Playtex Diaper Genie System 2

I thought everyone on Earth had a diaper genie, or had at least heard of them! I certainly never imagined that a mom with two kids in diapers, who uses disposables, wouldn’t have a diaper genie. I was wrong! (Hi Jen!)

These things are in all the magazines, all over the t.v. news shows whenever they cover “nursery necessities”, and I thought were pretty much ubiquitous. Learn something new every day.

What It Comes With

• Three plastic pieces that snap together
• a blue ring of liners
• an instruction pamphlet

My Expectations

Our Diaper Genie was a gift at the baby shower, so, not having dealt with diapers yet, I really had no expectations other than that it would be a waste-basket for containing the diapers until trash-day. Oh yes, I was naive.

The Results

The instruction pamphlet (or more accurately, instruction sheet) was pretty much useless. It made the Ikea instruction sheets look informative. Luckily, the pieces snapped together so easily that anyone with the minimal amount of brain power required to get pregnant (you know, insert rod A into slot B) should be able to handle assembly.

The blue ring was slightly more complicated, we put it in upside down at first, but then figured it out pretty quickly. I don’t know what those blue liners are made of, but they should use that stuff to line the garbage trucks! No scent escapes from these things at all!

Use is so simple. When you set up the system, you tie a knot in the liner system to close the bottom of the bag. To use, you flip the lid open, push the diaper down between the “jaws”, they slide apart and then slide back together, and the genie “eats” the diaper. When it gets full, you open the genie in the middle (it flips up) and use the built in cutter to cut the top of the “bag” from the rest of the liner, tie that in a knot, and then tie a new knot to make the new bottom of the next bag. Then you flip the whole contraption closed, and have a sealed, scentless bag ready to go out for the weekly garbage pick-up.

The diaper never actually comes into contact with the Genie, just with the liners, so the whole thing is sanitary and odorless.

Conclusion

In 6 months, we’ve gone through 4 liners, and have to empty the diaper genie 2 once a week. I’m sure this will change as the diapers get bigger, but even if we have to empty it every 2-3 days, I’m not complaining. I love the diaper genie, and use it many many times a day.

Anything that can contain the stench of a blow-out diaper gets this mommy’s seal of approval.