Have you ever wondered what’s in my diaper bag?
Ok. Truthfully, I don’t even use a diaper bag. Since I already throw out a pretty strong mother vibe, I try to maintain whatever semblance of put-together adultness that I possibly can. For me, that means carrying an overflowing women’s purse, with diapers and wipe cases spilling out the top. (Feel free to step up for a sponsorship, gorgeous diaper bag companies!)
Once all the garbage and receipts and wrappers have been removed from my bag, you will likely find:
- no less than three baby toys
- a few Hot Wheels
- an old single packaged cookie that if ever opened would unleash the biggest crumb storm ever
- a wallet that is so old the leather has fused onto my cards
- a change pad
- my ereader (as if I had time to read these days)
- a DSLR camera, if I can possibly squeeze it in
and
- a wet bag
If you’re a parent who cloth diapers, you know what a wet bag is. Wet bags make it possible for cloth diaper babies to leave the house without Mama worrying that her purse will come home covered in poop. They are portable barriers between dirty cloth diapers and the world, allowing parents to bring home dirty diapers without worrying about the smell or the mess.
Oh, but friends? Wet bags are all that and so much more!
Which is why I am officially putting wet bags on my 2012 Holiday Gift Guide!
I honestly believe all parents should have a wet bag or two in their purse diaper bag. Even if you never plan on carrying a dirty diaper further than the nearest garbage can, babies are messy! I am certain we have all needed a place to store a miniature piece of clothing drenched in body fluid. Heck, I have even shoved a vile disposable diaper into my purse while at someone’s house so that I wouldn’t leave their house smelling like the inside of a toddler’s Diaper Genie. How brilliant would it be to have a zippered, easy-clean bag to keep all those smells and goos away from everything else?
Since I don’t carry a dedicated diaper bag, I use my wet bag as one. When I get ready to leave the house, I put a couple clean diapers, a change of baby clothes, and a stack of wipes into the bag. All of this goes into my purse and makes me more organized than I am normally accustomed to in my two-child state. If the diaper I am changing is particularly messy, I’ll take the clean things out and put them nilly willy into my purse again. This same system works really well with disposable diapers too. It just keeps everything separate and easy to find in that big giant bag we women need to carry with us all the time.
Want to hear who else uses wet bags? Brace yourself. It is a little surprising:
Hot yoga-ers (is that a thing?). These people get mighty sweaty and find that wet bags are the perfect way to get sweaty yoga clothes home.
So, there you have it. My second addition to my 2012 Holiday Gift Guide. A wet bag: for parents with young children or your friendly neighbourhood gym rat. You can also make gift giving environmentally friendly by using the wet bag as gift wrap. Hides a gift inside and leaves the receiver with a useful bag!
Of course, I wouldn’t leave you empty handed. I asked my friends at Hipkiddo Cloth Diapers if they would provide a wet bag for my readers! Enter below using the Rafflecopter app. There will be a super simple easy comment entry. Don’t feel like you need to jump through any hoops. But if you want, there will be some extra ways to enter too.
Mommy Miracles’ 2012 Holiday Gift Guide
For toddlers: W is for Wapiti! Alphabet rhyme book and music CD
For parents and/or workout gurus: Hipkiddo Wet Bag
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The small print: I use Hipkiddo cloth diapers on Gavin. They’re an awesome cloth diaper choice if you’re looking for green, affordable diaper options. Be sure to Like Hipkiddo on Facebook and follow on Twitter to hear about chances to save and win. Hipkiddo provided cloth diapers (and a wet bag) for the purposes of this blog series but all opinions are my own.
I LOVE wet bags! I feel like I could use more!
I have one large one for at home and a matching travel/medium sized one.
And also purchased a set from a woman who makes them! Again a travel size one for the diaper bag and a matching small wet bag the size of a pencil case which is great for baby toys like Sophie the giraffe, breast pump, wipes-whatever you don’t want to get dirty/stay clean for baby :)
A tiny one would be awesome! Especially for Cameron who used soothers!
Laura recently posted..Wet Bags: Not Just For Cloth Diapers Any More
I think wet bags are awesome. After their babyhood, one can also use them for when they go swimming (for the wet shorts, or small towels). I’m currently using one my friend made as Monkey’s bag-for-soiled-clothes for preschool. Awesome.
Did you notice that it is a worldwide giveaway? ;)
Laura recently posted..Wet Bags: Not Just For Cloth Diapers Any More
I did not! Thanks for the heads up, I’ve entered!
I do cloth diaper part time but can you believe I don’t have a portable wet bag?? I’d been using plastic grocery bags!
Rach (DonutsMama) recently posted..A Thanksgiving Thank You
I’ve been cloth diapering for a year now and still haven’t gotten around to getting a wet bag…would love to win one!
I dislike wrapping so it’s saved for the end when all my gifts are bought and wrapping becomes inevitable. I’d love to do something environmentally-friendly, and a wet bag is a great gift AND wrap idea for an adult.
No more babies in my house but I have three little water babies! Kids have swimming lessons once a week and we swim as a family every weekend…a wet bag would be very handy!
I usually wrap all at once, but I’ve been doing them as I get them this year and it’s been a lot less chaotic!
I wrap as I go!!! mmm wrapping.
i had a wetbag when i first had Gabe and was cloth diapering him – but we’re not anymore and i sold the bag with the diapers. after this post im totally regretting that decision!!!!
candice recently posted..The New Normal
one big wrapping party all at once!
candice recently posted..The New Normal
Love wet bags, and love that this giveaway is international! Ps love your blog!
ive been needing a wet bag for a while now!!
I mainly wrap all items all on one day…sometimes it’s two shifts for those last minute gifts!
Natalie recently posted..The Turkey Day
i wrap all at once. i like to shop over a few months so if i wrapped in advance i’d have no idea what my kids were getting and they might get stuff doubled
When I wrap its mostly done all at once. I take everything out of its packaging and/or remove all stickers and tags so when the present is opened it’s ready to be used. This way it saves on the mess Christmas morning and you’re not keeping all this recycling until it’s time for it to get picked up like a week or two later. We’ve been using the same rolls from Costco for going on 4 years now!
I wrap as I get them, and use fabric bags or repurposed wrapping whenever possible.
I wrap all at once! Usually takes me two days. And every year I have a different “theme” so my gifts are all wrapped in a similar fashion (which makes it easy when we go to my parents’ house and are giving out gifts from the pile under the tree!).
Neither – I wrap one family at a time, but not all together.
And no, but I am wrapping in an economically friendly way this year!
Last year I left everything until Christmas Eve and then found out at midnight I had no tape. This year I bought 6 rolls but I’ll probably still wait until the last minute! I am sort of environmentally friendly in that I reuse gift bags, but mostly just because I’m cheap!