The bottom of the diaper pail is not a pleasant place to be.
And I know. I have been there.
On a Monday morning, I grabbed my purse, keys and bottle of water and, while wrapping my coat tightly around me to protect me from the frigid air and hollering at Jackson to hurry up, I unsuspectingly opened the door of my van and jumped in.
“Oh my word,” I howled and leaped out. “What on earth?!?”
I was shocked and confused. It was a literal diaper pail in my van.
You know that smell when you are emptying the diaper pail that you allowed to get way too full? As you pull the bag out, a belch of rotten diaper air hits you. Yes – that belch of putrid, poo-filled diaper smell WAS my minivan.
But I couldn’t figure it out. I am so careful to never leave a dirty diaper in my van…
Then I looked down and saw it – a swollen diaper, rolled up and sitting on the floor of my mini-van.
“PHIL!!!!” I screamed with rage under my breath. I grabbed the diaper out, opened all the doors and ran back into the house to give the van time to air out.
Jackson was going to be late for school, so we couldn’t wait it out for long. I decided to use the time to phone my husband and ask him if he was trying to kill me on purpose or if this was a subconscious attempt to murder his wife.
“Ohhhh… so sorry. Yeah – that was me. Olivia pooed when we were out on Friday,” he apologized.
FRIDAY?!? I reviewed the weekend in my head. Yes – I hadn’t used the van since picking up Jackson from school on Friday, before Phil took the kids shopping. That will teach me to work all weekend.
I couldn’t put the inevitable off any longer. We had to get in the van.
But the smell hadn’t faded. It was alive, living in the carpet and upholstery fibers, clinging to the wet windows, thriving in the soggy air.
I undid the windows despite the frozen air and drove to school, my head half way out the window. By the time I got home from driving Jackson, I was cold, wet and had a kink in my neck.
Despite the wet, fall weather, I left the car windows open for days. I think it was a week before the smell was gone.
Or maybe I just got used to it. That is the thing about smells. We can get accustomed to them.
Which is what makes the Diaper Genie so brilliant…
(Wow – how is that for a segue? I SWEAR I didn’t make up that story for this post! It just happened to work so neatly together! LOL Anyway – back to the Diaper Genie.)
This fantastic creation keeps those dirty diapers sealed off from the rest of the house, so when guests come over they don’t smell diapers and want to run to an open window for air.
And when it comes to emptying the Diaper Genie II Eliteâ„¢, you don’t have to worry about the vile air billowing up into your face. It is already all sealed off. Clean. Simple. Done.
Playtex has given us a Diaper Genie for one of you – so if you want to win the new Diaper Genie II Eliteâ„¢, just leave a comment below.
We will announce the winner of our Diaper Genie contest on November 15th. Our contest is open to US and Canadian shipping addresses.
And if you have a foul diaper story to share, (I am sure we all have a few!) then HURRY and enter to win Playtex’s SMELL TALES contest for a chance to win $5,000.00!!!!
You have until Sunday, October 26th to enter the Smelly Tales contest. Head over to Smelly Tales to find out more.
Susan and I are on the judging panel along with Kim from What’s That Smell and Amber from Crazy, Bloggin’ Canuck. I have been reading some of the stories already and I know deciding the winner is going to be tough! Playtex will announce the Smelly Tales contest winners on November 11th.
While you are at BabySmells.com make sure you check out what this unique online resource has to offer, such as info on baby’s smell development and weekly Smelly Tale Webisodes of the crazy, smelly lives of 3 different families with multiples.
So to recap:
If you want to win the new Diaper Genie II Eliteâ„¢ from us here at 5 Minutes for Mom, just leave a comment below. You have until November 15th.
To enter to win the Smelly Tales contest for a chance to win $5,000.00, visit Smelly Tales.com. You only have until October 26th for their contest – so hurry!
I would love to have one of these! Thanks for the chance to win!
These Diaper Genie’s are the BEST!
Would love this.
My baby is a poopin machine and the house often stinks if we don’t take the garbage out every day. I could use this!
I really need this for the new baby.
GREAT GIVEAWAY !!!
You lucky young things have great products like the Diaper Genie. When I raised mine, it was…hold your nose and run!
Please enter me into the contest. Thanks!
We need a Diaper Genie! The refills for the other brand we have are too expensive. Thanks!
I have tried diaper pail after diaper pail and they ALL stink. P.U.!!
I would love to have this. Thanks.
I would love one of these! Thanks!
I’m the proud mom of a 3 month old, and while I love her dearly, I do not love the smell of her diapers.
I’d love one. My friend is having a baby in a few weeks. this would be a great gift for her.
My sis-in-law will soon have 2 in diapers, so she could totally use this!
I have twins so that’s double the diaper duty. Please enter me 🙂
This would be a fabulous gift for a friend who has a new baby!
i would love this!
My dear friend Sara has five children and this would really help her out.
I would love to win this, thank you!
Having 2 places to change diapers, Things get Horribly smelly. This would help ALOT.
This would be so nice for my daughter!ty 4 the entry!
This would be great for my grandchildren.
My stepdaughter is having a little girl in February. I can’t wait to be a grandma for the first time and this would be a wonderful way for us to bond even more! Thanks!
I would love this for greatgrandson.
Thank you for the chance to win this.
I’d love to win. Count me in.
I have twins boys on the way. They are due Feb. 10th. This would really come in handy. Thanks.
would love this to give to my daughter and her new baby due next month
Our first grandchild is due any day and would love to give this to our daughter…..
hushmouth{at}verizon{dot}net
I would love to be able to give this to my friend from church. She has just had triplets and I’m sure that the smell multiplied times three cannot be easy to deal with. It is amazing how much of a stinky mess such a tiny, adorable thing can make!
thanks for the giveaway!
what a great contest. enter me please!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Please enter me, thanks!
I HAVE A TON OF FRIENDS WHO ARE EXPECTING. HMMM… WHICH ONE TO GIVE IT TO?
I would absolutely love to win this!!
I would love to win this!
that’s a horrible story. I’m so sorry!
Diaper Genie is a must have in the nursery I am creating. Thanks!
This would be a blessing!
No smelly tales yet — I’m not due for a couple of months. But I am very worried — my husband is extremely sensitive to smells and is threatening to boycott all diaper related activities! We need this Diaper Genie!
WOULD BE GREAT FOR MY SISTER……
This would be awesome for my brother’s family!
There is not a room spray strong enough if you have a diaper pail that doesn’t eliminate the odor! Phewww!
With my 5 month old daughter this Diaper Genie II Elite would sure come in handy! This is a wonderful product and I would love to have this. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter.
This is a great prize. The Diaper Genie is brilliant (and a lifesaver!)
I would love to give one of these away for a baby shower gift.
This would be sooooooooo very welcomed and a fantastic add to my girls changing area!
I could really use this! Having a baby in March!
Have they announced the winners of this yet? Are they going to?
Would love to win this as we are expecting!
This would be wonderful to win for my daughter who’s expecting.
Great prize
I have my first baby due in Feb!
I had one for my first child and they rock! This would be a wonderful gift for my sister! Thanks for this contest
I would love to win this.I have put off getting one for years, My son is severely handicap and will be in diapers most likely his whole life. It is time to put my fears aside and go ahead and try to win one!
This would be so usefull.
gosh my sister could really use that!
This would make a great gift for my pregnant friend
txhottie_86 at yahoo dot com
Need something to contain the smells that originate from the baby boy.
I know someone who could really use this, thanks!
This would be great. Right now we walk every dirty diaper straight out to the dumpster. It’s really a pain if it’s raining.
We so need this–I can’t even explain it!
just to cool
This would be so super great with a new one in the house.
ardy22 at earthlink.net
this would be a great help for us! Pick us, pretty please with a clean diaper on top!
I’m having my first baby in April so I need one of these so badly! Please pick me!
One of my best friends is expecting next month and this would be a perfect gift for her. Thanks for the chance!!!
I’m expecting my first and living in a small nyc apartment so a diaper genie would definately be helpful!!! Thanks!
About to have my first child, would love to win this. Thanks for the chance.
I’d love to win this for my friend who’s expecting!
I had one of these when my kids were small and would like to give this to my niece.
Looks great! Thanks for the chance!
This would be a great shower gift for my cousin
jceko77@yahoo.com
This is a must have! When my daughter was a baby… she’s twelve now… I had an original version diaper genie. What a life… I mean NOSE saver! Now that I am expecting again I know this is a product I must have! Thank you SO much for the opportunity to win one… it would help SO much!!!
This would be so much better then the trash can we use.
Would love to win this, especially since i will be a first time mom in Feb!!!
Thanks for a great giveaway! We will NEED this in January. 🙂
I would love this for my new little boy!
I hate going outside everytime there’s a dirty diaper so this would be great! Thanks for the contest.
We could use this for our new one on the way.
This would be great for my sister – she’s expecting her first child and doesn’t know about Diaper Genie!
enter me please please please i could use this!!!
Hope I win!
Wonderful gift for an expectant mother I know! Please count me in!
dreamseeker52 AT gmail DOT com
One of my co-workers just had a baby and I know she would love this.
Perfect gift for my pregnant friend
With a baby and another on the way, I need this. Thanks for the contest.
OMG!!! Would love love love to receive this! Thanks so much for the opportunity!
YAY
I have to stinky butts in diapers right now – we need all the help we can get!!
I would love this!!
I’d so love to win this! I’m in the one who usually has to empty the stinking thing and with potty-training still going on slooowly, I’m in for a smelly-helly time for the foreseeable future. So, please count me in for this one. I’d love to give my poor nose a break!
I would love this for my sister.
I would absolutely love one of these. I am currently pregnant right now (due in April) and having two in diapers, I know this would come in use!
Looks like it is fantastic!
This is just what we need. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Great Giveaway! This would be perfect for my expectant sister!
Please enter me. I am also a subscriber.
awesome thanks.
This is nice.
I am pregnant with #4 and have never been fortunate enough to own a Diaper Genie… oh how nice it would be…
Ang
I’d like to have one so I never have to livethe story you just described in your van
My friend is expecting her first! She’d love it.
My daughter is expecting in April. I would love to win this for her
Im also a subscriber!
I’d love to win this for my sister, she’s due in January!
I don’t mind babysitting, but the stench of soiled diapers causes to to start dry heaving. So anything that protects me from the smell is terrific.
yes please!
I have a new grandson that will be here soon, I would love to give this to his parents.
Loved your story too funny!
Love Diaper Genie – Great Invention 🙂
I love diaper genie! I need to replace my old one for my new baby.
Would love this
I mean a cat litter plastic tub… anyway, it stinks.
I would love to win a diaper genie. I have a 4 month old and am using a cat little plastic tub for dirty diapers. It works pretty well, until I open it to put a diaper in… woosh.. the smell overtakes me! lol. Ok so please pick me. 🙂
I would love to win this for my daughter. She could really use this with 2 babies in diapers. Thank you so much!
I’d love to win this!
THANK YOU GOD BLESS
Would love to win one of these for the new baby on the way in a few months. Thanks so much!
I am so not looking forward to that smell when my little one arrives in a few weeks. I would have taken my husbands car and left him with the diaper mobile if he left a dirty diaper in it for the entire weekend!
We could really use this with a new baby on the way!!!
Please enter me. Thanks!
Yes, thank you
Cool.
This would really come in handy around my house.
In our house I get stuck taking out the diaper pail bag…it literally makes my husband gag and hurl….then I’d have to clean that up too.
I am having my 2nd on Halloween day so I would love this!
Yes, I’d love to try the diaper genie.
I need this lol I swear no matter how often I empty our diaper pail the smell just lingers. I have wondered if the Diaper Genie’s really work!!!
Tara
cloudspassby78 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Great first time mom prize
Hysterical post, Janice. I don’t even need a Diaper Genie, as my current one is working perfectly fine. But I couldn’t resist commenting.
I would love to win the Diaper Genie so I could gift it to my pregnant niece as a baby shower gift. I’m sure she hasn’t even thought about it yet, but disposing of dirty diapers is going to be a huge priority after her baby arrives!
i would love to win this!
this would be great! thanks for the contest!
cool count me in please
This is great! Thanks!
this would make a great baby shower gift
This would be wonderful for my son’s nursery to keep all the nasty poopie smells at bay. Thanks.
I have a baby shower to go to, and this would be a great gift
jceko77@yahoo.com
This would go straight to my sister, having her first baby in a few months…THANKS 🙂
I have yet to invest in a diaper genie – little man is still making breast milk poops – but will definitely be needing one soon! Count me in please!
Never used a diaper genie with my first child, but Im sure it would help eliminate those nursery smells.
I love how perfectly your story fit with this giveaway! 🙂
i have always wanted one of these, but have been to cheap – so it would be great to win one!!
autumn398 (at) yahoo.com
First baby coming in March. I can only imagine this would be great to have. hah!
Grandkids, two in diapers. This would be perfect! Thanks!!!
I am about to have my first child in May and I would love to have one of these!
NO MORE SMELL TO YELL
For SOME stupid reason we STILL dont have one! I am SICK AND TIRED of opening my trash can only to almost pass out! Having one in diapers, and now two more that I keep with diapers…YUCK! And Hopefully soon enough I’LL have ANOTHER baby……..thats A LOT Of diapers!
I have never had one of these but would love to have one to use with our little boy due in December. We also have a 2 year old who is still in diapers. This would be perfect. Thanks for the great giveaway.
Perfect for the nursery!
want to win this
I have two in pullups and soon to be two in diapers. This would be perfect.
I would love to have this for my baby!
A necessity for the baby due in January!
Just found out a friend who has been trying for a while is going to have a baby!!! yeah!! would love to win this for her. My stinky diaper days are done!
This would be wonderful to win, I am expecting my second child in April..
i want to win also
we just found out today that we’re going to be grandparnets again(4) from my oldest and this is her first.thanks for the chance to win.
I’d love to win this for my niece.
my neighbor is due any day and did not get one at her baby shower. i would love to win this for her….thanks!!!
I would love to get this for my niece, they don’t have a lot of money and it would be very good in their tiny little apartment.
sign us up
I would like one of these!
great story- lovin the ones that the others wrap and stuff and say they are going to remember but end up steaming in the car- nice teary eyes and your clothes smell so good
This would be great to try! We did not get a Diaper Genie with our twins b/c someone said it would fill up too fast. So we just have a regular garbage can and I HATE how bad it smells! We have another baby on the way and would love to have a new diaper genie for the baby’s room!
The daiper genie is the BEST!! I don’t know how I ever lived without one:) What a great give-a-way!
I’d love to win!
This would be so nice!
This would be great!!!
these are great! thanks!
I hate the smell of dirty diapers.I need this.
Who doesn’t need one of these?!! Count me in!!
I’m pregnant with bo #2 and could definitely use a new diaper genie. Thanks!!!
I would love this Diaper Genie. I never owned one but i think it would be very nice to have. Hope I win!
OMG, yes please!
wow i love to try and win this i could realy use one thanks
Oh, I’d love to win this!!! There is nothing like the smell of diapers! I keep a bag of leftover grocery sacks next to my changing table so every time I change a diaper I can put it in a bag and wrap it up before tossing in the trash. It helps majorly!!!
My daughter would love this. Thanks
In my son’s room, we have this cute little trash can, that has a lid and a thing to step on to open the lid. Then it has an inside trash can to make it easy to empty. The whole thing is really cute and my toddler can use it too, but it does not contain smells at all. If we ever forget to empty his trash can one night, his whole room reeks in the morning. It’s awful.
count me in
Would Love to win this, for my smelly 4 month old Angel:) It was on my babyshower list, but didn’t get it:(
We really, really need that over here 🙂
we NEED one of these. the one we have now permanently smells of poopie diaper belch. yuck!
I would love to win this! My first born is due in Feb and we have a small New York apt! This would save us!
I really, really need a new diaper pail!!!
ohh sign me up!!
very cool
our diaper dekor has become disgusting…we would love this!
Yes! I would love to win a Diaper Genie!!
I would love to win this for my little ones stinky diapers.
My Brother in Law/SIL just found out that they are pregnant and are on a very tight budget. I would LOVE to win this!
A diaper genie would be great! I usually take the dirty diapers out to the garbage can, but with the cold weather coming, this would be slightly more convenient. =)
I need this! My husband gags everytime he has to take out the diapers… it can get pretty stinky!
Count me in – I have plenty of stinky diapers at my house that need help!!
Ohhh this would make life so much sweeter… smelling that is!
Thanks for entering me!!
Count me in.
This would make a great baby shower gift!
Bless your heart! That situation sounds all to familiar…my husband has done things like that too! We’d love to win this.
I would like to win this for my cousin. She’s having her first child.
This would be great for my niece!
I would love to win this for my new baby boy’s nursery!
~erin
lovinthebelly[at]gmail[dot]com
http://lovinthebelly.blogspot.com/
I have two under two… lots and lots and lots of diapers. I could use this beauty! Please?
With two under two, we NEED this!
Thanks so much for the chance to win this!
can’t wait to win
We need this so badly! Thanks for the contest!
I have two people this could be given to, both will be due within two weeks of each other in March, what a great gift! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
I would love to win this since my first baby is on the way!
One of these would be so appreciated! We live in an apartment and this would make thing so much easier! Thanks for the giveaway!
Thank you for the chance to win. My daughter could use this right now!
I’d love to win for a single mom here 🙂 whose due in 7 weeks.thanks.
I could definitely use one of theses!!!!!
I NEED one of these!!! It’s amazing how much smelliness can come from such a tiny bottom!
Diaper Genie would come in quite handy with a newborn on his way and a two year old still in diapers. Thanks for this opportunity.
I’ve heard this work really well. If I won this, I’d give it to a girlfriend who is expecting.
The diaper genie can work great!
I have always wanted a diaper genie, but have been too cheap to buy one for myself. LOL
We can use this in our new home with a new baby on the way! Great giveaway
My son and his wife can use this! I hope I win, I’ll give it to them.
What’s there not to love about a product like this? I hate odors around the house.
This would be great. We have a baby due in March and smelly diapers are the one thing I am not looking forward to dealing with again.
Um, yes please? DH and I are kind of having a falling out with our diaper pail so this would be LOVELY!
We have two in diapers – and this would be WONDERFUL 😉
I could really use a new diaper pail. Count me in!
I’d love to win!
I love your story! I would have killed my husband, you must have a lot of patience!
Perfect! We’re expecting another little one, and this would come in VERY handy!
This would be so nice! I hate walking into the house to the smell of dirty diapers!
I would love to win the Diaper Genie! They are always a great thing to have around for all those nasty diapers! Thanks!
This would be great. Even with bags, sometimes our trash can can get a bit smelly.
I’m only about a year away from being done with diapers (HOORAY!) but my SIL is having her first in April. And they live in a small apartment. She could definitely use this!
I was just on the rampage last night, interrogating each of the big people in house to determine who left SEVERAL diapers unbagged in our garbage can! Even in the garage, I could smell them from the house 🙁
ohhhh we know that smell alll too well!!!
I would love to give my DIL this. Thanks for the chance.
Would love this:) With a home child care things get rather stinky around here.