's great to use as a carry on with the baby because it holds so much. It's way to enormous for every day use, though.

I thought I loved the mom about town bag, until I realized that there was no way for me to stop DS from stealing my wallet and taking everything out of it. That bag needs a zipper, somewhere. Also, it doesn't close up tightly at all, so it's not so good for tossing under the stroller or anything. I still have it, though, because it felt like a splurge.

Right now I'm using a Mackenzie kids small bag that can be carried messanger style, or as a backpack. I like that it's compact, but it's a bit too small. It's making me almost wish I had kept the combi bag in the first place. I did get it at Right Start when they were clearancing, so I didn't pay too much for it.

I keep wanting to order a custom Timbuk2 messanger bag, but when I add everything that I want, it gets pricey, really fast.

Plus, DH makes fun of my bag obsession. Oh well.

Man, did I go on and on or what?

[JennInSeattle]

Originally posted by phishmama
My sellin threads tote and wet bag came today!! The tote IS the perfect bag for me! I don't recall the dimensions (it's probably about 10-12" high by 15 or so wide...) but it is a red toile small tote, sits upright by itself, has two straps for hand carrying or for putting on your shoulder, and closes with one mag snap. It has 6 small inner pockets as well as 4 or 6 outer pockets.

I was playing around with it and loaded it with one changing pad, the med size wet bag (put a dipe in it just to emulate having one soiled, lol), 2 pocket dipes stuffed, my wipe container (that didn't fit into the pockets ), bum cream and lotion, a handful of kiddie toys and two sippy cups in the pockets. I also stuck my wallet and one change of newborn clothing in there. That's about what I'd take for short outtings or running errands so it is perfect for me b/c I don't like big bags. I could see now where a larger one would be better for all day long trips, but I think this is gonna work out just fine for my needs. Best part? You guys know I'm cheap right? It was only $25!! WOO HOO!

CONGRATULATIONS! The perfect bag is a miracle! I just spent another 10 minutes staring at the bag I bought yesterday: http://fluffymail.com/store/product_...products_id=32 because I love it so much and have wanted it for so long! I sent off a money order for it today and it felt so good to get the payment off but OH how I wish I could have paypal'd it so it would be here by the weekend! lol

Do you have a picture of this wonderful bag of yours??

[pb_and_j]

I have a couple, but the one I use the most is my Land's End backpack diaper bag. It is pretty boring though.

I got a Cherry Pie bag off eBay that I LOVE... I love it so much I started using it as my knitting bag b/c I want to look at it all day every day.

I am planning on getting an Ella Bag when we get our tax $, but I can't decide which print I want... oh decisions decisions!

[abigailvr]

Does anyone here have the Fleurville Alpha 7 ? Or even seen on in person? A couple stores near me carry the mothership, but that is way too huge for me. I like the look of the Alpha 7, but I don't want to spend the money on it to have to send it back, KWIM?

[nicandboys]

Abigail,
I looked at the Alpha 7s when I was at a store looking at the Mothership bag beofre I ordered one. I really like the Aplpha 7, it's roomy but not huge like the Mothership. It has a lot of pockets and compartments too. I wish I could have ordered one of those instead of the Mothership, but I'm going to have 3 in diapers so I need huge.