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24/7 startups, and unexpected pitfalls?
Little Sherri replied to Little Sherri's topic in Diaper Lovers
I've been touching on this theme a bit, lately, and I could see someone looking at this from outside, and thinking to themselves, "It's deliberate, he's engineering these situations", but I swear that it's entirely coincidental, or, that the Universe has a plan of some sort, and I am just a cog in that machine. But I'm not particularly religious, so I think it's probably just viscous circumstance, in the end. So, how long has it been since a pair of your pants exploded? I don't mean in the "oh my God I had curry last night and..." sense of the term, I mean the traditional splitting of pants, or in this case shorts, that can happen to anyone, diapered or not? It's been a long time for me. Well, it had been. Now, like lost time injuries in a factory, the calendar gets reset to zero, and it takes a while to get back up to an impressive number. I was helping a friend rebuild part of a deck. We were having to shimmy over, or limbo under, joists, in order to facilitate this, and some of them had the cut-off ends of old nails sticking out of them. This was at that friend's place, let's call him George, and his wife can be Mindy. George and Mindy know I wear diapers - I've discussed this ad nauseum - and they're cool about it and nothing is said and life goes on. So, I wouldn't be overly concerned about, say, a waistline reveal or something like that, although I had a long t-shirt on, anyway, well tucked in under my hanging golf shirt. All the climbing and stooping demanded it - we had other friends dropping in and out. Despite the gymnastics, the shirt had a long tail, and there was no chance it would become untucked enough to expose white plastic to the sunlight, or in this case, white "cloth-like backing" because I was in an Active Air. All was going fine, until the fateful moment when I slid across a beam, and caught one of those mostly-cut-off old nails, right at ground zero. The shorts, already aged, and washed a thousand times, died without making a sound - I just felt a change in the air pressure down below, and reached back to have a feel around... and I was able to make easy contact with exposed diaper, although I had no idea how visible it was. AND, I had to clamber up out of the hole I was standing in, and take a big step up onto a ledge, and walk along it like an iron worker, over to a door, in order to go check the status of my behind, with my eyes in a mirror. "Parden me, folks, I just have to attend to something here..." was all I said, and then my buddy said, "Oh boy, yeah, might be time to retire those..." Mindy said, "I'd offer to sew those, but I think there's nothing left to sew anything to... do you have another pair of shorts? Do you want to borrow a pair from George?" This is where being an experienced diapernaut comes in handy, because of course, I had a spare pair of shorts in the trunk of my car, in my diaper bag, because I always carry something in there - shorts, jeans, a clothing option, in case of a catastrophic loss of containment, and I guess this was such a situation, although not in the conventional sense. The shorts I had were snugger, more athletic in design, than the baggy old cargo shorts that had failed me so completely, but at that point, it hardly mattered, which I realized once I was able to get in front of a mirror - there was a 6-inch tear up the back of my shorts on about a 45-degree angle, and other than if I stood completely still, it yawned sufficiently to expose a good patch of diaper. The diaper being white, maybe, maybe, someone could think to themselves, "those are white boxer shorts", but when the diaper was as wet from sweat as it was from beer that my body was turning into wee, so it was characteristically puffy, and I just knew that nobody seeing what I was seeing, would think anything other than, "Well, that's unfortunate... your pants have split and exposed your nappy..." So, the somewhat snugger than I appreciate athletic shorts from my diaper bag were a welcome retreat from my current situation. I changed my diaper, to relieve some of the puffiness, at least temporarily, and I put my new shorts on, and I returned to the job, and then we drank beer, and discussed the next phase in the operation, and then I went home, but, I'm feeling slightly dumb, I guess, as I view the incident in the rearview mirror. I made this choice, I did this to myself, these are the stupid prizes you get from playing stupid games. But caveat emptor, to anyone reading my babbling and thinking to themselves, "Being in diapers all the time sounds so awesome..." It mostly is awesome, but not always. You have to take the crunchy with the smooth. -
I concur with both of the above. I’m trailing a little behind the estimable @oznl in terms of my tenure as a diapernaut, but I’ve been at this for more than 6 years, and, I wore nappies to bed recreationally for a year before that. Bedwetting to the extent that I have to wear them to bed, or I’m courting an Exxon Valdez-grade loss of containment, is still relatively new to me. It finally dawned on me that this was not wishful thinking, maybe a couple of years ago, and had I been typing this a month ago, I’d have been regaling you with m story of now being a chronic and incurable bedwetter, since I drank for about 10 days straight, over Christmas, and never looked back. Except… I’ve gone back to waking up dry, maybe half the time. Perhaps it’s the hot weather. But I don’t think about it, or care, except when I’m reminiscing about it, here. I want to wear diapers to bed, and I do, and sometimes, I need them. my advice is, wear them, pee in them, don’t think too much about it, and after a while, entropy will prevail.
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I have a drawer in my dresser for the week’s supply of disposables, and then another drawer in the walk-in closet for cloth diapers and plastic pants. I also have a diaper can, for disposables, in our closet. The diaper drawer gets refilled from the basement, where I have about 10 cases on shelves, in their original boxes and bags. I go “shopping” down there every week or so, to restock my drawer. I also have another drawer for diaper shirts. One thing I’m missing, and it’s sort of a chicken-egg argument, is a diaper pail for cloth diapers. I don’t use them that often, so usually, I rinse them in the shower, and then put them straight in the wash, whereas if I had a diaper pail, maybe I’d wear them more often, because sometimes I just don’t have time to put laundry on, so I’ll wear a disposable instead.
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Diaper prices are insane right now
Little Sherri replied to iweardiapers's topic in Our Lifestyle Discussion
InControl is apparently having a sale starting on June 30th, with 30% off the entire site. I assume this includes disposables - maybe stock up? I’d imagine Rearz will follow suit at some point. -
I don’t always wear diapers in public, because I’m not always in public, but I always wear diapers when I’m in public, because I’m 24/7, so does that count as “always”, or as “sometimes”? I’ve had no negative feedback in 6 years, and only a handful of people have become aware. That said, I practice normal levels of discretion - I treat my diaper like underwear, but not like a nuclear secret. At some point, I had to accept that if I’m going to wear diapers all the time, everywhere, then I have to accept that there is a more than zero chance of them being detected. Would I like to publicly wear one? Maybe within the right “public” - maybe camping or visiting with like-minded people. But I wouldn’t set out to inflict “this” on unsuspecting strangers.
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I had this exact conversation with my wife last year, when she had a colonoscopy. She said something like, “Do not tie up this bathroom - use another toilet. I can’t be held responsible for what happens if I don’t have a clear runway when I need it.” To which I said, “I have some great diapers you could try…” Her response was not fit to print. Your wife is cooler than mine, @willnotwill!
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Size 8 diapers popularity
Little Sherri replied to Sarah_Hillcrest's topic in Product Reviews and Info
The cynic in me suspects that you are right, but that the “size 9’s” they’ll create will be 2% larger than the size 8’s that already exist. It’s an arms race where the ammunition is bullshit, but I suspect there is another real reason behind this “peak diaper size” wall we seem to have hit, in addition to the sales of superhero training pants that would be forfeited, if they made diapers that fit 10-12 year-olds at half the cost. I’m betting that the manufacturing equipment they’re using was designed to produce up to size 6 diapers, because that was all that was available, until a few years ago. Which explains why the size 7’s are slightly bigger than size 6’s, and 8’s are indistinguishable from 7’s. 6 used to be the outlier - the volume was in 0 to 4’s and 5’s - lots of 3-year-olds weigh around 30 lbs, and that’s the age most kids start potty training and learning how big kids differ from babies. Most of them can wear size 5’s just fine. So, they’d have to invest in expanded equipment, to make a size 9 diaper that was notably larger than a size 8, and they’d only add a second line if they had the volume expectations to justify it. And that second line would then take sales away from pull-up diaper products that they can sell for twice as much, that probably cost about the same amount to make. -
Size 8 diapers popularity
Little Sherri replied to Sarah_Hillcrest's topic in Product Reviews and Info
@Sarah_Hillcrest, unfortunately, at least here in Canada, where I reside, the size 8 kid diapers that have made it to the market are not appreciably larger than the size 7's. I have size 7 and size 8 Pampers Swaddlers in my inventory, and I taped them both to my counter top, and broke out the ruler, and then I weighed them on a kitchen scale that goes down to decimals of a gram, and basically, they're the same diaper. I don't have a tension gauge to work with, so maybe you could argue I didn't stretch them perfectly equally, when I measured them, and if I'm being generous, the size 8 diaper was 0.25 inches wider, and no longer, than the size 7. And the scale doesn't lie - I weighed a few of each, and took an average, and the size 8's actually weighed less than the size 7's, on average - only a fraction of a gram, but still. There is definitely not more material in there. Maybe they've upped the SAP content slightly, in order to move the weight rating up to 46+ lbs, from 42, but I think this is all marketing puffery, basically. Someone else launched a size 8, and so all the big players decided to get in the game, but, they didn't want to compete with their own lines of more profitable (and generally less effective) pull-ups, which have been marketed to older and younger kids, for years - this is clearly the arena the manufacturers prefer to invest the most marketing dollars in. Goodnites will now effectively fit almost anyone up to age 20 (XXL), and they are also marketing Pampers Cruisers and other "pull-on" diaper products for babies, trying to walk people away from tabbed diapers. So, we probably won't see a Pampers size 9, or if we do, it will be indistinguishable from size 8. This is partially because size 7 & 8 diapers can already fit kids aged 7-10 - another comparison I did was to take the size chart off of a package of girl's underpants, which showed the waist size for age groups in 2-year increments (2,4,6,8 etc), and I compared that with the measurements I got from the stretched-out baby diapers, and guess what? A Pampers size 7 or 8 could fit practically all 6-year-olds, most 8-year-olds, and some 10-year-olds - their height grows in a somewhat direct proportion to their weight, whereas their waist sizes rise at a lower ratio to their weight so that a 70-lb kid might have a waist not much larger than a 50-lb kid, but they might be quite a bit taller. This demographic - kid who can speak for themselves, and request products that they've seen advertised - is where companies are spending millions on licensing fees for Marvel characters and such - they want 8-year-olds wearing $1-per-pair pull-up diapers, not 50 cent tabbed diapers that last longer than the pull-ups do. And let's face it, most 8-year-olds want that, too, because the marketing has been suggesting that you're not a "big kid" until you can pull on your own diapers, from when they were first aware that their underclothes weren't like mommy's & daddy's. It's a sales pitch to get an older kid to agree to wear a "diaper", as opposed to a "pullup" or "bedtime underpants", or choose your euphemism. Although interestingly, my younger daughter eventually identified that diapers were actually slimmer-fitting than Goodnites, for situations where she didn't want people to be aware of what was under her pajamas. One thing that was interesting is that they put the word "BACK!" on the rear of the Swaddlers size 8's, which most of the other baby diapers do not have on them, suggesting that they are aware that some people might, A) be putting these diapers on themselves, and, B ), they can read a bit. Cuties went in a different direction, and briefly introduced their "Boundless" size 8 tabbed diapers, that were rated to 75 lbs, and probably could have fit people into their teens, or even small adults. The ads targeted handicapped children, as well as able-bodied kids. However, they disappeared almost as soon as they landed - you can still find a spot for them on Amazon, but they have been out of stock since they launched. I suspect the initial market response was effusive, causing them to ask themselves if they had just cannibalized more profitable product lines. Or maybe "Big Diaper" and the FBI shut the down. Or maybe this coincides with their getting the Kirkland diaper contract from Costco, and they decided they needed the production space to fill those giant orders, instead of catering to a relatively small market of kids, and their caregivers, who prefer a real diaper. You can put me in that category, of course, but most of "us" aren't wired like the average bear, on that topic. I stopped wearing diapers to bed when the largest Pampers of the day (1980's) would only fit me with help from Scotch tape, and had I thought of it, I would have gone on a strict diet, in order to be able to still have access to real diapers for a bit longer. But I didn't think of it, and that was right around when my bedwetting was dying of natural causes, anyway, and I walked away from baby diapers, not knowing how good I had it, until they were too far in the rearview mirror to be retrieved. Pampers, Huggies and the likes, would never risk associating their billion-dollar brands with a kink that most people don't understand, so alas, other than unlicensed knock-offs, there will probably never be a Pampers size 10, 12 or 14. I'm sure they know, and don't mind that "we" still buy some of their products - witness the XXL Goodnites enthusiastic embrace from our community - but they won't admit it. -
It seems to be part of the deal, unfortunately. If you stand for a bit and "drip dry" before repackaging the equipment, you might be able to mitigate some of this effect. I long ago reconciled myself to mostly being at least somewhat we, although in a good diaper, it's not really very noticeable for the first third of a diaper's life, anyway. But I typically wear 2 - 3 diapers in a 24-hour period, so after the first hour, I'm inevitably a bit damp, and after a few hours, there's wetness. It really only gets on my nerves in the last few hours - sometimes, if I'm wearing a grandiose product, something good for 16+ hours, I might be at hour 10, and start thinking, "It would be nice not to be wet for a while", but I generally try and see it through, if I can, because over time, that saves me a fair bit of money. An exception would be if I find myself unexpectedly having to go somewhere - I don't leave the house in a diaper with more than 8 hours on the clock very often, other than to walk the dog maybe, or to run to the post office. My theory is, they know, anyway - they deliver my diapers.
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It has to be different, that's what keeps the beasts fed - if what you bought a couple of years ago looks remotely interchangeable with what's "hot" this year, the dump trucks full of money that are backed up to the fashion alter, will be less full. That's why I'm glad I'm a middle-aged guy - the cargo shorts I bought 5 years ago look exactly like the ones I can buy today. Maybe the ones from 5 years ago are a bit tight, but if I drop some weight, nobody would be the wiser if I wore them golfing. And, I pretty much choose all my lower wardrobe with at least one eye to their camouflage capabilities, because I have a big nappy on under there, and I don't want people making note of that... As to what's on the video's, I did a very fast skip through them, and I did note the one guy wearing the diaper cover in the first one - it would be cool, if I could pull a diaper cover on, and take the train downtown, and be at the height of fashion. The guy in the second one with the giant diaper pin hanging from his blazer - a nod to the ABDL's out there? Other than that, I'd note more than anything, that they seem to be mashing up athletic wear and business wear, so that everyone has high-necked track suits, or shorts, under trench coats, or quasi suit jackets.
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24/7 startups, and unexpected pitfalls?
Little Sherri replied to Little Sherri's topic in Diaper Lovers
Well, after teasing us from May to now, peering at us around corners, and then running away, summer has come into the room in a muscle shirt, and punched us all in the face. It allegedly feels like 46 C here right now - about 110 F. It's goddamn hot. I'm in my office in a diaper and a t-shirt; I generally don't run the A/C in my office nearly as much as the main unit is run (my office has a separate A/C), perhaps to offset a fraction of the carbon footprint my wife generates, when she keeps the house at "see my breath" temperatures, at night. If there's a good breeze, with all the windows open, I can be comfortable in my office at 25 degrees without artificial cooling. But right now, it's like standing in the open door of an oven, up here. My diaper is getting wetter from perspiration than from wee, which my kidneys have largely stopped producing. I had another reminder of the normalization of "this", this morning, when my wife asked me, out of the blue, "When are you organizing your diapers again?" I tend to go on alert status when asked a question like that, because it makes me suspect that she's once again eyeing my corner of the basement, for other uses, and for her, plastic tape-on underpants are like sheets of paper towel - you don't open a new case, until you finish the old case, because there is no functional or aesthetic difference between them. I do engage in some consolidation exercises down there, putting like with like, so that, for example, one remaining bag of Lil' Monsters ends up with 2/3's of a case of another daytime-weight printed diaper, like a Lil' Splash, or a Crinklz. But I won't put a stray sleeve of ABU Little Kings into a case of BeDry Night's, just because there's room in there. They do not occupy the same niche in my ecosystem. "I need to restock my diaper drawer at some point, probably today, because I have to go to (redacted) for work (overnight car trip from where I am). What's up?" "I really want to organize my office, and I need some decent boxes - if you happen to be able to free up a couple, I could use them." "Your wish is my command." So this morning, I put some Active Airs in with some Tena's, and some BeDry EliteCare's in with some BeDry Nights, and I donated a couple of boxes to the cause. That has me thinking of what to do with that shelf space. They did just introduce an XL size of the Rearz Luna Cubs and Omutsu Purrfection line, although I'm not sure I "need" any more absurdly-printed, "sold on their alleged bulk" disposables, with their novelty pricing tariff. I'll probably see if there's a summer sale that I can use to restock my larders more empirically, rather than on impulse. If I'm doing this like a supply chain analyst, and not like a giddy ABDL with a credit card, I'd probably go with some BeDry's, and either some BeDry Nights, or some Mega Inspire+'s. Plus maybe a case of Active Airs. The BeDry's are an 8-10 hour day-weight diaper, and the BeDry Nights or Mega Inspire+'s are close to interchangeable, functionally, as a 12-16 hour overnight or "long day" diaper. The Active Air's work well where reliability and discretion are needed in equal parts, whereas the wee Tena's in my collection are for maximum discretion (IE, at the gym), but with a tradeoff that you are only insured for a couple of hours. -
The Girl Who Wanted to Wear Diapers (Ch. 46- 06/25/25)
Little Sherri replied to AB_DeLane's topic in Story and Art Forum
It's a laborious process - I don't know how @AB_DeLane works, but speaking for myself, I can't "dabble" in writing, when I have a few minutes here and there. I don't get into the flow, and I also tend to forget details or insert useless artifacts that I later have to extract, or I write myself into dead ends. I need to immerse myself, in order to be productive, and a chapter can require several hours in maybe a couple of shifts. It can be hard to squeeze sufficient uninterrupted time into a schedule already populated with life's many demands. As we are only paying them with our likes and compliments, we have to be patient.- 455 replies
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Shifting Sands - Chapter 68 - 01/25
Little Sherri replied to Little Sherri's topic in Story and Art Forum
It's not dead, I swear - I have been writing chapters in my head since Christmas. My work schedule got really busy, and it's interfered with my ability to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), but I solemnly swear that I will continue working on this. I appreciate everyone's patience. -
Where is the last time you pooped your diaper?
Little Sherri replied to incondl's topic in Stinky, Squishy & Proud
It's been a while - probably February, I think? I do an experiment every now and then where I use my diapers for everything for a few days, partially because I think it makes me a more well-rounded "expert" on wearing diapers, knowing what life is like over on that side of the tracks, even if I generally only use my diapers for #1, unless I run into a genuine need to call a code brown. But it's also partially to remind myself why I generally don't do it - I find the cleanup laborious, and it increases my diaper burn rate a fair bit - I have to go at least once a day, and usually it's twice, and on both "occasions", by diaper gets binned within a half hour or less. I have, on some past experiments, timed my goes to when I would be changing anyway, which helps a bit, but this last time, I wanted to have a somewhat more "authentic" understanding of the potential inconveniences (and wonders, I guess, depending on your stance on these things...) of having to go when your body commands it, and not by the clock, so I didn't go until I really needed to, which sometimes landed at times when the cadence of my diaper schedule had me in one that still had some life left in it. Don't get me wrong, I didn't follow my self-imposed rule so religiously as to, for example, poop while in the car with my wife, or in a store, but, as soon as I got a moment by myself, and in surroundings where it was manageable, and not impolite, I would go. I recall walking the dog with a load on board, because I was slinking out onto the deck to "do the deed", while supposedly clearing snow off the barbecue, and then when I was heading back inside, my wife said, "Before you take your jacket off, take the dog around the block." I couldn't exactly say, "Sorry, honey, no-can-do, I just loaded up my Huggies, and I'd like to take a shower..." -
I've done some diapered work on my pool today. Well, I had shorts on over it. My wife has repeatedly threatened to push me into the pool, just to see how big my butt gets. @DailyDi, the CFL is already playing - you could watch some riveting Canadian football! It's a bit of a farm league for the NFL - people don't make anywhere near as much money, but a few people from the CFL have played in the NFL, and a few NFL people have played in the CFL. It's a slightly different game - 3 downs, I think the field is a bit wider, you get a point, even if you miss the kick, if it clears the endzone, there are some other differences that someone more football-literate than I am could explain.
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24/7 startups, and unexpected pitfalls?
Little Sherri replied to Little Sherri's topic in Diaper Lovers
I am cautiously getting used to having friends who "know", or at least "don't not know" about the peculiarities under my shorts. It changes nothing, in terms of my behaviour - it's one thing for them to be aware, and not care, but it's another entirely, for me to edge "this" further into the sunlight, either as an experiment, or for some kind of kicks. Their unspoken expectation is, I'm sure, that I'd be as discreet about this aspect of my lived reality, as they are about their unmentionables. Although my buddy will walk around his house in the morning in his boxer shorts. I am going to assume that they would prefer that I not do that, either in my own boxer shorts, or in the BeDry Night that I slept in, in their guest suite last night. I would walk around my own house in boxers, if I owned any, and I do walk around in diapers, sometimes, although more often in our bedroom than through the rest of the house. But have I been in the kitchen in my man-Pampers, getting a drink for my wife, at 10 PM, while we're watching a show? It's happened. I spend a lot of time with these people, anyway - we have a lot in common, and help each other out with lots of things, and our kids are friends. But not having to expend any time thinking about being covert, rather than just the garden variety of discreet, is lighthearted and relaxing. I got up this morning, and pulled a loose-fitting pair of shorts over my diaper, let my t-shirt drape, and walked out onto their deck, for a cup of coffee, and a post-game analysis of all the beers we'd sampled the night before. My buddy then invited me to look at his pool equipment, in an attempt to troubleshoot an electrical gremlin, and I found myself nonchalantly squatting and bending in the confines of his pool shed, without having to say, "Give me a second to go get changed...", so that I could don a onesie and shorts with belt loops. His wife was standing behind us, discussing a proposed diagnosis she'd gotten over the phone from the pool store. I knew that my puffy butt, crinkly background music, and probably some white plastic were making cameo appearances as I hunched and bent, and tried to figure why they'd installed his equipment so close to the wall of the shed, or why they'd bult the shed so close to the equipment, making it very difficult to access for service, and, any potential wardrobe slips, simply didn't matter. Normally, I pay no attention to the sounds my diaper makes - practically nobody notices that (outside of our community, who have wolves' ears for diaper sounds..), but when we shut down the pool equipment, in that confined space, I could very much make out the conversation that capacious Rearz nappy was having with itself. Oh well... I put it out of my mind, and concentrated on not getting electrocuted, instead - it's very impolite to die in someone's pool shed, on the first nice weekend of the summer. It would cast a pall over the merriment for at least a couple of weeks, my buddy having to step over the spot where my soul parted ways with my flesh, shooed out by 230 volts, in order to reach into his beer fridge. Hopefully, he would know that I would want him to enjoy his beer, and his pool, even if I died in his pool shed. And that, if I die in a diaper, which I very probably will (unless I drown... nobody makes swim diapers I find remotely attractive yet...), that I will be happy to have left this earth as I came into it, obliviously dribbling into plastic underpants. -
It's interesting (to me) that Canada comes in third, in terms of the raw number of requests. I just did a little back-of-an-envelope math... The requests as a percentage of population stand at: UK = 6.42% Australia = 6.09% US = 5.98% Canada = 5.46% Germany = 2.56% (perhaps not surprising given the language barrier for some) So, by population vs requests, the UK is punching above it's weight, followed by Australia, then the US. I wonder if this ratio correlates with higher ABDL occurrences per 100,000 people, or higher product sales per capita?
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24/7 startups, and unexpected pitfalls?
Little Sherri replied to Little Sherri's topic in Diaper Lovers
As coincidence would have it, I was commenting on someone else's thread earlier in the week, which was about the longest stretches people had worn a diaper for - IE, the same diaper. A few people said that they had put boosters into a super-diaper like a Trest or a MegaMax, or that they had doubled or tripled or quadrupled up some combination of diapers and plastic pants, and had cruised for impressive (or unfortunate) lengths of time like that, but most people said they rarely go longer than 8 - 12 hours, which, let's face it, is a pretty long time to have a damp bottom, and that feedback also reflects people living life in their diapers, not sitting on a towel that is on a garbage bag, and staying on their couch, or in the bathtub, for 36 hours. You can't really go anywhere, do anything, or be in company, if you have press-out leaks every time you change position, you look you're wearing inflatable pants, and you smell like a public washroom. So I'm noting, with some surprise, that I accidentally wore a Rearz Critter Caboose for about 24 hours, yesterday. Not that this hasn't happened before, but usually when you're hyper-miling a diaper, you're pretty aware of it, in the fourth quarter of the game. Thus, you may be adjusting your behaviour accordingly, such as engaging in contortionist poses, before weeing, in order to try to direct some fire to that upper back corner on the right, that still feels dry. I'd put the diaper on a bit before bedtime - probably around 10 PM - and then I read a book for a bit, brushed my teeth, and went to bed. I woke up dry - uncommon these days - and then, in a change to the usual order of operations, I went to the potty right off the hop, rather than having the morning wee while sipping my coffee. Ergo, the night's output was downloaded to the septic-net. I'd eaten jerk chicken with habanero relish on the side, so my insides requested a mid-day reset, and inevitably, some of what would usually be Rearz' responsibility, was once again shifted to the plumbing. By dinner, I was damp in the derrière, but nowhere near at the end of the runway for a big diaper like that, and all I had on the docket was pool maintenance, and puttering around the yard, so I kind of forgot about it again, until the sun was setting (which happens at 9 PM right now), and then I went into the house, and puttered around, until it was time to take a shower and get ready for bed. At which point it occurred to me that, wow, I'm in the same diaper I put on this time yesterday. Swollen, it was, but I wasn't out in public, and as far as "off scents" go... even when I took it off to bin it, honestly, it wasn't too bad. Good diapers but up a pretty strong resistance to the forces that turn wee into Satan's martini mix. My hat is off to you, Rearz - thanks for saving me $3 - $4 yesterday, by dispensing with the need for a second shift. Speaking of unthinkingly interacting with diapers, I found myself standing on the driveway this morning, with an adult diaper in my hand - a BeDry. Background: I keep spare diapers in my garage, lest I find myself in there, and in need of a change. It's a pretty rare circumstance, to be in the garage, and unable to make it back into the house, without a diaper swap, but, to give you an example of how this might transpire... Picture a man, minding his own business, cutting his lawn, and under his "yardwork" shorts, he has a Mega Inspire+ on, that he has been in since he went to bed the previous night. It's noon, and he plans to change it when he takes a shower, after the day's sweaty outdoor toil is through. It has lots of capacity left, but does give his silhouette a distinct Micheline Man outline. Suddenly, his in-laws appear on the driveway, parking right in front of the entrance to the house. Our hero immediately becomes self-conscious about the reality that it looks like he's wearing a folded-up pillow under his shorts, but, the only viable escape route is now blocked by in-laws who will, if approached, seek hugs, and a conversation about how work is going. So, he can duck into the garage, and dispense with his bulging underpants, but then he'll have to greet the in-laws commando, which, even if only God will ever know, still leaves him feeling strangely immoral. BUT, if the hero of our story is a planner, and if he has a diaper of reasonable weight stashed in said garage, all is not lost. I'd pulled the last diaper I had stashed in there, a Lil' Monster, a week or so before, planning to rotate it, lest the humidity and gasoline fumes degrade the tabs, or whatever, and also because I needed a diaper to throw into my car, and didn't feel like taking my shoes off and going back upstairs. So, this morning, I grabbed a BeDry from my newly-restocked diaper drawer, carried it downstairs, and walked through the kitchen, carrying it like it was yesterday's newspaper, and not evidence of any physical or psychological disfunction. Because, inside the house, diapers are "normal". Sort of. One of the four of us is in diapers, just as one of the four of us wears ballet shoes from time to time. Ergo, ballet shoes being about is not unusual. But on the driveway, while waving to a passing neighbour, ballet shoes would not be cause for pause, but a big white adult nappy might be. Which is the thought that occurred to me, as I waved with one hand, and held a diaper at my side with the other. Hopefully, they thought it was the newspaper. Or, they thought it belonged to my in-laws. -
Sippy cup / bottle punishments
Little Sherri replied to Huggybutt's topic in Our Lifestyle Discussion
Yes, baby formula has a bland, slightly-vegetative taste to it, like a dilute, milky tea made from grass clippings. Another thought would be butter milk - you either like or you don't. -
That sounds like an awesome trip, @spark. I've been to all the places you are going to go by train, but I've never done it by train - that has always been on my bucket list. I'm a bit of a train nerd - I did take the train to the East coast from Toronto, when I was a kid, but in my adult life, I've always been so busy and had only so many vacation days to burn, so trips have been about the destinations, not about the journeys. I have an uncle who is taking the Canadian this summer, but from Edmonton to Vancouver - he's skipping Manitoba & Saskatchewan, which are flat and dominated by grain fields. Although the Ontario portion, along Lake Superior, would probably be spectacular, as well. I've never heard of The Ocean - I'll have to look into that. When I last took a train to Nova Scotia, the journey ended in Moncton, New Brunswick - they'd suspended passenger rail services to Halifax, at the time, for lack of demand, and because freight dominates the lines emanating from the Port of Halifax. I go to the East coast pretty much every year, and I've mused about taking the train, but the journey is about 31 hours long... and I can drive it in about 19 hours. Or fly it in 3. Both for less money. Pro tip - Rearz' World Headquarters does allow product pickups, however they are in Woodstock, ON, which is not easily reached from Toronto, unless you plan to rent a car, or want to spend an entire day learning about our GO transit system. My advice: don't do it. It'll leave you stranded in some mall parking lot in Woodstock, which is a fate almost worse than eating at Arby's (don't do that, either), and then you'll be Ubering to Rearz, Ubering back to the mall parking lot, and then boarding a bus back to Toronto with a case of diapers in your arms. (Do eat at Swiss Chalet, though... their, uh, Swiss cuisine is legendary. I imagine that Swiss people, coming here, must be very confused by this national chain of rotisserie chicken outlets. You've been to Quebec City, so I assume you tried St. Hubert's at least once - Swiss Chalet is the anglified version of that). There is a company in Oakville called Healthwick, and they carry a vast array of incontinence supplies, including Rearz products, as well as NorthShore. Oakville is on the lake, West of Toronto, and their location is not that far from the Oakville GO/VIA rail station - and, they also enable customer pickups. So, you could order your supplies online for pickup, and then take an Uber or cab from the nearest GO train stop, for less than a king's ransom. And taking a GO train from Union to Oakville would give you a train nerd's tour of the Western GTA lakefront. GO trains are a more civilized method of travel than GO busses. Getting your products shipped to your hotel is, of course, the easiest way to do this, if they'll accommodate. One other thing to think about, while in Toronto - we do have an ABDL store, called Universal Diapers. It's in the East end of Toronto, so not exactly walking distance from the downtown core, but between Uber and/or transit, you could get there. Their primary focus is actually babies and toddlers, but they have an ABDL section, and they treat it as just another part of their business. "Here for a onesie... for what age? 45? Those are over here." Please do let us know how it goes. And if you're in Toronto, and thirsty, drop me a line - maybe we can meet up for a pint.
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Downsizing. Multiple cases for sale.
Little Sherri replied to SoggySoCal's topic in The Diaper Store - Shopping
I once drove home and changed my diaper from something that looked like it was designed for a toddler, over to a plain white one, because I had committed myself to helping a buddy with a problem on the side of his house, 30 feet up. In the unlikely event that I fall from this ladder, I thought to myself, at least when they cut the clothing off of my broken form, I won't be laying there in a diaper festooned with winged ponies, while my friends look down in concern and confusion, and the paramedics exchange glances... I'm not as terrified of showing up at a hospital in a white diaper; I've been in a diaper in front of medical personnel a couple of times now, and so far, they haven't even blinked. I'm not sure that's how it would work out if I were in, say, an ABU Little Kings, however.- 12 replies
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24/7 startups, and unexpected pitfalls?
Little Sherri replied to Little Sherri's topic in Diaper Lovers
My wife made a funny, uncharacteristically open joke this afternoon - we were standing in the lobby of a convention venue, watching the skies rip open - it was raining so hard you couldn't see the quarter of a mile across the parking lot, to where our car was. We were with another couple, the husband of which had gone to the bathroom, something which I generally don't have to do, while I'm out. These people, whom I have spoken about before, are very good friends, and by accident, rather than design, they have known that my underpants are typically purchased by the case, for a few years. We've never spoken of it openly, however - there's been no need to. I turned to my wife, and my buddy's wife, and said, "Okay, stay here, I'm going to go for it - I'll pick you guys up by the curb." Then I said, "I should have worn a bathing suit..." To which my wife replied, in an ominous tone, "Your butt is going to swell up...", and my buddy's wife laughed, and then covered her mouth, and gave me a smile and a slight wince, as though to say, "I'm sorry I laughed, but that was funny..." I couldn't do anything but chuckle, as my cheeks reddened slightly, I'm sure, before I ran out into the deluge. I wanted to say, "Actually, I'll probably be drier inside my diaper than out, by the time I get to the car," but I couldn't quite bring myself to say the "d-word" in company. -
How long in hours have you stayed in a single diaper?
Little Sherri replied to liljim57's topic in [DD] Surveys
I have spent as long as 24 hours in a diaper, if it's wet only, although that's an outlier of a duration - typical for me would be in the range of 10 - 18 hours. I'll put an overnight "super-duty" diaper on within a couple of hours of bedtime, so let's call it 9 to 10 PM, and typically, I don't wet much overnight (although lately I have been bucking that trend). But, generally, I would then wake up slightly wet - maybe at about 25% of capacity or less. So I can often wear the same diaper through my morning and into the mid-afternoon, at which point, I am usually tired of feeling like I'm sitting in a bag of wet oatmeal, I'm on the verge of forcing a failure, and, I'm usually approaching the time of day where I have to run errands, anyway, so I can't look like I have a dead raccoon jammed down the front of my pants. I'll put on a "daytime weight" diaper that's good for 8 hours or so, and that carries me to when I can put on another super-duty product, and the cycle repeats. If I have to go to the office or to visit a client, or any other kind of appointment, or any expectation of having visitors, then I'll probably have a three-diaper day - overnight, day, and evening. This all goes out the window if I experience a code brown. I don't generally do that in my diaper, but it has happened, and when it does, I usually change within a half hour. In the case of the aforementioned 24 hour shift in one diaper, it was interspersed with visits to the potty for #2, during which, some #1 inevitably also occurs, so while it took 24 hours to reach the point where I had to change, it hadn't been my sole source of relief for that entire period. Big diapers can hold a lot, though - a Mega Inspire+ or BeDry Night or MegaMax can damned near carry me for 24 hours, if I have nowhere to go, and I don't eventually get irritated with being damp. That's why I have little use for boosters - typically, I have to throw in the towel before my diaper does, if I'm wearing a top-tier product. -
This has happened to me before, usually accidentally - I have a "go bag" (diaper bag) in my car, however I don't have one stationed permanently in my wife's car. I will bring one with me if I know we're going to be out for any length of time, but I have been caught out in the wilds without a change of underpants a couple of times by circumstances, when out on an errand with my wife that gets unexpectedly prolonged. On one memorable occasions, she wanted to stop and look at a car, which I really did not want to engage in, because I know that there is an industry metric for how long a person stays at a car dealership, and how it correlates with the likelihood they will buy a car. So, car dealerships actively work to prolong your time there... "Can I get you a coffee? You want to look at a car? Well which colour would you want? Leather seats? Is the third row of seats important to you? We have one like that... it's out back. You'll want to drive it, yes? Let me take down your information and make a copy of your driver's license. I have someone pulling it around for us - they're just going to wash it first. Now, how about your current vehicle - do you own it? Lease it? Would you be trading it in? No? Well, can I make you an offer on it, anyway? Let's just see what we can come up with - I know you plan to give it to your daughter, but you might be surprised at what the market is paying for 1975 Dodge Aspen station wagons... I'll get Bruce, our Preowned Vehicle manager, to come have a look. Bruce is appraising another vehicle right now, but he'll be able to look at it shortly - I'm going to get Zeke here to bring your car around to Bruce, and then we'll get you out on the road in your, er, excuse me, our shiny new Canyonaro V20. While we're waiting, did you have a target in mind for your monthly payments? Everyone has some kind of goal for that... we can come up with a program to give you whatever you're looking for. Are you both employed? Do you own your house? Let me see how Jimmy is doing, shining up your Canyonaro. Another coffee? Espresso? The finance manager may drop in to say hello - they're running a contest this month, so she is highly incentivized to get people approved - she could win a trip to Florida, lucky lady, eh? But you'd be lucky, too - she'll shave a half-point off the finance rate, and if you pair that with a warranty, they'll actually refund you all the interest you paid on warranty, if you don't use it. Which you won't, because the Canyonaro is great, well built, but, it's nice to have that assurance that it's there if you need it....." "Sorry, we have to go - I have peed through my diaper and am slowly dampening your chair under my right butt cheek."
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Worked from home today; wore a cloth diaper for as long as I could, but I'd been in it since bedtime, and it was feeling very wet, and not smelling very fresh, so I put on an InControl Essential at about 3:00, which is a good fill-in diaper, to bridge me through the evening's errands, until I can get into an overnight diaper. I also restocked my diaper drawer from the basement inventory, so I have a number of options at hand. Tomorrow, I have an appointment away from the house in the afternoon, so I'll probably go with something like a BeDry Night that can take me from 9 PM until mid-morning tomorrow, and then it will be a slim diaper under dress clothes for the afternoon.