I've never intended this blog to be a forum to discuss the merits or detriments of global warming and the green movement. However, since having a baby, I have learned that diapers are anything but earth friendly. A single diaper, I'll give you, isn't really that bad. It's not going to push the landfill over the edge or anything. But, as Addie goes through at least--I'm estimating here--a thousand diapers a day, I don't think we're helping all that much. Don't worry, I'm trying to offset Addie's prolific poopage by exhaling additional carbon dioxide on plants and watching Ferngully. (Who knew that fairies lived in the rainforest? Why was that not in An Inconvenient Truth?)
Thankfully, our friends in the baby industry are looking out for the average Joe like me. They're aware that after only a day or two, it's possible that your house can be swallowed in an avalanche of dirty diapers. This is why the Diaper Genie was invented. If you've never heard of the Diaper Genie--once you have a baby, you will. For the uninitiated, though, let me give you a brief description. The Diaper Genie is a two-foot plastic tower with a hinged lid, hiding a device that whisks diapers away to some nether realm where no smell molecule can escape. Basically, having a Diaper Genie is like having the most useful droid from Star Wars ever. Yeah, R2-D2 was pretty cool, but until R2 can dispose of diapers in addition to his (its?) regular duties of beeping and hanging out with C3P0, the Diaper Genie has the edge.
I know what you're thinking. "Paul, this Diaper Genie you're talking about sounds like the best invention ever! I bet I could dispose of lots of smelly things in there, like roadkill or old VHS tapes of CHiPs. Where can I get one?" Well, slow down there, Speed Racer. The Diaper Genie's not all rainbows and bubble-gum. It's great...until you have to change it. Turns out, the nether realm that the Diaper Genie transports Addie's dirty business is not an alternate dimension where down is up and black is white--it's just a garbage bag, closed by a clamp. Don't get me wrong, prior to its having to be changed, the Diaper Genie does do a good job of locking the smell away. But when you pull that oblong bag of nastiness out of the base of the Diaper Genie, you're immediately reminded of the fact that your baby has pooped her weight several times over.
Thankfully, the usefulness of the Diaper Genie easily outweighs the unpleasantness of changing it. It holds like thirty dirty diapers or so, which is great, because that means the current bag should last us until, maybe, tomorrow.
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