Wet bags are amazing. They have so many uses.
When you’re cloth diapering, wet bags are great for storing dirty diapers in the home, or when out and about. When you’re potty training, they’re great for keeping clean outfits clean, and dirty training pants contained. They’re perfect for mama-cloth (cloth menstrual pads) too.
Aside from all their usual cloth diaper and pad uses, they are also great for packing clothes in, toting dirty laundry around, and of course for the beach to cart around wet bathing suits.
It is always a good idea to have something to put wet items in to keep them separate from your dry items.
Best of all is that they are super affordable, especially when you consider that you’ll be using them for so many things, and for so long after your baby is potty trained.
Wet bags come in all shapes and sizes, you can even get small ones for sandwiches and snacks. In this post, however, I’m going to be talking exclusively about the wet bags that you’ll want for cloth diapering: hanging wet bags and travel wet bags. So let’s take a closer look at when you would want to use each of those:
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How to Use Hanging Wet Bags
Hanging wet bags are a cost-effective alternative to having a diaper pail and pail liner to store your dirty diapers in at home.
They are essentially very large wet bags that have zipper closures and loops, ties, or some other means to attach them to things. You can tie them to change tables, door handles, or any other such piece of furniture you have in the small space you need to store dirty diapers in. This keeps them off the floor and away from little hands.
Using a hanging wet bag is pretty simple, you just put the dirty diapers in, and then come laundry day, you empty it into the washing machine, and throw the bag in to be washed as well.
How to use Travel Wet Bags
Travel wet bags are smaller than hanging wet bags. They sometimes have two pockets, one for wet things and one for dry, and often have one small loop, so that you can attach them to strollers, your diaper bag, etc.
Travel wet bags are made for just that, when you’re out in public, traveling around with your diapers.
Just like hanging wet bags, you use travel wet bags by just popping your dirty diapers inside (making sure if it’s a two-pocket bag the pocket you put them in is the waterproof one), and empty the diapers into the washer on laundry day, throwing the bag in too.
Here is a quick look at the wet bags I recommend if you’re in a hurry, but if not I recommend reading my tips on what to look for in a wet bag below before you buy.
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Best Hanging Wet Bag for Cloth Diapers
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Best Affordable Travel Wet Bag
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Most Stylish Travel Wet Bag
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