Years ago, the Diaper Genie was all the rage and when I was pregnant with my first child, I thought I would need one desperately.  In hindsight, it’s a big fat NO!  Let’s do the math.  A Diaper Genie costs $30 and refills are needed roughly once a month at a cost of about $8.  So let’s say your child becomes totally toilet trained by 3 years old, then that over $300 + tax that you are spending which could go towards her college fund.

But having said that, that is not why I stopped using my Diaper Genie about a couple of months.  Trust me, it stills REEKS every time you open it up to put in a fresh diaper and the smell lingers in the room.  Moreover, It’s a real daunting and stinky task when it’s time to empty out the Genie into a large garbage bag.  In the end, it was so much easier to dump the poop into the toilet (wouldn’t you rather have poop flushed away then sitting in a big plastic container for days on end), place all the diapers into a plastic bag or a disposable bag, tie a big knot at the end of the day and put it in the garbage in the garage or the outdoor garbage bin.

We were fortunate that our neighborhood considers disposable diapers as compostable so we would just put the diapers (with the poop down the toilet) into a compost bag (from Costco at about 10 cents each), tie a knot and then put them in our green bin outside.