Using A'care nappy bin, room still stinks

[erikab922]

We've been using the Angelcare nappy bin since LO was born, and for a while it was really good (we use the Litter Locker for our cat and they use the same cartridges so we were pros at it even before LO arrived).

Now she's on solids and her poop stinks to high heaven I'm finding the nappy bin to be pretty gross. We have two of them and rotate them around in case one seems to be getting extra smelly, we take it apart and disinfect it and use the other one in its place.

I don't know if it's because LO is bigger now and has more wee in her nappies, but there seems to be condensation on the lid quite often, and even though we are using it exactly right and wrap up the nappies tight and use the tabs to close them up into little balls before putting them in, her room *stinks* when we so much as open the lid.

I'm thinking about ditching it but just wondering what I should do in its place. We have nappy buckets from when we used cloth (our water bill went from £25 a month to £62 - argh!) but reckon we'd just have the same problem. I don't really want to use nappy bags as I already feel bad about the waste from disposables so don't want to add to it. Just chuck it in the main bin and light a candle?

 

[sbl]

Tbh I got a nappy bin (as a present) and used for about 2 days. Its a total waste if you ask me and just one more thing to clean. I'd rather just stick them in the bin outside, I remember from my sisters one and she found it to be rather useless after the first few weeks too.

 

[sbl]

Oh and I've just seen your on the 5/2 diet! How's it going?? was thinking of giving it a go myself!

 

[Indi84]

I love my nappy bin as I live in a flat, I can get to outside bins easily. Do they smell straight away our could you just change it every night? I change mine every two days anyway.
some people I know flush the poop down the toilet then put the nappy in the bin.

 

[erikab922]

Oh and I've just seen your on the 5/2 diet! How's it going?? was thinking of giving it a go myself!

You know, it's pretty good... HOWEVER I am such a raging bitch on the 2 500-calorie days that my husband pretty much can't even talk to me after about 5pm without me wanting to bite his head off, poor thing.

I love my nappy bin as I live in a flat, I can get to outside bins easily. Do they smell straight away our could you just change it every night? I change mine every two days anyway.
some people I know flush the poop down the toilet then put the nappy in the bin.

That's a good point, we tend to wait until it's full before we change it, we could try changing it more often - I say 'we', that's my husband's job!

 

[sbl]

How many cals on the diet days do you take in?

 

[erikab922]

How many cals on the diet days do you take in?

Women take 500, men can have 600. You know it's bad when it's 10.30pm and you're on the McDonald's website looking up calorie counts...

 

[jd83]

Try dumping some baking soda in the bin. That usually helps ours to not smell so horrific.