Playtex Diaper Genie Diaper Pail

Pros: Diaper Genie does away with stinky diapers!!
Cons: Refills are 5 bucks a pop, even at discount stores.

A genie is a fancy diaper pail that most new mothers think that they need. Do you really NEED this? Probably not. But we've found ours to "get the job done"

The Playtex Diaper Genie is a garbage pail that is a couple feet high and...

Pros: affordable, attractive, keeps some smells away,
Cons: expensive refills, faulty, akward design

This diaper gadget was all the rage when I was pregnant with my first/second child in 2004 and 2006. So, when I registered every mother I knew had one of these things and liked them well enough.. There was no DIAPER CHAMP or any of the other brands. ...

Pros: Works *okay* with newborn odor containment
Cons: Makes my job harder when I have to deal with so many mechanisms.

Granted, I am on my third baby in less than 2 and half years, so I'm extremely efficient when it comes to diaper changes. After attempting to use the Diaper Genie for my third baby, I simply got discouraged and tossed it where I should have two years ...

Pros: Saves a few trips to the outside garbage dumpster.
Cons: Smelly, pricey

The diaper genie is a garbage can, specifically designed to hold used diapers. Great! Every parent of an infant or toddler needs one right? Don't be so sure.While the genie can be convenient in not having to run outside every time you ...

Pros: Works well with a liquid based diet.
Cons: Eventually smell leaks out. Cost of replacement bags is high.

The Diaper Genie is an okay disposal of diapers for young babies on formula or breast milk. But once you start giving your baby actual food. It just doesn't keep the smell down as it did previously. When I first got the diaper genie, my sister and I ...

Pros: Inexpensive, keeps diapers out of sight
Cons: Absorbs odors, breaks easily, expensive liners, foul smells leak out

When pregnant with my little boy, I excitedly awaited the day I could register for all those contraptions that every new mother believes she needs for her first little one. The Diaper Genie was one of those "key" items. It appeared to be the ideal way ...

Pros: ~You will get one at your baby shower ~Can Be Sold On Craigslist for money
Cons: ~Awkward to dump ~Will Make Your House Smell ~Spending Money To Throw Away Diapers

We received one of these when we were expecting our first child and we were very excited about it. We had heard that this is a must get item and you will find this item at all baby stores. Therefore you would think that this must be the best item since ...

Pros: Easy to insert cartridges.
Cons: Still stinks. Cutter doesn't work well. Lids difficult to manage.

Our son was already about 20 months old before we invested in the Diaper Genie. It seems that things just got stinkier then and we had an idea that the smell might be disrupting his sleep. Until that point I could never bring myself to spend extra ...

Pros: Convenient place to put diapers
Cons: diapers did not go down into pail, bags smelled funny, extra work

I have always heard how much every parent needs a Diaper Genie, so you can imagine my joy when I got one at my baby shower!! Besides all the adorable baby clothes, it was my favorite gift. I couldn't wait to use it!! No stinky diapers, seemed easy enough ...

Pros: Keep the smell down at a huge cost!
Cons: Could cost you $1400 in refills over the course of 9000 diapers!

The Diaper Genie seems like the next best thing to sliced bread. When you bring the new baby home and start putting those used newborn and size 1 diapers in the genie you have diaper disposal utopia. The Diaper Genie has a compact and attractive ...

Pros: Controls dirty diaper odors pretty effectively
Cons: Refills get expensive; better, alternate options exist

The Diaper Genie is a decent product. I had this on my baby registry when I was pregnant with my first child, and my aunt was kind enough to buy it for me. There's some kind of product marketing rule that essentially says, "Give away the main ...

Pros: It holds diapers
Cons: Everything else.

When I first bought this product I liked it. For a newborn it is great. No smell at all. Of course you have to be an acrobat to refill it, but other than that it was okay. Then we started solids. If you can believe it, even through all of this ...

Pros: You'll probably get one for free at your baby shower
Cons: It probably won't come with a gift receipt

I was pregnant with my first child, and was thrilled that I received this product at my baby shower, hoping that this would make those dreadful diaper changes, not so dreadful... However I learned quickly that when your up for the 20th time at 4:30 in ...

Pros: it does save you from taking a trip to the garbage can every ten minutes.
Cons: expensive waste of money

This is something that all new mothers seem to think they must have when they have a baby. It's not true! The only reason I had one is because it was a gift at a baby shower. It is the biggest waste of money! The refills are so expensive and when ...

Pros: Clean white appearance and close to changing table!
Cons: Bulky lid and kind of hard to get the hang of at first!

My husband & I bought this for our first son...thinking it would be a God send...and it turned out to be a helpful headache! For around $20.00 - we had a coupon at Babies R US we purchased the Playtex Diaper Genie Pail....and our first mistake was not ...