when the diaper genie isn't big enough

We've outgrown the Diaper Genie....I was having to empty it about every day. So I just got a small trash can with a lid that opens & closes, to help with the smell. But it's driving me nuts!! DS thinks it's a toy & every time I look in it, he's stashed a few toys in the trash can. I've been hauling up on the changing table if they're playing on the floor, but it's kind of a pain.

Is there an easier way?

 

I just buy the box of blue bags that smell like powder at BRU. I tie the dirty diapers up every change and the peepee ones just go in my regular garbage and the poopy ones go out the back door and end up in the garbage when we take it out at night.

ETA: I almost forgot. In the winter I usually hang a food store bag outside the back door and put all blue diaper bage for the day in there. My kitchen garbage is in the cabinet on top of my heating/cooling vent so in the winter the peepee diapers will smell more since they are getting heated up. Yuck!!!

 

I keep a small garbage bin in their room with a grocery bag as a liner and use that for pee pee diapers. (of course, it gets changed at least every other day.) I've started bagging the poopy diapers and putting them in the garage immediately really because the smell was getting ridiculous! (we had a diaper pail in both their room and downstairs, but the one in their room took so long to fill that it was too smelly by that time and the reverse for downstairs). So, I just stock up on my grocery bags (keep some upstairs, some downstairs) and I also sometimes buy Glad small wastebasket liners that are powder scented for upstairs. Hth!

 

I have a flip-top trash can next to the changing tables. I had to box each trash can in creatively with furniture, but still make it accessible to me, to keep them from playing with it.

 

I use the kitchen trash for the wet diapers and take the stinky ones out right away. We never had a diaper genie or anything similar.

 

We never used a Diaper Genie either. We do use those scented diaper bags occasionally. We have an attached garage with a large trash bucket right outside the door from the house. I throw all diapers in that can right after changing.

 

I just retired our diaper pail to my sister who just had a new baby. Their poop stinks sooooo bad now that we couldn't stand to have it in the house for more than 5 minutes so it was useless.

'Muddy' diapers go straight out to the big can in the garage. Wet diapers are just thrown into a plastic bag and taken out whenever I go down to the garage next.

 

We have the diaper champ (uses regular bags) and it's bigger. We like it much better than genie.

 

We bought a large dog food storage container at a pet supply store. It has a snap shut lid to hold in the freshness of dog food but it also keeps the stink of diapers out of the house. I just line it with a 13 gallon kitchen trash bag. When the girls were really little we had to change it twice a week but now that they are 19 months and go through less diapers we change it once a week. Every once in a while I will dump some baking soda in just to keep it stench down when I open it to drop another diaper in. I just feel bad enough putting all these diapers in the landfill that I could wrap each diaper up seperately to through them away each day.