25 October 2008  Coffee beans in the diaper pail reduce the
smell  Kristine's hack will set you back a few (Star)bucks, but
may be worth it:  When our son started eating solids, the poop
-- and therefore the diaper pail -- got a lot stinkier. A friend
suggested that I dump a bag of whole bean coffee in the bottom
of the pail before I put the bag in. In order to contain the
beans, I put them in a zip-up mesh laundry bag. I couldn't
believe that it worked! At first it smelled a little bit like
Starbucks in my son's room, but after about a week, we really
couldn't smell the coffee, and even better, we couldn't smell
the poop either.  Related: Fabric softener sheet reduces diaper
pail smell  Your comments  I'm sure that that would put me right
off of coffee for a long long time. At least 2 weeks!  It took
me a while, but I finally hit on a combination that worked
pretty well -- activated charcoal (you can get it in the fish
aquarium department of pet stores) in an old stocking at the
bottom of the pail, and a few