[USAmma]

I just have to gripe a little. I went to BRU to buy a couple things for wee one and wanted to just see if they have any new cool pails out. Well they have some new ones but they all take refills!! Like 3 different versions of the diaper genie. They also had a very cheap-looking traditional pail, very tiny and unattractive. They had the diaper champ of course (which is too small of an opening to use with cloth), and the Safety 1st odorless pail (which only works well with cloth if the inner trap door is taken out-- we have that one at home). It just looks like our options as cloth mommies are getting more and more limited.

Then went to take dd to the potty and passed the formula aisle (with sposies up to the ceiling on the other side) where a mom was asking a BRU worker what was the best formula for an infant since she was wanting to wean, and her little one was still so little. Sigh. One thing that made me feel good about my decision to exclusively pump again for this wee one is the formula prices. The cans were like $20 each!!! And a baby goes through about 2 cans a week! Can you imagine the cost of that over 12 mos? My $250 breastpump doesn't seem like such an expense after all.

Darshani

 

[Throkmorton]

I have the teensy tiny pail with the bunny on it. My mom bought it for me, and it works pretty good, actually. We keep it in the bathroom for poopy diapers. My mother informed me that it holds 48 flats. Our theory is that they made 28 million of them in 1963 and are just still selling them. They even have the same bunny on there.
Formula is expensive! I really can't blame you for wanting to avoid it.

 

[USAmma]

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I have the teensy tiny pail with the bunny on it.

My friend has that one too and says it works great. The one I saw at BRU has a flip top lid but it's sooo tiny it would only hold like a dozen dipes at most.

I think babybunz.com sells the bunny pail.

Darshani

 

[Melaniee]

I really like my tall kitchen sterlite can from target...odors don't escape it (except when it's open of course).

 

[Throkmorton]

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Originally posted by USAmma I think babybunz.com sells the bunny pail

Um, probably, but most of the department stores, including WalMart, sell it here. It costs all of $4.99. it has a deodisk holder and everything too.

I am still trying to remember where I saw lovely stainless steel 3 gallon pails with tight lids. It was probably in Lee Valley or something. They were quite inexpensive, and I was thinking they would make great diaper pails.

Edited to add: Yep, it was Lee Valley, but only the 1 gallon and 1.6 gallon pails have lids. The 3 gallon is lidless.

 

[stacey31]

Love the steralite can from Target. It has a hard plastic liner with a handle that lifts right out and can be cleaned easily.
It really is the ultimate. I bought the little one for I think 29.00 & there is never any odor!!

 

[mothergooseofthree]

I have a sterilite can with the one touch pop up lid. I got it at walmart for about $13. It holds an entire load of dipes and I never have an odors. LOVE IT!

 

[famousmockngbrd]

I had the exact same problem when I switched to cloth! All I wanted was your basic joe schmo diaper pail and all I could find were these fancy-schmancy Diaper Genie type ones.

I ended up using an old pickle bucket, supposedly just as an interim solution until I could find a decent diaper pail. It is now 6 months later and I am still using the bucket. It's not pretty but it works fine.

 

[USAmma]

I have a sterilite too but just wanted to get something more fun for the new baby. KWIM?

Darshani

 

[tinyshoes]

Ugh. I hear ya, sistas.

I use a heavy-duty6 gallon bucket intended for use in a barn...from Mills Fleet Farm, a Kmarty-HomeDepot-Farm stuff store here in the midwest.

The crazy thing is, it's just an open bucket. No stink, 'cause I've got newborn poo and wash each day....
...but also when I diapered dd as a toddler, and her poopy dipes were rinsed before going in the bucket, things were stink-free. I've wondered if keeping the lid on makes dipes MORE stinky.

Or I'm really a mama and love everything about my babes, including their various bodily wastes!

 

[RunnerDuck]

This tiny pail yins are talking about... any chance it had a blue flip top lid, held 8 gallons, and was made by Cosco? I was looking at it the other day, it was the only diaper pail there that wasn't high tech... but it seemed sort of tiny...

I didn't quite think it would fit my needs... Guess I should just go the Target garbage pail route...

 

[mamaluvs3girls]

I have that little one from Costco. It's a bit small but not too bad. I wash every other day. There are occassions that I get busy and the diapers end up on top of the pail. One nice thing about a small pail is that it keeps me on top of washing.

 

[famousmockngbrd]

Tinyshoes, it is not just your imagination because we don't have a lid on ours either and nor do ours stink.

We dunk our poopy ones and throw them all into a dry pail. We usually wash every other day or every 2 days.

 

[coopsmama]

We have a sterilite pail from Target and it works well for us. It has holders for a pail liner and the lid works great. As to the smell. . .

: It isn't the poopy dipes that smell, it is the tee-tee. The ammonia smell is really powerful. The night-time dipes are the worst, of course, but it isn't just hemp. The pre-folds are just as bad. I have to get the dipe off of ds pronto in the a.m. before we are all knocked out. It is so bad that if the lid accidentally flips up I can smell it from across the room

Any suggestions about this? I would love to avoid the yucky ammonia smell.

We didn't have to close the lid until ds was 10 or 11 mos old; until then, no stink.

 

[USAmma]

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It isn't the poopy dipes that smell, it is the tee-tee.

Yep. When dd was over a year old I used to hold my breath and dump in the washer or else I'd start choking on the fumes!!

My friend who has that little rabbit one said (and this is gross) she was trying to decide if she was wanting to do cloth or not and forgot that she had about 10 dirty toddler dipes in that pail. Left them in their for over a month!! Then decided to go back to cloth and suprise, moldy nasty dipes. Made for some bad stains but she was able to wash and use them. She had that pail in her master bathroom and didn't notice a stink, which is why she assumed it was empty that whole time. Now that's a good testimony to how well that little pail works!

Darshani

 

[teachinmaof3]

I use the Safety 1st one (b/c I had it when we used 'sposies only) and it works just fine. Never any smell from the pail. I don't use a liner or bag...I just set it out in the sun right after I dump the cds in the washer.

 

[MamaMonica]

We have a steralite trash can with a flip top too but the flipper broke and so we sort of set it on. It works OK. I always wanted a nice cloth pail. Oh, well. We started with two costco cat litter buckets and lids. I used those for over a year before splurging on the white trash can.