Okay, I know, I know - I just finished posting a blog, but something happened in the last couple of minutes that I had to share. Our diaper champ stinks, I mean really, really smells just awful! Don't misunderstand, it did really well for the first 11 or 12 months, but it just got to where we couldn't clean the smell out. Maybe it's because we stopped using the diaper champ brand of bags...
We loved the diaper champ because it was cheaper than the diaper genie AND you can use regular bags in it instead of buying the expensive refills. We had enough bags to get us through the first several months, and then we started using the scented garbage bags - vanilla to be exact. That helped for a couple of weeks, and then it started to smell like vanilla scented poop every time we inserted a diaper. Let me explain something, we emptied it out every week AND wiped the inside and outside with Lysol wipes, as well. I tried filling it with bleach water and letting it soak, but it wasn't watertight. I couldn't take it apart to do a thorough clean and soak, so... masking the smell seemed like the way to go. Once the scented bags stopped working, I poured an entire box of baking soda in it (which was NO help). I cleaned out the baking soda and tried to think of something else. I remembered those stick-up air fresheners - aha! That would be the thing that worked, I just knew it. I looked for those things for a month - finally found some at the dollar store. They had a flowery scent and worked... for about a month. Even after cleaning the diaper champ and replacing the air freshener, it still smelled like flowery, vanilla scented poop when we opened it. It quickly got to the point where it smelled even when it wasn't open. So, we decided to put it outside. That was a couple of weeks ago. I just opened it to empty it out, and the smell almost knocked me over!!! It was awful - the worst smell I've ever encountered (and I grew up on a farm - that had an outhouse on the property). There's no saving this diaper champ :(
RIP diaper champ: January 2010 - February 2011 'You fought a good fight against the foul odor of JA's dirty diapers.'
I think when get back to TN I will be getting a diaper genie...I had the arm and hammer brand here and it was good till Courtney started eating solids then there was no helping it at all. It only lasted 8 months :(
ReplyDeletereally? I had thought about getting one of the arm and hammers. I figured if any brand could stifle the odors, it would be arm and hammer!
ReplyDeleteglad you posted this :) hmmm, back to deciding...